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actually,,,not completly true.... I was testing a mission one night,,and did it in mp just to be sure there would be no problems,,,there where some other players in a game with stump, and my game showed up on someones server list,,, so they joined my game (without even knocking i might add) my thinking is,,if it worked once,,there has to be a reason why it worked,,and if we can figure out why it worked,,,maybe we can get it working for everyone all the time,, no place to hide,,,,,,,,,

lol..sorry,,,changed it..... or,,i could have shut up,,,and driven you crazy...

I know there is at least one pilot out there who gets to see games up in his server list when he is entering mp.... forget who it is,,but anyone who has this luxury, let me know.. would also need to know if they always show up, or its just an occaisional thing.

RAF Louvert...what ever it is your on on,,,,can you send me some?

wow,,,i never even knew that file existed!..... and it answers one question ive had for a long time,,,that being the purpose of the default _t.dss file in the aircraft directory..... you have a lot of errors copying campaign skins there,,,but they should not have caused the game to crash, as it seems to just load the default skin for that plane in case it happens. what bothers me, is you are calling for a skin OFF_DH2_m16_t_RFC-32 1916.dds, but in my directory the file is called off_dh2_mid16_t_RFC-32 1916.dds..ie..you lost the "id" in mid. Now like i said,,it seems that kind of error is not fatal,,cause it just loads the default skin for the plane when this happens. it is also telling you the ace cant fly a fokker d1,,,which means to me your looking for a d1,,,when you should be looking for a DR1... and,,,there is a line in there ??Craft Invalid! RAF_FE8_SQ1 so,,if i where to guess,,,,id say you mission generator got screwed up. My first guess was maybe a problem with your aircraft directory, but im thinking now that is ok,,,its just the mission is screwed up. another thing you might want to post here,,if you have not run another campaign mission since this crash,,,is the off_camp_mission.xml that i belive is in your historical folder. I may be a little off on the name of the file, but that was close enough for you to find it. I would love to see what the mission.xml file looks like and compare it to what the log file says needed to be loaded. im not up on campaigns,,,but i would consider making a new pilot...starting a new campaign,,,and see if everything goes right.. and,,thanks again for bringing my attention to that file...lot of interesting info there on what goes on behind the scenes in a campaign mission.

Cool...so does this only work on the ground at a friendly hanger?

dont have a clue what you mean by entire planet......lol...all i want is a damn christmas tree! I got a nice shiny green cone after about 5 hours of tuturials that always have ONE step that leaves you clueless what to do next.... think what i have to do next is get it to a wireframe,,,but that just a guess,,,,,

lol...ok,,,will add that to the database,,, how in hell did you check safemode??

i gotta start building a database with problems........ first thing i would do,,,if you have cfs3 installed,,,play that. If not,,,any other relativly new game that you may have would probably do. If the only place you have problems is BHAH, then you kinda narrowed it down to a software issue, and not a hardware issue. I remeber someone else haveing problems with trees,,,,and cant for the life of me think who it was.....or what the solution turned out to be. as far as sound,,do you get the meow,,and any other start up sounds? and,,question i hate to ask,,,did you install the smoke mod? its 630 edt here,,,will try and be on teamspeak at 730edt if you want to join in..

ran accross this thread from winder http://forum.combatace.com/topic/50795-off-hat-in-the-ring-cpu-and-gpu-loads-and-known-issues/page__gopid__367507& It seems to indicate there are mp problems with new planes, but we tested all of them the other day, and I didnt see anything wrong, but then i didnt make the effort to see if i saw each and everyone of the addon aircraft. he also refers to a nameing restriction which accounts for the strutter problem in mp. Maybe thats something we can fix on our own. Not sure if this is the same problem that we get with the 2gun tripe and the n17 lewis. The lewis is the worse of them all,,as it seems to just cause the game to ctd, whereas the stutters and tripe are just invisible planes with wierd lables.

lol..ok,,this is too funny,,,now that i have maya,,AND 3dsMax,,,your telling me all i need is gmax....... damn,,and all i wanted to do is make a christmas tree!!!!

We will use RB3 Black Haze Squadron's Teamspeak Once teamspeak is installed and started, Click on connections, then select connect. Right click on servers, and select "add server" Select the "new server" you just created, and enter the following: label: Whatever you want to identify that server as. server address is 69.162.122.47:8784 Nickname is whatever you want to be displayed for your name Check Anonymous Password is pfalz Be sure "Auto Reconnect" is selected and there are a additional downloads you will nedd

ok,,,will do it the quick way first....just the xdp and bdp files...look for it on teamspeak in about 10 mins do you have someone you can test this with?

if there are players who dont have it installed,,,and for whatever reason dont want to get it, it doesnt mean they cant play. All they have to do is get the new xdp/bdp files from someone who does have it, That is everything in the scenery\default folder. Am not sure if they need the air and cfg files that reside there. if they copy the new xdps into thier aircraft folder,,im pretty sure they will not mismatch..and pretty sure it wont cause other problems down the road. This worked in reverse the other nite,,,i have hir installed,,but dutch didnt, so i reloaded my OLD xdp/bdp....cant see why it wont work the other way. If everyone has hir,,its a mute point.. Am working, ,but will check thread to see if anyone is needs the files...if so,,will upload them. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK>>> also,,,as these are not really the "improvements" in hir,,,do not want this to be construed as giving someone something they should be paying for......these are just dm changes.

