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ETO Expansion Download Links, Comments, Questions"

Can I add other aircraft to ETO or should I just leave well enough alone? Thanks!
 
I have had it for a few days now and all I can say is well done one and all!


A couple of queries.
  1. I notice that there are fewer nationalities. Some removals I can understand, but where are the commonwealth countries from the original nationalities expansion pack, especially the Canadians, the Aussies are there so why not the Canucks? I have a couple of RCAF Gunners Mossies and would like to see them with approriate pilots.
  2. Are there any plans to add more bases? If so I would dearly like to see Lorient in France so that I can fly Ted's V/KG40 Ju88C-6's from. There are some KG40 bases, but this is the big one.
TTFN

Beau
 
Beau

Apparently the NEK is limited to having a maximum of 10 different nationalities. Some nations had to be removed to make way for others which the team wanted in the ETO i.e Free French, Vichy, Republicans, Nationalists, etc.

No specific plans at this date on exactly what is to be added in the future. The team is taking a break. We were hard pressed, worked long hours, from April to September to finish up the Theater. Right now we just can't seem to get into the idea of immediately putting our heads back onto the grindstone.

There are things people are working on, but no definative date on completion or collective effort to put a update package together.

BeauBrummie said:
I have had it for a few days now and all I can say is well done one and all!




A couple of queries.
  1. I notice that there are fewer nationalities. Some removals I can understand, but where are the commonwealth countries from the original nationalities expansion pack, especially the Canadians, the Aussies are there so why not the Canucks? I have a couple of RCAF Gunners Mossies and would like to see them with approriate pilots.
  2. Are there any plans to add more bases? If so I would dearly like to see Lorient in France so that I can fly Ted's V/KG40 Ju88C-6's from. There are some KG40 bases, but this is the big one.
TTFN

Beau
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Thanks Bob, BTW the Canadians are there, my oversight. No worries about the updates. I've so much to play with here. Thanks to all you Groundhogs.
 
rbp71854 said:
Sounds like you are ready to go.
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I launched ETO.....and all eras seem to load perrfectly.....played in quick combat and few single missions mode.....no probs there........only thing that worried me a bit was that I did not find anything on Spanish Civil War in Era 1........neither in Single Missions nor in Campaign list.......it only had Attack in the West 1940/BoF and Phoney War.......also I did not find any Spanish Plane in Aircrafts menu. I do have SPR and SPN nationalities in the pilots menu.

Also there is no BoB in Campaign/Single Missions mode in Era 2. Am I doing anything wrong?

I actually have these in Campaigns list......1943, 1944, 1945, Attack in the West 1940, Phoney War, La Forteresse Europe, Nek Redux ETO Edition. Is it ok?
 
To do a qucik check if your eras are in sync is to look at the global_layer.csv and the qclocations.xml. The first airfield entry Inssbruck has an era tag. I.e. Innsbruck (1936), Innsbruck(1944) if both the global layer and the qclocations match, your eras are in sysnc.

The eto is a work in progress. So you may not find aircraft for all nationalities nor campaigns or missions for each era.

What you see in your install sounds correct for the stock rev 1.0 install.

Bob

fw190 said:
I launched ETO.....and all eras seem to load perrfectly.....played in quick combat and few single missions mode.....no probs there........only thing that worried me a bit was that I did not find anything on Spanish Civil War in Era 1........neither in Single Missions nor in Campaign list.......it only had Attack in the West 1940/BoF and Phoney War.......also I did not find any Spanish Plane in Aircrafts menu. I do have SPR and SPN nationalities in the pilots menu.


Also there is no BoB in Campaign/Single Missions mode in Era 2. Am I doing anything wrong?

I actually have these in Campaigns list......1943, 1944, 1945, Attack in the West 1940, Phoney War, La Forteresse Europe, Nek Redux ETO Edition. Is it ok?
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rbp71854 said:
To do a qucik check if your eras are in sync is to look at the global_layer.csv and the qclocations.xml. The first airfield entry Inssbruck has an era tag. I.e. Innsbruck (1936), Innsbruck(1944) if both the global layer and the qclocations match, your eras are in sysnc.

The eto is a work in progress. So you may not find aircraft for all nationalities nor campaigns or missions for each era.

What you see in your install sounds correct for the stock rev 1.0 install.

Bob
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Thanks for replying rbp71854

1936, 1943, 1944, 1945 global_layer.csv and qclocations.xml do match. But there is a file global_layer.csv which has an era tag Innsbruck(BoB) for which I did not find any corresponding qclocations.xml file. Is it a problem?

Also there are 4 pairs of missions and uris folders......1936, 1943, 1944, 1945.

Am I having an era(the 2nd one.....relating to BoB) less?
 
Thanks for the reply rbp71854, will begin adding my favorite aircraft today!
 
What you describe is normal as you have your era in the BoB era and so the bob_qclocations.xml and the bob_global_layer.csv files have been changed to qclocations.xml and global_layer.csv.

