Replacement bomb for Luftwaffe V1.0
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Hi,

I finally made it, a little bomb for the Luftwaffe planes of EAW, carried by the famous Stuka.

It's relatively complicated to implement new weapons to EAW. So I recommend to do the changes described next only if you are familar with the EAW files and Hex-editing.
The following files need to be changed:


weapons.dat: (1st group of records)
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1B01 0300 0100 0004 0000 FFFF 410A 0000 8B02 3600 0000 0000
^    ^

In this example I used the '20lb incendiary' weapon slot (1B) and let this slot take the ord03.3dz (03) as in game weapon graphics. The rest of the values are the weapon characteristics. Ord03.3dz has to be copied into your EAW directory. Normally this 3dz is not used by EAW, so there shouldn't be any problems using it.


Loadout.dat:
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Please see Charles' EAW Notes how to make your plane carry that new bomb. One entry for the Stuka (Plane Slot 1B) could look like this:

1B00 0400 
1B02 0101 1000 0000 
1B02 0102 1000 0000 
1B02 0104 2000 0000 
1B02 0105 2000 0000 
0000 0000 0000 0000

It makes the Stuka carry 4 of the new bombs. It's a bit confusing cause the Ju 87 uses the EAW Plane slot 1B but our new bomb uses the EAW weapon slot 1B. So the very first 1B means the Ju 87 and the other four 1B mean the new bomb.


Weapons.str:
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Now we want the right name for the bomb to appear in game. So this file has to be edited. Do this best with the str-file-convertiung utility that is available at various places.
To follow my example you have to substitute the string '20lb incendiary' by the name of the bomb, whatever you like.

Last but not least don't forget to give you squadron a fair amount of the new bombs for your campaigns (SQ****.dat).

Ok, I hope you like this little addition.
Greetings,
Andy.

andy@wiesel-network.de

(26.03.2002)