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That is the one you offer here. It has my name stamp on it. I do not recall changing the weather from what Jammor made with this one.
I do recall that with an early BoBII version, that clear (no clouds) weather was mis-labeled as GOOD, which caused errors,
so I renamed all GOODs to SUNNY and this file is the bug fix with Jammor's historical weather, I think.



That is the current stock one.

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"Toto! I don't think we are in Kansas anymore!" Dorothy, OZ
"sniff.. sniff.. Snort! ARF! GGRRRR! ARF! (Tod der stinkenden republikanischen Partei, diesem ignoranten religiösen Monstrum.)" Toto

Hi Stickman:

I've been wondering how you go about customizing the skins on 109's. Also, now that I've seen all the skins in BoB, I was wondering whether or not it would be possible to make some of the staffeln that are only accessible in missions that involve two or more 109 squadrons available in missions that involve only one.

Most of my favorite skins can't be accessed in the dogfighting missions for instance. What would you suggest?

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Hi guys,

I had played around with getting the heading/EPI gauge round on my 1920x1200 widescreen monitor before I looked closely at the other info posted on this thread. Anyway, I was able to come up with some values that line things up well with a perfectly round gauge. Something else to try if you are still tweaking...

//rotation compass - a dial with a rotating circle in the center indicating heading
{
Name = heading
ScreenPosition_X = 2
ScreenPosition_Y = 2
GaugeWidth = 70
GaugeHeight = 84

//Enemy Position Indicator
{
Name = EnemyPositionIndicator
ScreenPosition_X = 2
ScreenPosition_Y = 3
GaugeWidth = 35
GaugeHeight = 42


Note that on a 16:10 screen like 1920x1200 the GaugeHeight needs to be exactly 20% taller than the GaugeWidth to maintain a perfect circle.

Prem, near as I can tell the ranges for the circles are maintained properly with resizing things. The ranges appear to match for both the default settings and the resized widescreen settings. I even tried a crazy huge size and the range appeared to remain consistent.

Here is a screenshot (insert of gauge at full size).



max188

max188,

Thank you for this Info.
This helps me out.

I am but a poor worker dog,
that only has a Monitor capable of displaying 1280 x 1024,
which I stole from my youngest daughter!

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"sniff.. sniff.. Snort! ARF! GGRRRR! ARF! (Tod der stinkenden republikanischen Partei, diesem ignoranten religiösen Monstrum.)" Toto

Hi max188,

That is great to hear. And is so useful for stickmen and others to know about.

If you would like to go on to my web site at HTTP://web.UKonline.co.uk/phold/ and click on my "2-D gauges" you will find my enemy position indicator now has an inner third ring which is set at 250 yards. If you get the red aircraft dot over that line. Most of your bullets will make a mess of stalkervisions Gretchen. (He's now going to give me a pasting).

I must try and post a picture of it, as last time I tried. I only got half a picture, and forgot to redo it.

I will post a picture in a separate post.

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Folks,

I just bought a new LG, 22 inch Wide Screen Monitor. 1680x1050 preferred Native resolution,
but I now run BoBII with 1440 x 900, to fly with tolerable frame rates in POOR weather.
Been getting used to these new Wide Screens, and it is.. a New World!
Like a Neanderthal girl being kidnapped and raped by a cro magnon Homo Sapien!

(I am living proof that Neanderthals and cro magnon Homo Erectus Sapien Savages did interbreed, through tribal war and rape!)
I have a slim, long legged body, married to a skull with a receding jaw, with stick out bony eyebrow ridges,
and a prominent bony ridge at the top center of my fore head,
plus a healthy hatred of all "flat fore head" men! Er.. men of all species!
I do like the ladies, tho, and they have been kind to me. Even though all the women I ever met are all FLAT HEADS!
Lay your hand upon your lady's fore head, gently, as a lover does,
and feel for a prominent bony ridge thereupon.
If she has it, then she is a Neanderthal, and you better not try to fak with her heart!

COUGH! ---- sputum

Anyway, I was trying to make my 2D Gauges (which previously were using 1024 and 1280 resolutions)
to mate with this new Chinese LG wide screen monitor.
Looked for advise on how to do it. Here, and I was pleased to find good advise, both, from
mudcake, and from max188.

I tried mudcake's first, and BINGO! They work like peaches in cream!
Just had to move the Slip & Turn over right a few tics.



I thank thee both. If there be some way that I can repay thee, with my limited ability,
just ask, and I shall drop whatever I am doing to make the repayment.

Mahalo!

