Old soh.com threads

[mongoose]

I was looking at some entries in the project knowledge base and the links to other threads were dead. Were old soh,com entries not preserved, or did I miss something on that? (Blame my 80 yr. old memory if I did. )

 

[sixstrings5859]

All old SOH.com threads are all dead links.

 

[mongoose]

All old SOH.com threads are all dead links.

Well yes, so I guess they were never saved anywhere; sad!

 

[Tako_Kichi]

Have you tried changing the .com suffix to a .org suffix to see if the pages are on this site?

 

[mongoose]

Actually I did; no luck but might try again. Should that work?

 

[Tako_Kichi]

As far as I am aware all the forum posts were transferred so the suffix to the forum posts should now be .org and not .com. The links within a post have not been edited as there would be just too many to manually track down and edit but if you can highlight the link by dragging over it and then copy and paste into a search bar and the changed the suffix to .org before hitting 'enter' it might find the former linked page again.

 

[mongoose]

well i took http://www.sim-outhouse.com and changed it to http://www.sim-outhouse.org/sohforu...127756-PTO-Startup-Mission-File-Fails-to-load
No luck!

 

[mongoose]

So I'm still waiting for an admin answer on this. I was trying again today for the following threads which I have changed to .org

http://www.sim-outhouse.org/sohforums/threads/106881-Changing-the-map-to-an-H2S?p=1096786&highlight=#post1096786

http://www.sim-outhouse.org/sohforums/showthread.php/106881-Changing-the-map-to-an-H2S

http://www.sim-outhouse.org/sohforums/local_links.php?catid=13

Some how or other, I managed to get http://www.sim-outhouse.org/sohforums/showthread.php/106881-Changing-the-map-to-an-H2S but the address format is not like the original in that now it is https://sim-outhouse.org/sohforums/...h2s.106881/changing-the-map-to-an-h2s.106881/

This must complicate matters
I tried

https://sim-outhouse.org/sohforums/threads/

Changing-the-map-to-an-H2S?p=1096786&highlight=#post1096786

with no luck, with that or http://www.sim-outhouse.org/sohforums/local_links.php?catid=13

PLEASE explain what the format should be for old threads!

 

[Priller]

I'am afraid that just changing the .com to .org will not work. You'll have to search the forums. Good news is that the search function of the new site is a lot better than on the old site.

Priller

 

[MajorMagee]

I remember those threads. A search here turned up nothing, but I found a related image from Feb 2018 on my computer.


Mt. Etna

 

[mongoose]

Yes and you improved on it; see a 2/22/2018 email from you. My current problem is that I put all your stuff into the install but for some reason one similar to above shows up instead of this one below in yellow, or a slightly similar one. IIRC, the overlay and h2s screen bmps were replacements for the map and not the TAC, and the erroneous or ols overlay in green keep showing up as further below

 

[mongoose]

Ok further to the last, I think it;s a mapdata.xml issue WRT what bmp is activated. Still investigating as it should be a yellow h2s mao. bmp at all levels?

 

[mongoose]

Ok further to the last, I think it;s a mapdata.xml issue WRT what bmp is activated. Still investigating as it should be a yellow h2s mao. bmp at all levels?

This is very frustrating! I have tried in 3 different installs but end up not only with the green screen but also all the airbases which shouldn't show up! AFAIK, that bmp is not even present in the installs!

dlgingamebriefmap

<Dialog Image="help/h2s_screen.bmp" Movable="No" ZOrder="Top" Offset="10,10">
<Button ID="Cancel" X="6" Y="6" Width="50" Height="50" NoCaption="Yes" Image="common_screens/overlay.bmp"/>
<Label ID="ctrl6" Caption="" X="520" Y="21" Width="80" Height="14" FontName="metaltype" Align="Center"/>
<EditBox ID="edtDescription" X="517" Y="51" Width="247" Height="441" ReadOnly="true" Image="common_screens/dropbox.bmp[1]" FontName="textfontflt" Textcolor="#000000,#000000,#000000"/>
<MissionMap ID="map" X="6" Y="6" Width="500" Height="500" Image="ctrl"/>
</Dialog>

mapdata ( but I removed the icons.)

<!--This file describes what images should be used for displaying the Campaign/Waypoints map-->
<MapData>
<Maps>
<!-- Alt specifies the minimal altitude (in meters) starting from which the given map image should be displayed. -->
<Level Alt="500000.0">
<Map Image="map\h2s.bmp">
<UpperLeft Lat="N45 29 39.5581" Lon="E9 21 50.2722"/>
<LowerRight Lat="N28 30 20.4946" Lon="E30 38 9.6909"/>
</Map>
</Level>
<Level Alt="200000.0">
<Map Image="map\h2s.bmp">
<UpperLeft Lat="N45 29 39.5581" Lon="E9 21 50.2722"/>
<LowerRight Lat="N28 30 20.4946" Lon="E30 38 9.6909"/>
</Map>
</Level>
<Level Alt="0.0">
<Map Image="map\h2s.bmp">
<UpperLeft Lat="N45 29 39.5581" Lon="E9 21 50.2722"/>
<LowerRight Lat="N28 30 20.4946" Lon="E30 38 9.6909"/>
</Map>
</Level>
</Maps>
<Icons>
<Icon Type="airbase1" Image="common_screens\airbase_blue.bmp[2]" Alt="0."/>
<Icon Type="airbase2" Image="common_screens\airbase_red.bmp[2]" Alt="0."/>
<Icon Type="airbase_empty" Image="common_screens\airbase_gray.bmp[2]" Alt="0."/>
<Icon Type="bridge1" Image="common_screens\bridge_blue.bmp[2]" Alt="1000000."/>
<Icon Type="bridge2" Image="common_screens\bridge_red.bmp[2]" Alt="1000000."/>
<Icon Type="factory1" Image="common_screens\factory_blue.bmp[2]" Alt="1000000."/>
<Icon Type="factory2" Image="common_screens\factory_red.bmp[2]" Alt="1000000."/>
<Icon Type="railyard1" Image="common_screens\railyard_blue.bmp[2]" Alt="1000000."/>
<Icon Type="railyard2" Image="common_screens\railyard_red.bmp[2]" Alt="1000000."/>
<Icon Type="port1" Image="common_screens\port_blue.bmp[2]" Alt="1000000."/>
<Icon Type="port2" Image="common_screens\port_red.bmp[2]" Alt="1000000."/>
<Icon Type="hq1" Image="campaign\map_btnBlue.bmp[2]" Alt="0."/>
<Icon Type="hq2" Image="campaign\map_btnRed.bmp[2]" Alt="0."/>
<Icon Type="hq_human" Image="campaign\map_btnGrn.bmp[2]" Alt="0."/>
<Icon Type="hq_plrnat" Image="campaign\map_btnYel.bmp[2]" Alt="0."/>
<Icon Type="trgsec" Image="campaign\map_TargRed.bmp[1]" Alt="0."/>
</Icons>
</MapData>