Can't open CWC campaign missions in the editor

[MattyDienhoff 0]

Not sure if this is the right section for this, but here goes.

I'm playing the good ol' Cold War Crisis campaign through in Resistance v1.96 with FDF Mod 1.4 installed, and I've run into a couple hitches. Namely, in the hostage rescue mission after Montignac, Black Bear has great difficulty destroying the T72 (they only manage it 1 out of 3 times), leading to a frustratingly high rate of mission failure, and in the next mission, Undercover, your supposedly unarmed leader attempts to attack the guards at the first checkpoint with grenades (he has no weapon but he has ammunition and two grenades), breaking the rest of the mission.

Both of these things would be easy to fix, I thought - I'd just bump up Black Bear's skill levels and remove Mr.unarmed Rambo's grenades - So I decompiled the campaign .pbo and tried to open the missions up in the editor to see what I could do. Problem is, upon loading any one of the campaign missions into the editor, I just get a blank map with no units or triggers anywhere. Not a single one will load. I figured it might be due to the various engine changes made in Resistance, so I ran OFP vanilla (v1.00, not updated), and I got the same result, none of the CWC campaign missions will load in the editor.

I'm certain I've opened them successfully before, and I know some people have made modified versions of the official campaigns with different units and whatnot, so there must be a way, but how?

And while I'm on this subject, do you guys know if anyone has made an updated CWC campaign optimized for Resistance?

[Mr_Tea 0]

If the files are correctly unpbo èd it must work.

Don`t forget that you need all files from the unpacked mission, not only the mission.sqm.

I have edited the resistance missions about 2 years ago, and it worked.

[marcomio 0]

Long time ago, I encountered that problem with some - not all - of the cwc-campaign missions. Exactly the same problem: blank map.

Fortunately, one nice person from mapfact.net sent me the desired mission in unpbo'ed form and I was able to edit it. It seems, that it might depend on the program You use for decompressing the pbo file. If I can find my uncompressed cwc-campaign file, I pass You a notice.

Rgds,

marc

[Pulverizer 1]

The mission.sqm are probably rapified. Unrap or use a different unpbo such as PBO decryptor:

http://www.ofpec.com/ed_depot/the_files/download.php?id=154

[MattyDienhoff 0]

I unpacked the campaign .pbo with UnPBO this time and now it works, I can now open the missions in the editor! (fyi, I used PboX last time)

I should've thought of that myself tbh, thanks for the prompt assistance guys, much appreciated.