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"Toto! I don't think we are in Kansas anymore!" Dorothy, OZ
"sniff.. sniff.. Snort! ARF! GGRRRR! ARF! (Tod der stinkenden republikanischen Partei, diesem ignoranten religiösen Monstrum.)" Toto

Elkington Trumps Bader

I been with Rowan's BoB and ASA's BoBII nigh on 9 years, now. Starting the game and exiting it.
Getting a bit tired of some the old menus, and wished to change some of them.
In particular.. seems like every GUI menu I open up has Sir Bader's face staring at me!
Now.. I ain't got nothing against the man personally, but hells belles! There are other men earned the Battle of Britain Star.
So I replaced Bader's photo in two GUI menus, with another man's photo that is still alive, and frequents this forum.
Kind of like saying "Thankyou! for fighting our enemies!"
to a still living WWII veteran.

Tim Elkington, owner of the Battle of Britain Star, Atlantic Star, Burma Star, and some other WWII War Theater medals.
He may not have been Knighted by the King or Queen, but I will address him as Sir!
Anyway.. he is better looking than Bader.

This mod replaces two GUI menus, replacing Bader with Elkington.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zhgoizm0m22

To Install:
1. Backup your artwork/DIAL1024 folder.
2. Extract the mod into the DIAL1024 folder, which is a sub folder of the artwork folder.

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Whence you first open an Instant Action, the menu will now look like this.
Rowan made the left side very darkly, I guess to make the text show up better,
but I saw no need for that, and lightened up the left side so I could see what photos they put in the darkness.
Tim showed us a photo of him catapulting off of a ship, in his Hurricane, during his Atlantic Star days. It is an unique photo, which I have to love.
Tim's middle name is Audacious.



Once you ALT-X out of the game, you get this menu picture. Report.
Diary is also the same menu picture.



In this menu mod, I added a photo that Tim showed us of his Barracks. I forgot where it was, sorry me.

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Thank you Tim,
for fighting the Nazis!

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"Toto! I don't think we are in Kansas anymore!" Dorothy, OZ
"sniff.. sniff.. Snort! ARF! GGRRRR! ARF! (Tod der stinkenden republikanischen Partei, diesem ignoranten religiösen Monstrum.)" Toto

Stickman you should put that picture of you in one of the menus !

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Spitfireace

I treasure a remark i made to my grandson who asked "Grandpa were you a hero in the war?" "No" i answered, "But i served in a company of heroes"

That's a sorry idea!
I do have a nice photo of me taken when was a young Seaman. Might sneak it into a mod one day, replacing a pilot or gunner's face.
If I can get my scanner to work with Vista.

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"sniff.. sniff.. Snort! ARF! GGRRRR! ARF! (Tod der stinkenden republikanischen Partei, diesem ignoranten religiösen Monstrum.)" Toto

"Don't let Vista get ya pista!"

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Hi thanks for this info for widescreen monitors, it worked like a charm. I have modded the 109 and Hurricane so far with these values and they are perfect.

For my own tastes though I have completely removed the turncombo thing and moved the digital altitude and speed reading down into the bottom left corner. Looks nice and uncluttered.

Many thanks for this great info.

Matt.

I bought a wide screen LG monitor 3 months ago, and mudcake's GaugeWidth and GaugeHeight values work sweet for getting
these gauges round.
I know that it takes time and experimentation to get the values good, and I thank him.

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"Toto! I don't think we are in Kansas anymore!" Dorothy, OZ
"sniff.. sniff.. Snort! ARF! GGRRRR! ARF! (Tod der stinkenden republikanischen Partei, diesem ignoranten religiösen Monstrum.)" Toto

Old TreeLine

One of the BDG men decided to completely remove the 2D Treelines for v2.10. "Unacceptable!"
Well.. I liked them, better sub-prime than nothing!. I wanted them back.

So, for you folks that want them back, too, and improve the look of them, here is what you do.

1. In the Battle of Britain II / MASKMAP folder, delete the Treeline.dds file. This is the file that wiped out the TreeLines.
Back it up if you wish, but I tossed it outa my window... SPLAT!
I do not get any Error messages for doing this. It hurts me not.

In the bdg.txt file, at the very bottom..
are these lines that I currently write & use for v2.10:

# AutoGen stuff (experimental):
ENABLE_AUTO_GEN=ON
TEMP_AG_SN[15,1]=1192
TEMP_AG_SN[15,2]=62

# AutoGen TreeLine stuff (experimental):
TEMP_AGTL_SN[0]=1192
TEMP_AGTL_SN[1]=63
TEMP_AGTL_SN[2]=62

The last set (# AutoGen TreeLine stuff (experimental):)
Basically it places 3D trees out and upon where the TREELINE is mapped at ~ 10 meters apart.



Same place north of Tangmere, looking East.

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"Toto! I don't think we are in Kansas anymore!" Dorothy, OZ
"sniff.. sniff.. Snort! ARF! GGRRRR! ARF! (Tod der stinkenden republikanischen Partei, diesem ignoranten religiösen Monstrum.)" Toto

Great, I'll try that out later! Cheers stickman

A nooby question, maybe, but I have no mods folder...