Adm_maverick
Rear Admiral
So with some advice from several of our resident tech masters I'm taking my first steps into learning mission building using the WCPPascal program. I am extremly grateful for the help thus far guys (you know who you are) but I'm concerned I'm starting to be a pest, so I'm starting this thread on here. Plus I'm hoping the thread will grow to become a source of information for others who want to learn how to craft their own missions for WCSO.
Here is what I'm using:
WCPPascal
needed extra file
Wing Commander Secret Ops from GOG
I'm using this tutorial as my guide.
So here is where I am now. Okay got WCSO installed (rather painful trying to download it over the hotel's horribly limited WiFi, started the download yesterday when I left for work and it finished sometime today). Got WCPPascal downloaded and installed. Over the last 2 hours roughly going through the first tutorial linked above. Well... some hick ups. First off the "I suspect I missed something" question. The tutorial references several files for additional information, like the names of ships and pilots and such. The files it references are WCP.pas, pilots.pas and ships.pas. Where are these files supposed to be/come from? Initially I thought maybe they were files in the various tre files for WCSO so I extracted all the files from all the tre files. nope. Not there. So... where are these files supposed to come from?
Next thing. Following the tutorial. I go to compile the mission file. I hit 'compile'. I get a series of 3 errors messages in the output window.
[,1] HINT: c:\gog games\ws[[ascal\lib\ doesn't exist.
-well yeah. It doesn't. Do I need to create it?
[s0,40 ERROR: could not include file wcp.pas - was not found!
-so I'm guessing those files I was asking about, those are needed huh?
[s0,4] raised in, line 0 (call stack: < < < )
-um... what? I don't have a line 0.
So there is where I stand now. Thanks for the help everyone.
Here is what I'm using:
WCPPascal
needed extra file
Wing Commander Secret Ops from GOG
I'm using this tutorial as my guide.
So here is where I am now. Okay got WCSO installed (rather painful trying to download it over the hotel's horribly limited WiFi, started the download yesterday when I left for work and it finished sometime today). Got WCPPascal downloaded and installed. Over the last 2 hours roughly going through the first tutorial linked above. Well... some hick ups. First off the "I suspect I missed something" question. The tutorial references several files for additional information, like the names of ships and pilots and such. The files it references are WCP.pas, pilots.pas and ships.pas. Where are these files supposed to be/come from? Initially I thought maybe they were files in the various tre files for WCSO so I extracted all the files from all the tre files. nope. Not there. So... where are these files supposed to come from?
Next thing. Following the tutorial. I go to compile the mission file. I hit 'compile'. I get a series of 3 errors messages in the output window.
[,1] HINT: c:\gog games\ws[[ascal\lib\ doesn't exist.
-well yeah. It doesn't. Do I need to create it?
[s0,40 ERROR: could not include file wcp.pas - was not found!
-so I'm guessing those files I was asking about, those are needed huh?
[s0,4] raised in, line 0 (call stack: < < < )
-um... what? I don't have a line 0.
So there is where I stand now. Thanks for the help everyone.
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