Hellshade

I will try this when I get home Andy. Always looking for something to make the sim fly smoother than ever. :) Thanks for your non-stop diligence on this!

Thanks Pol. I know Winder and crew have worked miracles under the hood and that means the complexities of what they have done are increased dramatically over what the DM was in OFF. I expect to be hopelessly lost and pretty much break everything while I peek around under the hood of the DM. My theory is this, though. The wings didn't use to suffer total structural failure nearly so often when WOFF first came out - as I recall. (Maybe it did and I have a poor memory. We shall see). So I plan on re-installing WOFF without any patches and then start flying and fighting. If I see that the DM behaves different than it does now in terms of total structural failure, I'll load up the next patch (I believe I have almost all of them saved) and try that. Once I find the patch that appears to have affected the likelihood of total structural failure, I'll look at the change log and that will (possibly) give me some kind of a clue where to look. Given how complicated and integrated everything is, its possible it may not help much either. I imagine the change was not intentional and was probably an unintended consequence of something else that got improved or added. At any rate, then I roll up my sleeves and see if I can figure out what exactly happened, which is a long shot at best given how complex WOFF is and how limited (read: Non-existent) my programing skills are. Thanks for the info!

He would. The man is a genius with what he has done with OFF. Sadly, I don't think he got WOFF. I'm not sure he meets the system requirements. A genuine loss to the community. :(

Thank you, Olham. Hopefully someone pops up with some information.

Over 160 views and not a single post on where to look? That's encouraging.

If I wanted to start messing around with the DM in WOFF, where would I start looking? Which files do I need to open up and tweak? Having asked that question, let me state for the record the obvious. #1. I'll probably break the sim in multiple and unintended ways and it will be entirely my own responsibility. #2. If I experience any problems at all, the Devs are certainly in no way responsible. #3. I expect to lose pretty much everything in the process - favorite pilots, etc. #4. Chances are I will only make things worse. #5. I'll probably break things so bad, I expect to have to wipe the game and do fresh re-installs to make it right again. Again, it's all on me. Having stated the obvious, somewhere along the line, the DM seems to have undergone a change (intended or not, I don't know) whereby shooting at an enemy aircrafts fuselage seems to have little effect at all and then all of a sudden there is a huge explosion sound and all of the wings just completely fall off. Total structural failure. My desire is to make that a much more rare occurrence and perhaps instead increase engine fires, pilot kills (which will probably mean I will die more often as well) and if nothing else, increase the number of planes that trail black smoke after taking a few good hits to the engine. Any ideas on what files I start tweaking to see if I can accomplish something like that?

Awesome stuff LIMA. You can tell a lot of work has gone into this. Really great stuff. Looking forward to more sir.

Try "AI Always Engages" option in the Workshop. I'm not sure how realistic it is, but it certainly makes for more fights and longer ones as well.

They certainly did. When they jumped out of their burning plane to avoid being cooked alive, they briefly had an External View. Pretty sure it didn't do anything for their combat effectiveness though.

4500 + skins? Absolutely. Really adds to the immersion up there when you see so many different squadron and individual Ace skins.

My DV mod for less weight and more HP does include the OBDWW1 Over Flanders Fields folder. It is JSGME friendly. https://www.dropbox.com/s/bwvth6nyzegod5e/Alb%20DV%20Less%20Weight%20and%20HP.zip

I'd be interested if there's any way to add the more "bumpy" feel of flying into WOFF that exists in RoF. Is that possible?

Great screenshot Corsaire!

RFC 54 Campaign engagement. Just showing AnKors amazing self shadow mod. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAiyTmI9hPs&feature=youtu.be

I know I did not win and I'm okay with that. I would just like whoever did win to be appropriately rewarded. Thank you for looking into this.

It was Erik, site owner. The Devs were absolutely not involved, He created the contest right after making a big deal about how he wanted OBD to move back and make this the official forum for W/OFF again.

No answer over a month and a half after WOFF shipped? I guess that that answers that question. It was all a hoax. No intention of awarding anything to anyone. Just a way to try and drum up business. I think the folks who still haunt this forum even after OBD changed to another deserved better. The best thing I can say is that I am deeply disappointed.

I'd delete the patch, download it again and re-install. If that doesn't work, I'd uninstall WOFF and start fresh. Must be a corrupt file in there somewhere sir. It's worth the effort. WOFF running like a champ on both low and high end systems alike since 1.11.

The rules were as listed below. Near as I can tell, Adger got 1st place with a "148 day" guess that puts him somewhere in November but where are the official results, please? 3rd Prize: (1) one copy of WOFF plus a one month subscription plan to CA 2nd Prize: (1) one copy of WOFF plus a six month subscription plan to CA Grand Prize (1) one copy of WOFF plus a one year subscription plan to CA ================================================================= Contest: Starting from today's date guess how many days will lapse until WOFF will be released to the public. Rules: You may only enter once, and you must enter before the end of June. Participation will close sometime during the day on June 30, 2013. The three closet people to the date (over or under) will be eligible and decided by your post time on your entry, earliest correct entry dates will win. All ties will be decided by CombatACE. Have fun!

Installs easy. Since patch 1.11, lots of people reporting better performance too. Take the leap sir!

Campaign mission that starts off nice and simple. Just transfer to a new airfield. Well...never get too comfortable in WOFF! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp3N6xJ6s9s&feature=c4-overview&list=UU93XMlFKHkjNpGBNGZR7QUA Great screenshots guys. Keep posting please! Hellshade

I was joking about the complaints of how long WOFF was already taking. If they put MP in, it might have to have been finished by their great grand children. :)

I know the Devs didn't want MP to just be a WW1 "Deathmatch" experience. They wanted something more historically accurate and they were working on it but decided they needed to release the sim before the 200th anniversary of WWI. For now it is SP only, but with enough sales, anything is possible.

Here's a link to the official WOFF forum user screen shots thread. A few pics of SE5a in there sir. http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3876800/1/Screenshots

There is a very nice cloud mod by ArisFuser. I plan to download and try it when I get home. Download link on page 2 of the post. http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3887454/Thanks_so_MUCH_and_a_mod#Post3887454