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[Panthercules]

Given that many of the links to mods scattered throughout the Forums got broken during the transition to the new Forum platform and it may take a while for people to realize that and get their links updated in all the various posts, I thought I would go ahead and post here some working links to my copies of my favorite mods.  At least, I'm starting with my favorite ones because those are the ones that I happen to have working links for.  I may add more to this post as time goes by.  BTW, the RoFMods web site had some links to some other mods but that site is no longer working (at least for now).

 

While this is WIP the Mods may be listed in no particular order - I'll probably re-arrange the organization of them once I get some of the links posted, so bear with me.  Despite the presence of older version numbers in some of the names, I've tested most if not all these with 1.037 and they seem to be working.  Let me know if you detect any problems.

 

All these Mods are JSGME-ready - you can just unzip them into your MODS folder and activate them with JSGME.  

 

 

                                Panther's Favorite Mods

 

 

AI Pilots (Criquet Reflected Gavagai) for 1.033c:   http://www.mediafire...c_for_JSGME.zip

 

AnKor85's Terrain Bumpmapping for 1.032b: http://www.mediafire..._for_JSGME.zip 

 

Avatars for Career Mode:  http://www.mediafire..._for_JSGME.zip 

 

Avimimus_Flak_mod (Panther-tweaked)_1.031:   http://www.mediafire...aked)_1.031.zip

 

BattleSmoke and Effects Textures for 1.031b (steppenwolf_):   http://www.mediafire...b_for_JSGME.zip

 

Bullet Effect for Buildings for 1.033c (steppenwolf_):   http://www.mediafire...c_for_JSGME.zip

 

Dutch2's B&W Retro Cinema loading screens: http://www.mediafire...nhots.zip/file 

 

Dutch2's Color Retro Cinema loading screens: http://www.mediafire...nhots.zip/file 

 

Enhanced sky v3.0a - small clouds  (Happyhaddock):  http://www.mediafire...pyhaddock).zip 

 

Fubar's Landscape Mod for 1.037:   http://www.mediafire..._for_JSGME.zip 

 

Gauges (J.j.) - bug fixes:  http://www.mediafire...s_for_JSGME.zip

 

Gauges (J.j.) - British Nieuport 11:   http://www.mediafire...1_for_JSGME.zip

 

Gauges (J.j.) - British SPAD VII:   http://www.mediafire...I_for_JSGME.zip

 

Gauges (J.j.) - British SPAD XIII:   http://www.mediafire...I_for_JSGME.zip

 

Gauges (J.j.) - French Nieuport 17_GBR:   http://www.mediafire...R_for_JSGME.zip

 

Gauges (J.j.) - Italian Nieuport 11 et 17:   http://www.mediafire...7_for_JSGME.zip

 

Gauges (J.j.) - Felixstowe Speedometer in Knots:  http://www.mediafire...o_for_JSGME.zip

 

Ground Objects Package #1 by SYN_Vander:  http://www.mediafire..._for_JSGME.zip 

 

Lens Flare Removal (bbob/Panthercules):  http://www.mediafire...l_for_JSGME.zip

 

More Active Front with No Ambient Flak (steppenwolf_/Bucksnort):   http://www.mediafire...k_for_JSGME.zip

 

Moving Soldiers_Package_2v4 (SYN_Vander):   http://www.mediafire...4_for_JSGME.zip

 

New Frozen Rivers (Early or Late winter) for 1.034 (Fazer):   http://www.mediafire...4_for_JSGME.zip

 

Panther's B&W Loading Screenshots (Panthercules):  http://www.mediafire...F_for_JSGME.zip

 

Panther's Color Loading Screenshots (Panthercules):  http://www.mediafire...F_for_JSGME.zip

 

Panther's Simple Compass Mod for RoF (Panthercules): http://www.mediafire...F_for_JSGME.zip

 

