Hi all,
AoE is ready and you can download it.
All multiskin aircraft are available, for everyone, to improve EAW version 1.60.
For personal problems, I did not have time to make any further changes to the game, but correcting some errors I found in some skins, I noticed that the game is quite stable with rare CTDs.
Remember to visit the EXTRAS directory where you will find the instructions both in Italian and of course in English.
The terrain is the default one and I have not added any objects in HD. This is something that can be done in the future, but I think it would be better to go from version 1.28C to version 1.60.

I hope you enjoy

Links:

https://www.moddb.com/games/aces-over-europe/downloads/aces-over-europe

This looks fantastic Modred! Thank you so much for all of the time and effort you've put into this mod. Can you tell me more about what the mod does to EAW? Super curious to try it out!

Cheers!

Thanks, Modred. It's great to have fresh material. Looking forward to giving it a go.

Thanks Modred looking forward to taking it for a fly,,One question is it stand alone or does it go over a clean 1,2 or 1.28 install?? OK I see i's got a 1.28c label in the corner/

I wish that you had sent me a copy before releasing it. The RAF selection screen has a photo of a Lancaster CF-Y PB154. The crew shown is not the one of my uncle's, but he and the rest of his crew were killed in that very plane on November 4th 1944

Running windows 10 and using the desktop shortcut gives me the startup screen but no mouse cursor. I cannot select anything.
Checking I find that the link is to the "aoe.exe" file. Even if the mouse worked that program could not be used online because the EAW multiplayer code demands that the exe is an "eaw.exe".
There is a 1.28C "eaw.exe" in the folder that works.

I have copied and pasted the entire folder into another location, and I will uninstall AOE in line with many recommendations of not having versions of EAW installed in the C://programs folder.

Jel

I have it running using a "Dir.set" file and a tidy installation in my 640x480 1.28E folder.



This allows me to do more things, such as having a "seasons" folder and not having the default terrain:

I now have it running with a planeset in the 640x480 version of 1.29





I miss the ability to set mission dates and times in line with sunrise or sunset in other versions.
You can do it in this version

I'm sorry, Jel, but I know the story because I read it when you published it. By inserting the photo you published, I thought of honoring in some way those men who died for freedom. Above all, photography is very touching (for me).

regards

I could not test the game with Win10 because I do not have that operating system.
Anyway, I put in the root directory AOE.EXE and EAW.EXE for a simple reason. AOE.EXE is for offline play and EAW.EXE is for online gaming (Gameranger). Clearly when I prepared the installation file I thought about playing offline and then I created a path connected to AOE.EXE.

But at least you like it a little?
At least the planes ...

I like it, apart from that photo
I will set-up the special 1.29 folder and send you a link so you can see for yourself. The planes I have seen look good
Heading to Lyon and then to the snow tomorrow, and i will be away for about 10 days.

Thanks

good holidays

I have sent you a PM with a link in it

Thanks

Modred..installed flawlessly on my Win7 64 bit. Many thanks also for the extras folder

Tried 2 missions and a campaign flight all were excellent. Thanks pal

Screenies gentlemen.

Just one for now
This is the 1.29 version with the seasonal terrain running:


Would anyone like the 1.29 version?
Send me a PM and I will give you a link

Jel

A number of people have asked for the 1.29 version, so here is the set-up using the "DSP128-9.exe"



Make sure you select "Modred's Aces over Europe". This bring sup the planeset list and you need to select "1" so that the planeset number is edited into the "eaw.ini" file.
If you have done that correctly the list of aircraft will be shown as in the screenie, and you can click "fly"


EDIT:

In the "eaw.ini" file you will find this in the [EAW] section

OldStyle=0

If the value is "1" the traditional 1.2 style selection screens appear, but if it is "0" the newer 1.28 series selection screens appear with just Allied and Axis
This applies to the 1.28c version too.
The reason that I mention it is that I just tried the 1.29 version after clicking "Use the default EAW aircraft". This sets the planeset to zero, and uses the default skins and FMs from the CDFs
I was able to make a more accurate aircraft selection with "OldStyle=0" because the correct names appear. Otherwise the aircraft names are coming from Modred's menu files for the "PicPln" screens, and some do not match the default aircraft names.

Jel

Thanks very much Modred and Jel,appreciated guys.

Hello
I haven't had time yet To try version 1.29 ....

Online with the 129 version at GameRanger as "Hector"

Oh my, nice screen shots gentlemen.

Modred, wonderful news that new campaigns continue, BRAVA!

