Lothar of the Hill People

There was a preview of an improved WOFF map in a screenshot this summer: Looks good to me!

For now, download them separately. If my map mod is installed, OFFbase will detect it and give you a simple interface to switch between them:

It's not scary at all, hood, in fact it's a lot simpler to install than OFF itself! Just: Download and run JSGME_2.6.0_OFF.exe from here Download and run the OFFbase.exe from here Then just run the "Play OFFbase" shortcut from your desktop or start menu It's the easiest thing in the world, and it can't mess up your OFF install. In fact, it automatically backs up all your Workshop and CFS3 Config settings so you can restore them if you have real trouble from some other cause, or just need to update your graphics drivers. Doesn't backup pilots though (not a cheat engine!). I suggest starting a new pilot in a new squadron. There's a button for the manual (with a FAQ section) right on the main window of OFFbase if you need it, and of course I'm always happy to help in the forums. Don't mean it to come across as so intimidating when really it's incredibly simple and intuitive to play and use. If you could post your experiences sometime Olham, I'm sure others would find it helpful. Creaghorn suggested setting up a sticky thread where people can post tips, get suggestions, even post stories and screenshots of the emergent fun. I just uploaded version 0.9.1 (give a little time for admins to approve) which fixes a few small but important bugs--and lets' you request leave if you want to park a pilot safely for a while and fly another in the same squad--send your famous ace on a homefront tour to keep him out of Bloody April, whatever. And this is really cool--you can visit your other injured pilots, have encounters with them and try to cheer them up which can speed up their healing. That's assuming your local medical facilities are equipped to deal with the severity of the relevant injuries.

Has to do with the size of the bitmap in memory causing texture problems or something--another case where the old code of CFS3 is troublesome. The in-game map is 1876x1844, pretty big for back in 2002 or whenever CFS3 is from. You can try my map mods, which give you a choice of three different higher-quality greater-detail maps based on Google imaging. Same resolution, but still much more useful in air. Here's a 50% reduced-size preview of my 'Google Mix': Still some distortion, particularly at the northern corners, but overall much better than the stock maps where things are sometimes score of miles off their correct locations.

Just a couple quick screen captures showing some of the new features, including your stuff that I've build in, Olham. Maims are fairly noticeable--even on those whose bodies are intact: Meeting the Adjutant for the first time's a little more intense, as he knows more about you and cares if you're up to snuff: Though some can be push-overs. Like everything else, depends on their (and your) personality. And in flight, the Realism profiles feature Olham's enhanced and less-obtrusive aids where allowed. RSS for Beginners gets them all: Both friendly and enemy indicators are more subtle colors, and the combined compass/TAC doesn't give as much away but is still very useful for those without TrackIR. And it helps to look stylish over the front in Olham's mask and goggles: Which are selectable from the new and improved Hangar screen: And since this is Escadrille La Fayette, you and your fellow American pilots must deal with French crew, in this case stingy Munitions Officer Ombredane. Good hunting!

The one with OFF in the name is specifically designed to install in the right place for OFF. Use that. I'll add a note about it as a review. The other one is just the generic JSGME. Haha I guess I've made JSGME less generic!

Major update to OFFbase available at Combat Ace. It rolls out a number of features that have been in development since last summer and are finally ready for more open testing: including a full-blown injury/maiming system and complete replacement for OFF's limited outcome-handling for crashes, a long with some major internal reworking and an overhaul of the trait system.... well here's the change-log: So go get it! And let me know if you run into bugs--with this many changes there are bound to be a few.

