Herr Prop-Wasche

To be honest, the reason I get shot down so easily is that I am primarily a poor shooter, due to a head injury I had as a child. As a consequence, I have a slight tremor in both of my hands which makes aiming difficult. Also effects my flying a bit. Therefore, I tend to get target fixated as I try to shoot enough holes in the enemy craft to down him. Secondly, I have spent more time lately modding and tweaking than flying, so I don't have a lot of flight time logged to begin with. I'm hoping to spend more time flying and less time tweaking now that OBD has finished patching for the most part and my DM is close to where I want it (although I am finding it hard to resist making some additional changes based upon some of the new settings in the stock DM). Thanks for the suggestions. I'm afraid I'll never be an OFF 17 hour person, however! Still, the sim is quite fun and fantastic so I don't feel like I have wasted any of my money.

Programming is as much an art as it is a science. Sometimes even mystical and not everything can work right the first time. It's good that you made the effort and I have confidence that you will sort it out eventually. But for now, take a well deserved break.

Yep, what Panama Red said. To check if you have BHaH DM or the HPWFB DM installed, check the date of your xdp files, located in each specific aircraft folder inside the CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields\aircraft folder. The stock OBD xdp files are dated around the middle of July, while mine are dated later, toward the end of July and beginning of August. Another way to check is to open up one of the Alb xdp files with a text editor and note the damage point value for the oil reservoir. Mine are set to 38, while the stock OBD files are set to 34.

Workshop. Left side. Should be some buttons that control the intro movie, and UI movie.

JSGME Compatible HPWFB DM View File JSGME Compatible HPWFB Campaign Damage Model Variety Pack for OFF BHaH 1.1 by Herr Prop Wasche, with contributions by Fortiesboy --------------------- Changes to 1.1 Mod is now fully compatible with Jonesoft's Generic Mod Enabler. Now, users of JSGME simply need to unzip the mod by right-clicking on the HPWFB_DM_1_1.zip folder and extracting to your CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields\MODS folder. Follow the JSGME instructions to activate the mod. Users can find JSGME at the following address: http://www.users.on.net/~jscones/software/...ucts-jsgme.html 2) After activating the mod, be sure to navigate back to the CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields\MODS folder and click on the deletebdps.bat program to remove any old bdp files remaining from older DM installs. That's it! NOTE: Version 1.1 is intended ONLY for users of JSGME. If you are not using JSGME, please download and use version 1.0 of the HPWFB DM! Submitter Herr Prop-Wasche Submitted 08/16/2009 Category Modding Tools and Add-on Software

Heh. I think the maximum I have made so far is 3.5 hours!

Hee, hee. QC carnage. When the subtlety of the campaign won't do, go for the carnage in a QC battle!

Olham, do you get any sleep? Thanks for the compliments about the DM. I have worked very hard on it and am pleased that you are enjoying it. Of course, wouldn't be possible without the already outstanding BHaH and the superlative superpatch--minus the DM, of course! (Actually, the stock DM is just as good as Fortiesboy's and my mod. Just a little difference in design philosophy really! I encourage everyone to try them both out to see which they prefer).

I've now made a version of the HPWFB DM that is fully JSGME compatible! After I upload the new 1.1 version to the 3rd party mods forum, all users will have to do is unzip the zip file to your CFSW1 Over Flanders Fields\MODS folder, which will be created when you install JSGME. Then, simply follow the easy JSGME instructions to activate the damage mod. Users will find a readme file for HPWFB DM and a deletebdps.bat file located in the CFSW1 Over Flanders Fields\MODS folder. JSGME is available here: http://www.users.on.net/~jscones/software/...ucts-jsgme.html Install JSGME by unzipping the download to your main CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields Folder. Note: users who choose not to use JSGME should NOT use version 1.1 of the mod. Continue to use 1.0 until you decide to install JSGME.

Carrick-- Didn't mean to forget about you. Did you ever get sorted?

Hi FB! Glad you are "back with the program." I'm not sure that your clean install had any effect on the trees; I believe Winder mentioned in one of the mini-patches that the terrain in the super-patch had a few oddities that were corrected in a later hot-fix. Maybe that cured your tree problem. I'd hate to lose you from 1.32 because of a "failing to see the forest for the trees!" I'm getting some good reports about our damage mod. Be sure to check out the HPWFB release thread for information about using a 3rd party program called JSGME (Jones-Soft Generic Mod Enabler) to quickly and easily handle all kinds of mods to BHaH--including damage mods. I'm going to recommend that everyone use this utility to handle DM changes. This should help end any aircraft mismatch problems in MP too. Because of the changes to how OBD handles patches and the damage model, I have been too busy trying to find easier work-arounds to backing up and restoring files for me to fly very much, so I am interested in your comments re the DM. Hopefully, using JSGME will enable me to spend more time flying, comparing DMs, and possibly tweaking! Cheers!