P.S. if you are thinking about the East, let me know I've done a wee bit of research on the Red Airforce. They need some better models though.

Modred, meravigliosa notizia che continuano le nuove campagne, BRAVA!

Post scriptum se stai pensando all'Est, fammi sapere che ho fatto un pochino di ricerche sulla Red Airforce. Hanno bisogno di alcuni modelli migliori però.


Mr. Jelly, please put a 1.29 copy in my folder at the FTP. Thank you.

I am away in Lyon and heading to the Alps in half an hour, so I cannot upload the file to the Gen server.
However, you can download it from here:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/0s01vcvlqqw4h57/AcesOverEurope129.exe/file

Jel

I'm sorry, but at the moment I do not have much time because I have some commitments.
The next objective could be to realize a multiskin for the B24 ...

Mariano , Brava .........ti dice ......spero di incontrarti anche in altri cieli ( blitz oppure il2 stalingrad ) . Comunque almeno ti posso chiedere aiuto nella nostra lingua , perche l'inglese non lo intendo molto. questa aces over europe 129 , va installata sopra a quella originale del cd oppure é una versione a se ? Grazie per l' aiuto.

Merci mon amie..

Got it, enjoy Lyon.


Modred',

I understand time and the way it slips away. I never seem to have enough even though I am semiretired. I am working with Rotton50's B-24D as a side project while working on a few skins for Mogggy. I am "correcting" the models nose (tex.tpc) and putting the correct panel lines ect. and will have it finished by March.

B24-D-1 'Wham Bam' formation ship 453rd Bomb Group



If you would like a copy of this model send me a PM and I will send it to you

I send to you an Private Message (PM)

Great Work

Just to clear things up because I've been accused of stealing other people's work, none of the models attributed to me are mine.

In some case I polish up older models by using more nodes to make edges rounder, some I convert to empty "F" models to improve their look or add new bits, like the B24J nose turret and some I use as the bases for different planes like converting the P-47 into the P-72 or the Hurricane into the MB152.

After 20 years of EAW, I think we all should not be there thinking this is mine and this is yours ... rather center the goal of improving the game for the good of all.
I too have modified other aircraft and as far as I am concerned, all the changes I have made are free for everyone.
Thanks to all the modders for 20 years of beautiful changes

I am away in the Alps, not far away from Italy but with a dodgy internet connection at this altitude

Ray,

Possession is 9 tenths of the law...

It came from your Med Set without a readme so, as last known owner...






I just wanted to say where I got the model Ray, you know me, heaven is in the details...


Modred, you would not want Michelangelo's 'David' attributed to Mario Brava. We give away our work but, do desire for credit for the effort. I put a readme.txt in my stuff that gives the provenance of each base model.


From my B17F 100th Bomb Group multi-skin set....

"Read.Me

Credits. Big thanks go to -
Col. Gibbon for the original HR-B-17 3dz, and for some of it's textures.
+mia for the use of some textures, and the BUMP I needed to finish this.
Mosi for another timely BUMP,
Illu for the radio wire idea,
Charles, Andy + Pobs for the transparent shadow idea.
Sandbagger (in advance!) for hosting the skin.
RAF Dumoulin for putting me onto the book named below.
Mr Johnson for discovering how to fix the HR engine shutdown issues.
3dz mods, skin, and base model readme John "Chompy" Masters

100th Bomb Group skins "Iron Mike" P January, 2010

"The Bloody Hundredth"

May 1943 - October, 1944
B17F and B17G"

We have an unspoken rule here that you give credit to those who's work you are using, modding and/or improving to create a bit for EAW. Recognition is the price we ask for use of our stuff, nothing more.

If you look at my old Talley-ho page I did give credit to original producers.

I stopped using Talley-ho a long time ago and started using aircraft packages tailored to the 1.6 line. The method Jel and I worked out was for me to assemble the packages and upload them to the GEN's server. He then assembles the packages and issues them with whenever the next exec gets issued.

The point is, there is no mechanism to include credits for individual aircraft.

The only reason I brought it up is that there have been scurrilous accusations made about it and I wanted to nip them in the bud.

I'm not going to expand on the details and I'm not going to make any further comments.

I understood, thanks

Modred, great work.! Thank you for your effort.


OK one and all !


Thanks Ray, Frenchie looks great!

And, I haven't sent anything to Tally-Ho in a bit, BUT, I am thankful that it still exists. I look at it 3-4 times a week. And, I still have skins that I haven't published.

