A Balloon of a different color

[+quack74 329]

I'm trying to make a few more balloon schemes. They will appear at random along with the stock ones. So at one time there will be multiple balloons for each side with different color schemes. So far it's working. Need to work on it some more. And yes I've seen pics with lozenged balloons

 

 

 

 

BTW, this will be a new GroundObject. It's not just a repaint of the original.

Edited February 2, 2010 by quack74

[+whiteknight06604 932]

nice,this will add some charecter to the game.

[+quack74 329]

These all appear at random during missions.

 

 

[+whiteknight06604 932]

most excellent

[Bandy 3]

Maybe the schemes were designed to give the allied pilots headaches, and throw off their aim? I'm prone to migranes myself...

[Dave63 13]

I look forward to flaming them with great enthusiasm

[+quack74 329]

I've been using Stary's multi seasonal terrain pack for Verdun and Cambria. I used my stock terrain .ini (Config and DATA) files to go along with the new tiles so I wouldnt have any problems with the terrain rendering (trees especially). I made 4 types of balloons for each balloon type. And I'm trying to create dates for when they would appear. Ex: the grey and lozenged balloons for winter months and colored (green and tan) balloons for spring and summer. In the balloon's DATA.ini files there are "Service Start Date" and "Service End Date". These all have the m/d/y. I tried to just use m/d just like it is in the season folders. But it doesnt seem to work. The balloons only appear if the full date is typed in. Does anyone else have an idea for getting balloons, or any ground object for that matter, to appear for only certin months? I'll keep fiddling.

[+quack74 329]

So for the stock seasonal terrains and for Stary's new seasonal terrains for Cambria and Verdun, I got all the different balloons to appear at different stages of weather by date. So if it's winter time and there is snow on the ground, both sides will only have up their grey and lozenged balloons. If it's spring, summer, or fall the colored ( tan, green, or lozenged) will appear. All you'll have to do is drop these ground objects into your ground objects folder. I have to tell you though, there's a lot of balloons . That was the only way I could get the dates to work for the different balloons. ex: The grey ones would have to appear three times (through 3 winters) without appearing into the spring terrains. So I had to make three different grey balloons for Central and Allied and so on. But it works. I'll do some more testing and post these soon. Some pics show the stock balloons, but I just wanted to show they only will appear in the spring through fall months.

 

 

 

There are a couple of other balloons that I didnt post pictures of. But you get the picture. I hope you guys are interested in this .

Oh and BTW this is for FE1. I think we have to start saying that now

Edited February 11, 2010 by quack74

[+quack74 329]

The Balloons are now in the download section. There are to many different variants to post pictures of. You have to use them to really understand why I did them the way I did. There is a long read me inside. They work great with seasonal terrains for Balloon Busting missions. Grey's and lozenged (Allied and Central forces) for late fall to early spring and tan, green, and two tone for the rest of the seasons. They look great with the add-on seasonal tiles and terrains like Stary's and Jan Tumas new ones. The service dates would have to be adjusted to your liking or according to when your seasons change. It's all in the readme file included in the download. Also included is MY Cambrai terrain which I used to create the Balloon service dates. It's tweaked a bit. There are Summer, Fall, LightSnow(late fall), Snow, LightSnow(early Spring), and Spring seasonal tiles. when the first snow falls in late fall (LightSnow) all the grey and Lozenged balloons appear. When the snow clears, at begining of Spring, the tan and green balloons appear. You get the picture. Hope you like it. I think it's a nice touch.

 

This was all created for First Eagles Gold. I dont know the compatability with First Eagles 2.

Edited February 15, 2010 by quack74

[sirafe 0]

Exelente trabajo!

[+quack74 329]

Muchos Gracias

 

For any of you who have tried out these balloons, can you confirm for me if they work out ok. Do they appear at the right dates and such?

[+Tailspin 3]

Thanks for the new balloons, Quack. Great job! Just to try them out I picked out a few that I like (1918 types), changed the active dates, and added them to the G.O. folder so they show up randomly with the stock balloons.