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I figured it was from Cannon and their "Non Standard Airframe" fleet. I've taken a few rides with that unit, but never in the 328. Neat looking aircraft.

Yesterday Allen and I had a multiplayer session through Internet. My xp machine made ​​of host, and I adhered to play with my win7 conjunction with Allen. we still have trouble making hosting with win7 using DSL. but we are on track and Allen made ​​some progress with win7 firewall and I'm trying to demilitarize ports assigned to IP to avoid router firewall. By this actual way is possible as u can see, to play a multiplayer session at any time, but i have doubts about my U.S. robotics 56 ext modem speed is enough to host 8 players for session, i think YES because there are not much information engaged , only possitions, speeds, and bullets in the air (is my thought) all player included me could join using DSL and win7 or optic fiber. SO MANY THANKS TO ALLEN!! cheers Mario

Fibber, I looked on Google Earth, and found the evidence of a Sub Pen and breakwater that you described. Is this what you had in mind?

Tobob, Getting closer...this is with the WC_030_020.bgl and LC_030_020.bgl in the Scenedb\World\Scenery folder. I was also able to fix Dakar's harbor island by moving the watermask file into the Scenedb\World\Scenery folder.

Rami, KH gave me a wonderful tour of La Spezia last year on my visit with him and Xavier. By the way, while I haven't see Xavier here lately, he's a NATO historian at La Spezia and could probably also help. Sadly I lost his and all my other E-mail addresses just before Christmas so I can't help you in getting in touch with him. Here is a photo I took of a model of the harbor at the La Spezia Navy Museum. It shows the bomb damage from allied bombing.

Yes, that's true. My solution to that, because I have all of his scenery packages installed, is to have a common folder called "Tobob land and watermasks" for those files, and then have the "TB_xxxxx" folders separately. Yes, as you correctly fixed. I correctly anticipated, because the layout box is about six miles in rectangle form, that it would be a multi-gob GSL file. Before using GSLedit, I ran it through Gob checker, which split the layout into three parts. I hadn't done that yet with the layout file because I wanted some input and feedback from Kelticheart, and now Jagdflieger, and if possible, Xavierb.

Stefano, I am well, though I had a meeting before the school board recently because some parents didn't like the content I was teaching. (The Banana wars, Sanford Dole and US economic interests Vs Hawaii, US occupation of Haiti, putting the Shah in power, Eisenhower sending the Marines into Lebanon, etc.) Because I was not espousing my own beliefs on the students and was well entrenched in the facts, the school board, the teacher's union, and the school principal backed me 100%. Mom's also been reasonably stable in dialysis, so that's a plus. And, my eldest daughter is going to be five soon! Yikes, huh? I am attaching a beta testing package here for you. I don't think you'll have problems with this, but you need the scenery for the layout to work properly. I included a couple of modified files I use that were given to me by Robert John at my request. Let me know if you can't find anything, or if something looks funny!

Stoney, Try downloading it again, I included the textures this time. When Tobob sends the files to me, he knows I have the textures, so he doesn't send them anymore. My fault! :banghead:

Tobob, If you look at the St. Nazaire thread, I was able to fix the .dp files so that they will load in missions, so there is no rush. I included the fixed .dp files in the La Rochelle package on June 15th. Were you able to look at the Bermuda pics in the "success" thread?

Thanks!

You guys know how to live!

Good morning, Here is the GSL scenery package, as promised. Many thanks to tobob for the files! :salute:

A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Scenery Add-Ons Description: This is Tobob’s St. Nazaire scenery, with contributions from Rami. This package is for CFS2, & is used in the Battle for Europe campaign. Tobob has graciously donated his coastlines and land class to the project, allowing for me to build GSL scenery for the port & sub pen areas without the interference of detatched coastlines resulting from the interaction between Sander's Europe scenery and Rhumbaflappy's newer world water masks. Tobob deserves much of the credit for this scenery package, he did more than the lion’s share of the effort, in that the land class, coastlines, water masks, and elevation mesh were all created by him. A credit also goes to Talon, who walked me (Rami) through analyzing the .dp file to figure out the naming flaw that was preventing the object from generating a .cdp file. My contribution to this scenery package was the placement of objects from our various designers to create the placements for the dockyards, sub pen, and lighthouses to bring some measure of life to St. Nazaire, and then use those layouts to create the GSL scenery. The additional layout for ship, vehicle, and anti-aircraft gun placement was also created by me.