Good question, Robert. You can easily choose which photo you want to use whenever you upgrade your pilot with another trait, just click the "Change Photo" button to cycle to another picture. The cool thing is OFFbase knows a little about the stock OFF photos, for example which ones have cigarettes and medals. Non-player characters use their AI to choose a photo they "like"--which is the same algorithm the "Change Photo" button uses to recommend your player pic. Chain Smokers are more likely to be seen with a cig, while Aces are more likely to be shown with a bunch of medals, etc. It's time-consuming to characterize the photos with metadata by hand (really need to set up a better system) so this is fairly limited at this point--German AIs know a little bit more about the photos than other nations just because that's what I've spent the most time with. As for adding photos there are issues to consider. Both CFS3 and OFFbase support an unlimited number of pilots, but OFF itself only supports 100. If you add additional bitmaps to a nation's PilotPhotos\ folder (eg Pilot101.bmp), OFFbase will use them automatically for NPC pilots and even let you choose them for your player pilot. But while OFFbase is be able to select these expanded pilots and launch their campaigns, OFF Manager itself can sometimes lose their dossiers and mess up the UnlimitedPilots.xml file when adding/deleting other pilots. Started working on an expanded photos mod with elephant way back, but the effort died due to this issue. Another option is replacing the stock photos with your own bitmap images. Keep in mind OFFbase's personality system, and put your new photo over an old photo of a similar kind of character. Here's a cool trick if you want to add your own customized AI pilots to your squad: Create a new pilot with the name you'd like in your squadron before your current pilot's date Join the new pilot into OFFbase, choosing their Background and other traits by rank Change Pilot back to your primary character Delete the new (still living) pilot's Dossier in OFF next time you Fly Mission with your primary Viola! The AI give to the new character will take over his virtual career with the name, rank, picture, and personality you chose, and you can interact with him in OFFbase and fly with him in the air. The OFFbase Adjutant may not assign you to the same flights right away, but it's cool as OFF will still simulate missions for the second flight and after some additional turnover flight assignments get shaken up. All part of the drama. So bring in your pilot's long-lost brother, flight school nemesis, or any other character you wish into your OFFbase campaign and build your careers side-by-side to help tell the story you want to live. Of course, they won't remember an preexisting relationships, but these things develop fairly quickly.

Hey Fortiesboy, yep your JSGME's in the wrong spot. If it's inside the "CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields" folder it can't possibly work with some of my and Bletchley's mods, and so most modern OFF JSGME mods are designed to work from the OBDSoftware root folder.. Here is a version of JSGME that installs automatically in the correct location for OFF mods. All modern JSGME OFF mods should work with it without a hitch. Happy New Year!

The Empty Weight mod included in HPW's FM makes AI planes carry the weight of fuel and ammo to help you keep up with them. Me too! But don't count OFF and 2012 out just yet--the mod community's working on a collective effort with some special surprises that I'm hoping can be released before the New Year. Stay tuned.

File Name: Lothar Classical Piano France File Submitter: Lothar of the Hill People File Submitted: 21 December 2012 File Category: Modding Tools and Add-on Software Period-appropriate piano music for the French campaign in Over Flanders Fields sets quite a different mood than the cinematic presentation of OBD Software’s official soundtrack. Additional musical immersion mod available for Germany, and may follow for other nations. The Music: Gabriel Fauré was the most progressive and celebrated French composer of his generation. In the later years of his life, struggling with deafness, his music took a darker, more introspective turn. Pensive anger, grief, despair, bouts of calm and remembered joy--presaged the bleeding of France in the Great War. Nocturne No.9, Op.97 Composed: 1908 Published: 1908 Nocturne No.10, Op.99 Composed: 1908 Published: 1909 9 Préludes, Op.103 Composed: 1909-1910 Published: 1910 Nocturne No.11, Op.104/1 Composed: 1904 Published: 1913 Nocturne No.12, Op.107 Composed: 1915 Published: 1916 Tracklist: Op.97 MenuMusic1 Op.99 MenuMusic Op.103/1 CampaignStartMusic Op.103/2 NewsMusic Op.103/3 ambienceroom Op.103/4 HangarFadeMusic Op.103/5 ambiencebattle Op.103/6 ambiencepeace Op.103/7 MissionBriefMusic Op.103/8 MissionBriefMusic1 Op.103/9 DefeatMusic Op.104/1 MenuMusic2 Op.107 MenuMusic3 Source: Piano Society: Free Classical Recordings http://pianosociety.com Requires: Over Flanders Fields http://overflandersfields.com JoneSoft Generic Mod Enabler: http://combatace.com...-enabler-jsgme/ Installation: The installer will automatically extract the mod into your OFF JSGME mods folder if OFF and JSGME are installed correctly. JSGME will run when done so you can activate the mod. The installer must be run as an administrator to access JSGME. Click here to download this file

