CFS3 Battle of Britain Install update is out!

[sixstrings5859]

Best news i've heard in years ! Can't wait to get up and running again for this. Hopefully after recovering from the hurricane i can get my wings again. I'ts been a while and i miss it so.

 

[Daiwilletti]

I have my campaigns, spawns and spawn selector files installed on my BoB. Will the update overwrite any of those?

Thanks.

Hi Mitch, my spawn set will not overwrite yours - both can sit compatibly!

 

[almccoyjr]

I'm getting an error message when trying to open the effects.xml file with a xml editor..." effect50 position ".

When I open using Wordpad and search for effect50, the line entry positioning isn't following in proper order.

The error starts with Alpha install and carries over in the Update.

Any ideas? The sim starts and runs, despite the error, but I don't know if there'll be problems when I throw in GC Searchlights.

 

[mongoose]

Have you tried just opening the xml with notepad; that's all I ever use. Notepad++ is also good for finding the lines! If you are using Ankors Shaders30 you don't want to use the GC Searchlights, but the TOW ones.

 

[almccoyjr]

Have you tried just opening the xml with notepad; that's all I ever use. Notepad++ is also good for finding the lines! If you are using Ankors Shaders30 you don't want to use the GC Searchlights, but the TOW ones.

Thanks for the reply...

Don't like NotePad; use NotePad + + sparingly and use WordPad and/or conversions to Excell when xml won't open. I prefer an xml Editor, just my "anal" side.

Ok, excuse my ignorance: TOW? If it's better than GCS, I'm all in.

 

[mongoose]

Just saying those might help issues you are having with the xml.

If you are using Shaders30 you need therm as GC ones may work in daytime. I'll get back tomorrow on TOW Searchlights.

 

[mongoose]

Several comments.

1. Could admin make this a sticky?

2. If you use Win10, or even Win7, I suggest you change the location to C:\ main folder as in C:\CFS3 BOB MkI, or similar.

3. Also; in that case, and Win 7; Properties; Set all exe files to Win SP3 compatibility and run as administrator. It will work without but this often seems to resolve issues.

4. To keep with the period, you could delete the following aircraft as all after 1941 for sure. Only the 2 P47's need to be kept.

b_25
b_26
bf_109g_10
fw_190a_5
fw_190a_8
go_229a
me_262a
p_38j
p_38l
p_51b
p_51d
p_55a
p_80a
spitfire_ixc
spitfire_ixe
tempest_mkv
typhoon_mkib
US M4A3 Sherman tank
v1
vampire_mki

 

[Oliver]

Just given the new Battle of Britain a spin.

Very impressed!

Great range of new aircraft. Great to see the Italians represented as well.

I do wish had known the campaigns had changes! Took of for my first campaign mission flying a Hurricane for the RAF to intercept enemy aircraft over the coast and we were bounced ME 110's. I shot 1 down and was credited with it!

Great update to an already fantastic Battle of Britain sim.

 

[TheBookie]

Mongoose,

It would have been nice to have given Talon some credit for the missions he made and you upgraded for this BOB upgrade.

 

[mongoose]

Thanks for the reply...

.........

Ok, excuse my ignorance: TOW? If it's better than GCS, I'm all in.

If you can't find them elsewhere.View attachment TOW Searchlights.zip

 

[mongoose]

Mongoose,

It would have been nice to have given Talon some credit for the missions he made and you upgraded for this BOB upgrade.

I did do a readme giving credit to all, so it must not have been included. This is what it said.

"
These missions are not my own work, but other people’s hard work. I have just changed the aircraft, and in some cases, facilities and spawns, to be compatible with the BoB install.