Hey guys, I just finished updating that two "Battle for Europe" missions that were specifically waiting for St. Nazaire. I just have to write a readme for the St. Nazaire package, and I will upload the scenery package tomorrow. I had a wonderful father's day today! :wiggle:

I made some progress with multiplayer game. For some reason I could not make the hosting work with windows 7, but there is a possibility that the problem is caused by my provider's DNS optical fiber. After all I played against myself through Internet ( not locally), for which I used my laptop with winXP and dial up modem, my laptop with xp was hosting, and my main pc I connected using optical fiber and win7. So those who want to try again next Saturday I will use my laptop for host. Meanwhile , i´ll try to investigate whether there is something that is preventing me to do hosting with win7 or optical fiber, the strange thing is that I can join with win7 and optical fiber but not host.

Whoo Hoo! Thanks for the effort in building this long forgotten flying machine. I look forward to exploring The Friesian Islands and around the Baltic Sea in it. Perhaps a flight to visit the Scandinavian countries is also in order.

Great photos Lawman. Thanks for sharing those. You Dutchmen have had the Militracks and now this airshow all in about a month's time. Looks like the light was difficult for photography, as it often is at airshows. Sometimes I open my aperture up an F stop or two to in order to emphasize the subject and make it stand out from the sky.

My best wishes to all the Dad's here in the Basement as well!

Stunning! Love the music selection too.

Panther, In Tuukka we trust, baby! :ernae:

Kurt, You don't put flak batteries in the GSL layer, silly. :icon_lol: But believe me...in the mission, St. Nazaire is heavily defended.

Good evening, I finished the work on Saint Nazaire, and turned it into GSL scenery tonight. It's not quite historically accurate, because I put the sub pen in a different place than it was in reality. In addition, CFS2 lacks dry docks as objects, so I did what I could here. All in all, I'm happy with the results. Also, as a favor to kdriver, I included the oil refinery at Donges, France, which was targeted by Allied bombers in World War II. I should be able to upload the package tomorrow morning.

Hello again, I put the corrected .dp file in the La Rochelle package...so now I can do the GSL package forthwith! :salute:

Good evening, Talon and I discussed this and he helped give me a lead. Comparing it to a .dp file that was working, I found this in the original file... ; Created or Modified by DPED. ; 3/7/2011 7:02:31 PM box.0=%box_name.0%,-15,0,-15,15,30,15

I ´m hosting in 186.49.31.162 wright now! for 30 minuts waiting!

Nice! I really like the US Navy Ryan.

Nice. I really enjoyed modeling tanks while growing up and these guys have taken it several levels above anything that I made.

Thanks for the compliments and support. I'm sorry about the TP-51, because some texture mapping problems prevented me to paint the engine cover like the original aircraft. The PT-22 is an old aircraft, and not so fine as some recent paywares, but it's free of charge. For what concerns the PT-16, I have some other repaints to complete in Dutch, Japanese, Australian and Chinese (armed, one and two seats) versions. I hope to finish them in the coming days. It's a lovely bird to fly.

F de Bressy, Thank you once again for all of your efforts repainting these aircraft. They look fantastic! :salute:

A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Skins - American Description: Texture for a Ryan PT-20. I modified the texture and removed the "meatballs" and the paintings on the fin to represent a model around 1942. Original FS 2004 model found on Flightsim. Name file: 1936ryanst_fs9.zip by SWingman. F. de Bressy

A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Skins - American Description: North American P-51B-1-NA Mustang serial nr. 43-12193 converted to a two-seater for use by 4th FG. Texture for A.F. Scrub's Mustang P-51 two-seater, on FlightSim. I could not paint the engine cover in blue, due to a texture mapping problem. F. de Bressy

A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Skins - American Description: Ryan NR-1 Recruit is the Navy version of the Ryan PT-22. Two hundred were built. There were 100 aircraft assigned to NAS Jacksonville and they were used for primary flight training. Being underpowered, they were known as the "Flying Washing Machines" by the early students. The original plane is to be found on Simviation and converted. Name file: FS2002 Ryan PT-22 Recruit by Felipe Belalcazar. F. de Bressy

A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Skins - American Description: Blue texture for a Ryan PT-16. I don't know how far this texture really historically correct is. I painted it from a R/C. model picture. Original FS 2004 model found on Flightsim. Name file: 1936ryanst_fs9.zip by SWingman.

Yes, so I can test the scenery before making it into GSL. I did not use the wharf this time...it's TB_build3 that will not generate a .cdp file. I tried running the mission in "normal" mode...same result.