Very nice work Modred..Benn flying it for a few days,,One thing I found in the 109 G-6 L4 and the regular 109 G-6 when I look to the sides in the cockpit there's a red diagonal line upper right to lower left ,,In the L-6 it's a bit heavier than the other 109 Tried D3D and Glide same thing all the other planes are fine,,Not a game breaker but it's there..Thanks for any replies

Russ, these red lines are present in the G6's of other planesets, though not always so prominently, so I'd assume they're intentional.

Thanks SkyHigh..Never saw them before I fly mostly EAWPRO and a modded 1.29 and don't see them there but this is from my 1.29 install flying BOB

Might be dive angle lines put there on purpose.

BTW, in 1.6 the offset cockpits for those early 109's have been corrected so that the prop is back in the center view.

Could be Ray ..I've seen them in Stukas or an SBD Dauntless in IL-2 but never in a 109..Not a big thing just wondered why they were there I rarely do ground work in a 109 and then usually rockets

Russ,

that 1.29 pit is pretty screwed m8. Dunno what happened there but the left 1/2 is not reading the appropiate drawing for that cockpit. The color difference between the two halves suggests it's not even the same plane. Such errors are often the result of mixing addons and reslotting planes but can also be an error in the 3DZ model itself. It's all to easy in EAW to mess things up. Try a reboot before playing the game, perhaps it solves the issue when the texture pointer was inadvertently corrupted by something.

VBH

Russ the cockpit in the 1.6 version works perfectly and has all the improvements I've added, such as larger gauges, the aforementioned prop reposition and moving controls.

It wouldn't take but a couple of minutes to convert it back to the slotted version for 1.29.

Let me know if you want to proceed.

Reboot didn't help but solved the problem ..The only 106 that has that issue is the 109 for JG-26 checked the rest of the theaters and they are all fine,,solution just don't fly for JG-26..One other small issue has popped up,,no matter what i set the time of day to dawn,,day most missions start at night but exit and run quick start and it's day time..Just a few small things I've found

What Russ had loaded to get that screenshot I have no idea.
I have tried both of the G6s in Modred's original, and in my 1.29 conversion of it, and the cockpit instrument screen view is fine.
However, looking sideways I see the red line in both 1.28c and 1.29

I would add that on this laptop I need to run DXWnd and nGlide in order to fly EAW

Jelly I loaded the exe from the link in this post this post to the July 2016 1.29 exe
http://SimHQ.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/4453472/older-installations-at-mediafire#Post4453472

I find that the red lines are in 1.60 as well, but thinner. To me, they look like they're meant to be there.

Most of the 160 files were once 1.2 files, so many things remain from their origin.

Hi guys
I thank everyone for the compliments, which I did not expect.
I hope you can have fun with this mod.

bye

Rotton50 is correct about the lines. They are for dive bombing...

good enough Mike i just never saw them before and never did any dive bombing in a 109 just a JU-87 and they usually have the angle indicators on the left window at least in IL-2

Ah, but EAW replicates the historical more accurately than other sims. Let's go dive-bomb. Does the dive-brake function work on 109's, or did they even have this in reality?

Are the lines historically accurate or a modification for the pilot..I find it hard to believe some of the more graphic sims put them in a JU-87 and not in a 109 and to me it was primarily a front line fighter

No real dive brakes on a 109. Just used the stock air frame with a belly bomb shackle added.

Which version of 109G is giving the cockpit issue?

Is it one of mine?

It is possible that the cockpit instrument panel for the G6 model was been mixed with that of a different mark. The 3dzs are interchangeable but do not look or act the same within the different models in use with EAW.

I do not remember any issues with the G6 series skins. Later models yes, but not the Gs.

Mike It's a 109 E/JG26 that's in a EAW 1,29 from July 2016 using the Mos Squad BOB theater..Small issue all the other planes are fine and i decided to just dump it plenty of other things to fly and Modreds AOE is feeling good

OK thanks. That 109 isn't one of mine.

Problem located and solved.
It was OK in 1.28c but in the conversion to 1.28e something went awry with the "p109e" skin files.
The skin files should not have been modified, but the screen and menu files needed to be replaced with the 1024x768 versions, hence the need for a conversion. The 1.29F and 1.29 installations inherited the fault.
I copied them from the 1.28c and pasted them into the 1.29 version, and it fixed the problem.

