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[CallMeKatie]

Hi, I want to make a DGEN campaign where my pilot is a woman (I know how to do this) and my wingmen are women (I do not know how to do this). I'd like to change the pilot portraits, pilot skins and names so that they are randomly generated like they are with the normal campaigns.

Any ideas on how to do this? Bonus points if someone can suggest a way of making it so that I don't have to go and fiddle with files every time I want to switch between an all-male and all-female squadron

Alternatively, if anyone knows of a mod/campaign which can do this all for me, that would be great.

Thanks everyone!

[genXgamer]

Hi Katie

Won't you also have to change the speech packs?

[Gaston]

Such idea is good and original, because there have been 3 "all-women" regiments in the VVS (586th Fighter Regt., 587th Attack Regt. and 588th Night Bomber Regt.). But genXgamer points the problem. It would need to have 2 speech packs used in parallel : one for the 3 female only regiments, and another for the rest of the VVS... because these 3 regiments were flying in an environment of other units in which pilots were men. And they were all communicating together (for example, the 586th Fighter Regiment can serve as escort to a Bomber Regiment other than the 587 or 588 Regt.). So, it will be quite complicated to use 2 speech packs together. In fact, I do not know if it is possible...

[Knochenlutscher]

All Female solution would be giving a new Nation VVS-Fem, turn i.e. historical Slots into Fem-Clones,
Pe-2/3/8, Po-2, Yak-1 ... attribute an F, for female.
meaning adding proper Fem-Ranwers Pilots. You end up in an entirely Fem Squad, surrounding fitting.
You can run as Allied and if you have all actors Chatter, they'll be well laid out.

But shortcoming would be, the F Clones will show up Females in the Male universe,
here is the Game mechanic, it'll not recognize these as Fem, but Universal (male) if not under that VVS-Fem Nation.
So certain stuff might be lurking through. But not as eye poking, I think.


Mixing, I mean, using up from current Resources would be crap. Look at the way the Dutch Speech Pack was made, mixing
Dutch and Indonesian, actors coding has restrictions that fart inbetween.
Or how to get Female Pilots with our universal Pilots, ehhhm, definitely sth. I don't wanna see mixed up.
Good idea, just think it right to lay out properly...

We need proper Ressources, Female Fighter pilots, Gunners, a proper SpeechPack.
Coding the new VVS Fem Nation and reslotting fem Aircraft is least of the jobs.

The result is a full swing (all fem) and switching (select Nation) abillity in DGen, Campaign if added properly.
If well laid out, it is universal, not only for DGen, but every aspect of the game.
 

[Gaston]

Question is : is all this work worth it for only 3 historical regiments ???

Also... other complication will be that this VVS-Fem nation will not be able to communicate with the standard RU nation. Not very practical if help from bombers' escort provided by a standard RU squadron is needed, I think...

[Gaston]

I have checked the 3 historical regiments  (586, 587 and 588) above in the regInfo and regShort properties files, and they already exist...

[Whiskey_Sierra_972]

I belive that you can do this by editing existing DGen files for RU:

1) Create 32 new female portrait;
2) Create a new names dat files with only female names

No need to edit the cities names because the game engine associate pilot name/place of birth randomly....

When you start the DGen campaign in your rooster you'll have female names and portraits....

[Andy H]

VVS female pilot portraits (2 sets).

https://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads2&file=details&id=3597
https://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads2&file=details&id=3596

Skins
https://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads2&file=details&id=7614

I don't fly Soviet without these...

VVS female wing(wo)man voicepack
https://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads&file=details&id=1877

Soviet female ground control at Aviaskins
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,41119.0.html

Hope it helps 

[CallMeKatie]

Thanks for all your help! I used chatgpt to ai generate a load of random russian female names and then pasted them into the relevant folders in the dgen folder (formatting, especially not having spaces in the names, is very important). Then installed the voice packs and pilot photos and it seems to work really well! Would be happy to share the list of names if anyone would like to try this for themselves.

[Witchy]

I could totally help do speech for this if we knew all the phrases needed to be said. I would love to try your campaign. Time for the 46th to fly again!