Hello,
Could I please get help adding this plane:
I have never added a plane before and I am stumped in trying to add this plane to play Battleaxe 4.
I have a working copy of DBW 1.71 and have added Battleaxe 4 successfully and it will run, but of course without the Ba65 it defaults to a different plane, so no fun in that!
Here are the details. If the answer to my question is in a comprehensive post here at SAS somewhere else please just point me to it with a link. I have been using the search function for 3 hours and can't find an overall explanation.
When I run Battleaxe 4 I get the message "Air Class air.Ba65AA doesn't exist in your IL2 game so another plane will be substituted."
So I followed the instructions in the OP of this thread to add the Ba65 and did this:
In order to add the 7 aircraft, add to the air.ini file:
Ba65A80ArconeL air.Ba65AA NOINFO i01 SUMMER
Ba65K14ArconeL air.Ba65AK NOINFO i01 SUMMER
Ba65A80TurretM air.Ba65TA NOINFO i01 SUMMER
Ba65K14TurretM air.Ba65TK NOINFO i01 SUMMER
Ba65A80Monoplace air.Ba65AM NOINFO i01 SUMMER
Ba65K14Monoplace air.Ba65KM NOINFO i01 SUMMER
Ba65K14BiplaceEarly air.Ba65KB NOINFO i01 SUMMER
If you want, you can after that add to the plane_ru.properties file the following lines:
Ba65K14ArconeL Breda 65 K14 Arcone L, 1936
Ba65A80ArconeL Breda 65 A80 Arcone L, 1936
Ba65K14TurretM Breda 65 K14 Turreta M, 1936
Ba65A80TurretM Breda 65 A80 Turreta M, 1937
Ba65A80Monoplace Breda 65 A80 Monoposto, 1937
Ba65K14Monoplace Breda 65 K14 Monoposto, 1936
Ba65K14BiplaceEarly Breda 65 K14 Biposto, 1936
The add to the ru.properties file sounds optional "If you want" so I tried it both with and without the add to the ru.properties file.
I also followed the instructions in the Battleaxe 4 readme file below:
3. Skins: With this campaign comes 7 skins, that comes zipped. If you follow these instructions, you can get them all installed AUTOMATICALLY in the right folders, without any hassle! Right Click on the zip file (aircraft_skins.zip) and choose the alternative "Extract to..." Then locate where your IL-2 programme is installed and choose the "Skins" folder (The usual path is "IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\PaintSchemes\Skins\"), click on "Extract" and - hey presto - all the skins should land in their proper folders.
and the skins have indeed landed in their proper folders.
But after all of the above, DBW won't load. It simply quits at about 70%.
When I look at the Ba65 folder and subfolders that come in the zip file I see the following structure:
Ba65
3DO
Arms
2KgBombletF
2KgFragIt
2KgIncIt
Spezz_56
Cockpit
Ba65A
Ba65K
Plane
Ba65a
Summer
Most of the folders above contain many files. A few are empty parent folders with the files contained in the subfolders below them. In all, between parent and subfolders there are several hundred files and I have no idea where to place them and I'm assuming their absence is why DBW won't load after modifying the air.ini as described above. By simply unzipping the file in any single location they don't autoinstall, but rather unzip in the structure shown above wherever I aim the unzip.
Could someone please explain or show me where to find instructions on the location to add these files. I can edit text files using Notepad and am fairly proficient in doing this sort of thing, but I have no idea where to place everything.
Thanks so much for your help. I think with help on this Ba65 I will probably never have to ask this question again for any other plane.
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