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...trying to get a detailed AAR.
This was a QC in free flight:

did you do this by hand or does WOFF have a feature that charts your path with comments??

WOFF produces a quantity of data, recording the flight path of the player and various events. I'm writing a little program that should allow the player to display such data after each mission.
The image shown is a preliminary result; there's still quite a bit of work to do, but we're getting there

Hey Nibbio, that looks amazing! You're fulfilling one of my wish list items I had made. Actually, I'd like to read the AAR instead of viewing it. That way, if it spits out a text file that would pre-fill a combat report template, I can just edit it a bit to include inside my logbook.

I know, it was also one of my wish list items


As for the text file, it could be done, although the info would likely be a little sparse and impersonal. OTOH a picture is worth a thousand words, you can zoom and pan and then, if you want, you can save it for future reference. Trust me, it's way cool

nibbio, you're a double

Nibbio

This is terrific modding! Who wouldn't enjoy seeing their actual flight path in a mission?!!!

I would love to see this implemented as a mod, or even better as a modder-dev work. It is saying, RB3D and "can be done" way too loud to be neglected.

Nibbio;

Would you consider adding the time stamp to the significant items you record on the map. I know it's in the file.
It would greatly enhance the concept of time passing and when things happened. I agree with you. I have been looking at those files and there is a plethora of info there to play with. I wish there was a way to have access to all that info before putting a claim in. I also wish there was a way to fill out a mission report as part of the pilot log in which much of this info could be noted where pertinent. I may just add all this to a wish list for WOFF's future. If I had the programming skills I would tackle it right away.

Best Regards;

Guys, this feature was already in OFF; not sure why it was left out of WOFF;
maybe it wasn't used much; or the performance was needed for something else -
sorry, nibbio.
You could see your course drawn, and everything that had happened during
your sortie. Even kills appart from your own ones were assigned with little
symbols.

This was a feature I very often used in OFF to see what had happened during the mission.

I used to like the replay feature in OFF..shame it went.

I never knew it was there!

Little test: can you figure out what happened in this mission?
(on the right hand side is the alt scale in metres, x and y axis units are in km, the thin black line is the frontline)



couple of zoom views:

In OFF you had a "Replay" button. When you pressed it,
you would see the course line being scribbled bit by bit.
It stopped at every event and you received a text like
"Player, flying Albatros D.III, fired 50 rounds at Nieuport N 23".
You could zoom in, and replay it.

Yeah, that would be great! As I said, I put it in the wishlist for WOFF.
In the meantime...

Looking very good nibbio!

Well, I based on summarization from all three pics, I would say you have been in combat and hit by rounds from a FE2b, and I'm surmising that you were forced down by damage or fuel loss at which point you came a cropper on a fence.

What do I win if I'm correct??

Very cool.

Maybe you could win a crappy little piece of software, hastily patched together, that should allow us to analyze mission events and performance

1) took off from Bertincourt in an Halberstadt, leading a flight of Albatros DII, and headed NE
2) as soon as we turned NW, after about 7 minutes of flight, 2 DIIs collided and crashed somewhere in the vicinity
3) we followed the waypoints climbing steadily and circled over the patrol destination, S of the river, at about 3500m for about 20 minutes
4) then descended to 2500m and went N towards Bapaume
5) 15 minutes later we met 2 FE2b North of Bapaume at about 2000 m, heading West; attacked from the rear left, scored some good hits on e/a #2B, but #2A shot down my engine
6) after shooting some more towards #2A, with engine dead, I turned right and searched for a good place to land towards the East
7) as I was trying to line up with the road, my a/c stalled (the little arrows are a representation of the velocity vectors, short length of the arrows indicates slow speed) and fell like a brick. Dead.

Didn't we say that a picture was worth a 1000 words?