Hi max! Thank you for your Interest! I am terribly sorry if I caused any confusion!
This is not a new aircraft, but a simple conversion from the D.I style Cabane strut to the D.II style to improve visibility, with accompanying wing adjustments. As with the real machine, there has been no further change to airframe, powerplant, armament, or performance.
I love the D.II and wanted to fly it for myself, so I made these changes on the Existing D.I that we have. As it is, you will still select and fly the D.I in-game, but you will see a D.II with this small addition to your mod folder. No .ini changes needed. I also tried several existing D.I skins with no apparent issues so far.
It looks good, and I managed to even clean up the chaos I caused in the cockpit when i moved the wing so it even looks good from there. Or good enough for me to enjoy! LOL So i decided to share it with you.
To answer your original questions, as of now, there is no way to fly this next to the original D.I unless I missed something. You would need to disable this mod to get the D.I I know that sometimes, aircraft are made to look one way for one country and another for a different country, but I have not gone that far, nor indeed am i sure exactly how.
Additionaly the conflict I mentioned comes from the fact that the D.I Cockpit correction pack here:
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,58815.0.html uses the original layout of cabane and wing struts, so when you run both side-by-side you see two sets of struts and wires. Its ugly... LOL Easiest is to disable whichever mod you arent using. So if you want to fly the D.I, you simply de-activate the D.II conversion kit and fly the D.I.
I hope it makes sense.
I hope that this can be as fun for everyone to play with as it is for me against those pesky Airco DH.2s... which ever since the addition of the orient is red pack, have suddenly become formidable and enjoyable oponents!
In Retrospect, This should have been posted to the 3D section to avoid confusion. This is completely my fault!
If a kind Admin passing by would kindly move this to the correct section I'd be grateful!