[fabianfred]

I know someone asked about balloons in a post here..but I cannot find it...

..still no success at finding the skin to wipe out that german cross

BUT......if you have my damage mod installed....open com/maddox/il2/objects ..and open the technics.ini with Notepad...
right near the bottom are the balloons...

copy this line from the observation balloons

MeshBalloonSummer 3do/aeronautics/observballoon/live.sim

and use it to replace the MeshBalloonSummer line with the four heights of Barrage balloon above

this changes the balloon to the observation type...

[Bee]

Nice find

I wonder, is there a way to enlarge the balloons too? They seem awfully small.

[fabianfred]

I cannot even find them...to try and redo their skin

FC is good at the resizing thing

[spud]

heir.him seems to have the resizing in it. Scale set to "1" in most cases.

Not sure which sfs the balloons are in

[spud]

The observation balloon might be in a Class? Could it be because it does something as an observer?

[fabianfred]

Objects...which are static and have no parameters for movement or weapons etc....unlike static ships/armour... have no .him files

[lowfighter]

Fred if you extracted all 3do sfs then the balloons or at least some of them should be in 3do/aeronautics(I checked and I have some, not sure if all) . Theymust be somewere in the first 3do sfs's becuase the balloons came with first patches if not with v1.0. It would be nice indeed to have the cross deleted, or have a clone with deleted cross.

[fabianfred]

I can only find the barrage balloons...we need the observation balloons to delete the cross

[big_yamato]

Here ya go:

http://rapidshare.de/files/38477711/Ger ... n.zip.html

Its name is encrypted although the .tga file is not. All I did was adding the file extension behind the numbers. Tried to make few new skins for it but I dont have much time lately.

Anyway, I forgot the exact path, - where did it comes from. It could be from files.SFS or FB3DO-something.... Sorry

Edit:

PS: delete the .tga extension before you use it in-game.

[fabianfred]

thanks for that.......we now have balloon without markings....just need someone to enlarge it and make it a new object (FC..?? )...then I can delete the basket from the one to be a barrage balloon

[spud]

If the basket skin was made transparent would that work?

[fabianfred]

the basket is part of the same tga as the balloon......but in actual practise...the barrage balloons fly so high that the basket is not discerneable ...unless you fly right close to it for a look

[FA_Cheech]

Hate to be thick, but where, exactly, do we install the .tga file provided by big_yamato?

[fabianfred]

the tga file from Yamato.....can be opened in Photoshop or another photo editing program ...as I did....and you can see that I have wiped out the german cross..

then saved....and keeping the same filename....just delete the .tga in windows explorer.....ignore the warning about changing a file characteristics

make a new folder in your MODS folder and name it Balloons if you like....and put the file in there


I will send my edited one to my usual site for those without editing software.....

[Tigershark]

"I like bal-looons"













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