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Old 06-13-2012, 02:27 PM
Fearfactor Fearfactor is offline
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This is interesting! How many other campaigns have to have special dat file that is not there? And why is it not there? ( Please don't feel this is a mean or angry post, this is not the intention, only asking questions. ) It is very easy to misunderstand posts and think you are being attacked. But all of us need you to do what you are doing.

What is the proper format for the Singapore2Planes.dat file? Is it the same as an old planes###.dat file?? This information does not seem to be in the readme file you included with the download zip file.

Not trying to jump your a## or anything, all of us in the community are really glad you are doing this!! So don't get me wrong, I'd almost pay you to do this work. It's is just that we will need more information about special requirements such as this that make editing and changing/modding things apparently more difficult, complex and convoluted than working with the old Dgen.

You possibly didn't know that many of us are old hats at modifying and editing the old Dgen files to make things more interesting. Or to allow us to add more aircraft or whatever. I was one of the old Dgen modders from long ago at SimHQ. For example when some of the Italian planes came out, to fly newly added Italian planes in the Belgorod campaign, there was no way to fly on the other side ( Russian ) against the new Italian planes. So I created a new campaign to allow this. I showed other people how to do it, including Enjoyr and others and that inspired a lot of other people modding and creating new content for Dgen. But I certainly was not the first to do this sort of thing, but I was in it early. We got much information from Starshoy when he was posting at SimHQ.

The ability to be able to do absolutely everything with the new Dgen that you could do with the old one is critical. We just need mistakes and limitations fixed and then ability to do even more than we used to. And we will need more info on special dat files and which campaigns to apply them to. I am already trying to modify ( like always ) this new Dgen you are making as you can see by my earlier post. I created that new Sinpapore2Planes.dat file, now I will put the other planes like you said in it. I'll let you know how it goes.

Last edited by Fearfactor; 06-13-2012 at 10:00 PM.
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