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May be slightly Off Topic but worth seeing... Let's wait and see how Oleg's team can cope this...

I thought so too...I think I've read it in an uncleal's post. But I can confirm that AI can still see through clouds at 5! I was target fixated chasing a Sop. Strutter yesterday, approaching from its's low six when suddenly we both encloacked in a cloud...I didn't disengage, tried to keep my controls as they were, as there wasn't so muck turbulance in that cloud, hoping that when exiting I could continue the chase... Suddenly my plane was pounded badly, by the Srutter' rear gunner! I must have been very close but still couldn't see a thing. I had to dive away immediately in order to save myself... So AI not seeing through clouds=5 is a myth!

almccoyjr, this is a treasure! The default "fish eye" view in externals, when closing up, is kind of irritating to me... Thankk you sir!

I play with HPWDMv2.5 (damage Mod) on and mg efficiency on hard settings,(Main and Rear Guns set to Less Acc), to simulate early mg's lack of concentration of fire... Makes a kill even harder to get...but rewarding as well!

OK, I set Composite Aircraft Texture Pool to 3D3POOL_MANAGED and Composite Aircraft Texture Usage to 3D3USAGE_RENDERTARGET I got back the "soft" damage and my visuals are great. Must have been the changes to my graphic card configuration that caused the mess up. Now I've reverted to my former settings all seems fine.

I like the pilot badge on top of the flag...Great Lou! As Olham said the if we could get the medals in a higher resolution would have been perfect. I followed your intructions and now having correct medals in the pilots Dossier. My own medals look a bit distorted when shown in Dossier but look fine in the announcement screen... Yours look fine in Dossier is there any distortion in the announcement screen? In Dossier they look a bit stretched to the sides...

Well, unfortunately I got many crashes with the new settings...not only game crashes but computer ones as well, (blue screen twice)... So I went back to my old settings...Everything looks brilliant, now I can see the difference between Normal and High but afaik no "soft" damade any more...never mind no big deal. I may retry to fiddle with the Graphics Conf. again tommorow...

I know, I've created the appropriate folder sequence so it can be enabled via JSGME... Essential Mod indeed Creaghorn, Thanks! And Herr Olham, thanks a million! Problem solved...

You press your keyboard's PrtSc (PrintScreen) button, NOT ! the button you have assigned for screenshots in Game, by default: (Control+;), as you will get a black picture as I first did. You exit Game, (Alt+Tab), open a painting program, MS Paint that should be by default in your computer will do. Paste and here you are.

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Thanks Lou, but I'm afraid you didn't understand me again... I don't want to just rename the existing medals... In German Campaign you get the same medal twice...a generic: "Iron Cross". The historically correct order is "Iron Cross 2nd Class" and "Iron Cross 1st Class". Meaning, there is a brand new medal to be established. Look again at the pics above... the problem is not the name...(the default "Iron Cross" has to be split in two classes-medals)! So I say that, somewhere in game, there must be some kind of text denoting the medals sequence. Understood?

Wow, that's an easy one! Thanks! Consider it done... PS: I'm afraid it didn't work...I did it and got an error message, (medals are missing, reinstall OFF),that's because I don't want just to rename the medal but to add a new one as well...(Iron Cross 1st Class). There must be some kind of text somewhere, with the awards and their order of appearance...something like: Medal#1...Iron Cross Medal#2...Iron Cross Medal#3...Royal Hohenzollern House Order Medal#4...Orden Pour le Merite Medal#5...Red Eagle Order

Thanks carrick58 These days I play everything on the quad core gaming laptop I could afford and bought last year, (I usually travel a lot for my job)... I'm afraid I don't know any other specifications, only it has an NVidia GFX 260 graphics card on and can run both OFF and RoF pretty maxed out! PS Here is another, formation flying, one sporting the Sop. 1/2 Strutter. I started an RNAS 3 1916 Campaign for a change and I like this little plane very much! In my very first mission I got 3 Alb. D.II, the last one just by positioning myself right for my observer to finish him off, as I have expended my ammo on the other two! (Poor Alby!!! ) Unfortunately I had been lost in the clouds and was alone...no witnesses. I submitted the claims anyway, even if they are going to be rejected...It was great fun! I know now why TaillyHo is in love with this plane...

