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#3316999 - 06/12/11 10:33 AM Career Mode Virtual Squadmates.  
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Is there a way to assign pictures and personal skins to your virtual squadmates in Career Mode?
I have loads of pics, of fairly unknown German pilots, from Flieger album.de and could make a pack to be used in Career Mode right away...


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#3317035 - 06/12/11 12:57 PM Re: Career Mode Virtual Squadmates. [Re: elephant]  
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Hello Elephant,

I'm waiting for a "Pilot Picture Pack" in 256*256 *.dds, so please do it !

vschoell

#3317039 - 06/12/11 01:06 PM Re: Career Mode Virtual Squadmates. [Re: elephant]  
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This sounds like it could be cool

#3317041 - 06/12/11 01:07 PM Re: Career Mode Virtual Squadmates. [Re: elephant]  
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This sounds like it could be cool

#3317251 - 06/12/11 07:42 PM Re: Career Mode Virtual Squadmates. [Re: vschoell]  
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Originally Posted By: vschoell
Hello Elephant,

I'm waiting for a "Pilot Picture Pack" in 256*256 *.dds, so please do it !

vschoell


I'm up to 90 pilots and keep going... may be tommorow it will be ready...

Sorry but my archive is full of German pilots only...


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#3317258 - 06/12/11 07:50 PM Re: Career Mode Virtual Squadmates. [Re: elephant]  
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Great idea Elephant!

...my fellow guys never seem to stick around long enough to warrent getting a mug shot for each of them....

Not even a full week in on my career, and we've lost upwards of a dozen guys, only six of us on the active roster, with one or two sittin in the hospital I guess.

Really, gives me that feeling of the beginning of Flyboys when all the new guys reach the 'drome and are briefing with Capt. Thenault, and Reed Casidy lands and is a bit standoffish...

Fun stuff!!


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#3318335 - 06/14/11 07:34 AM Re: Career Mode Virtual Squadmates. [Re: elephant]  
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I gathered most of the German pilot pictures from my collection...
It's a pack of more than 350 historical pilots some well known, others not...
I don't know how to make use of these though...so that can be shown as your virtual squadmates.
For now you can put them in the custom avatars section:
\Rise of Flight\data\swf\avatars

http://www.mediafire.com/?wkrw7oz02b26sex

I could do it for the other countries as well...
I'm lacking of reference though!
Do you guys know any sites like Flieger Album.de for the other countries?


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#3318344 - 06/14/11 08:04 AM Re: Career Mode Virtual Squadmates. [Re: elephant]  
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I think you have to create this folder structure, and name the pilots like this:

<RoF>/data/swf/avatars/101/ace101_001.dds
<RoF>/data/swf/avatars/101/ace101_002.dds
...

<RoF>/data/swf/avatars/102/ace102_001.dds
<RoF>/data/swf/avatars/102/ace102_002.dds
...

<RoF>/data/swf/avatars/103/ace103_001.dds
<RoF>/data/swf/avatars/103/ace103_002.dds
...

<RoF>/data/swf/avatars/501/ace501_001.dds
<RoF>/data/swf/avatars/501/ace501_002.dds
...


where (from RoF wiki):

101:France
102:Great Britain
103:USA
104:Italy
105:Russia
501:Germany
502:Austro-Hungary

so you can create also the missing folders if you want (104, 105, 502) but they probably won't be used in the career yet.

EDIT: i don't know how to show them as your virtual squadmates, this makes it so you can choose the avatar for yourself.

#3318346 - 06/14/11 08:10 AM Re: Career Mode Virtual Squadmates. [Re: elephant]  
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Thanks for the info Laser! thumbsup
I have sent the pictures to Jason as well...


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#3318350 - 06/14/11 08:21 AM Re: Career Mode Virtual Squadmates. [Re: elephant]  
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Thanks for the pics smile

#3318382 - 06/14/11 09:51 AM Re: Career Mode Virtual Squadmates. [Re: elephant]  
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I think I gonna take pix of my friends and family and use those lol
Too bad we can't name them.


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#3318571 - 06/14/11 02:40 PM Re: Career Mode Virtual Squadmates. [Re: elephant]  
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And something on the light side now...
I was watcing again the pilots and found two look alikes with modern day actors.
Is it my eyes or you can tell the similarity too?

Richard Gere as Ritter Willhelm Poschinger:



And Rowan Atkinson as Alfred Schinzing
The other side of Black Adder!



WinkNGrin


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