Open your eto and select the 1936 era. Then close the eto and then look at your bob files and you will see that they have been changed. and the 1936_* files have been changed to qclocations.xml and global_layer.csv.

That's the function of the era swappers doing their job. Renaming the era files according to which era you select.

fw190 said:
Thanks for replying rbp71854

1936, 1943, 1944, 1945 global_layer.csv and qclocations.xml do match. But there is a file global_layer.csv which has an era tag Innsbruck(BoB) for which I did not find any corresponding qclocations.xml file. Is it a problem?

Also there are 4 pairs of missions and uris folders......1936, 1943, 1944, 1945.

Am I having an era(the 2nd one.....relating to BoB) less?
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Make sure not to overwrite the older aircraft that you install pylons, guns and weapons as that will corrupt the latest AvH WEP packages. Same warning the AvH gives with their latest WEP updates.

TNEWELL said:
Thanks for the reply rbp71854, will begin adding my favorite aircraft today!
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I have the Wellington package from Reg's that was made for the orig. ETO. It has some effect lines and effects textures that you added to the original effect file. Is this in the new ETOE, or still be added?

Beau
 
Beau

I am not sure on that. Driver would probably know for sure. In the mean time you could install the Wellie and see if all is all right if not then add the effects lines and fx textures

BeauBrummie said:
I have the Wellington package from Reg's that was made for the orig. ETO. It has some effect lines and effects textures that you added to the original effect file. Is this in the new ETOE, or still be added?

Beau
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rbp71854 said:
What you describe is normal as you have your era in the BoB era and so the bob_qclocations.xml and the bob_global_layer.csv files have been changed to qclocations.xml and global_layer.csv.

Open your eto and select the 1936 era. Then close the eto and then look at your bob files and you will see that they have been changed. and the 1936_* files have been changed to qclocations.xml and global_layer.csv.

That's the function of the era swappers doing their job. Renaming the era files according to which era you select.
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OK, now I get it....thanks for the clarification, everything is in proper order :icon_lol:
 
Problems running ETO

Problems running ETO :-(
First: can`t run Multicfs3 (in dir of ETO), just saying :problem modifying file
Second : When running ETO start it says, Cant find CFS3.exe

ETO directory is in CFS dir which is in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games

so what to do, just pay my bills?
 
You say your CFS3 ETO Expansion directory is in your \Microsoft Games\Combat Flight Simulator 3 directory?

If it is you have a corrupted install and you have also corrupted your CFS3 install.

Your Microsoft Games directory should look like this:

Microsoft Games\Combat Flight Simulator 3
Microsoft Games\CFS3 ETO Expansion

If it looks like this, it is a corrupt install:

Microsoft Games\Combat Flight Simulator 3\CFS3 ETO Expansion

If it is corrupt you will have to remove all traces of your CFS3 and ETO from your computer. Then re-install CFS3 and the ETO.

I am off to work now, will check back tommorrow, or someone else may be able to help in the meantime.

Jumpoo said:
Problems running ETO :-(
First: can`t run Multicfs3 (in dir of ETO), just saying :problem modifying file
Second : When running ETO start it says, Cant find CFS3.exe

ETO directory is in CFS dir which is in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games

so what to do, just pay my bills?
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Jumpoo said:
Problems running ETO :-(
First: can`t run Multicfs3 (in dir of ETO), just saying :problem modifying file
Second : When running ETO start it says, Cant find CFS3.exe

ETO directory is in CFS dir which is in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games

so what to do, just pay my bills?
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I have the same problem. Apparently the dvd swapped to me had a corrupted version. but he said download it or he will send another, but where can we download??

I don't think my main cfs3 is corrupt.

How bout a torrent?!
 
themann said:
I have the same problem. Apparently the dvd swapped to me had a corrupted version. but he said download it or he will send another, but where can we download??

I don't think my main cfs3 is corrupt.

How bout a torrent?!
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Hi

I don't think he is saying the file is corrupt it's the install that is corrupt. ETO was installed into the CFS3 folder. This is incorrect and now has botched both.

Best case is to delete the CFS3 folder from "MyDocuments" folder. Also delete CFS3 folder in C:\programfiles\microsoftgames. Also delete the CFS3 folder in C:\Documents and Settings\"user"\Application Data\Microsoft

Make sure to delete any ETO folders you see there as well. Reinstall CFS3. Install the 2 patches. Run the game. Now install ETO. Choose yes to all of the default prompts. At the very end the multi CFS3 installer will pop up. Back out the "combat flight simulator 3" entry and replace it with "CFS3 ETO Expansion" This will create a second folder for ETO.

You can download ETO from here(first page on this thread)

http://aussiex.org/SOH/CFS3 ETO Expansion/CFS3_ETO_Expansion_1.0.zip

Copy the entire line into your address bar. Hit enter

TW

Oh and please no more with the torrent stuff:kilroy:
 
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