I was declared an ace I think after my 10th confirmed kill and the second generic "iron cross" I got... or I may be wrong and it was the 15th? I dont remember... Anyway, after a virtual year, (yes I know "pilot never dies", but please spare me I'm just a newbie), I got 30 confirmed kills and a new medal to wear in parades. I have changed the default German medals pictures with my own ones from Pat Wilson's RoF Campaign... I want to correct that "iron cross" thing while waiting for Phase 4... Anybody knows what file I have to edit to do so... I searched The CampaignData files and subfolders with no luck so far... The way the medals should have been in the first place...(Photoshoped... )

Here is my MODS Folder, (using JSGME): Nothing too fancy, the latest DM mod, Sound mod II (patched up to the latest standard), N28 FM mod and a little tracer mod I did, by tweaking the stock tracer textures...

I have NVidia GFX 260. AA set to 8Q overriding application settings. I run OFF pretty much maxed out getting average FPS count of 45-30(when I pan around) . Overal Graphic Detail : 5 Aircraft Detail : 5 Terrain Detail : 4 Scenery Detail : 4 Effects Quality : 5 Cloud Quality : 5

No other damage except structural... I also did have the skins resolution set to HD at first, (no vis. damage). Downgraded to normal, (I didn't notice significal diffrrance, as Wodin stated above), just for the 'soft' damage stuff, but I haven't seen it yet and I've been damaged by mg fire, sometimes heavily, many times since...

The problem is why we can't see them in normal skin resolution...

I do have the same problem with Wodin... I have never seen any bullet holes yet on my plane and have been damaged and forced down many times... Once, I lost a wingtip and the damage was very well portrayed but no other damage ever shown to my plane. I too have set the Plane skins to normal just for the damage feature, but still no candy!

And skin too... Here's my first OFF screenshot. Nothing fancy, just formation flying in my Alb. D.III, with Jasta 2, April 1917. (OFF skies are the most lifelike virtual skies I've ever flown in)! Unfortunately no aces in 2nd Flight I'm being assigned to... I hope in Phase 4 individual skins for non "known ace" pilots will be possible... Later on I had an almost haunting experience flying over no man's land with full scale battle going on underneath! The atmosphere this sim can create is unparallel to anything I've ever used to know!

I also did notice the Albatros radiator control lever and mechanism modelled! Do you reccon this will be functional or just eye candy?

As a matter of fact, I'm still waiting for the DVD... Mark arranged a special download version for me, after showing my purchase receipt, with the date on! CUDOS to OBD for their Great custommer support! I wish a download option will be available for Phase 4 as well...

Yes I know how to do it, I just think it's too complicated to get someone targeted first to see him externally! Also the actuall external view is viewed through a weird wide-angle distorting lens, if you want to get a bit closer, that is frustrating! But as you say we have to live with these rather minnor deficiencies as OFF really is the most immersive sim I've ever played too... Thanks!

Bummer...I did that in Pat's Campaign and I didn't have to turn labels on to see who is who... I know it's not a feature addressed to the casual or average player but I would like to have it in Phase 4. I too have the tendency to bond with my virtual squadmates. CFS3 has a pretty lame set of external views, BTW. In all other sims I play you can cycle between friends and foes easily in external view. When cruising to target I usually set autopilot on, get outside and wonder around taking screenshots or just watching the planes fly...(Am I missing something 'cause I only can see someone else, externally, only if I set him targeted).

I do it all the time...(I have OFF at last and beeing a bit enthousiastic, I guess)... I used to play, before I get OFF, Campaigns with Pat Wilson's Campaign Generator for RoF. There, by clicking every individual pilot's name you could see his Dossier, (picture, stats and awards), also the aces had their actuall victories logged on in historical time frame and you could see them amassing kills as time passed. (they died, "historically" and not only, too)... ie You could kill an ace and never meet him again. I would like to see such features in Phase 4. BTW does anyone knows how I can assign individual skins to my virtual squadmates?