PWCG GUI Mod:  (link removed - now included with Pat's latest PWCG downloads, from his web site, here:  http://www.pwcampaig...web/PWCGRoF.php )

    

Rate of Fire Jan 1916 - Feb 1917 (Bucksnort):   http://www.mediafire..._-_Feb_1917.zip

 

Rate of Fire Mar 1917 - Sep 1917 (Bucksnort):   http://www.mediafire..._-_Sep_1917.zip

 

Rate of Fire Oct 1917 - Apr 1918 (Bucksnort):   http://www.mediafire..._-_Apr_1918.zip

 

Rate of Fire May 1918 - Nov 1918 (Bucksnort):   http://www.mediafire..._-_Nov_1918.zip

 

Reduce Lethality (gavagai):   http://www.mediafire...y_(gavagai).zip

 

RoF - DH4_LOD_FIX (1.032b) (lefuneste):   http://www.mediafire...d_for_JSGME.zip

 

RoF Map zig-zag fix - West Front (Panthercules): http://www.mediafire...1_for_JSGME.zip

 

Ships Package #1 v2.0 by SYN_Vander:  http://www.mediafire..._for_JSGME.zip 

 

Soldiers Package #1 v1 by SYN_Vander:  http://www.mediafire..._for_JSGME.zip 

 

Static Effects Mod (steppenwolf_):   http://www.mediafire...Effects_Mod.zip

 

Static Objects Package #1 by SYN_Vander:  http://www.mediafire..._for_JSGME.zip 

 

Static Planes ver.5.0 for 1.034 (lefuneste/ActionJoe):   https://www.mediafir..._JSGME.zip/file

 

Tweaked Feathered's Ground Noise:  http://www.mediafire..._for_JSGME.zip 

 

Vehicles Package #1 by SYN_Vander:  http://www.mediafire..._for_JSGME.zip 

 

Water Colour Less Blue for 1.029 (Feathered_IV):   http://www.mediafire...9_for_JSGME.zip

 

Wildflower mod (Happyhaddock):   http://www.mediafire...)_for_JSGME.zip

 

WWI Loading Screen (FeatheredIV):  http://www.mediafire...eatheredIV).zip

 

 

Panther's Scarf and Streamer Mods

(see 1st post in this thread for explanation/details of content of each pack: http://riseofflight....-available-now/  )

 

Make streamers invisible:  http://www.mediafire...s_for_JSGME.zip

 

British Empire Pack No.1 (weathered):  http://www.mediafire...-_weathered.zip

 

Central Pack No.1:  http://www.mediafire...s_for_JSGME.zip

 

Central Pack No.1 (weathered):  http://www.mediafire...-_Weathered.zip

 

Central Pack No.2:  http://www.mediafire..._JSGME-ver2.zip

 

Entente Pack No.1 (weathered):  http://www.mediafire...-_weathered.zip

 

USA Pack:  http://www.mediafire...s_for_JSGME.zip

 

USA Pack (weathered):  http://www.mediafire...-_weathered.zip

 

Weathered Stock versions:  http://www.mediafire...s_for_JSGME.zip

 

Whimsical Pack No. 1:  http://www.mediafire...-_weathered.zip

 

 

 

Other mods that look cool but that I haven't used/tested:

 

SYN_Vander's Mont St. Eloi Abbey:   http://www.mediafire...2_for_JSGME.zip

[Deej]

Hello. Thanks for the go to area for the mods. As a question I have the rate of fire mods, both,; when I go to activate them through CSME I get a message something to the effect that this has been covered in the Verdun Fort mod and if I install the rate of fire mod that it could affect it. Should I just ignore this message and go ahead and install the rate of fire mod? That being said should I ignore these type of warnings and install the Mods anyway when I have them in CMSE in the future? I guess there is no specific order to activate the the Mods either when you down load them and have them in the CMSE? Thanks Deej

[Panthercules]

