Aircraft Discussion

[Darkhunter]

Originally Posted by dd149

RA team is planning playable Bréguet Atlantic aircraft for the next release (1.35).

That's cool, look forward to it.


Guys, I downloaded DWEdit and have been fooling around with that. It seems pretty easy to do most of the changes I want to make, except I cannot figure out how to get the model changed. Can someone assist? I'm just trying to take the P-3 Orion model and replace with F-14 Tomcat. So far:

1. Went to "p-3 orion" in object editor, then went to "link to 3DObject" and changed all the low, medium, and high models to the respective F-14 Tomcat models. This is what it looks like:



It appears that's all I need to do from what I've read, but it doesn't work. I tried linking it with multiple entity dialogs but that didn't seem to work either. Should I be changing something with the object dialog? Am I even changing the models correctly? I'm likely missing something obvious, just can't figure it out.

Could use some guidance. Thanks

Edit 1: Appears Entity Dialog is strictly used for naming ships. Should not affect model.

Edit 2: I'm running the newest Lwami, could that perhaps be the problem? My game now crashes if I run stock DW -- error happens before intro starts.

Edit 3: Going to try replacing model on a fresh 1.04 install of DW and see if same problem persists.

[Darkhunter]

I reinstalled fresh DW 1.04, tried replacing the Orion model with the Tomcat model and now it works (although weapons are misplaced). The weird thing is now I have to run everything via Administrator for it to work properly. Does anyone know why? My account has administrative privileges but for some reason DWedit and (now) DW don't work properly without running as admin.

If I don't run as admin I get an "Error 13018 occurred with game data base" at screen startup. When I run as admin, everything works properly.

Furthermore, if I revert all the changes I made in DWedit to create a "stock" DW game data base, I still have to run the game via admin to avoid the error. Anyone know why?

Edit: Wow, just enabled LWAMI mod and ran DW as admin and the Tomcat now shows up. Just wasted hours last night doing the right thing, only to have it appear incorrect due to not running as admin.