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Facilities questions?

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grover1

Charter Member
Hi all,

Is it possible to copy the airfield facility/building files from Clive's Battle of Britain install and install them into ETO 1.40 without making any changes to the global layer files?

I'm looking at bringing over the Luftwaffe airfields that are mainly a few tents and grass strips over to ETO for the immersion factor for my BoB missions.

Anyone ever done this before or know of a way I can do this?

Also, an update on BoB too! I've reworked a lot of the missions to add in more features and more improvements. I'll try to upload some screenshots later this week.

Chris
 
Just my tuppence worth.....

I think making changes to the global layer is the key to ETO's success. In that way you don't get lumbered with early era airfields in 1944. So why don't you want to make changes to the GL?

You could create a new set of renamed airbase facility files, and replace airfields in the BoB era GL with your modified airbase facilities.

Of course, what you do in your own home is no-ones business (in terms of mixing and matching stuff) however if you go on to release missions relying on modified files you would need permissions/acknowledgements I guess?

Those missions sound very interesting. :mixed-smiley-010:
 
Hi Daiwiletti,

Every time I try modifying the GSL file, something goes wrong. So, I figure it's in my best interest not to modify the GSL lol
 
grover1 said:
Hi Daiwiletti,

Every time I try modifying the GSL file, something goes wrong. So, I figure it's in my best interest not to modify the GSL lol
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If you gave a list of airbase facility file names you wanted installed, and the airbases which you wanted replaced, I could do it. I have Excel to edit the global_layer.csv file, using the Terrain SDK to make the gsl.lib file.

The main trick for ETO of course is to make sure it is set to the correct era before modifying the global layer csv file.

Most of the work is setting up the airbase facility files in the first place.

Also I can't help wondering how much difference there really is between Bob era airbases in ETO, and Pat's ALG type airbase in his BoB standalone? You may find there are airbase facilities already in ETO, which could be used to populate some of the French airbases in early1940s ETO. So maybe it wouldn't be a lot of work after all. The only thing I find with some of the small dirt runways in ETO, is they are so short :banghead:
 
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