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Question re "General Allegiance" and pilots' voices

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Question re "General Allegiance" and pilots' voices

Two questions:

1. What is the significance of the "General Allegiance" number in an aircraft's XDP file? I see both British and German aircraft with an allegiance of "0".

2. What sets the pilots' voices (nationality) in those aircraft which are not American, German or British? For example, the Nationalist SCW aircraft employ British voices (or American, I forget which) when it make somewhat more sense to employ German voices.
 
For your first question, no idea. I think it's actually redundant.

Second question:

Open your country.xml file in CFS root, using Notepad. You'll find that each country has an entry that begins like this:

<Country ID="Germany" Name="Germany" ShortName="GER" DirBase="ger" Nationality="German" Heading="bearing"

If you then go to your CFS3/sounds folder, you'll find a number of .gvp files. These contain the speech used by pilots and AIs. There are four types - air, ground, pilot, wingman. You'll see that each one is tagged with a three letter code that corresponds to the "Shortname" entry in the country.xml file - highlighted in red. So the German language files are air_ger.gvp, ground_ger.gvp, pilot_ger.gvp, and wingman_ger.gvp. (Colours for illustration purposes only.)

So if you want to change the language your Spanish Nationalists use, copy-paste the four (British, American or German) files, and re-tag them with the appropriate three-letter code for Spanish Nationalists. Overwrite the existing ones that you don't like, and there you are. There are also some home-made Italian sound files in MAW, which Alessandro Biaggi did specially.
 
ndicki said:
For your first question, no idea. I think it's actually redundant.

Second question:

Open your country.xml file in CFS root, using Notepad. You'll find that each country has an entry that begins like this:

<Country ID="Germany" Name="Germany" ShortName="GER" DirBase="ger" Nationality="German" Heading="bearing"

If you then go to your CFS3/sounds folder, you'll find a number of .gvp files. These contain the speech used by pilots and AIs. There are four types - air, ground, pilot, wingman. You'll see that each one is tagged with a three letter code that corresponds to the "Shortname" entry in the country.xml file - highlighted in red. So the German language files are air_ger.gvp, ground_ger.gvp, pilot_ger.gvp, and wingman_ger.gvp. (Colours for illustration purposes only.)

So if you want to change the language your Spanish Nationalists use, copy-paste the four (British, American or German) files, and re-tag them with the appropriate three-letter code for Spanish Nationalists. Overwrite the existing ones that you don't like, and there you are. There are also some home-made Italian sound files in MAW, which Alessandro Biaggi did specially.
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Thank you. You always seem to know the answer. But forgive me, since I'm a bit confused.

I am not certain as to what you mean by "copy-paste the four. . . files, and re-tag them with the appropriate three-letter code. . ." The three-letter code for Spanish Nationalists is SPN but where do these re-taggged files go? What is being altered? The sound folder already includes four files with SPN as a suffix. Are we to change the country.xml in some fashion? Thanks.
 
Oops. Got it now. Take the four German (ger) gvp sound files, rename them with spn and then copy them back to the sounds folder. Works.

Thanks.
 
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