Olham

When it worked alright 1 week ago - what did you change after that week?

In good and in bad it does, IMHO. I had just found out and changed some of the names, and then the next day, my friend from schooldays, Wolgang Ippen, did not return from our last sortie. He never came back. Made the feeling quite realistic.

Well, when I started reporting from my missions (ages ago), I was also very eager to make many kills. It took me quite a long time, until I realised that I might rather spoil the "historical probability" of the sim. Nowadays, I mostly report just one - the most interesting - victory per sortie. There may have been more, but I find it not realistic to report them all. But as I said, that took some time, until the "hotspur" turned into a veteran, and I'm still on the way to even better realsim for myself.

Yes, to be honest, my heavy Albatros D.Va stalled several times, and I could just catch it up close above the ground. Very straining fight, Shiloh - the D.Va needs some space below it for energy fighting. So I am of course double proud, that I could sack one S.E.5a.

Not in your Pilot Dossier - those are phantasy names; so feel free to change them. The real aces of the Staffel are not in your dossier.

Not for me, but for the S.E.5a pilot surely! The 7 Scout Experimental behind me made it a bit tense though, indeed.

I like the soft airbrush-like blue sky shading in picture 2!

Yup, I also sometimes do that. Remember, that your ingame pilot No. 2 will have the pilot files No.3, for some sim program reason. Here's the way: (your sim folder) > campaigns > CampaignData > Pilots .

The disappearing undercarriage was never mentioned by anyone before you, LIMA - must be a problem of your system. The D.V was not so outclassed in mid-1917; Arthur Lee Gould mentions the RNAS boys asking for the Camel, because they regard their Sopwith Triplanes as being outclassed by the Albatros D.V ! The Triplane! "...the three best things are the planes, the landscapes, and the weather - and the depth of the campaign, that's the four... - ahh, I'll come in again!"

elephant, as you said the "13" was available in Jasta 37, I changed mynumber for this Albatros. Now it's "Black 13" - almost the devil himself! Jasta 37, Foucaucourt-en-Santerre, 24. April 1918 Lt. Mahlow Taking off for a defensive patrol, we got attacked by many British S.E.5a. We had hardly gained any altitude and were easy prey for them. One shot my engine up. But before he could do so, I forced one of his comrades into the mud. Then my engine cut out, and I had to make a rough landing near our field, with 7 mad Scout Experimentals above me.

Damn, Duke, now I got it! I had made a bad mistake - instead of uploading a skin in the correct .dds format, I had uploaded a .BMP file in that case. Gawd, my scrambled eggs, which I use instead of a brain failed me again! I corrected that, and soon there should be the correct format file available.

You have used the right techniques, theu - now you need to carefully compose and build a real good poster type of cover. This is too much of a merge - the colours of planes and landscape are too indifferent. A DVD cover is not very big, so it needs a clear composition, which is easy and immediately to recognise in 1 second. Sorry, didn't want to make it down; I'm a graphic designer, and you cannot imagine, how often I had to realise, that something could be done even better; and then you start again. So, if you like doing such stuff - why not have another go?

Duke, all skins in OFF are dds-files with a size of 2048 x 2048 pixels. They have 12 MB as long as they are in Photoshop or another program, but the final .dds file has 2.731 KB; mine as well as the stock ones. And my ATI card is a HD4870 (1 GB), a card which came up 2008 I think. What I recommend to everybody, is to check the control panel of your graphic cards. For the ATI cards that is called "ATI Catalyst Control Center". You get there by right-clicking on your desktop. In there you find a button "Gaming", there are the "3D Application Settings". In there you can set up all the fine tuning with Anti-Aliasing and such. Anti-Aliasing will smoothen edges and wires, and the most cards should be able to run at least AA set to 8x. You should experiment with it to find out, how far you can go. I'll start a new thread to demonstatrate it.

I hope you are okay, George Boles ? I have just seen videos from Rockhampton in Queensland. You Australians seem to be very reliable neighbours and friends, who will help each other. I wish for you all, that the water may go away very soon.

Yes, that's the pic, Duke.

Perhaps it has to do with your screen size. I guess it is 4:3, so check in "Workshop" if it is set to 4:3 (on the left side). Also make sure you have chosen the right screen resolution of your notebook. You find that in "Workshop", "Graphics Config", "File", "Change display options". That's all I can think of. I hope it will help you.

Good one, theu! Did you use Paintshop or another program? Jasta 37, Foucaucourt-en-Santerre, 23. April 1918 Lt. Mahlow Jasta 37 had to cancel a patrol over Courcelles this morning. We were still climbing in wide spirals around our field to gain altitude, when a red flare was fired from the ground. Alarm! Then the Flak began to decorate the sky behind me with their dark puffs. We saw 4 Strutter in a steep dive, about to attack our own field! They had the cheek! But how could they have known, that our whole Staffel was airborne and over our field? They ran right into their doom. I followed two of them with Tegtmeier and Kloeren. They really managed to reach our tents and to drop their payload. In the next moment, they got shreddered in the fire of our Spandaus. Two minutes later, I assigned to another crew to put their two- seater down. They pretended to be dumb and ignored our field. They put the Strutter down on a nearby meadow, and before I could land to arrest them, they could set their craft alight. You got to admire them for their grit!

Before anyone gets anything in the wrong throat here: the skin I used for this comparison is one I made - so please don't search for the writing on the wing; it is not there in OFF skins.

Could that be what they call "shizophrenic", when someone takes revenges on himself for the bad deeds he's done to himself?

It may be more visible with Lozenge fabric, but here is a comparison. I must say though, that Lou is perfectly right - it depends much more on AA and other "fine-tuning" of your graphic card, how the overall result will look.

And twins even! With you in our ranks, we could perhaps still "vin ze warr for der Kaiser", old chap. But you would have to change your name into "Herr Witwenmacher" of course!

The difference is very noticable to me (ATI HD 4870) when I look at the wing from my cockpit, or when I go close in an outside view. The detail in my Lozenge fabric is stunning. I may show pics later.

Not me, no. Since I have my Intel i5 CPU, all works fine, although I still run the same ATI HD4870 (1 GB).

Nope, but the link is there for you to have a go. The "Roucourt" controversy between JFM and me, as well as between JFM and Dan San-Abbott (rest in peace, Dan San) was a photo showing Jasta 11 at Roucourt airfield, as JFM had identified during a journey. But Dan-San had insisted, that this photo would show the field at La Brayelles (I think it was). The controversy between JFM and me was about the exact location of the field. It turned out, that I had misinterpreted a statement about that from a Jasta 12 member. JFM had definitely proved the correct location according to the old photo.

All the best in the air, Widowmaker!