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So is it safe to use your wing rudder moddifications (corrections) in other models as well (D.V early and uprated)? Or the wing strenght is a factor to be considered? (D.V more vulnerable than D.Va) I have flown a few fights and I like the result (the plane seems more flyable)... Sometimes there are obvious mistakes like the one you described above (typo) or the wrong weights used in Albatrosse, deriving from older versions of OFF and being perpetually repeated. I hope you'll expand your research-fine tunning to other planes too.

Guys, I'm sorry again... I explored the files I uploaded (with gavagai's Mod) and the file structure was not correct to be used via JSGME. I'm afraid neither Bucksnort's (Hellshade's D.V FM) is. There is folder missing (OBDWW1 Over Flanders Fields)...so JSGME is not installing the FMs in the right place. Meaning I was having a placebo effect all night yesterday, trying to test, at last, gavagai's FM... I have also updated my original post... Alb D.Va 680kg 190hp_gavagai.7z

Well, he was reffering to me, actually... I have his Mod for quite some time now, but haven't been able to test it, yet. I tried to run WOFF after upgrading to W 8.1 and after installing the latest video drivers, but I'm getting too low FPS to enjoy anything. I have to reset everything, but I don't remember the NVidia inspector settings I've been using... I guess I have to dig the graphics threads allover again!

I haven't flown any sim for some time now...

You can open them with Notepad. gavagai, has made a deeper investigation of WOFF FMs. in RoF Forum he claimed that (RoF feel) can be achieved at some point and noticed that the FMs in WOFF were deliberately made "easy". It would have been a huge task though...

ERRATUM! Please, download gavagai's FM tweak again, I have revised the file due to folder naming error (D.V instead of D.Va) if you got the original file it will change the D.V FM... Sorry!

I said that the upgraded engines to D.IIIau didn't add any weight, not that any Albatros was ever delivered from factory with such engine.

It seems from the net weight of the D.Va in WOFF that the chose to portray the OAW variant. 600 of them were made from Sept/Oct '17. The had additional lower wing reinforcements that raised their net weight to 717 kg. To counter that they had to reduce the fuel tank capacity by 15kg. They should have slightly reduced range, is it the case in WOFF? As Olham noted above, the greater number of D.Va-s were made by Johannisthal (1062) had net weight of 680kg. The engines upgraded to Mercedes D.III aü (the ü was for "über", meaning "overcompressed") did not add any weight to the plane so no change expected to the weights table. I was refering to the historical horsepower of the D.V (Mercedes D.III engine) not the FM...

Jim was trying to make a raw example... It is my feeling that every D.V left the factory with the 620kg/170 hp specs, marked in 2 row weights table on the port fuselage. Here is another pic that narrows down Jim's count more: Albatros D.V 4640/17 (the last one left the factory being D.4702/17) The words "Zulassige Belastung" (denoting a 2 row table) partialy and barely visible between the anemometer and the V strut. The D.V's that were retrofitted with the D.Va improvements were given new weights tables ala D.Va style (3 row) Here is Ernst Udet's D.4476/17 with the old style two row weights table scrubbed off... in order to receive a new revised one, due to uprate? Here is an older D.2359/17, captured in March 1918, with a later style 3 row weights table and retrofited braces. ​IMHO, the introduction of D.V uprated in WOFF is not quite historical, souldn't be before October November '17.

Here is another FM revision for the D.Va this time, made by gavagai, from RoF Forums: I have prepared gavagai's Mod to be used not only in QC, in easy to enable JSGME format. Alb D.Va 680kg 190hp_gavagai.7z Please download again, I have revised the file due to folder naming error (D.V instead of D.Va) if you got the original file it will change the D.V FM...

