Hello

I have seen that new aircraft are now usable in DGEN such as the Spit XII, the Typhoon ...

I would like to add to eastern front campaigns new aircraft from aviaskins, such as for instance the Yak_1PF in Stalingrad, but so far it failed.
Can someone explain me how to do, which file to modify and what modifications ?

Thank you in advance

Files to modify (XXY being the letters identifying the career, eg. CampaignsXXY.dat):

PlanesXXY.dat

NameofDBPlanes.dat (no need to modify the DB itself if you are OK with default skins)

ClassesXXY.dat: that is the key. You must assign a class (FIGHTER, GROUND, JABO, LIGHT, ALL) to the new slot plane in the ClassesXXY.dat file (if there is none, you must create one).

I believe that is all.

You can see examples in my RAF modded stuff, where this is done quite a lot.

Boelcke has also been applying this procedure for some time.

Thank you
I will check

What about the europlanes.dat ?

You also have to include entries for the new planes in the europlanes.dat file or in the map planes file (for example NormandyPlanes.dat), if such a file is used in the dgen campaign.

No need if - and you should - modify the NameofDBPlanes.dat. If such file does not exist, create one by copying the Europlanes.dat and renaming it to NameofDBPlanes.dat

Ok, it works

Thank you very much

One more question :


Does this mean that we must assign the new role in ALL ClassesXXY.dat in which the new aircraft may be involved (example : in all western front german campaigns, we must add the typhoon because it may be involved) or only in the campaigns in which we can fly this aircraft ?

Only in the careers where this aircraft is available, in any map data base used by such career (map data base DB file).

Sorry, just to clarify :

By "available", you mean "flyable" by the player, or present in any map of the campaign, whether flyable or not ?

it´s better to assign the planes in the classes file with "ALL" and assign its special role in the planesxyz.dat file, where you can "finetune" it much more

Present in any map, or in any NameofDBPlanes.dat file. Because of random flights...

So it is more systematic and therefore easier to add it to all classes files ?

Add it only to all classesXXY.dat files related to campaignsXXY.dat files calling map data bases using such new slots... No need to add unavailable planes for a given career into a classes file for such career, why tempting the devil?