I was for 20 years a amateur radioman, my last licence was CX2AAA (in my country starts with CX or CW, in U.S. starts with N#... and ends with W#...), but I do not radio any more, because there is not much more interest, to day internet cover all social activities. I am 37 years old and I miss the CW era (Morse) which allowed me to make contacts with other stations in opossite site in the world. So U first need to know "wich the requirements are for" is not the same if u want close contact (2 or 3 miles) I recomend VHF Band FM modulation . Very close contact UHF and long ranges for make contact with other countries HF but in upsideband or lowsideband modulation. If u need a amateur radio licence in mostly cases (specialy in Latin America) u have start a process not so easy. but if u want family contact u may pay for local VHF frecuency (comertial use).

Aeronca1, Okay then...how does Marian Hossa, another ex-Senator, fit into your anti-Eurocentric paradigm? Lest you forget, he signed a big-money contract (twelve years) and plays for the (GASP) Blackhawks?

Aeronca, Don't be shy, my friend. Tell me how you really feel...:icon_lol: P.S. - Switching sports allegiances based on frustration is a shame. It's kind of like getting caught cheating on your wife/girlfriend or being busted in a really bad lie. You really can't be trusted again to be genuinely sincere for a long, long time.

Hey guys, Now that I was able to get Tobob's landclass and scenery modifications working properly, I am building sub pens and facilities at St. Nazaire and Trondheim. When constructing these facilities, I am using the building objects found in the La Rochelle scenery package. http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/local_links.php?action=jump&catid=45&id=4071 The problem is that at least a couple of the damage profiles appear to be flawed, in that they do not generate .cdp files. This means that in Mission Builder, I can build the scenery, but I cannot fly over it to test and examine it, because when I try to fly a sample mission where I have the scenery, the mission will not load because it cannot generate the needed .cdp files, so it just sits there and does nothing. Specifically, it's the tb_build3.dp that gives me the most trouble, though I'm wondering if there are others as well.

Feliz cumpleaños!!:salute::salute::unitedstates::uruguay: :icon29::icon29:

238 years old today, the Army that is!

Finn, Geographically, you're right. The British used Bermuda as a training/practice area for the Fleet Air Arm, well away from the carnage of Europe. Tobob made this scenery for me when I revamped the campaign in 2011, and because the training exercises took place in 1940, I include it in my Early European Theatre of Operations. (1939-1942) Tobob, Regarding Bermuda, I'm having a problem. For all your ETO sceneries except Bermuda, I have placed the flattens in the Scenedb\World\Scenery folder and have gotten the desired results. This includes the Bermuda land and water flattens. When I put the watermask files in the correct folders as instructed for Bermuda, the result is what you see depicted on the second shot. When I place the flattens in the Scenedb\World\Texture folder and then put the Bermuda watermask in with the rest of the Bermuda scenery, the result is shown on the left picture. Oddly, what is wrong in the first configuration gets corrected through the other configuration. Any ideas?

Thank u Allen, is a pity that i have not enough time for gMAX but your contribution is valuable .

Graham u are welcome! Huub thanks for share your work! Cheers Mario

TW, That's not even the half of it...they used the following as major types... Gloster Gladiators, Hawker Hurricanes, Fiat G-50 Freecias, Morane-Saulnier Ms-406s, Messerschmitt Bf-109s, Brewster Buffaloes, Curtiss P-36 Hawks, Fokker DXXIs, a plethora of repainted, captured Russian types, Bristol Blenhiems, Dornier Do-17s, and Junkers Ju-88s. In short, the Finns became the airborne version of the Salvation Army in World War II. And they were dammed successful! P.S. - Although this has never been documented, bear in mind that the Russians used lend-lease American and British fighters, so the potential existed for dogfights between Curtiss P-36 Hawks (Finnish) and P-40 Kittyhawks, (Russian) or Hurricanes (Finnish) against Hurricanes. (Russian) Brewster Buffaloes could have also fought Russian Hurricanes or P-40s, if you really want to throw your mind for a loop.

Typhoon Willy, Take a look at this screen, my friend. The first picture represents where the countries are. The second depicts what you would need to do for the end of the Polish campaign, to have Germany and the USSR fighting on the same side against Poland. The final pic represents what you would need to do to have Finland and the USSR fighting on the same side against the Germans. It's all done through mission builder, you would not need to alter any aircraft. As I said, it can be done on a per-mission basis. You'd think after a full day off the hockey malaise would be behind you...lol :icon_lol: