IL-2 Campaign Tracker and Campaign Service Record

[Hispazor]

Thank you so much! The new settings manager looks much nicer now 👍

[FodderMonkey]

Just a heads up: don't change your own pilot's name with the roster feature.  It confuses the game into thinking you're not a player character, but crashes when it tries to run a mission with your pilot in it.  It effectively corrupted my career, so...don't do that.

[Arrow_1974]

@FodderMonkey
I hope you were able to restore the database with the restore function.
I will have a look if it's possible to rename the player's pilot without corrupting the game or if that is not possible set a guardrail that makes it impossible to do that.

Just one remark: If any pilot's name (player and/or AI) is renamed, AI stories generated before renaming will NOT reflect the name change. Only newly created stories will.

Edited June 20 by Arrow_1974

[FodderMonkey]

11 hours ago, Arrow_1974 said:

@FodderMonkey
I hope you were able to restore the database with the restore function.
I will have a look if it's possible to rename the player's pilot without corrupting the game or if that is not possible set a guardrail that makes it impossible to do that.

Just one remark: If any pilot's name (player and/or AI) is renamed, AI stories generated before renaming will NOT reflect the name change. Only newly created stories will.

I just deleted the career; no worries.

[Arrow_1974]

IL-2 Campaign Tracker v3.2.0 – Mod Manager, Pilot Renaming & More

Hey everyone,

v3.2.0 is out — this is a bigger update, so I'm bumping the minor version accordingly.

Download link update zip: V3.2.0 (version 3.0.0 needed)

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If you are completely new to the Campaign/Career Tracker, you can download here the full version as setup.exe. No previous version necessary: Full installer v3.2.0

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Here's what's new:

Mod Manager (new tab in Settings Manager)

The Settings Manager now has a dedicated Mod Manager tab where you can download, install, and uninstall three IL-2 mods created by me directly from within the tracker — no manual file hunting needed:

IL-2 Rank Mod — the full version with its own installer and uninstaller
IL-2 Rank Mod Light — file-copy based, cleanly tracked so every file can be removed on uninstall - works like JGSME
IL-2 Cockpit Photo Editor — extracted to a folder of your choice - The latest version of the editor itself has moved from hard-coded radio buttons to a dropdown list for selecting cockpit artwork: simply create a new subfolder under the Photo Assets folder, drop in your .dds files, and it will appear as an option in the list automatically — no config changes needed. Created by @VISHNU (artwork/photo assets) and me (programming)

You can find more detailed information about the career rank mods here:  https://forum.il2-series.com/topic/772-expanded-career-rank-mod/#comment-4086 

More information about the Cockpit Photo Editor can be found here: https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/91634-modcockpit-photo-editor-advanced-version-now-contains-pin-up-art/

Potential new mods will be added in the Mod Manager tab as well.
The installer tracks every individual file it places on disk, so uninstalling is clean and precise — it removes exactly what it put there and nothing else.

Note: The Rank Mod and Rank Mod Light are mutually exclusive — only one can be installed at a time. The Mod Manager enforces this automatically: installing one will grey out the other until the active one is uninstalled.

Control Center — Rank Mod & Cockpit buttons

If you have any of the above mods installed, the Control Center now shows the relevant buttons automatically:

Start Rank Mod / Stop Rank Mod — launches or terminates the rank promotion checker with the required elevation. The status line shows Rank Mod: Running or Not running in real time, and correctly picks up a checker that was already running before you opened the Control Center.
Open Cockpit Photo Editor — one-click launch from the Control Center.

Buttons are hidden when the corresponding mod isn't installed — the Control Center stays uncluttered if you don't use these mods.

Reliable Pilot Renaming — including retroactive AI story updates

Renaming a pilot (player pilot and AI pilots)  in the Squadron Roster now works correctly across the full career chain, including pilots who transferred between squadrons mid-career. Previously, the rename could miss AI pilot copies in other theatres if the squadron had changed since the career started.

More importantly: AI stories are updated backwards. If your pilot's name appears in chapters that were already generated — dialogue, narrative, mission summaries — those are all rewritten to reflect the new name. You're not left with a mix of old and new names in your career book.

The same synchronization runs automatically when you restore a database backup from the Settings Manager.

