Help!

[Duke Falcon]

OK

So, how can I extract the availabilty dates from the PeG equipment file?
Converted it to OG but during the conversion all dates were set back to 1900. While I reset it globally (since every date data lost during conversion) to 2015 some units appear later. Check one-by-one would be crazy so I am in need of a quicker and more elegant solution IF such is exists...

[Micha]

Hello my friend, sorry i have no clue. CONVERTING THINGS TO OG from peg i never did before.

[LuisGuzman]

OK

So, how can I extract the availabilty dates from the PeG equipment file?
Converted it to OG but during the conversion all dates were set back to 1900. While I reset it globally (since every date data lost during conversion) to 2015 some units appear later. Check one-by-one would be crazy so I am in need of a quicker and more elegant solution IF such is exists...

Dates in OG should match those from Peg as far as you set the base year to 2000 (or whatever you prefer).
Can do easily by adding the string BYEAR2000 to the first line of EQUIP.txt

For example Kaiser efile, set the base year to 1840 by using BYEAR1840

Either Peg, PG2 or OG stores only a byte (0..255) in date-fields, to set dates adding each item's date-field to the base year defined (1900 for PG2/OG).
Hope that help you to fix the issue.

[Micha]

OK

So, how can I extract the availabilty dates from the PeG equipment file?
Converted it to OG but during the conversion all dates were set back to 1900. While I reset it globally (since every date data lost during conversion) to 2015 some units appear later. Check one-by-one would be crazy so I am in need of a quicker and more elegant solution IF such is exists...

Dates in OG should match those from Peg as far as you set the base year to 2000 (or whatever you prefer).
Can do easily by adding the string BYEAR2000 to the first line of EQUIP.txt

For example Kaiser efile, set the base year to 1840 by using BYEAR1840

Either Peg, PG2 or OG stores only a byte (0..255) in date-fields, to set dates adding each item's date-field to the base year defined (1900 for PG2/OG).
Hope that help you to fix the issue.

Hello Luis, thanks for help and glad to see you here.

[Duke Falcon]

OK

So, how can I extract the availabilty dates from the PeG equipment file?
Converted it to OG but during the conversion all dates were set back to 1900. While I reset it globally (since every date data lost during conversion) to 2015 some units appear later. Check one-by-one would be crazy so I am in need of a quicker and more elegant solution IF such is exists...

Dates in OG should match those from Peg as far as you set the base year to 2000 (or whatever you prefer).
Can do easily by adding the string BYEAR2000 to the first line of EQUIP.txt

For example Kaiser efile, set the base year to 1840 by using BYEAR1840

Either Peg, PG2 or OG stores only a byte (0..255) in date-fields, to set dates adding each item's date-field to the base year defined (1900 for PG2/OG).
Hope that help you to fix the issue.

Ooooow, I am such a fool! How could I forgot BYEAR?!
My bad... But since you mentioned also bytes I may could use them as well to regain some "lost data". If it works, fine, if not, well, try something else. The worst option is to copy availability dates manually one-by-one from the PeG equipment.

Now wonder if I could simply convert the campaigns? OG has the advantage that not needs separate scenarios for campaign and stand alone scenarios, both could have the same scenarion balanced for both modes (deploy hexes! )

[Duke Falcon]

Dates fixed.
Next big black spot would be the maps. I have no clue currently how to convert them into mapx format...

[Micha]

Dates fixed.
Next big black spot would be the maps. I have no clue currently how to convert them into mapx format...

Hello old friend, i"m sure to 99 percent convert them to map x is impossible.

[sympatyk]

How to convert map image from s16 to jpg?
viewtopic.php?f=67&t=437&p=14851#p14851

[LuisGuzman]

Dates fixed.
Next big black spot would be the maps. I have no clue currently how to convert them into mapx format...

May I ask why do you want/need the .mapx files ?

OG doesn't use the .mapx files except for importing data when creating/editing map data, otherwise all map info is included in the .xscn file
So if you have used OpenSuite to import any Peg scenario the map data is already embedded and the 3 additional terrain types that Peg has should be changed to swamp terrain.
Anyway if you want the .mapx files on disk you can load the scenario and export the .mapx file

[Micha]

Thanks for help, great to hear mapexort from peg to og is possible.

[Duke Falcon]

First of all:
Thanks for the answers and help everyone!

Luckily enough I kept the bmp versions of ModWar maps so I easily converted them to jpg. Were strange not to use and have mapx files but the converted scenarios really brought their terrain datas just the map pictures needed to re-choose...
Converting scenarios were surprisingly easy but touch up and fix equipment changes consumed time. However the first campaign (Barbarossa 2020) successfully converted along with all necessary scenarios (13). I set AI to 2.00 so the AI may play harder than it did in PeG.
Next, because their order in the scenario folder, would be the Brexit-war. Equipment however a great mess because lots of holes created when removed unnecessary elements (mechanised\transported versions of inf and towed arty because OG properly use ground transports). I would fill those holes later with new units (ukraine, polish units mostly but elite version of russian infantries would also appear thx for Homo sovietus who asked me to made necessary icon-bases for those)...
I, since have no clue how OG use them compared to PeG, forfeit "air missions" for aerial units. This also means lots of available places for possible new units. I think the planned Sino-indian war would make for OG entirely (China and India duking for water sources in the Himalaya), however it is a matter of the future (maybe 2023?)...

[Duke Falcon]

Today I tried the conversion with the OG.exe to play test a bit...
Error with the units' loading occured:

...
GER30 not found, neither external nor in DatFile.dat
...

Of course there IS an openicons.dat but it uses the s16 files the conversion brought from the modwar.dat.
So, either OG not supports s16 anymore (what is sad because it not offers - or I not found - any direct s16\shp to png conversion) or in some cases the 6-letter icon names cause trouble (PeG used icons like BRIT16 without trouble, not sure OG could handle them properly albeit the Suite use and load everything without troubles).