posted 04-20- 03:18 AM               

I had a few surprises (maybe I was the only one) which I have fixed.
A The Mitsubishi A6M5 was in the Germany list (?!?)
B instead of read Japan, Soviet Union or Italy, I read strJapan, strSovietUnion and strItaly.

Fixing A, here is what I did:
- A6M5 >
1 - edit its loadout.ppf,
2 - find the lines (at the top):
Parsoft Property File
(
descName "Mitsubishi A6M5"
descCountry 'strGermany
descPicture "GUI/Art/Hangar/Germany/a6m5/cutaway.bmp"
langBlock (
langUS (
descStats "GUI/Art/Hangar/Germany/a6m5/stats.bmp"
(...)
and replace them by:
Parsoft Property File
(
descName "Mitsubishi A6M5"
descCountry 'strJapan
descPicture "GUI/Art/Hangar/Japan/a6m5/cutaway.bmp"
langBlock (
langUS (
descStats "GUI/Art/Hangar/Japan/a6m5/stats.bmp"

3 - modify the langBlock depending of your own (mine is langFrench).

4 - create a new directory named "japan" within x:\Program Files\Fighter Squadron\Media\GUI\Art\hangar
5 - move the a6m5 from germany to this new directory

6 - Done! the A6M5 will be displayed in the Japanese hangar instead of the German hangar.

Fixing B
strJapan, strSovietUnion, strItaly
1 - Edit the StringTable.ppf
2 - Find your langBlock (depends of your own)
3 - Next the lines displaying the name of a country (ie Great Britain), type in this (again, depending of your language, here are the french names):
strJapan "Japon"
strItaly "Italie"
strSovietUnion "Union Soviétique"
4 - Done! Start SDOE and the real names will be displayed.

Bonne chance et bon vol !
Arrowbase

posted 04-20- 09:23 AM               

A. Mposis would want a version of his Zero out that was available on our download because #1- if Nations had not gone well, then people would have had all kinds of mismatches...and #2- we didn't want to take the Zero trafic away from mposis' site.

B. The mismatches thing-- it would have been chaotic if some had a Japanese Zero and others a German-- it was something that we hoped would be widely accepted, but were not arrogant enough to assume that it would be.

Thanks Arrowbase!

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posted 04-20- 09:46 AM               

Of course I could continue to live with these small things which aggravate the eyes, but as I have disengaged them, I thought that it was interesting for the community to make share the remedy. But once again, I am perhaps the only one at whom that arrive.
In any case, you make a super job!

posted 04-20- 12:27 PM               

I also had the same problems you described and after talking with Werner we were able to locate the reason.
The Nations addon is a great piece of work once you have it all.

You can get the missing files here http://www.3dgw.com/simfiles/scripts/singlefile.php3?fileid=78

posted 04-21- 07:39 PM               

I undertand problem A, but not quite problem B. When making the Nations StringTable, I looked up how to say Japan, Italy and Soviet Union in French, German and Italian.
I don't really understand what you've added, cause looking at my own StringTable (the first Nations beta StringTable), there's already the strJapan "Giappone" part (this is Italian ).

There must been some problems when building the final Nations pack in which I haven't been involved, cause my beta was working fine on foreign SDOE versions as far as I know.
Either way, I'm glad you've found the problem yourself.

posted 04-25- 04:51 PM               

Glad you fixed it, Arrowbase, and thanks for sharing.

Werner