Other fixes

• Various stability and edge-case fixes throughout

As always, install by dropping the update zip into your IL-2 Campaign Tracker folder and running the updater from the Settings Manager → Updates tab.

Thanks for all the feedback — keep it coming!

Edited June 22 by Arrow_1974

[Varibraun]

@Arrow_1974 - Just dropping in to say thanks again!  I love the briefing below regarding the friendly fire, it all happened so quick I thought I had somehow rammed my target aircraft.  The narrative and your mission log explained what happens to idiots willing to fly into the fray when naval AA is trying to swat down anything and everything flying over the Normandy beach.  Great time, now memorialized!

 

[kama1]

@Arrow_1974 can your tool edit the air and ground kills of the ai squad mates in the dynamic career?

because playing in a transport unit and almost everybody got 1-7 kills is unrealistic an destroys emersion. so i want to reset them to zero.

 

same with creating some top notch ace squad mates with 95 kills and 300 missions flown. (what is the highest ace skill, 9.9?)

this would make the careers more realistic.

[Vostok]

Arrow, your software is absolutely exceptional, it’s genuinely amazing. Honestly, I don’t know what else to say except bravo! I feel like I’m reliving the good old days of the simulators of the ’90s, when careers and campaigns had this whole role-playing layer around them.

It’s such a shame that the developers didn’t include a co-op option in the career mode from the start. Combined with your software, we could create some truly great stories. 

One small question: would it be possible to have an option someday to ask the AI to generate the stories in a language other than English?

Thanks again for your incredible work. I’ll be following the development very closely, as a solo/co-op player, this is pure gold.

 

Edited August 22 by Vostok

[Arrow_1974]

@Vostok Thank you very much for your kind words. I am happy that you enjoy the mod.

Regarding your question: 

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would it be possible to have an option someday to ask the AI to generate the stories in a language other than English?

AI stories are generated in the language being set in the Setting Manager --> "General" tab (NOT the "Career Language Settings" tab).

See screenshot

[Arrow_1974]

✈️ Version 3.2.1

📖 Generate all missing AI stories with one click

The AI story page has a new button that writes all missing chapters of a career or campaign in one go, in the background. Before, each click generated one day. The button reads "Generate All Stories" when no chapters exist yet, and "Generate Missing Stories (N)" when some do, where N is how many are still to be written.

The AI story section and its settings in the Settings Manager are now fully translated into all seven languages. Before, parts of them appeared in English.

💥 Collisions no longer count as victories

IL-2 records a mid-air collision involving your aircraft as if you had destroyed the other aircraft. The tracker therefore counted such collisions as kills, even when you collided with your own wingman.

• The flight log now shows "Collision with <aircraft>", and the collision no longer counts as a kill.
• AI stories describe it as a collision, not as a victory.
• A head-on duel where both pilots shoot each other down still counts as a kill.
• In rare cases your own aircraft was also counted as one of your kills, for example when it hit the ground. That's fixed too.

⚠️ In missions where you collided with another aircraft, your kill count can now be one lower than before. That is the correct number.

🔏 Signed program files

The program files and the installer are now digitally signed, so Windows shows "Alexander Bleiholder" as the publisher instead of "Unknown publisher". SmartScreen may still warn during the first days after release, until the new files build up reputation.

Installation

• Already on v3.2.0: download the update zip and install it with the Update Manager in the Settings Manager. Your campaigns, careers, stories and settings are kept.
• On an older version, or new: use the full installer.

The first time you open a career after updating, its mission debriefings are re-read once, so it may load a little slower.

Update v3.2.1 (requires v3.2.0): v3.2.1 update zip
Full installer v3.2.1: v3.2.1 full installer zip

SHA-256 checksums:

4DA089622A2E5F4E2DBDE7612750548181A350B0CDA312E3424F5EA71EFF35A5  IL2_CampaignTracker_update_v3.2.1.zip
922D6BA4924335C929365B2F396DA3DD86B141FB09119EDC25A4663FC8809499  IL2_CampaignTracker_Setup_v3.2.1_ML.exe

As always, please report anything odd here.

3.2.1 is likely the last feature release for the Great Battles tracker. I'll still fix bugs, but my focus is now on the IL-2 Korea tracker.

Edited October 7 by Arrow_1974