[Willy]

2. How to change the name of an aircraft in the plane list.

For this we need to edit a file called "plane_ru.properties" that comes with the most exellent "sound mod" which you most likely have, latest version available here (The link is inoperative)

I'm unsure as to wheather this file comes with the "MOD Activator" found here (The link is inoperative) but either way as I mentioned above all needed files and folders are in the download at the start of this tutorial.

So with our text editor we need to open "plane_ru.properties" located in MODS/--whatever you called your soundmod--/i18n In my case this is D:\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\MODS\A1_BaseSoundMod93\i18n

Or if your still useing the "old" wrapper the path is Files/i18n/plane_ru.properties

Scroll to the plane whose name we want to change, for us it's "Rechkalov's P-39Q-15". N.B. unlike the "air.ini" file, the order of "plane_ru.properties" has no effect on anything and appears to have just been added to as IL2 developed.



Edit the right hand side entry, like this, N.B. you can name this as you please, I just went for a name that fitted in well with the others.



Save the plane_ru.properties file and fire up IL2 to see the results.



Job done, almost, part 3 to follow shortly :mrgreen: