Campaign Aircraft

[Smoke2much]

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

[Hagar]

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.

[Smoke2much]

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

Will

[Hagar]

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.

[Smoke2much]

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

[Smoke2much]

Twas me being silly.

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.

[Hagar]

Glad you figured that out.

[BFMF]

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

[farmerdave]

[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.

[1danny]

yes please wana use that high res for its cock pit

[BFMF]

sh

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

[farmerdave]

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

[Smoke2much]

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

Will

[farmerdave]

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.

[farmerdave]

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