Nice skin, Olham! sporting your ghost greyish lilac... Remember the headache it gave us trying to configure that hue? I have done some work myself on the type, mostly correcting things Arto missed or misinterpreted, in his new, fabulous D.V-D.Va template. I have reworked some details of the old template I will sent them to you, if you want. Here is what I have done so far on the default D.V skin (by Arto) (after his given permission) 1. Added missing bolts to the fuselage below cockpit. 2. Removed from the starbord side the rigging instructions sheet. (could be on either side, most commonly port, but not in both) 3. Changed the nose Idflieg and factory placards with proper Johannisthal ones (Arto was using OAW type) on the nose and added them on the wings as well. 4. Added bases to the strut braces. 5. Removed the wing root rigging loop base to it's proper position. (now corresponds to the actuall rigging of the 3d model as well) 6. Removed the default "Nicht auftreten!" inscrtiption and replaced in proper position. 7. Added the wing pulley inspection hatch on the upper wing and missing sets of bolts in the surrounding area. (pulley hatch doesn't look perfect... too much stretching up there...) Also changed colour to the portrayed Teves & Braun radiator (should be left bare metal instead of painted in primer colour). Few things still left to do, for example the upper wing cross on the right side is a bit misplaced (should be shifted a bit to the wingtip)... but it's kind of tricky to do now and no one will notice the difference. It would be great if we had basic layered templates to start from like in RoF.

Nice!

Aris cloud Mod looks spectacular but I realised, from using it and it's also clearly demonstrated on your screens Adger, that I can easily pick out repeating patterns of cloud shapes... Something that couldn't do with default WOFF clouds (at least so easily).

Too artificial, IMHO...

I want to remake the Albatros D.III skins. IMHO, they are not in the high standard the D.V-s are, mostly based on outdated data. I have done some retouching in small details to the excellent D.V-s as well, but for the D.III-s I'm afraid I have to work from scratch... Here is what I have done so far on the default D.V skin (by Arto) (after his given permission) 1. Added missing bolts to the fuselage below cockpit. 2. Removed from the starbord side the rigging instructions sheet. (could be on either side, most commonly port, but not in both) 3. Changed the nose Idflieg and factory placards with proper Johannisthal ones (Arto was using OAW type) on the nose and added them on the wings as well. 4. Added bases to the strut braces. 5. Removed the wing root rigging loop base to it's proper position. (now corresponds to the actuall rigging of the 3d model as well) 6. Removed the default "Nicht auftreten!" inscrtiption and replaced in proper position. 7. Added the wing pulley inspection hatch on the upper wing and missing sets of bolts in the surrounding area. Also changed colour to the portrayed Teves & Braun radiator (should be left bare metal instead of painted in primer colour). Few things still left to do, for example the upper wing cross on the right side is a bit misplaced (should be shifted a bit to the wingtip)... but it's kind of tricky to do now and no one will notice the difference. It would be great if we had basic layered templates to start from like in RoF.

Experimenting with SweetFX, fiddling around with Para-Bellum's settings (a little les bloom, a bit of bleach). With SweetFX, everything look like they have more "volume", don't you think? Merry Christmas!

I want to fly my favorite Albatros D.V and summer 1917 is the right time. Actually, I have started several Careers ( Jasta 16b, Jasta 32b, Jasta 6) but WOFF 's proven damn hard to master! (It's not only the deadly AI, you have to count the random mechanical failures as well) I keep getting killed-captured after a few days in service...

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I was wondering where have you been? Is it surprise that I had the very same first steps in WOFF? Only difference I wanted to fly the new D.V and chosen a Summer of 1917 starting date. I was posted to Jasta 16b led by Otto Kissenberth. My first ever confirmed kill in WOFF, was a claim with no witnesses from my squad mates. I got seperated during a dogfight, opened the TAC trying to find them back and saw an order under it: "Descent and run to the nearest friendly airfield - (name I don't recall)" So I headed there. When arrived I saw AAA fire from the airfield ground defence. It was a lone N.23 which I duly downed. In the claim form, I wrote the incident and name of the airfield (not being sure even about the spelling) I didn't believe that the claim would be ever confirmed but it did! I was awarded a Goblet for it too. Sadly a couple of days later I got killed when my engine failed on take off... So sad but on the other hand so realistic!

The wanted to eliminate every possibility for the eye (from distance) to confuse it with a cockade.

I made a recolouring attempt on an England tile to see how it looks. What to you think? Crude?

It's in my to do list, as soon as I find some time... I asked the same question in SimHQ: The terrain looks fantastic! I wonder, souldn't the weat fields in spring be kind of light greenish? Answer by Polovski: Some of the finest flight sim scenery out there. One day we'll have the mouse in your tent, steam from you tea, and someone will say mmm "would cheap frontline WW1 tea really produce that much steam?"

I had no problems whatsoever, download or installation wise... My only problem is that it's 3.00 in the morning...