Olham

I have changed the TAC size and the Label colours, which I always found too much of a sting in the eye. I did not only change the colours, but also made them slightly transparent. They will be harder to see, so they can be used as one step on the way to flying without Labels at all. If you like what you see below, you may want to try it out. Attached here is my variant of the ViewUI.xml file, which goes into this folder: (Computer name) > AppData > Roaming > Microsoft > CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields You should WinZip your original file right there, to save it. PS: does anyone know, where to change the red writing in the TAC screen?

As the pilot is Juergen Harms, the bird is indeed "Harmonius".

Seeing such books offered, and then their prices, I am always feeling like Tevje, the milkman: "If I were a rich man... Teebideebideebideebi - Teebeedeebideebi-Dum!"

Ah, thank you - that explains a lot, why the craft look so good. Can one fly campaigns in that mod? And how's it's name?

Hihihi! Yes, I remember those old worries of mine quite well, CaptSopwith - I was always sure I wouldn't get older than 40. And it may feel worse heading towards 30 than it does heading for 50 or 60. But you are a good mix - you always appeared quite "grown-up" here, with a good portion of being able to enjoy things you like a lot, like OFF. If you keep using that "mixture", you won't need to worry. Me, I had been quite a "beanstalk" type of appearance until my 42nd year of life - then I decided to change that and visited a fitness studio. I got in pretty good physical shape (without going for any body building craze). Whatever you want to change - the most you need is determination. And I'm sure you have enough of it. Let me send you a heartfelt "Happy Birthday!", olde chap, and remember: it's the "now", that counts.

Just had an "eye-stroll" through some of the Members' Galleries here (click on Gallery above). Here is one pic, that looks like a very detailed WW2 Pacific sim. Does anyone know what it is?

If you watch too many such scenes, you can develop a fear to leave the house! Life is at risk so often! Shudder!

Hey, you guys! Grow up and try that AIRCO DH-2! She is a nice Lady to be with, until the Albatros arrives. Once you found out the tricks to fly her, you will have fun with her.

Hahaha! To do that, he would have to get close enough. But from which direction ever my opponents come - they have to approach me looking into the barrels of my guns. Twin 08/15 LMG "Spandau". And I am quite good at shooting. Mmuahahahahahahahaaaa!!!! The soft tone stripes have really got me now - I have also created an Albatros D.III skin for Jasta 5 with them. Just had one of those Werner-Voss-type of fights in it (a bad sign - such pilots never survive the war). I shot down the RFC-1 Nieuport 17 Lewis of Louis F Jenkin, Tom Falcon Hazell and William C Campbell in it. In a single sortie - and brought 200 rounds back! (Well, those Nupes are quite fragile - Mmuahahahahahahaaa!!!)

Worms Armageddon was great! Remember the "Sheep Bomb"?

Searching through the Jasta I hadn't been flying with so far, I came across Jasta 24. After another complete re-install some days ago, I had only one pilot so far, flying in 1916 with Jasta 2. Now I wanted to have one pilot - in 1918 - in fine weather (May - October) - as far south-west as possible Jasta 24 was at Ercheu in May 1918, so they fitted well. They are a Saxonian Staffel in those days. I had no Saxonian skin yet, cause I never liked the combination of green and white very much, but I made me one. The idea was this: my good Werkmeister Johannes and I were thinking about how to "dress" the new "Lady Albatros". I wanted a brown varnish like Udet once had, but Johannes only found half a tin can with that stuff - not enough for the whole fuselage. But he had an idea. "What about longitudinal stripes varnished brown, on a background of the bright plywood?" he asked. Said and done. When it was ready, Fw. Schilling, our Staffel artist, painted the Saxonian arms on the sides, and a big white "K" to identify me - Karl Alfred von Keltsch. Fw. Johannes finished all with clear dope. Now, what do you say - isn't she beautiful?

This is like my first drug experience, somehow. One understands, that you Americans have a lot of Britisdh roots. Hilarious!

Thanks, m8!

I had such a thing to happen a long time ago, and although I don't remember what it was exactly, I'm pretty much sure it was something cause by my graphic card. It happened only over airfields, and after changing my settings, it was gone. PS: if it won't go away, just imagine, you had smoked from Bullethead's opium pipe.

(When I was still drinking:) When I had forgotten how many drinks I had, I just made new start. Of course drinking didn't improve my memory - but it didn't bother me so much.

"Thow Caviar into the crowds, to make the rabble slip!"

Please report, Widomaker - I still have it, and might also dig it out and give it a bash. Although - maybe it will run on Win7, but not on Vista?

The lighting you created gives the picture a dark romantic and almost ghostly atmosphere. Very artful, I find, and even with more feeling than Miller's pictures (which I do like because of their detail, but which also appear somewhat neat and stiff). Great job - I wonder what you will improve on it?

Update 20 February 2011 - 13:11 h Berlin time (= GMT + 1) Tbolin, Texas added. The maps are in post 1 of this thread

Welcome to "Over Flander Fields" Forum, Tbolin! Oh, I LOVED CFS2, and have played it for countless hours. And yes, "The Blue Max" must be the best colour movie about WW1 air combat, cause it has a good story to hold all the flying together. I hope very much, that Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings), who is a "wing nut" with own WW1 planes, will top the Blue Max one day. Although you are not "airborn" with BHaH yet, I will add you to our OFF Forum Pilots map. Oh, and you know: you'll have to buy the first drink! I think I'll have a big Warsteiner Pilsener.

There is much more to it. With zooming in or out, you just get everything closer, or more remote - while your FOV may still be set up wrong. With setting the FOV, you are in control of setting the correct width-to-height ratio for your monitor resolution. There are so many different resolutions available now, that this is an important bit. If you take the default values of 23:16 for example: they may right for a 4:3 monitor, but absolutely wrong for a 16:9 or 16:10 And even for a 4:3 monitor, they might be wrong, as this example shows. My old monitor had a res of 1280 x 1024. If I divide the vertical resolution by 16, I get: 1024 : 16 = 64 If I now divide the horizontal resolution by this factor, I get: 1280 : 64 = 20 So the ideal FOV setting for this monitor was 20:16 - and not 23:16.

Okay, thanks - so I suppose, the folders now on C: can not be placed on another drive and linked to the sim.

Pol, I never have my games and sims on C:, I always use the D: or the E: partition. That was said somewhere to be a little faster that way - not sure, if it is necessary. Should I put OFF on C ? Von Baur, it didn't help me to have the sim on another drive, cause the campaign savegames are on C: But yes, of course one can save those folders of CFS3 and OFF, before overwriting the C: partition.