Can anyone explain how they're getting ME to work with PE without overwriting any of the new features?

Just skip BT mod, Mission Editor does not overwrite anything.

Thank you. Just wanted to double-check.

I don't use wind, so, I don't modify anything to do with weather. I would watch out for the horizon fix, lightning/thunder as well. I did notice the fogColor value change when using the weather, but that could be insignificant.

I would pick the settings for which you know exactly what will change and not choose it because it's available.

I’ll admit to not reading all 69 pages here and I’ll also admit it’s been a long while since I used ME.
Using it on a saved 1918 Ultra Heavy campaign flight mission to see how many aircraft are in play.

Never having done this on a huge file does it take a long time for ME to open it up?
Can’t tell if it’s just choking on the huge file or is locked up - been looking at the “Loading mission file...” for a while.

EDIT: After 10+ minutes (twice) I’ll presume I am locking up.

Either it hung or there is something wrong in the mission file. You can try it again. If the same result, send me, pls, the MisionEditor.log file plus mission file for investigation.

Aye thank you. Logged off now I’ll follow up next login.

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I am also having a problem getting ME to run with WOFF PE. Everything is fine until I try to load the mission file for editing. I get the window that says "Loading mission file..." but that's as far as it gets. It will not go any farther. I have downloaded the latest ME from Sandbagger's Mod page and reinstalled it and have tried it with different pilots and different missions but the result is always the same - it hangs on the "Loading mission file..." screen. I am running vanilla WOFF PE, no mods of any kind.

Any help and direction on this will be much appreciated as I dearly love using ME. Thanks!

Lou

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Thanks Lou for that info. You just saved me much time as it’s not just me.
Of course to make it complicated it’s apparently working for some.
Wonder if you can use “Compatibility Mode” for .jar files? On W10 and I have to run the WOFF.exe in W7 mode.

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Duke, because it is working for some it may well be a setting somewhere that you and I have tic'd differently, but I have yet to sort out what it might be.

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The latest version of ME is 1.8.5 and located here.. However, it seems like some incompatibility with PE, so could you, pls, send me your mission file and MissionEditor.log file for investigation? Thx.

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Thanks Jara! Downloaded and installed that version and it works like a charm.

Nice. Will try it in a bit.

I am glad it works, thank you.

This is exactly the same as the version 1.8.5 that was released back in June, correct?

I've been using that with PE. I've had only one mission that locked up and probably 25 that have worked just fine.

Yes, this is the same version and yes, it may happen sometimes. I have experienced it (hang up) with UE too. It may be caused by asynchronous loading of map tiles and mission data.

Thanks for the link JJJ.
The current version worked just fine and opened the "whopping" mission file in about 10 seconds.
837 aircraft by the way.

Busy day at the front!

Mission Editor is SUPERB! I never used it back in 2017, and I now realize what I missed...thanks a bunch Jara!

Regards,

Jeff