Hello. Thanks for the go to area for the mods. As a question I have the rate of fire mods, both,; when I go to activate them through CSME I get a message something to the effect that this has been covered in the Verdun Fort mod and if I install the rate of fire mod that it could affect it. Should I just ignore this message and go ahead and install the rate of fire mod? That being said should I ignore these type of warnings and install the Mods anyway when I have them in CMSE in the future? I guess there is no specific order to activate the the Mods either when you down load them and have them in the CMSE? Thanks Deej

 

Look carefully at the warning message from JSGME - if it's only saying that some folder(s) has already been added by a previous mod, then you can/should safely ignore that message and activate the subsequent mod - there will be no conflict or problem.

 

OTOH, if the message says that some specific file(s) has already been modified by a previously-installed mod, then you need to pause and think about things a bit.  In that case, if you install the second mod it will over-write the specified file(s) mentioned in the message - that may not be a huge problem or mean that you shouldn't install the second mod, but it will mean that you will lose whatever effect/feature the first mod was providing by virtue of the changes that first mod made to that specific file(s).  If that particular file(s) was just a small part of the first mod, and you like what the second mod is doing with that file better anyway, then you might as well go ahead and activate the second mod despite that warning message.  (For example, maybe you installed one of the cloud-related mods that also happened to modify a sun-related file, and then you wanted to install a lens-flare-removal mod that also modified that same sun-related file - you might easily decide that the sun-related aspects of the cloud mod were pretty minor and that you liked the sun effect of the lens-flare-removal mod better, so it's not a problem for you that activating the second mod will eliminate the sun-related element of the first mod).

 

If you're comfortable enough with peeking under the covers and seeing what the mods are actually doing, and you want to try to preserve the benefits of both mods, you can try creating your own version of the file(s) mentioned in the warning message to merge the changes from each mod into a new composite version (it's quite possible that each mod is actually changing a different portion of the same file, and thus both sets of changes from both mods can peacefully coexist in a new composite version of the modded file that you can create). 

 

If you aren't comfortable trying to do that or just don't want to go to that trouble, you can just do some trial and error - activate one mod first and the other one second, and see how you like it that way, then activate them in the reverse order and see if you like that way better.  Fortunately, JSGME makes it very easy to activate and deactivate mods in any order you want to, so it's easy to do these sorts of comparisons so you can assess the impact of letting any one mod over-write the corresponding files of another mod.

[Deej]

Thanks Panthercules for the insightful information. I have about 29 mods in the JSME, which the majority are yours. I have 16 of them activated. The other 13 I didn't activate due the the warning message I indicated in my first e-mail. I'll double check and see if the message I get prior to installing the Mod is one of a file changing nature or one where it was added by a previous installed mod. I'm Not afraid to tinker abit so in time I'll see if I can get a good mix from different mods to blend together in good harmony. I'm assuming doesn't matter what order the mods are installed to get the best results for the game? Thanks again for taking the time to explain this. Appreciate it very much. Cheers!!

Deej

[Panthercules]

I'm assuming doesn't matter what order the mods are installed to get the best results for the game? 

 

The order only matters if the mods have conflicting files as noted in the JSGME warning messages, as then the later-installed ones will over-write the earlier ones as I explained above.  Otherwise, order of activation doesn't matter.

[Panthercules]

First post has been updated to add links to a couple of my new and latest favorite mods - new simple gauges compass/heading pointer, and new mission loading screen images.

[wrong_name_1181]

Thanks for posting these Panthercules.

 

Can you check the link for this mod Panther's Color Loading Screenshots (Panthercules):

It takes me to the d/l for this mod Panther's Simple Compass Mod for RoF (Panthercules):

 

Thanks

[Panthercules]

Thanks for posting these Panthercules.

 

Can you check the link for this mod Panther's Color Loading Screenshots (Panthercules):

It takes me to the d/l for this mod Panther's Simple Compass Mod for RoF (Panthercules):

 

Thanks

 

First post updated with correct link.  Not sure how that happened - thanks for pointing that out.