Hi, Yes, thats the thread i saw which led me to get maya (which from you last post on the thread, indicates i dont need it....),,,,,, so guess i need gmax if i want to make anything m3d. ok,,did some searching,,and there are posts that indicate 3dsmax is better than gmax...do you agree?, or should i just consider using gmax

played with dutch tonight, and for me at least,,the above proceedure worked. i took my files in the wwscenery folder for offline, (the dates for those files where older than what was in default) and copied them over to my aircraft folder in off... to get back to where i started, i would just have to go to workshop, and hit restore to default.

Beard,,,,not really sure where the installer puts what,,if you dont have mp contol on, and dont have autobackup offline on,,im going to assume that there is a chance your mp folder in ww1 scenery might have the old files still.....the dates of the files in there might tell you something,,,, im still working,,and gotta put the good computer away for the space,,or i would look there.. just a guess...

yep,,,new xdp files in hir

i was watching the files as they got installed,,and i belive there is a new xdp installed with hir,,,not sure if its just for engine sounds,,dm,,or what,,so thats probably why you are getting mismatches,,,, and now that there are new xdp and bdp files....might very well be a good idea to run thru the backup process again,,,but,,this is just a hunch,,, beard has been scoping out a utility for those ppl who wish to play modded. Might be a good idea for you all to look at it, and see if it will help sort out some problems associated with modded game play.

Av8ter,,,if you have the teamspeak overlay,,,fps is one of the options you have to be displayed,,, teamspeakoverlay.com i belive.....go to options,,and in the dropdown box,,find fps, and check it...

i might actually be done here by then,,,,if i am,,will get on

you should also have a file in there called unlimitedpilotsbak.xml...not sure how often it makes this backup, but you may want to try and save your original file,,copy the backup and rename it to unlimitedpilots.xml. not sure how much you will lose if your doing campaign.

red dog,,cant find where i wrote down you new ip,,,,either post it or pm it to me...thanks same with vonguber....

yeah,,i gotta reload this os,,,start from scratch,,, on a whim, looked at hard drives,,thinking of maybe reloading on a new drive,,,so i have my old os as a backup,,,,,they now have 15000rpm drives,,,,,they go for 850.00 for a 350gb drive!

hi,,,will do my best to explain... scenarios are missions that are stored in your missions\scenarios folder. They where built by the devs for some quick missions to fly. If left there, they are only available by clicking the scenerios button in BHAH. However, if you copy them from your scenarios folder to your missions\historical folder, then they will be available to fly from the multiplayer, or missions folder that you get when you get those 2 medals. Keep in mind scenarios where built for each side,,,axis and allied,,,so a scenario built for an active pilot flying for germany will only have flyable (ie,,they have cockpits) on the german planes,,,and vica versa.. The first screen active pilot for duty screen can be ignored UNLESS you are going to fly a multiplayer game that requres you to have the same date as the person hosting. Custom built missions define the date/time and weather, so no matter what date your active pilot is (which is what you are going to see by default at that screen) when you enter the mission, you will get the day time and weather that the missions is calling for. Campaign mission use the games weather generator to determine what you see in the game. So if the host is putting up a campaign mission, and his date is 12-01-16,,,he might see snow,,,,,if your date is 6-8-17,,,you might be in a thunderstorm.... the flyout on the ribbon just indicates what folder it is looking for the missions in,,,not sure which is which,,but is looking at the historical,,,training,,,and the whatif folder,,depending on which tab you select i always put my missions in historical...you can use either of the three mentioned above,,but probably better to just use historical.. you get that message because it is backing up your aircraft files. Rather than explain it here,,,read the part in the sticky about fov settings,,,,and unless you fiddle with the fov settings in workshop,,i suggest you follow the proceedure in the sticky..once you do this,,you wont see that again,,,but keep in mind,,its for ppl who dont fiddle with fov settings in the workshop. once you are at the window with the 2 medal,,you should have a hanger drop down on the upper right of the screen,,,if not,,,hit escape,,and it should appear.. click on multiplayer,,,and set connection to t1,,,and call sign for lan games is where you put whatever you want to be seen for you in the game,,, and you are probably right,,dont think this is in the tururail...will put it in next time i edit it.. if anything here was confusing,,let me know,,,, so,,when we going to see you in multiplayer?????