No kidding, Olham. But glancing back through this thread it's neat to see how much impatience has stirred the community to action. Suggested P4 features including different ammunition types, improved maps, tracking of squadmates' activities in the air, writing reports even without kills (great for two-seater campaigns), dawn patrols, easier claims for the British (and French), more realistic and interesting injuries, automatic profiles for DiD and RSS settings--all are available to some extent now in OFFbase with supported mods. And the added investment in pilot characters and their relationships with other squadmates through the role-playing element gives more consequences to combat, making death scarier and helping to control that human element to unrealistic kill totals. Never mind the increased difficulty. WOFF will undoubtedly outdo many of these half-baked implementations, but there's plenty of fun to be had in the air (and on the ground!) while we wait! And you promised to try it now that Creaghorn's historical smoke and tracer bullets have been implemented. Plus I know you'll appreciate the new built-in field-of-view manager that supersedes the mislabeled controls in the Workshops. Links to all the supported mods are on the OFFbase download page as well. I suggest using the RSS realism profile you'll see in the mod manager, which dynamically adjusts difficulty across time for each nation. I look forward to hearing what you think of the experience, Olham. Remember as always to backup your pilots and unlimitedpilots.xml just in case (which I'm sure you do regularly anyway). OFFbase will backup your Workshops settings and CFS3Config automatically.

Great info, Hasse Wind. The dynamic version of Creaghorn's smoke and tracer effects mod, included in just-released OFFbase 0.8.5, uses this to make these ammo types available roughly as they were historically: Elite British squads first, Poor German squads last. Prior to that, muzzle flashes only! Give it a try, everyone.

My new FOV calculator joins the OFFice suite of programs. OFFfov, the Field-of-view Optical Vanguard for OFF, projects a 3D model of your screen into the gameworld to calculate and explore aspect-ratio-correct FOV settings for a range of viewing positions--boiled down to a pair of simple, easy-to-use sliders that position the virtual camera. Furthermore, your optimized FOVs are applied automatically all aircraft flown from OFFbase, triggering .bdp rebuilds only where necessary for faster launching of missions and also limiting CFS3 crashes while waiting. Seamlessly integrates optimal FOVs into OFFice-supported Damage Mods, which by themselves can distort perspective without a manual reset in the OFF Workshops after activation. Now it's possible to truly fly OFF as a visual simulation! And you'll never have to 'Set FOVs' again. Download OFFice 0.8.5 now!

Big update to the OFFice suite of programs including OFFbase: As always, updated list of all supported mods is included on the download page. Go get version 0.8.5 now!

Yep that's likely the problem. OFFbase uses pilot names as unique identifiers, so you don't want to reuse names. And make sure you use my names mod to reduce duplicates among non-player pilots. If you absolutely insist on reusing pilot names, make sure you delete the previous pilot in OFF and delete his .plt file in the OFFice\pilots\ folder. I thought about making a button to fully delete pilots in OFF and OFFbase, but because one of the major features of OFFbase is a persistent war--where your pilots contribute to a squadron's institutional memory even after they're dead/captured--you shouldn't delete pilots anyway.

Are you using the latest version 0.8.4, FokkerDviiOAW? Some leave problems in earlier versions have been corrected. Also, do you have multiple pilots in one squadron where this is happening?

Glad you're getting it sorted, Davy! Doesn't using beta security software kinda defeat the purpose? Anti-virus software usually seems to be the cause of the weird problems people have with OFFice. Truthfully, does more harm than good for most users, creating a false sense of security with constant notices and updates and false positives while wreaking havoc on the basic operation of your computer itself. Norton now uses a social-media "reputation" based system and won't even let you download files that your friends make since they're not popular yet! Microsoft's Security Essentials is free and stays out of the way--MS's best product since they screwed up Home Server.

The RSS and DID profiles control difficulty in flight and take over the reward scale so you earn more prestige from kills with aids disabled, etc. But it doesn't affect others' feelings and relations--the cook is just sweet on you! Let me know if you're earning promotions way too fast with those settings and I'll think about rebalancing a little.

That is bizarre, Davy. Never seen or heard of anyone else having problems anything like this before. OFFice has nothing at all to do with Windows Media Player, I know that. One thing that comes to mind is maybe your antivirus software might be preventing the VBScript from running correctly, maybe redirecting calls to a fake avenue that for some reason ends in an outdated wmp.dll? Or perhaps you've disabled some important services causing Windows Script Host to break? Try disabling your antivirus software and see if that helps.

Can you send me a screen shot of the error or something? Need more info to diagnose the problem.

Haha my guess was 20.046" by 11.276", do I win a prize? Open the Control Panel and paste this into the location bar at top to go right there: Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Display Try the Medium and Larger settings, but first click the DPI settings on the left and make sure the XP style scaling is off or set to 100%. I find it's well-balanced by the ENhanced Brightness ENB mod!