quack74

It makes you feel bad shooting down the enemy. You almost hope their plane doesn't explode. Just Kidding! Shoot'em Up!

Have not tried it yet. On the list of things to try out for sure. It's hard to keep up these days with all the good stuff available.

Hey Mike Dora, have you tried the Armed Balloons method by WarlordATF? http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=7544. Adding AAA around Balloons is very time consuming. It has to be done in the Terrain files ex: Cambria/ types.ini files etc, etc. Every coordinate there is for a balloon, you can add a AAA gun around the Balloon by changing the coordinates just a hair. I havnt done it yet but it can be done. There is a thread for it I think from a couple of months back. I dont know the link to it. But look around. It can be done easily. Just time consuming.

Yeah, somewhere when messing with my effects I missed placed the gun smoke that I was using. Now I get the squiggly lines. I havnt been able to work on it yet. Not sure what happened or what I need to do To get back the correct smoke effect from gun fire.

If you go to the A-Team Skunkworks Site, http://cplengineeringllc.com/SFP1/, you'll find a download of AA Gunners (single man armed machineguns). If you place them in your ground objects folder they appear at random all over the map. Also around all the airfields. They shoot some good bursts with tracers. They will help take care of those vultures that follow you home. You can find it under weapons and vehicles. You do need a password though. It's easy.

Sinbad, I see you posted some pics of a 1 1/2 Strutter in the CombatAce image gallery. Looks like screens from First Eagles. Is it yours? Is it in the download section? Will it be in the download section?

Excellent Laton! Congrats to you. I've been married for 1 1/2 years. It's a great thing. Enjoy it!

I like them. I just dont like the wiggly lines that fly by in cockpit view. Can that be changed some how? It looks better in motion ofcourse.

File Name: Albatros DV Jasta 23b 6-Pack File Submitter: quack74 File Submitted: 30 Aug 2009 File Category: Albatros Skins This is a 6-pack of Jasta 23b Albatros D.V's. Used from mid 1917 to 1918. 1. Otto Kissenberth (black fuselage) 2. Ltn. Heinrich Seywald ("S" ensignia on fuselage side) 3. Ltn. Theodor Rumpel (green fuselage) 4. Ltn. Theodor Rumpel (orange-red fuselage) 5. Ltn. Friedrich Ritter von Roth (black and white circle on fuselage sides) 6. Jasta23b Black (generic Jasta 23b D.V with black tail and white banding). Can be used along with the stock Jasta 23b D.V with only the white band. I left the stock Lozenge Camo on the wings. Seems a bit dark but I would be guessing at a right shade. Enjoy, quack74 Click here to download this file

Does anyone know who flew these three Dr.1's of Jasta 12? Also, does anyone know where there is a photo of the Dr.1 with the oval shaped fuselage marking? I've never seen a photo of it. Is there a photo of it? And again who flew it?

Ok, couldnt sleep last night because my daughter didnt want to sleep. Awsome right? So I was wide awake at 3:00 am and decided to mess with some of the new effects packages. DO NOT mod when tired and mad! Any way I was mixing some effects to get things the way I would like them. Some things werent right so I tried to delete some things and reinstall my original Tracer Smoke effect (Latons version). Well it's gone of course. Ive tried all versions of the Tacer Smoke I had saved, the .tga and the Tracer Smoke Emitter file. But no matter what I do, no tracer smoke appears. The smoke from the guns is there and the insendiary bullets are there too. Just no tracers. Anyone have any ideas? Could someone maybe send me a PM with their complete tracer smoke package? I might have deleted something important I dont know about. So I cant really tell anyone what I did. It was late and I was tired

The tracers could be toned down a bit. I like them though. The only problem I find with them is, from the cockpit view, as they pass the pilots face they appear as a whole bunch of squiggly lines (small wavy lines). I know thats the way the .tga file has to be. But is there a way to make the gun barrel smoke ( like Latons version) appear first then the tracers. The smoke effect is missing now from the gun fire. The wavy lines only is weird looking from the cockpit.

I see you're doing your own skins for it. Very cool. Nothing would need to be done then. Just install and play. Are you going to make generic squadron skins or just personal skins.

Ah, got it. Thanks Laton. Stary's version was the one I had saved. Didnt realize it. I'm back in business.

Yep! Thats what it was. The names under bulletobject.ini all said [TracerEmitterName=TracerSmoke2Emitter]. I dont know where the 2 came from. I removed the 2 in all places now the tracers appear. Why does my bulletobject.ini have a different name for the effect? All the effect downloads are named TracerSmokeEmitter? Oh well. Big thanks to you Laton

What should it say? Because I had to revert back to the stock bulletobject .ini. I have everything in the effects folder back to what I want and still no tracer smoke. I figured it has to be a problem somewhere else. Object folder maybe? That is where the bulletobject.ini is. I'll check. Thanks Laton.

Thanks A6Intruder, I'll give it a try. But I think I might have tried this one already. Not sure though. I have a tracer smoke files installed, but nothing is showing up. We'll see. Thanks.

It says "File not found" I cant download it. What happened?

Well I've messed a little with the "Environmentsystem Configuration Settings" file in the flight folder a bit. The overall environment seems to be way to dark for me. On a clear day it should be very bright. So I've changed the settings a bit. [Day] SunHeight=0.240 SunBrightness=1.20 <------- increased value here SunLightLevel=1.60<--------- and here SunRadiance=0.0 TwilightLensFlare=0.0 SunColor=0.595,0.600,0.578 AmbientColor=0.300,0.300,0.335 SkyColor=0.376,0.564,0.815 HorizonColor=0.811,0.815,0.937 FogColor=0.564,0.627,0.805 SunSpecularColor=0.81,0.762,0.740 It brightened the environment up a bit. But, the higher you make the values the more that jagged horizon haze appears on the terrain and the smoke effect color starts to change to a green-blue. I want to increase the values even more but I dont know how to change the smoke colors (all smoke effects get changed) and how to get rid of that jagged haze close to the horizon on the terrain. Typical, you try to fix one thing then it messes up something else. It's great fishing around here with all these cans of worms

Let me at it! I've been waiting for this one. Lots of skins in mind. My triplanes need to escort something.

I just posted 2 Camels in the download section. The skins can be used for all three versions. They are just a simple paint job on the cowls and wheel discs of the RAFBrownF1 skins. 1. RAFBrown Red 2. RAFBrown Blue Such a simple paint job dont know why it wasnt done before. Anyway they would represent a "B" flight (red) and a "C" flight (blue) to go with the stock RAFBrownF1_110, 130, and 150 skins. Many Camels were painted this way so it would be somewhat accurate.

I'm not sure if this is what you mean but try this. In the Camel folders ,110, 130, and 150, open the "CamelF1 Configuration Settings. This is where the TextureSets are. If you place the RAFBrown red, for example, In the first TextureSet position [TextureSet001] It will always appear as the default skin in Single Missions and Campaigns. This will work for any plane and skin. Just make sure the TextureSet numbers are still in number order. The skin will appear in all flight positions. If you want each flight to be different you have to change them manually. Hope this is what you meant.

Is it just me or is the new CombatAce site really really slow? Every window I click on takes a good ten seconds or so to load. It's like I'm back to dial-up. I'm currently using cable (LAN). Is it because it's still in the works or is it the way it's going to be. I hope it's not going to be this way. Pretty frustrating.