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I had read it and still couldn't see it... I must be getting blind... Thanks!

Where should we put this?

NO joke... I still need to make the pilot and additionally a German frontal gunner for the Gotha... but I'm in the mood for OFF, lately...(I'm having phases of total addiction sometimes)! Anyway, I have to put my ass down and finish them, there is a major update patch on the way. I would like to show you my progress on that subject guys, as I feel more comfortable here than in the other Forum, but the last time I referred, I admit, graphically to RoF, things went pretty nasty... I could pass some of the stuff I've got to OFF too, if there is such an interest...

:grin: Hey Olham, you are in my land now...Pilots Do you know that I'm officially commissioned to 'dress' the pilots and crews of the other, luxurius WWI sim and instead of doing it, I prefer designing OFF Albatri skins with you...

:yikes: Awesome!!! And so great looking skies too! :clapping:

Wow, Great find! Hurray for the Royal Bavarian Jagdstaffel 23, then!

Very interesting skin there, Olham I've been experimenting a bit, myself on Albatros skins, tweaking the default ones mostly, as I want them to blend with the already existing ones...but I find their lozenge render, rather weak comparing to yours...(it may be a bit too bright for my taste, but definitely a vast improvement over the default one). Anyway, here are a couple of shots from my latest Jasta 23b Career...(third in a row)!

OK, I revisited St. Mard, Verdun, as Uffz. Walter Lang... and miraculously the problem was solved! :yes: The French Strutters were back on their own Esq. livery. Here are a couple of "shots" on Esq. 28: (ironically they bare the emblem of an elephant!) I double checked it, and other Esq. too feature now their own skins. PROBLEM SOLVED ! I didn't get an answer to my question about the possibility to edit your squadmates as aces in order to assign them personal skins... Anyone?

Thanks, I have W7 all right...no problem. I started a new French Strutter Campaign, with Esq.28, August '17, in the Verdun area and the skins show up normally! I guess I have to change sides once more and check it out from a German point of view...

Not necessarily, if I back them up first...isn't it?

Go to: \CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields\campaigns\CampaignData\Pilots You'll find there the Claims, Log and Dossier files of your pilots, to copy and transfer them to your new installation... or you can copy the whole Pilots folder and paste it into the above directory of your new installation as well.

That was probably my mistake, as I'm not at all familiar with the French Esq. , that's why I did put a question mark after that. It's most probable that it was Esq. 28 and my memory betrayed me... Yet, I'm quite convinced that the French skins are not showing up on French Strutters in my Campaigns... I'll try starting a new French Srutter Carrer to see what's going to happen...

My French Srutter problem, may be different than an Esq. with a missing skin for a given period, after all... I encountered again "British" Strutters in my Jasta 23 Campaign. This time when I turned labels on to see which Esq. seemed to be the "problematic" one, I realised that the planes this time belonged to another Esq. (Esq.13, which is definately skinned)! May be, my problem is of different nature and the French Esq. skins, are not shown in general... Any ideas on this?

With the economic situation in Greece, I have to pass this poll...

I just voted, and I think that the number you are asking for, (System/rating?)...is 5.5, in my case...

OK, that's fine, what I wanted to hear! May I ask something more...(Sorry, I'm exausting you with my Q!)... Can I edit, in some way, my squadmates in the aces folder and thus assign them personal skins? Is such "cheat" feasible? If so possible, will my squadmates skill be automatically set to ace? 'cause I don't want this...

OK, you probably mean: OBDSoftware\CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields\missions\historical The last Campaign mission is in .xlm format there, right? If I named my skin after that unit in question, following the OFF naming format, would the game recognise it as a valid skin and use it instead of changing the default skin?

I kind of didn't like the sound of the default spandau mg sound, so I checked in the downloads center for alternative. I found two spandau sounds, one by Creaghorn and one by Winston but they both are lacking the external sound though, so I edited them to be used as external as well. I don't know how to upload a mod here... It's kind of a minor tweak, anyway, so give it a try as a beta. Installation instructions in the ReadMe file. Spandau sound.rar

OK, got it...I have made a generic French Strutter skin by editing already existent skins in the skins folder. I can enable the new skin as default, via JSGME and revert back to the original default in a second, no problem. Thanks! PS where I can find the mission file though?

OMG!!! :clapping:

Thanks for the answers, guys... I understand... and I don't have a wish to fly at night uncleal, just the "moonlighting" effect looked a bit weird to me.. About skins now Pol, is there a way to asign a skin to a certain Sqn. ,(lets say a generic French to the Esq. in question), or it's hard coded? Any chance to have personal skins assigned to squadmates as an option in P4? That would be great! Thanks again!

I've been playing OFF for 6 months now and never had a night mission...well, not exactly... In my new Jasta 23b Campaign, (third in a row...thanks to Olham's airfield thread), I had a late afternoon mission. We are in the winter, (Dec. '17) and my return was at dusk time. Considering the bad weather conditions, isn't the terrain looking too bright? I had a feeling that there were floodlights illuminating it! The objects on the other hand look pretty dark all right...(look those tents in the backround they're almost black!) Is this "terrain illumination", for playability reasons? What do you guys think about it? In an Airfield defence mission, our flight encountered an attacking flight of Strutters, (nothing weird so far). When I got close I saw they were British! In our sector, (Verdun area), there were no Brits... The colours of the Strutter looked like those of RNAS 4, (I fly with them on my British Campaign). I turned the labels on, to realize that the planes were supposed to be of a French Esq.(26?) If that's the case, why they were not wearing a generic French livery, if there wasn't a special skin for that Esc. available? Is this a bug? It was kind of immersion killer when I realised it... Talking about immersion killers another thing that haunts me, is the AI formation flying and landing procedure. The pilots in formation don't follow the leader as normal but just keeping up with the mission waypoints. When the FL reaches a waypoint and turns to the direction of the next, the rest of the flight doesn't turn with him, (as supposed to, in order to keep formation), but continues straight flying till the waypoint is reached and then turns! I find this behaviour totally unrealistic... Also the landing procedure for the AI is a bit weird too. When they reach the final waypoint at the airfield they don't loiter over it and start landing one by one as normal, (may be more than one there is enough space, but anyway), but instead they turn and travel to another direction for several miles and when they finaly come back they land as if tied by an ivisible string, one behind the other at the edge of the airfield and stop there... I skip the landing procedure as I land first and end the mission, let the others wonder about.. but that formation thing is a real immersion killer. What to you think about these? Any chance to see them "fixed" in P4?

Very interesting thanks, Shiloh!

OK, here is a photo sequence of a taking off procedure from the weird Saint Mard, aerodrome:

I like all the airfields in OFF...they are very atmospheric, indeed! Right now, I only have these pics of Aniche, Flandres, home of Jasta 23b, in early 1918. I must admit though, I remember the most, another airfield of Jasta 23b in the Verdun region. I don't remember the name exactly, St. Marts or something. It was placed in the most inappropriate place for an airfield... It was dug into the ground, like been at the bottom of a bathtub...I may visit it again and bring back some pics.