IL2 Rheinland Mission Enhancer to add random ground scenery to your Rheinland mission

[Jeronimo83]

Hello everyone,

My friend Claude and I have finalized what is a long time wish for me, namely a way to add random ground scenery to the Rheinland map. I present to you this piece of software for anyone to use on their existing Rheinland mission. 

What it does: 

The program merges your mission file with a pre-existing reference mission file that contains buildings all over the Rheinland map. It then optimizes the merged file by deleting buildings that are not in the mission area, to decrease mission size (somewhat; the mission files are still rather large because of the amount of ground objects). 

How to use:

Place the .exe and the reference mission file (rheinland_populated_full_map.mission) in a folder. Start the .exe and select the mission file you want to add scenery to. Select to which extent you want the buildings to appear outside of the mission area, and how close they can be placed to any existing objects. Note: with Vander's Easy Mission Generator generated missions, you can set the bounding box margin to 0, this will do fine. Click "Enhance Mission". Done! You're original mission file is backed up in the mission file folder.

Known issues:

- mission files tend to be rather large (50-80 Mb)

- the winter Rheinland map is not super nicely blended with the buildings, but works ok.

- IMPORTANT: you need to open and save the generated mission file in the mission editor once, in order to create the appropriate MSNBIN file. Otherwise, the mission will not work properly. I will try to get this automated in a next build.

 

https://www.mediafire.com/file/d8cmhjelnx1fve8/IL2_Rheinland_Mission_EnhancerV1b.exe/file

(14/5/2026 - addendum to the link above, replaced previous version V1 with V1b that contains a fix: it now generates a proper .MSNBIN file)

https://www.mediafire.com/file/03l6ke9tu36p50a/rheinland_populated_full_map.mission/file

 

Edited May 14 by Jeronimo83

[SYN_Vander]

Nice! Do you mind if I use your template to add scenery to the Rhineland template for my mission generator? 

 

[Jeronimo83]

Not at all!

BTW, I discovered a problem with my script: I need to generate a .msnbin file of the mission file that has been merged. Do you happen to know how to do this without using the mission editor? I see that there is a program called missonresaver.exe in the il2 directory but I can't figure out how to use it.

 

[SYN_Vander]

1 hour ago, Jeronimo83 said:

Not at all!

BTW, I discovered a problem with my script: I need to generate a .msnbin file of the mission file that has been merged. Do you happen to know how to do this without using the mission editor? I see that there is a program called missonresaver.exe in the il2 directory but I can't figure out how to use it.

 

This should give you an idea, it's what I use in my python code: 

resaver_path = il2_path + "\\bin\\resaver"

command_line = "MissionResaver.exe -t -d \"" + il2_path + "\\data" + \

            "\" -f \"" + mission_path + mission_name + ".mission\"\n"

subprocess.run(command_line, cwd=resaver_path, shell=True)

Edited May 13 by SYN_Vander

[sandmarken]

Superb! The Rheinland map really needs this!

With my campaign Downfall, I spent a rather long time adding farms and small towns, and I wasn't really satisfied in the end. I will check out this mod and might try to implement it at some point! 😄