Olham

You're living out the opposite of your name (and job) here in OFF, do you? It might have been the Schnapps supply for the brass you hit there. (If they ever catch you - don't tell 'em I made that skin for you; they'd hang me on the nearest ree!)

Yes, yours is fine, Ratatat - is it really only 50 x 50 Pixels?

Hihihi! Yes, I well remembered that Camel story, Lou - pilot seem to be like that: daring and quite airy about regulations. If you can do that before/after thing, it would be well appreciated. I'd just like to compare, how it looks your end.

I still wonder, how I can see, if it is used in Campaign? I did my first flight with the N 28 today, after adding your FM into the Generic Mod Enabler. Now, the last flight was some time ago, but I thought, the craft behaved a bit friendlier in turns. Didn't dare to do a dive yet - will try that in QC. For more, see: "Screenshots" thread.

Just made my second debut at 94th Aero (the first was early this year), using Herr Prop-Wasche's new FM for the Nieuport N 28. I cannot tell much yet; it doesn't seem to be very different, but the craft behaved a bit easier to handle in turns. I have not made a test with a steeper dive yet, to find out the limits. I may better do that in QC, I think - this campaign guy has made a victory in his first flight. At returning, he came in so fast, that he rolled right into the hangar! Captain Rickenbacker said, I should shift back one gear, but the Red Baron was just shot down - and I had hoped I could get him. Aw, well - there are so many other aces!

Okay, now here is your brown varnished Albatros, Carrick. But now we want to see you in action, old boy - screenshots!

So in other words: I may as well switch it off again (and thereby save some action for the graphic card)? Thanks, Parky - I had googled "Open Glide", and it sounded like it would make sense to activate that. But like always: you know the details behind the surface.

Ditto, Creaghorn! I love it, that you will both get a better card now, Hellshade and Lou!

Screenshots, screenshots!!!

Hellshade, I can only hope your wife won't make me responsible for this spending, because I wanted that "mega-movie"??? Well, seriously now: remember to pick the one with the most memory onboard - I'm looking forward to your future videos.

You really want to push it to the limits, eyh, Carrick? Okay, would you prefer the normal plywood fuselage for the Albatros, or a brown varnished one, like Udet had for some time?

I believe to have noticed an improvement with the clouds "flickering", since I enabled "OpenGL: Triple buffering" in my ATI CatalystControl. They hardly ever "flicker" now.

It took me a while to get used to TrackIR, and it only worked, when I totally gave up the other way. First, my fighting results were very bad, and I was a flight scholar again. I got disorientated and slightly dizzy at times, until I found out how to think about the aircraft, while I was looking around. Now I can dance with Nupes, when they try to fool me in their butterfly style - I wouldn't miss it! As for TrackIR adjustments: "Speed" seems rather to increase or decrease, how far you have to turn to one side, until you see your six. So it is pretty wrongly named, I found. I have "Speed" on 0.9 and get to my six, when my face is actually showing to the left or right screen side. "Smooth" should be the one to fine tune, so it doesn't happen too quickly. I have "Smooth" on 30. If you like, I can send you my actual, plus a slower profile, Hauksbee. You just throw it in there and can choose them from the menue then.

Not many, from what I can tell. The Franks/Guest/Bailey book tries had to show the cause of every lost plane and I don't recall many being from collisions. Incredible! Collision is my No.1 death reason by far in OFF. I wonder how they all managed to keep the overview!

You British and American guys may have this already available - now it was synchronised in German. http://www.amazon.de...90340680&sr=1-1 Erscheinungsdatum / Release date: 26 November 2010 AMAZON Player bietet einige Scenen aus dem Matrial zur Vorschau. Unter dem Hauptbild sind weitere kleine Bilder; das letzte anklicken, dann geht's zum Video. There is a movie player at AMAZON, so you can preview some scenes. Below the main picture are smaller ones; click the last one to get to the video.

