
Me262Galland.zip 


Skin for Jane's WW2 Fighter's Me 262
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This is with out a doubt my most detailed skin yet. The Me 262 skin in WW2 Fighters uses 4 separate 
.bmp files for mapping textures onto the plane. This allows for higher resolution and finer detail. 
Many areas of the original skin were reworked to fix minor problems with alignment of components and 
to fix problems that simply didn't show at the lower resolution. All extremities were rounded for more 
authentic contours and much work was done to get the main landing gear to look right going up and down, 
this was accomplished in part by editing the files that determine locations for components.

Much of the credit for this skin goes to several others that provided invaluable help and information. 
It truly was a team effort.  Judge for enabling the modification of these files at all and general 
information on how the game works.  And specifically for editing the files to line up the landing gear 
components.  Jamie Iverson for sending pictures, drawings, and other info on the Me 262 that was amazing 
in detail!  And for "proofing" the plane as it progressed to insure as much accuracy as possible. Jamie 
also wrote the intro below.  Dauntless851 for supplying drawings and schemes and general information on 
the plane.  And Fluke for the included mission, beta testing the plane, and for his tactful critique of 
it as I worked on it.  Thank you all!

Questions or comments to me at:  CovClan@lvcm.com and visit my makeshift website at 
http://u1.lvcm.com/covsplace/ to see some of my other planes.



INTRODUCTION:
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Congratulations on downloading the most accurate and detailed Me 262 skin
that has ever been released for a flight sim! Jane's WW2 Fighters has the
most accurate simulated Me 262 to date and Hammerd's excellent skin
featuring the markings of JV 44 is a perfect complement to a great sim.
Hammerd has painstakingly captured every detail of the Me 262 down to the
last rivet and the results are absolutely stunning. Thanks Hammerd, for many
hours of hard work! This is the best skin yet for WW2 Fighters.

The Messerschmitt Me262 was the first turbojet powered aircraft to see
service in WWII. As the sleek new jet fighter streaked through the war-torn
skies over Europe it ushered in a new era in aircraft design and signaled
the end of the traditional propeller driven fighter. The jet was at least
100 mph faster than any Allied fighter and gave the tattered Luftwaffe a
much needed advantage during a time when they needed it most. However, the
Me 262 was far from perfect and suffered many problems due to it's advanced
nature. The Jumo 004 engines for example, had an extremely short lifespan
due to shortages of critical materials. Most engines lasted less than 20
hours before they had to be replaced. The Me 262 also took time to speed up
and slow down during takeoffs and landings. The Allies quickly took
advantage of this, and jet bases became prime targets for prowling
Allied fighters. In spite of this, the Me 262 was a deadly adversary and
well suited to the anti-bomber role. Me 262s often wreaked deadly havoc on
the massed bomber formations with their 4x30mm cannon and R4M rockets.

One of the most legendary units to fly the Me 262 was JV 44. Commanded by
Generalleutnant Adolf Galland, this "Squadron of Experts" was established on
February 5th, 1945. Hitler himself had given the orders that Galland was to
set up a small staffel strength unit to demonstrate the superiority of the
Me 262 as a fighter. Galland had been a long time supporter of the Me 262
since he first flew a prototype in 1943.

JV 44 did not become fully operational until very late in the war. Much of
March was spent training and working up the new unit at Brandenburg-Briest.
A single kill, a Il-2 Sturmovik was scored by Steinhoff during this period.
The unit then relocated to Munich-Riem to better protect the jet production
plants in southern Germany. More pilots were recruited by Galland and new
aircraft were available from nearby Messerschmitt factories.

Heinz Bar took command of the unit after Galland had become injured in
combat on April 26th in which he brought down two B-26 bombers. Three days
later the remnants of JV 44 made a hurried move to Salzburg-Maxglan to avoid
the rapidly approaching US Seventh Army. Within a week the Seventh Army
again caught up with them and JV 44's remaining two-dozen Me 262s were
destroyed before the advancing enemy troops could take possession of them.
During the unit's short operational period, JV 44 achieved a final tally of
56 kills before the war ended.

Jamie Iverson
stormbirds.com



Installation
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Before installing this, or any other, custom modification, you are advised to take a backup
your original ww2.sqs archive.  

Extract the contents of this archive to the WWII Fighters\Data directory.  Assuming the
default installation, this is: C:\Program Files\Jane's Combat Simulations\WWII Fighters\Data

The files will be extracted to a new directory WWII Fighters\Data\Me262Galland

Using Windows Explorer, navigate to the WWII Fighters\Data\Me262Galland directory.

This distribution includes Hammerd's skin for Adolf Galland's JV 44 Me 262, Jamie Iverson's
skin for the Protection Schwarm Fw 190s and Fluke's custom mission "JV 44 Schwalbenfest", 
which highlights the new skins.  All of these mods will be installed together; you do not
need to separately install each one.  Fluke's custom mission will be installed to the
WWII Fighters\Data\Missions directory which makes it available through the museum interface. 

This distribution includes both normal resolution (256x256) and high resolution (512x512) 
textures.  Users whose video cards do not support high-resolution textures 
(e.g. 3Dfx Voodoo1/2/3/Banshee) should NOT attempt to install these skins.  
WARNING: attempting to install high-resolution textures on a system with a video card which 
does not support them may cause the game to crash.  

To install the normal resolution textures, double-click on the install256.bat icon.

To install the high resolution textures, double-click on the install512.bat icon.

This will open up a DOS session and the installation will proceed in this window.  When
the installation is complete, a message saying "DONE...CLOSE DOS SESSION" will be
displayed in the window.  Close the DOS session by clicking on the X close button in the
top right corner of the window.

Installation is now complete.