[Panthercules]

First post updated with links to some of SYN_Vander's mods used with PWCG that somehow had gotten left off the list - thanks to FalkeEins (and Space_Ghost on BoS forums) for letting me know they were missing from my list.

[Falkenberg]

 

All these Mods are JSGME-ready - you can just unzip them into your MODS folder and activate them with JSGME.

 

  First off, thank you for this!  Secondly, do you have a recommended "official" or "safe" download for the JSGME executable itself?  The rofmods.com site is not working for me, and a quick forum check leads me to believe it has possibly been offline since last Summer:  https://riseofflight...now-open/page-4

 

Edit:  The J5 folks running Bloody April pointed me to your JSGME location, thanks!:  https://riseofflight...official-links/

[Dutch2]

Thats why I did ask Pathercules to remove that not working link, but I gues he has an reason for not deleting that dead link.

[Panthercules]

Thats why I did ask Pathercules to remove that not working link, but I gues he has an reason for not deleting that dead link.

 

I didn't realize you were talking about the link in my first post above (which I have now deleted) - I thought you were talking about the link in the original RofMods thread, which I have modified to make clear that the site is not working at this point.

[Panthercules]

First post updated to add a couple of cool new mods from Dutch2 with another alternate set of retro cinema loading screenshots (B&W and Color versions).

[d_ted]

WOOOW!!! Hats down to AI Pilots mod, AI Bomber Pilot was just killed me with a bomb in dogfight.

[Odovacer]

I take it JSGM is a mod installing/uninstalling tool. Is it recommended to only install these mods via this tool? I'm interested in the AI mod at the moment, does anyone have any experience with it? (d_ted's comment above is noted!)

[Panthercules]

Yes - JSGME is a mod enabler par excellence.  It's been around for years, and even though there doesn't seem to have been any updated version for quite a while that may just be because there was nothing needing improvement.  I definitely recommend using it and never installing mods without it.

 

I just checked and I'm not currently running the AI pilot mod (I was using it a few game versions ago - not sure why I stopped using it, as it doesn't appear to conflict with any of the other mods I have installed.  Perhaps some subsequent game update caused problems with it or made it less desirable/necessary, but unfortunately I didn't make any notes about it when I deactivated it so I'm not sure what the story is with it at this point.)

[Odovacer]

What is a safe site for downloading JSGME? I've tried various sites, but I'd have to sign up or there was no download link available.

 

Also, I have some skin mods installed already, should I do a fresh re-install of RoF before I start using JSGME for any further mods?

[Dutch2]

What is a safe site for downloading JSGME? I've tried various sites, but I'd have to sign up or there was no download link available.
 
Also, I have some skin mods installed already, should I do a fresh re-install of RoF before I start using JSGME for any further mods?

Use this one from https://riseofflight...official-links/
If this not working get this one at: http://www.thatonepl.../toolsWOFF.html

You do not have to reinstall RoF and yep, it can be used for future mods.

[Likedeeler]

Cheers Panthercules,

 

is it possible to combine AnKor85's Terrain Bumpmapping and Fubar's Landscape Mod for 1.037?

Do I need to install all these mods above in a special sequence?

• PantherculesRepor

[SURFORDIE420]

Thank you Panthercules. You have kept this game alive. There is no other game quite like it. 

[Panthercules]

 

Cheers Panthercules,

 

is it possible to combine AnKor85's Terrain Bumpmapping and Fubar's Landscape Mod for 1.037?

Do I need to install all these mods above in a special sequence?

• PantherculesRepor

 

 

I don't happen to be running those two together ATM, so I'm not sure if they could be combined.  JSGME does report that Fubar's mod changes several of the same files that AnKor85's mod changes, so if you activate them both together whichever one you activate second will override those portions of the one you activated first.  That may not be a problem, and you may just want to try both combinations (Ankor85's first, or Fubar's first) and see which one you like best (if any). 