I am not clear on the original authors of some of these but I know:-


1. All missions starting with
2-AA-BoB-
AA-BoB-
X-BA-BoB-
ZAA-BoB-


are from Ruff Wulfmann


2. All missions with ‘HH’ in their name are from Owen HouseHobbit


3. Missions starting with ‘BoB_xx_xxx’ I believe were done my the late Talon


There are one or two other missions, the authors of which I am uncertain but I imagine Loic Led Zeppelin did some; probably the ‘ETO BoBxxx’. My acknowledgments and thanks to him and anyone else’s work that I have altered, especially if I neglected to ask their permission. I did post on SOH to ascertain as many authors as I could.


Some comments:


I have not actually flown all these missions, but I have run them through the mb app to check they are viable and also ,in most cases, at least seen that CFS3 initiates them.


Some of Wulfmann’s are interesting in that the players job is to escort ,or follow as wingman, other aircraft, so some skill is involved.


Some of the overviews, etc., may not be to one’s taste, but mostly I have left them as they were.


James ‘Mongoose’ Allen"

 

[TheBookie]

In case anyone is interested the BOB missions by Talon were originally from CFS1 and he converted them to CFS2 and did them for CFS3.

TheBookie

 

[mongoose]

So how is everybody enjoying it?

 

[NSS]

So far so good.

Downloaded on release day, found a couple of minor bugs, (see above), and then bam end of weekend and back to work.

Will try to get a few hours this coming weekend as the weather does not look like an RC weekend.

 

[mcbob]

Only flown one mission but everything looks and sounds great! Seems better than ETO now, also nice to have a lot more missions.

Only problem I have, is no dynamic gunsight reticle. I found that the aircraft xpd was missing the dynamic gunsight effects line, but adding that didn't help. The sight looks different than the old stock sight. Do I need another static gunsight entry?

I added this install to what I had before, it already had the shaders installed.

I didn't use a new name for this install, and after I ran the config I didn't have to fix the user config overrides, they stayed the same as they were. That seemed strange to me.

Anybody have any ideas?

 

[33lima]

Up and running here!

And I see the Hurricane at least now has a functional rear-view mirror!

 

[rince33]

Only flown one mission but everything looks and sounds great! Seems better than ETO now, also nice to have a lot more missions.

Only problem I have, is no dynamic gunsight reticle. I found that the aircraft xpd was missing the dynamic gunsight effects line, but adding that didn't help. The sight looks different than the old stock sight. Do I need another static gunsight entry?

I added this install to what I had before, it already had the shaders installed.

I didn't use a new name for this install, and after I ran the config I didn't have to fix the user config overrides, they stayed the same as they were. That seemed strange to me.

Anybody have any ideas?

I added mine to an upgraded Cfs3 install and also experienced some issues with effects. I eventually installed the package to a fresh Cfs3 install and then checked that everything was working. I then added shaders and the asset folder from Diawiletti's upgrade package(I love the upgraded terrain) and it worked fine.

 

[Pat Pattle]

Only flown one mission but everything looks and sounds great! Seems better than ETO now, also nice to have a lot more missions.

Only problem I have, is no dynamic gunsight reticle. I found that the aircraft xpd was missing the dynamic gunsight effects line, but adding that didn't help. The sight looks different than the old stock sight. Do I need another static gunsight entry?

I added this install to what I had before, it already had the shaders installed.

I didn't use a new name for this install, and after I ran the config I didn't have to fix the user config overrides, they stayed the same as they were. That seemed strange to me.

Anybody have any ideas?

Hi McBob,

What aircraft has this issue?

Cheers

Clive

 

[Pat Pattle]

And I see the Hurricane at least now has a functional rear-view mirror!

Well almost! It's actually an Artificial Horizon gauge but with a scenery texture added. I find it useful to know which way up I am when things get a bit hairy!

 

[Frosty]

Well almost! It's actually an Artificial Horizon gauge but with a scenery texture added. ...

That is a very clever solution!! I would never have thought of that !

But with the latest shaders, you can make the mirror a very shiny material and have a 'real' mirror - with the CFS3 limitations that it only reflects autogen scenery. Still like your idea, though!!