Doh! I have played SH3 with JSGME and completely forgot about it! Doh! :blush2: Thanks Panama Red! JSGME should be ideal for backing up and replacing the damage files. No more fooling around with ancient DOS commands to copy all those files (although I WAS finally able to get my batch file to properly copy the files and store them in a backup folder). I was just about to start working on a .bat file to restore the files when I ran across your post. Guess I won't have to waste my time working on that and can get flying! I'll update my readme file to incorporate instructions on using JSGME with the HPWFB VDM.

OMG! Another patch! What is WRONG with this game! This is the suckiest support EVAH! Can't OBD get anything right!! Oh, and what's with my plane getting shot up all the time!!! The DRI is PORKED!!!! Waaah, waah, waah!!!! Seriously guys, you have spoiled us! Take a well deserved rest, go to the beach, drink your favorite beverage(s), and THEN GET BACK TO WORK ON P4! Really....

Not much to add that hasn't already been said. OBD has the best support I have ever experienced. To top it off, they are extremely friendly and helpful--unless unfairly provoked, which seems to be extremely rare! Are there some things about BHaH that I might like to be slightly different? Well, sure. However, we all have to remember that without Winder, Pol, and several others, who have worked FOR YEARS on their own time to develop their vision of WWI in the air, we wouldn't even have this absolutely wonderful sim to b***ch about. Remember the dark days between RB3D and phase 2? If you don't like the vision that OBD has brought to life, you can always go out and develop your own vision of WWI air combat. I hope you don't mind if I don't wait for your vision to come to fruition!

Glad you guys are sorted. Sometimes it's the easiest explanation, LOL. I always use escape to end my missions but never thought about it.

Red-Dog, Glad you like it so far! I've got some ideas for incorporating some of the features of the new OBD DM into the mod as well. I think there may be a way to show more bullet strike and fabric damage.

OlPaint--sounds like you are on the right track. Safest bet is to backup the entire aircraft folder, even though you really only need the xdp files. I tried all day to create a batch file to save and reinstall the stock xdp's, but I have run into several snags due to my limited knowledge of DOS commands. Anybody out there who can help me out?

Hmmm, Mickeysoft's auto update won't work? Don't like the sound of that. Here is a direct link you can try: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...08-1E1555D4F3D4 If that doesn't work, try going to Dell's website to see if they have any info about updating to service pack 3 on a Dell.

Glad to hear people are still interested in trying the HPWFB variety pack. I've had limited time since releasing, so I haven't had much chance to check it out in the campaign so I'm very interested in hearing your feedback. Re uninstalling and rolling back to the stock DM. Unfortunately, it seems that to reinstall OBD's DM you will have to reapply the superpatch and hot-fix, as the mini-updates do not appear to include any of the aircraft files (OBD please correct me if I am wrong). The only other alternative I can think of is to first back up your aircraft folder by copying and pasting it to another drive before installing the VDM. A faster, but more complicated procedure would be to simply copy all of the stock xdp files to another location before installing the VDM, and then repasting the stock files back into the aircraft folder if you wish to go back to the stock DM. I may be able to write a batch program to do this automatically but I don't have a time table for when I might be able to do that.

Zoom, I think you need to install Microsoft's Service Pack 3 for XP 32. Someone else was having problems until they discovered they only had SP2 installed. To determine which service pack is currently installed on your computer, follow these steps: 1. Click Start, and then click Run. 2. Type the following command and then click OK: winver A dialog box displays the version of Windows and the service pack that is currently installed on your computer. Be sure to set a restore point before installing just to be on the safe side. Good luck.

A couple of thoughts. Are you returning to the correct airbase? Do you land first or let your wing mates land first? Most importantly, was your mission a total success or a total failure? In P2, sometimes a message box would display asking you if you wanted to end a mission early after you accomplished all objectives or failed to accomplish any. This was removed in P3. I'm wondering if this message is being triggered in your missions but is not seen because it was removed in P3. My guess is that if you don't end your mission quickly after this invisible message is triggered then the CFS3 engine erases or overwrites the early part of your mission.

Winston, I hope you choose to stay, Superpatch or no Superpatch. Maybe if OBD called future additions to the game "enhancements" instead of "patches," people wouldn't get so up in arms about the many welcomed improvements to the game. The game is excellent as it is, no one should have the impression that it needs any "fixing." OBD does an excellent job, bar none, listening and responding to their customers. Why should we discourage them by fussing over matters of personal opinion?

Yes, I like to think that OBD learned something from me and Fortiesboy. :wink:

For BH, a better idea than editing all of the Fee folders from "tactical_bomber" to "fighter_bomber." Instead, only change the Fee folder named Fe2b_Sqd. In BHaH, you and your flight of aircraft all fly using the Sqd folder, while flight A and other Fee flights/squadrons use the other folders. So, you can "imagine" that your flight has been given the job of "top cover" to protect all of the lumbering Fees below. Of course, you can still bomb targets as before, but your flight mates will act much more aggressively than the other Fees. Try it out and see!