 

I'm running AnKor85's but not Fubar's ATM - I was getting better results (for my personal tastes) with the combination of Ankor85's mod, a tweaked version of Feathered's ground noise mod and a cloud mod by Happyhaddock, all of which messed with a lot of the same files that Fubar's mod did.  

[Likedeeler]

Allright, thank you!
Both together looks fine, the clouds maybe too "painted".
I'll try out the other combinations.
Ground noise does what especially?

[Panthercules]

Ground noise does what especially?

 

It was explained in some of the old threads, but it's been so long since I messed with tweaking those mods that I've forgotten the technical details/explanation as to what it actually does.  Basically though, it seems to help bring out some details in the landscape and also perhaps do something about some of the shimmering (or moiré effect) that some of the textures might be prone to. 

 

To be honest though, I've found my experience with these landscape mods to be sort of like my experience with SweetFx/Reshade - I do a lot of experimentation trying to get just the right combination, thinking things are looking pretty good, only to decide after a while that stock RoF looks pretty good after all.

[Sabre]

Panther's Simple Compass Mod for RoF (Panthercules): download is missing 

 

Thanks,

[Panthercules]

Panther's Simple Compass Mod for RoF (Panthercules): download is missing 

 

Thanks,

 

Thanks for pointing that out - not sure what happened, but I've re-uploaded the file and edited the link in the 1st post, so it should be working now.

[127Tom]

Thank you for all this Panthercules! 
Btw, do you know where that "old look" map is? It was part of a "ultimate mod pack 3.0" for some years ago.
I really love that dirty old looking map. It had 4 seasons too I believe. 

[Panthercules]

I'm not familiar with that particular map offhand, but I'll try to remember to poke around in my old files and see if anything turns up, next time I'm back with my RoF PC (could be a few weeks though   )

[whi5key123]

looking for the mod that contains this file: \Worldobjects\Ships\rivershipgeorgia.txt

[Porkchopper]

Can anyone tell me if JGSME can be used for multiple sims, and if so, how? I'm already using it for IL-2 1946 and would like to use if for RoF, but am hesitating out of fear of breaking something in IL-2.

 

Do I need to download a 2nd copy of JGSME and if so, how would I keep it separate from my 1st copy?

[Panthercules]

Can anyone tell me if JGSME can be used for multiple sims, and if so, how? I'm already using it for IL-2 1946 and would like to use if for RoF, but am hesitating out of fear of breaking something in IL-2.

 

Do I need to download a 2nd copy of JGSME and if so, how would I keep it separate from my 1st copy?

 

I believe that you can use the same copy of JSGME to deal with multiple games, but I always shied away from that just to be safe.  But you don't need to D/L another copy of JSGME - all you need to do is use Windows file manager to copy your existing copy of JSGME from your IL-2 1946 folder to your RoF folder, and then create another shortcut for your desktop pointing to that second copy to use for RoF (and point that copy of JSGME to the MODS folder in your RoF folder instead of to the one in your IL-2 1946 folder).   It's really not hard to do, and each copy of JSGME will be completely separate from the other so you won't risk screwing up anything in IL-2 1946.

[Ringelblume]

Hiho Panthercules

Yesterday I discovered your scarf and streamer mods and I'm thrilled...

 

Really good work from you, looks very realistic and brings more variety into the game. Thanks a lot for this!

 

and btw...

 

 

Many Greetings

[Panthercules]

Always nice when someone stumbles across something I did and enjoys it - glad you like it, and thanks for sharing

[King_Squirrel]

The Static planes link seems to be broken.

[Panthercules]

The Static planes link seems to be broken.

 

Thanks for bringing that to my attention.  Not sure why the file got messed up by MediaFire (it wasn't just the link that was broken - I tried copying the file to another location on MediaFire and that link didn't work either).  I've uploaded another copy of the Mod and updated the new link in the first post, so try again and it should work this time.