New Unit Update

[Crossroads]

When we insert the new weapons/platoon files into our WF folder we lose any and all unit formations below company level, meaning there are no longer any battalion, regiment, brigade, division, corps or army formations in our OOB editor just platoon and company size units to choose from.

The new unit instructions state that the new platoon files will overlay onto the original platoon files but we are at a stone wall with that. Even if we take out the original platoon/weapon and replace them with the new files we still lose all of the unit formations above.

What are we doing wrong? Any suggestions?

How I would intepret this is:

- The new platoon files are OK, as you see them in the OOB editor, and are also able to deploy the new unit types into scenarios with Scenario Editor (bitmaps show up and move properly etc).

- The Company OOB is OK, as it finds all the platoon types from Platoon files it is using. In other words, none of the Companies points to a Platoon type that is not there in the Platoon OOB file.

- The Battalion OOB however, is trying to find a Company type that is not there. And breaks down. Do you have a new Battalion specified, if so make sure all the Companies it consists are defined in the Company OOB.

Perhaps you could do a "diff" between the original Battalion OOB file and the new Battalion OOB? Or if you have not touched the Battalion OOB at all, then you have taken out something from the Company OOB?

It only takes one little mistake to break the OOB Editor.

- And while Battalion OOB is broken, the higher level organizations will not build either.

Hope this helped...

One last thing, my Unit Viewer will not work, and I have Windows 7, what, and if any setting to I have to change/tweak to get the UV to work since it is a good tool to use when changing/adding new units. I Downloaded it, unzipped it but when I try to install, it goes into the error mode. It works for Mike but he has Windows XP. The UV worked for me when I had XP and Vista but will not work with Win7.

Well if any one can offer suggestions, please do.

Joe/aka Troll

PS i now have the UV working, the link on the website was broken so I just put in net framework into my browser and DL and the UV works just fine.

I am still not able to make the Unit Viewer work for East Front units, after my new unit types were into EF. Could you be more specific as how you managed to get yours working, with the new Platoon types (units) I presume?