[JG54Spookie]

Hi Spookie

I like a lot your MOD, but one thing I do not like too much.

When flying with a German plane in 1944, for example an Fw-190A8, the plane shows the same markings, than a plane in early 1940/41. I refer to the Balkenkreutz and the Hakenkreutrz, and this is not historically correct.

The MatManager for example have markings for the diferents different times of the war.

Another thing is that the numbers of aircraft in the same squadron or flight, to be in order (1,2,3,4 etc) again, instead of random.


We can fix this somehow????


This is no criticism of your magnificent work, only a single request

Sorry my poor english :oops:

Your English is plenty fine my friend, so don't worry. :wink:
About the later Fw-190s, it is possible to use later markings just like MAT manager lets you. Unfortunately, other aircraft (like the Bf-109E) also use the same early-style Balkenkreuzen, so replacing them would leave late war markings on early war planes. This is also what MAT manager does when you select the year for your markings. You can manually change which markings are used by renaming any of the Balken.TGA files in the German folder if you want. Balken0 being the pre-war style, Balken1 being 1940-42, balken2 1942-44, and balken3 1944-45. Many Fw-190s did use early style markings even as late as 1944, which I think is why Oleg's team programmed them that way. However, I agree that an A-8 should not have 1940 markings.
Now, as for the random numbers, I think MAT manger just replaced 1,2,3,etc with numbers like 9,5,7,etc. The numbers weren't actually random, rather the TGA of a number like 8 or something had the file name for the number 1. So, the game would load "1" but it would actually be an "8". That's my understanding anyway. So, theoretically, one could just rename the number files to put them in any order they wanted and get basically the same result. I should try to investigate this. Anyway, I hope my answer was not too long and complicated
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