Das erstaunt mich, daß hier scheinbar viele durchaus an einer WW1 air combat sim interessiert wären, und gar nicht wissen, daß dieses Forum bereits die beste davon enthält. Creaghorn hat eigentlich schon alles gesagt, was mir zu den Unterschieden einfällt. Mir gefällt die Optik von Rise of Flight sehr gut - keine Frage - aber ich möchte doch auch vor allem in einer Langzeit-Kampagne fliegen, und da ist "Over Flanders Fields" mit seinem ganzen historischen Gehalt, mit seinen über 3.000 Skins, und mit all den Squadrons und Jastas, die auch historisch korrekt ihre Flugfelder wechseln, und mit den Aktivitäten in der Luft u. am Boden, die auch mit der Historie übereinstimmen - - was wollt ich jetzt sagen? Ja, genau: es ist einfach unübertroffen großartig. Ich BIN dort der Pilot, als der ich mich eingetragen habe. Ich kann es dort "leben". Diese Tiefe erreicht bei mir selten irgend eine Sim. Darin vergleichbar am ehesten mit "IL-2" - nur eben noch "tiefer"!

Great, Stratos - I will hopefully see screenshots soon? I have just made me a D.III for Jasta 2 - I also will fly there soon.

Ah - that is a good point, elephant. I was wondering: could they always really know, which colour to use? MvR didn't fly the all-red Dr.1 very long; all others would have to be green and red. A lot of historical knowledge would be necessary to get all that right. Do you know if the footage was used, that Anthony Fokker produced; showing many German aces? (I think the material is now owned by Steven Spielberg.)

Your screenshot shows, that I should improve that skin at the front bottom end. I will have a "virtual Krombacher" then, thank you! It's a good beer. Andy73 and elephant: I have added you both to our OFF Pilots Maps now. http://combatace.com/topic/44370-off-forum-pilots-maps/page__view__findpost__p__315225 Don't worry for not yet being an OFF Pilot, elephant - we all know you're already digging through instructions and handbooks, waiting for your plane to arrive.

Update 21 November; 2010; 15:42 h Berlin time (= GMT + 1) elephant, Greece, added. Andy73, Germany, added. All the maps are in post 1 of this thread

I am not sure about the original key commands - I have changed mine in "Controls" (which you get, when you press "Esc" ingame). I have put them on F12, which makes it a lot easier; you can also assign them to a joystick button. On my Windows Vista system the screenshots go here: (My Computer Name) > documents > CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields

Movie: "The Blue Max" Book: Julius Buckler "Malaula! Der Kampfruf meiner Staffel" The book is also available in English as "Malaula! The battlecry of Jasta 17", translated by Norman Franks, I think. I have hardly read anything about WW1 air combat yet, but this book gives a good sight on this young German's youth in poverty, his way to become a roofer like his dad, and then the chance the coming war gave him, to learn flying, and to mix with and get accepted by upper class officers - which was absolutely uncommon back in those days. Buckler was a man with pride and inner dignity, plus good and friendly humour; and the very opposite of any sinister type of person. I will check, if I can find translations of "Sagittarius Rising" and "No Parachute".

Tch! You guys have a strange sense of romanticism!

Welcome "Over Flanders Fields", Andy! I will write to you in English, cause we may have better chances to understand English, than most English speakers would have to understand German. Great screenshot; you seem to have setup your graphics fine - could that be my "Shark Albatros" from MFJ-1? I see your twon is named, so I will add you to our OFF Forum Pilots Maps. Some of your wishes will definitely come true, others can be made possible. So, if you want to change into another squadron, you just need to open your "Pilot Dossier" file, and change the squadron line. It looks like this; the third (here in red) line is your Staffel : 91 Germany Jasta 6 Leutnant Wolfram Olhoff 17 11 1917 You find the files here: (your sim's folder) > campaigns > CampaignData > Pilots (The pilot will always be one number higher than in your ingame log.) You simply change that line into the name of the new Staffel and save it. On the next start of the sim, it may stills how your old Staffel in the Log, but after the next flight, it will be changed. Best make a backup copy of the "Pilots" folder, just to be on the save side. Oh, and one last remark: "Over Flanders fields" in NOT a game! You will see... PS: that Richthofen quote is one of those of his words, which make me shudder - like another dark quote of Mick Mannock does (which I won't repeat here).

I don't understand what you mean, Stratos - the skins from the sim ARE our templates we work from. All OBD skins are available in the directory I gave you. They are all one layer .dds files. With "DXTBmp" we convert them into BMP files and work on them. Different graphic/photopaint programs can be used for that. Here, and only here, every skinner may create his own layers per copying & pasting, adding colours etc. When a skin is ready, we convert them back to .dds and put them in the skins folder. That's the whole story - no other "templates" there anywhere. Perhaps you have seen the skins from RoF and wanted something like that? I know they have layers and Alpha channels you can access for your own works. But that is not the way OBD worked.