Bomber Crew

[Jarhead0331]

^+1.

I'm also really enjoying it. I can see myself getting very attached to my crew.

Haven't lost anyone yet, but it is only a matter of time. Man...some of those missions get hairy!

[Barthheart]

I'm enjoying the hell out of this.  There's a fair amount of depth to it and even some nods to technical and historical authenticity (wing spar in the middle of the fuselage made traversing the bomber difficult).  I dug into the savegame file and found the parameters that let you alter race and gender so I could set up a more historically representative crew.  Fiddled with the .bmp files to see if I could upload proper liveries.  The files loaded fine but I need to fiddle with the sizes to get them to display properly.

Going to try to see if there's a way to change out the Kerbal-speak with proper voices next.

Can you change out the bobble heads?

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

^+1.

I'm also really enjoying it. I can see myself getting very attached to my crew.

Haven't lost anyone yet, but it is only a matter of time. Man...some of those missions get hairy!

I lost one due to my own stupidity.  I had my engineer out on my port wing, trying to put out an engine fire when I decided to try out my new steep dive skill....

And the engineer didn't have a parachute.  I got to watch him plummet next to my diving plane, about 10 metres out in front, arms flailing the whole way down.   Whoops....


No way to change out the bobbleheads that I know of Barth. 

[Jarhead0331]

^+1.

I'm also really enjoying it. I can see myself getting very attached to my crew.

Haven't lost anyone yet, but it is only a matter of time. Man...some of those missions get hairy!

I lost one due to my own stupidity.  I had my engineer out on my port wing, trying to put out an engine fire when I decided to try out my new steep dive skill....

And the engineer didn't have a parachute.  I got to watch him plummet next to my diving plane, about 10 metres out in front, arms flailing the whole way down.   Whoops....


No way to change out the bobbleheads that I know of Barth.

My crew are not yet equipped with parachutes either. They are lucky to have gloves, boots and oxygen.

[Philippe]

I dug into the savegame file and found the parameters that let you alter race and gender so I could set up a more historically representative crew. 

Exactly which files do you need to open for this, and does it only work on a saved game file or is there some way to do it on the base game before it launches?

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

The savegame file is on whatever your main drive is:

C/users/username/AppData/LocalLow/RunnerDuck/BomberCrew

It's called BCsaveslotV2_0.dat   (might be 3_0 now).  You can open it with notepad.

Start a game, get your crew assembled.  Rename them if you want, then save and exit.

If you want to change female to male, find and replace
"m_modelType":1,

with "m_modelType:0"


You can change the skin tone by altering the number at the end of this line

"m_skinTone:0"

The lower the number, the lighter the skin tone.  Not sure what the max number is.

[Philippe]

Many thanks.  You are a gentleman and a scholar.

(And Dhilip Banerjee is about to earn his wings).

[BanzaiCat]

Some missions are better than others...

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I was able to convert some roundels to .bmps but they lost a lot of resolution.

[Barthheart]

HA! Awesome.... I might have to get this now....

[fran]

UI noises could drive one crazy!

Sounds like kerbal gibberish

Would be good mod with some appropriate accents from the UK, but also commonwealth as well.

Not sure if the planes change, but would be good if there is B17.

In regard to the special missions, Dam busters, or Tirpitz mission comes to mind, and long range (day or night) missions to Germany with fighter escort.

So far enjoying it, done about 3 missions. Still struggling with the inside bomber/crew view, end up with close-up of the tail when I want to move the navigator at the front of the plane.

[Jarhead0331]

8 combat missions and still not a single casualty. Had some REALLY close calls, but the luck of the Runner Duck is holding.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I ran into my first night fighter equipped with Schräge Musik last night.  The bugger just parked underneath my plane in the gunner's blind spot and raked me with 20mm over and over.  Managed to throw him off with a few corkscrews and then the tail gunner nailed him but not before he'd set two engines on fire and hit my wireless operator.  Might have to invest in a ventral gun.

[BanzaiCat]

That pic I posted above was my 3rd mission. My Navigator got wounded and I wasn't aware and was wondering why the hell I couldn't find my way out of France. We were just wandering around for a while, getting shot the hell up by hordes of Me-109s. Finally figured out how to heal someone but by then it was way too late. I happened to zoom out to get my bearings and that's when the bomber started its plummet. Quite dramatic, that crash. :)

Got back to base and found ONE of my crew survived and was rescued; the rest were either KIA or MIA. So I started a new bomber crew naming them after GrogHeads forum members, and the bomber GrogHeads 2. That one probably will crash and burn too, at least until I can get a little more coordinated with the game.

[Philippe]

I was able to convert some roundels to .bmps but they lost a lot of resolution.

I'm unusually helpless when it comes to this game.  How do you go about modding it?  I've looked inside the game installation and didn't see anything that looked like a moddable bitmap?