http://cid-e196374a237958b4.office.live.com/browse.aspx/RBFILES/Revenge-of-the-Jastas?uc=12

Baron von Helton has given me permission to host a mirror download site for the RotJ files. All files are hosted at the link above, including all of the patches currently in existence.

If I could only mention one, and only one item that RotJ has that no other mod has is the non-mirrored aircraft. All airplanes (and there are a lot of them) can have distinct sides of their fuselage and upper lower wings, which in stock RB3D (and other mods) is not possible.

All files have a preceding number in front to give the order of their installation into the game. 00_RotJInstalReadMe is installation instructions from these pages and file list as I have renamed them (adding the numbers in the front).

The files are listed on SkyDrive which gives a few options on how to download.

#1 on http://cid-e196374a237958b4.office.live.com/browse.aspx/RBFILES/Revenge-of-the-Jastas?uc=12 moving the cursor over each Icon brings up a menu, in which one can find Download under More option.

#2 Click on the Icon you wish to download, it will bring you to a page with a larger icon of the file and a short description. Either click on the word Download or click on the Icon itself to download the file.

Thanks to Skidmartk for getting me the missing patch files

Enjoy and keep on flying.

Why does Von Helton need an alternate download site ?

ROTJ III is available at http://www.vonhelton.com with all it's patches, and the older versions of ROTJ are archived at http://www.redbaronplayers.net/uopmods1.htm

The four final patches:

2007-Object-Fix.zip
Salmson2A2.zip
RE8-Brisfit.zip
2007-Brick.zip

are all 404s

http://vonhelton.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=35

and the download page for the main RotJ only states the gunner fix is needed and that there are no other patches.

So what I did, with BvH's permission was put all the files in one, single place and named them so one can easily see what id the first file to install, the second file to install, the third file to install, and finally, the last file to install.

Just curious since that is what you are using: how does ROTj differ from vanilla (other then changing plane graphics without the mirror affect)? Does it use a historic flight and damage model? Are plane graphics modeled to history? I'm just trying to gauge if it is something I want to try. Maybe I should ask if there are any discussions on it that compare it to other mods like HASP.

RotJ has in it's favor, more aircraft then any other mod/UOP without using a date based patch. Baron von Helton through hook and crook** was able to open up more slots for airplanes then most people thought possible (** I really do not know how BvH did was able to add more airplnes, but "hook and crook" is such a great sounding cliche).

The base flight models are I believe PanamaRed's, but Greybeard has also created a much harder and "more realistic" flight model that is also available.

The paint schemes are just gorgeous for most of the airplanes, but from what i have seen of a number of other mods/UOPs, they all so have great paint schemes. the paint schemes are historical in where BvH could find a reference/image of the scheme, but also did artistic liberties where needed, such as puting an ace's paint scheme on an aircraft there is no reference for. Fopr example, Udet had LO! written on the side of his triplane, but RB3D will put him in a D7, so there is a D7 that has LO! painted on it.

My biggest complaint in RotJ is the cockpits, in that the static F1 view on some planes does not match the slewable mode view, especially the placements of the wings, however the only mod/UOP that ever addressed that correctly was Full Covered Jacket

Thanks; sounds like something I should try.

NP. While you are at it, you can go to the War Stories section of the forum and read all my RotJ inspired stories. :)

http://vonhelton.proboards.com/index.cgi

well .. perhaps I'll go in and replace the files and fix the links on www.vonhelton.com myself, can't seem to get a reply from von Helton .. ( I own the domain and host it on my webserver )

Thanks for the link.

Wailwulf, thanks for providing that mirror. Do you know if anyone has mirrored the Hell's Angels mod? All sites mentioning it point to one web site, which has apparently gone away.

What I'm hoping to find is something to make the ground terrain look better, as well as higher polygon models (especially for ground items).

Best terrains are Promised Land 1 and Promise Land 2.

PL1 uses a custom color palette, and therefore causes problems with some computers.( like my Win 7 machine, game crashes upon exiting a mission so can not save a campaign) But not everyone has that problem.

PL2 uses the stock color palette and is pretty ggod looking terrain. It's biggest problem is the tones are solid for the seasons. Spring/Summer is very green, Autumn is very Brown, and Winter is very White.

One place to find graphics and models is here:
http://www.flybert.net/aerocraft.htm
but it does take a bit to find things, even for me.
I do know Fly has a reduced version of PL1 somewhere on the site (reduced as in the terrain tiles are 128x128 instead of 256x256)

I do not know where to find PL1, especially the one Gump moddified (I feel is the best version), but I used to host PL2 until my ISP at the time got rid of personal webpages. However, where i actually kept the actual files to download is still up and you can get the zipped version here.
http://cid-e196374a237958b4.office.live.com/self.aspx/RBFILES/PL2PLv1.zip

Plane models are mostly by members of SWWISA o you can try Swwisa.net.

Sounds good. Thanks! I'll try those out.