Barkhorn1x

Nice shots! Gawd that was a whole lot of triplanes

Nice. Thanks.

Thanks for your work here.

I went that route as well. Better to be safe than sorry.

Who shot the couch!

Thanks man - here are examples of what we need: DR1 = http://www.fokkerdr1.com/Profiles/Profile%20SB16.htm DV/DVa = http://wwi-cookup.com/albatros/dv/j79bkallmunzer02.jpg http://www.wwi-models.org/Images/Miller/re.../j79leptien.jpg

Taking your reasoning a step farther - an enterprising skinner*** - could also make those "interim" crosses used in March/April - made by repainting the Maltese crosses by squaring them off. **hats off to them as I tried once - pathetic results.

Great stuff

One would think that would be the case - BUT - if you open up the INI file you will see that the first Texture is coded 001. :yes: Yep - that feature makes me VERY happy.

Well, since the codes are 3 digits long - that would give you a theoretical limit of 999.

Historically; - a pre-03/18 build Pfalz DIII would have had its Maltese crosses "squared off" to comply w/ the new regs - post 3/18 of course. - a factory fresh post-03/18 build Pfalz DIII would have the Balkan cross. So... the second one does not look odd - if we assume it was built post 03/18.

Woohoo good work. I now realize that I am not familiar w/ all of these blast INI files!!

Don't think you can as I believe it is hard coded into the EXE. As far as I can tell the Decal.INI only defines position and "type" of decal to access. The specific decal accessed is obviously based on a combination of Country, a/c type. skin choice and date in the case of the German Alb. D3/D5/D5a. The Dr1 seems to default to the Maltese cross despite the date. If Tex uses the decal file for, say, the DVa on his Pfalz D3 default skins he will probably get the same results. I don't know how hot the positioning will look tho'.

I agree w/ going w/ the decals as it's one less thing to worry about and as you said; w/ a one skin per unit limit you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. So, better to have the crosses uniform rather than have the skins strictly accurate IMO. Thinking out loud in this area, what we need for accurate markings are the following: - multiple skin option based on a date range - GAS decals that feature that "interim cross" - March-May of 1918 *** - which was the Maltese cross "squared off" ***That's not there already is it?

Nice!

Well, the RFC/RAF has letter codes. And the FAS/USAS has number codes. So I guess TK and the gang thought it would be a good idea to try and jazz up the GAS a/c by rotating some commonly known motifs amongst the Jastas. Try a single mission and hit the F6 key about 20 times and you will see all sorts of markings. I haven't really looked at the decal files much. Perhaps I will now. :yes:

I'm downloading as I need this plane!

About the tach. positioning; could it be that the installation varied by a/c to some extent? After all, WWI German standardization and quality control left a bit to be desired at times.

Do you mean the fuselage side motifs? They are authentic markings alright - they just don't appear on the right a/c!!

That's a great idea - and we need more ace skins as well. Fritz Rumey comes immediatly to mind. http://www.wwi-models.org/Images/Miller/re...ros/j5rumey.jpg I am working on my own set of enhancements. But first I need to rebuild my "ACE DB" - I had put it toghether for KoE - and lost it in a HD crash - hours of work. But now I am reconstituting and plan to add every single top ace where historically appropriate to the existing campaigns and then move on to a more timeframe encompasing campaign. Too bad you cannot link campaigns across terrain sets.

Nice!

I changed mine. But I will change it back if it proves to be historically correct.

Not just you Sinbad - happens to me as well.

Gumpy: Sent you a couple of PMs but I am not sure they are getting to you. Would you be interesed in doing a Fritz Rumey Dv/DVa skin? Here is a link to Mark Miller's rendering. http://www.wwi-models.org/Images/Miller/re...ros/j5rumey.jpg Now that we have Ace functionality I thought it would be cool to add a buch of Jasta 5 aces to the campaigns: Baumer Flasher von Hipple Konneke Mai Rumey ...but we have no Rumey skin :(

Good one. Got it.