Simviation Forum - Campaign Aircraft

Dec 1^st, 2003 at 7:42am

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Is it possible to make downloaded aircraft available within the campaign?

I have the B-17 and it doesn't show up in the US bomber campaign. I also have the BF110 and that does work for the German AI, but not the player.

Any ideas?

Will

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Reply #1 - Dec 1^st, 2003 at 7:53am

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Will. If they're not listed as Player aircraft on the Campaigns menu check out the entered_service= entry in the DP files. This should be listed under [MISC_DATA]
The date must be earlier than the date of the first mission in a campaign. If there's no [MISC_DATA] section, copy /paste this in from another DP.

The allegiance= entry is also important.
allegiance= (0 = Neutral, 1 = British, 2 = German, 3 = US, 4 = Japanese etc)

PS. Oops. I just spotted this is for CFS3. My comments are based on CFS2. I assume it's the same. Roll Eyes

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Reply #2 - Dec 1^st, 2003 at 8:18am

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Thanks Doug. I'll try that and see what happens.

Will

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Reply #3 - Dec 1^st, 2003 at 8:25am

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Will. I downloaded a 3rd party aircraft to check this out. The EnteredService date is in the DP file with an extra LeftService entry.

I'm clutching at straws with CFS3 as I really haven't the faintest idea of what I'm talking about. Roll Eyes

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Reply #4 - Dec 1^st, 2003 at 8:40am

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So far that doesn't work.

I have tried adding the Model name of the B-17 in the Tech tree of the campaign XML file but no joy with that either.

Still trying...

Will

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Reply #5 - Dec 1^st, 2003 at 9:34am

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Twas me being silly. Grin

The campaign that I was playing didn't recognise the B-17 but on starting a new one it did.

Will

PS by renaming a copy of the default Tempest as P-299 I have made that available to the Americans. Fun.

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Reply #6 - Dec 1^st, 2003 at 11:24am

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Glad you figured that out. Wink

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Reply #7 - Dec 1^st, 2003 at 12:12pm

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I wrote a tutorial a long time ago on how to add 3rd part aircraft to campaigns, even existing campaings

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Reply #8 - Dec 1^st, 2003 at 6:19pm

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[quote]I wrote a tutorial a long time ago on how to add 3rd part aircraft to campaigns, even existing campaings [quote]

Where is it? Before now i had just assumed this was impossible to do.

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Reply #9 - Dec 1^st, 2003 at 10:12pm

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yes please wana use that high res for its cock pit

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Reply #10 - Dec 2^nd, 2003 at 12:29am

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shQuote:

Where is it? Before now i had just assumed this was impossible to do.

I'l have to do some searching for it. It wasn't well written, but it did help a few people out

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Reply #11 - Dec 4^th, 2003 at 4:37pm

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How do you add aircraft to the campaign tech tree? I opened the XML file, but you can't put the cursor down anywhere.

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Reply #12 - Dec 5^th, 2003 at 5:35am

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Right click on it and open as a wordpad document and you can edit it.

Will

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Reply #13 - Dec 5^th, 2003 at 6:08pm

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I tried opening it in wordpad and adding the Bf110 to the tech tree, but when I tried to start a campaign the game sort of froze, but I could still exit properly. I used the entered service date from the XDP file.

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Reply #14 - Dec 6^th, 2003 at 3:56pm

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Stupid mistake on my part. i was putting in the wrong aircraft name Roll Eyes

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