The net is so slow here that I cannot upload pics to MediaFire to show another problem.
There appears to be another fault in the cockpit view of this 'plane (109E slot Mod Squad BoB) which is there in 128c and 1.29.
If you look right or left to see the wings there is a small black/grey disk on the wing gun barrel.
It is there in both Glide and d3d
It is not there in the external view from F9

I managed to get the pic uploaded


What surprises me is that until Russ posted his picture a few days ago these faults with the 1.28e.....129 versions of this skin have never been reported

Jel

thanks Jelly at least I now know something isn't amiss here

That's not an error. It is a knob to open and close the side windows.




FWIW, I ran the 109 Jg26 from the 1.6 planeset that duplicates the original BOB.

No red line and no garbled cockpit.

Good

Which planeset is it ?

However, in this plane there is no red line in 1.28c or 1.29.
The ones with the red line are the 109G-6 and the109G-6/U4 multiskins in Modred's planeset.

It is planeset "1940 original". It replicates the ModSquad's BOB with the addition of an Italian plane in the final slot.

I'll check the 109G's to see if the problem exists in the 1.6 sets.

I managed to get the "red line" pic uploaded

Need to look at the v.tpc file. That's usually the texture for both sides of the cockpit. If there's red line somewhere on the texture my guess is the original producer meant it to be there.

Personally, it look to me like it is deliberate, not some anomaly.

I agree. Things that are ordered, regular and symmetrical are not accidents of chance. This is supported by the specificity of the phenomenon to certain marques of aircraft. They don't look 'wrong', so it's very unlikely they are.

"specificity of the phenomenon"

Great name for a rock band, that's all I got to say.

Better title for a rock band from the vinyl record age. Compact discs wouldn't be big enough.

This is an angle of dive indicator

Having returned safely from an enjoyable week of snow in the Alps I have converted Modred's skins and FMs to 160 format.
I now have a planeset made, but it uses the default hangar screen as I am not prepared to convert the 640x480 screens.
From his comments he had not modified the default 1.28c theatre, so I have been testing it with the ETO default theatre loaded.
It seems to be working well. Let me know if you want the files to try

Here is a link to the download:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/251o9q5ktuab1wz/ModredAOE160PS.exe/file

Run it in your UAW160 folder. It will add Modred's skins and FMs to your "Aircraft_Inventory" and a "81-ModredAoE" file to your "Planesets" folder.

When selected I recommend using the default ETO theatre.

One fault I have found is that in the RAF Mustang III the cockpit needles are not in the right places.
This goes back to Modred's 1.28c installation, and possibly to Emil's original.
As I mentioned previously the default 1024x768 hangar screen is used for all of the aircraft. I also run with "NoMinipics" as they have not been separated.

Edit

Today is Mardi Gras and the old file at MediaFire has been replaced with a better one. The new one has the Mustang III cockpit gauge needles displaying properly, and all the flyable planes have their own hangar screens, many of which came from Ray's folders

March 6th: Overnight something went wrong with the download posted yesterday. I have replaced the file at MediaFire and obtained a new link
In a later post in this thread there is a link to a download of the AoE160 theatre which can be used instead of the default ETO one.

Jel

Thank you.

I have just made a simple theatre for AoE 160 which uses all of the files in the 1.28c version that are compatible with 160. I will post a link once I have tested it further

Here is the link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/b7i6raspmsb7a11/ModredAOE160Theatre.exe/file
Run the downloaded 7-Zip file in your UAW160 folder as usual

Jel

For all users.

There is probably an easy fix.

First make a copy of the entire MustangIII skin folder and just leave it there. This way if my advice doesn't work ou can just delete the folder and rename the copy.

The navigate over to a folder in Aircraft_inventory that contains the skins for one of the P-51B's or D's. Copy the files, Pla_VIEW.cpt and VCGplane.dat and paste into the MustangIII skin folder. One or the other should fix the problem. I don't know which because I haven't looked at this addon.

If that doesn't do it, it's simple enough to go back and do the same thing but also copy the PLANEX.tpc and PLANEX.3dz, which are the actual gauges, the same way.

All four files from your P-51B fixed the problem for me

Thanks for confirmation on the files and for showing the power and convenience of the 1.6 slotless file system.

Agreed.
It was sheer stupidity when people argued and even campaigned about the establishment of the slot-free system.
Their only argument was that they could not test their skins in the root folder. It was not valid because they could make their skins and test them as usual in the root folder using 1.28e...1.29.
Once the skins were ready they could send them to me for conversion, or learn to use the converter software themselves.
There was nothing stopping them from making and testing them in the first place.

