DukeIronHand

Looking at the screen shots I had better hurry up on my new computer shopping.

2014 eh? Alright...that should be enough lead time to plan on attending! In fact all OFF'ers should attend. Remember to wear one red shoe as the secret OFF club symbol - that way you can be picked out of the crowd.

Andy73, Is that DVII skin a stock one? It is quite stunning!

*Sigh* Another missed year! I have been meaning to go to the annual September "Dawn Patrol Fly In" for years! And I only live two hours from Dayton! Can't wait to retire...

Thank you gentlemen for the additional information. Think I'll have to fly some QC missions, go to outside view sometimes, and allow myself to be shot up for some experimentation.

Thanks HPW for the info.

After an awfully busy summer I am hoping to get back to my OFF campaign flying. I guess we can say I have been on leave from the front for two months. Without getting all mushy I have to say I have missed the flying and my comrades here in the "ready room." In doing a forum search I believe I have found the bulk of my answers (double checking though)except for one so without further ado... 1) If you are hit in the fuel tank there is no visual or graphic clue (i.e., white vapor trail)given by the sim and that the only way to tell is by looking for excessive fuel usage via the HUD/info screens? Chance of fire while flying with a fuel leak? 2) Does the sim's DM model oil leaks? Some posts suggest so. Is there a visual clue or any way to tell via the HUD/info screens? I think some AC have oil pressure gauges in the cockpit. Is a pressure drop reflected in the gauges if this is so? 3) Usually, it seems, the only way I am aware of engine damage is via sound effects - which makes it pretty clear there is trouble! If I continue to fly or push my engine when it is making that god awful racket do I have a increased chance of an engine fire? Will the engine eventually stop working? I normally use the HPW DM is this makes a difference. Thanks and S!

Like Widowmaker I have my campaign pilots (who fly nothing but), two QC pilots (one for each side for assorted testing of planes/skins), and everyones favorite hero - Lt. Graphics Test.

Ahh...I see I timed my return to the OFF front perfectly. Thanks HPW for your continued work toward improving my favorite sim. Especially eager to try the "Skies" mod.

Interesting phenomena here. The "dead guy" has no faults and was a great person. I will go out on a limb and say bye-bye and don't let the door hit you in the arse. Obviously I didn't think much of him. Another interesting phenomena - Have you ever noticed in reading here the number of new members/first-time posters who have come here, asked a typical "new guy" question - were then lambasted by the old fool for being dumb - and they never posted here again? I have. Wonder how much new blood we have lost.

Standing by to download. Edit: Geesh...double post.

The Vintage Aviator is such a nice website - feels quite homey for some odd reason! Wish NZ was not so far away. Looks like a great vacation spot to me. Might have a tough time dragging myself back to the "real" world.

All you guys have to do is go to the various sound locations and make changes or replacements. Renamed the meow. Replaced the "contact - clear" with another sound file. Dig around and make OFF your sim.

Surprised at the number of haters on YouTube over a movie trailer that, when seen, can hardly seem to generates much controversy. Not my kind of movie but still... Ahh...the internet! Allowing oddballs and sociopaths to be heard worldwide and at the speed of light.

Thanks for the tip RAF_Louvert. I do have Shadows "disabled" in my current set-up as I find this to be my #1 FR "affecter". I will give this a shot.

Its funny this thread popped up. I was just thinking the other day about how much I read about the DH4 and being surprised OFF doesn't have one. As previously stated its service life was very long and it is always talked about in any history of the conflict - from both sides - quite a bit. The numbers must have been huge This is not a "its my favorite plane" vote, because its not - history demands this one!

To back up Polovski here - not that he needs it - his thought is right on. Back in my early off days I tried that view a couple of times and, without the cockpit visible as a reference, you think the sight is way off but it is because of the way (pilot line of sight) you are looking. It is especially bad if you try that view with a TrackIR - with no reference it is very easy to get wonky.

Well scheisse! (Did I spell that right Olham?) Thank you for the info gentleman. Got to go back and re-do (from scratch!) a personal skin or two. Lucky I have not had a lot of free time or it would be more than two! And that is a beautiful skin RAF_Louvert.

I believe if you go to your Pilot#Dossier.txt file you can change them to whatever you want.

So if I take a skin and edit it in a graphics program, i.e., re-skinning a stock skin, the more I save it the worse it gets? In my latest skin job I must have opened it, made fixes or corrections, then re-saved it probably 15-20 times. So this skin is 15-20 times "worse" than the stock skin it is based on? Edit: Grammar

Doh! I didn't even notice it was a .bmp file...hehe

Double post

Alrighty then. I thought you were using your latest DV Jasta 2 Basic skin as a template there.

I wonder if part of the difference is, kind of related to what Olham said, in that he is using his own skins. Some of Olhams skins unzip to, IIRC, about 12 MB of beauty compared to 2.5 MB for stock skins. Is that one of your 12 MB ones Olham? That, and perhaps his super duper ATI card, may explain his obviously great results.. I run Nvidia and its a fairly old one.

S!