The benefits are enormous. We now have a massive Aircraft_Inventory, which will grow even larger, and many planesets already set-up for people to use.
EAW is a game and you play games for fun. I have no problems in running the DAW theatre with one of the SPAW planesets, and enjoying my flights. Of course, this never happened historically, but it is enjoyable. If a player only wishes to fly in more historical scenarios they are still free to select a theatre plus an appropriate planeset.

Jel

Or...................they can take 10 minutes and learn to build their own plane sets.

As to the testing of models, I do it a little different because I like to stay in 1.6.

First I pick a plane set. Doesn't matter for the most part which one but it's best to select one that has a mix of aircraft types, like fighters, attack and level bombers.

Then I navigate over to an appropriate skin folder that is listed in that plane set. By appropriate I mean:

1 - Axis, Allied
2 - Fighter, Attack, Bomber
3 - Number of engines.

I copy it and then erase all the files in the original.

Next I copy in the files from the plane I'm working on and get to work.

When the game runs I see what I've done.

Once the model is done I do exactly the same thing with the flight data.

Once that's complete I rename the folders to match the new plane's designation and then rename the copied folder to the original.

Easy Peasy. Take five minutes to understand.

There is a replacement download for the original version here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/e4h6w4ohxx3z7hg/ModredAOE160PS.exe

The old file has been replaced at MediaFire, so at this juncture anyone downloading it will get the new one anyway
As usual run it in your UAW160 folder but let it overwrite existing files.
The difference between the old and the new is that the Mustang III cockpit has been fixed, and all the flyable planes now have their own hangar files

Jelly It still says the file is being up loaded after 4 hours ??

It was working but something must have gone awry. I deleted the old file from MediaFire and uploaded a replacement.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/251o9q5ktuab1wz/ModredAOE160PS.exe/file

I will test this link as soon as I have made the post

It worked and took a couple of minutes to download here

Thanks jelly it's good now

Are you using it with the AoE theatre?
Let us know how it goes

yep Jelly tried out the AOE theater and it flies good,,i like the thinner dive indicator lines..getting mid 40'2 with 20 planes in my flight and it flies smooth,,just hope i have all the changes updates in correctly..Just can't figure out how to change the seasons..

You can change the day, month, hour, and minute by clicking on the value





The seasonal terrain used depends on the date

I often set the mission time by looking at the sunrise and sunset values to get those early morning or late evening screenies

Something so obvious and I totally missed it,,Thanks

It has been there since 1.28F

Ok just didn't see it before,flown 1.29,,1,60 and Pro and only set the time of day to dawn,noon or dusk..guess an old dog can learn

Actually the day and month setting is in some 1.28e versions

If you want to try some more new tricks then check the 160 host-only thread

Modred, this is a fantastic edition, thank you! I have both your original from moddb and also the 1.60 add-on. Great stuff.

Mr. Jelly - any chance for an update to the 1.60 addon that includes the new B25 "Mitchell II" addon and fixes released March 17? (and thanks so much for your work with 1.60 )

Thanks Redwolf

A variation


Modred provided his 1.28c installation as a complete standalone folder.
It is a folder with over 10000 items, which makes it difficult to find a particular file.



It also gets installed which can potentially cause "ini" file problems with later operating systems. There are plenty of warnings suggesting that people should copy "installed" folders, paste them elsewhere and then uninstall the installation.

The structure does not allow for some key features of 1.28c which is the "Dir.set" system, and seasonal terrains.

A "1.28c_JellyPack" has been available from MediaFire for some time, so I added Modred's game to it, made a "Dir.set" file and included the seasonal terrains.

This is a screenie of the folder and you can see the AoEGame folder


This is the AOEGame folder:


...and this is a text conversion of the "Aces over Europe" file in the "DirSets" folder which is copied and pasted into the root folder as the "Dir.set" file when the player selects "Aces over Europe" using the "DirSetExeManagerV5.exe":

AoEGame
3dz-tpc
Data and strings
FM
Music
PicMenu
savedata
snd
Sprites
NULL


Using the "DirSetExeManagerV5.exe" I can select Modred's game and fly it, with seasonal terrains.












Jel

Can I play aces over Europe with the default eaw planes set? Is it made or applicable

Sorry, but that's not possibile. AOE was designed for the 1943-1945 historical period.

i love playing 1.28c_jellyPack thank you Mr. jelly I really appreciate
i don't' have 1941 Peral harbor in my game
could i play the default game of EAW in 1.28c_jelly pack? if yes how

I will see what I can do