The Croat chequy in a historical roundel form,
carefully assembled by cutting base-game stickers.
As close to dev-made material as it can be(probably).
Lens flares not included.
Greetings,
if you're familiar with the game, then you'll definitely know of that awkward sticker editor, yes?
Well, a while ago (2021?) I casually found out the directory whence the game stores custom stickers!
I also found out the format they're saved in can be comfortably edited via a certain other image manipulator (& likely a few more).
And then, came an insight :
what if I loaded each base-game sticker,
THEN save it with a slightly altered name?
I thus figured out a way (albeit very rudimental) to make fan-made material looks closer to what the devs had given us at the dawn of the millennium! :D
I thus started fiddling with those gradients...
The two stickers here presented are two variants of the old Croat roundel from 41-44 (as you've read),
one variant was reconstructed using the base-game's "USAF_2" sticker, the other using the (still vanilla) Italian & Japanese1 stickers.
Because the latter sticker didn't cover all the area needed, I might've had to do some reconstruction work, but nothing really remotely visible.
![a screenie for croat roundels]()
THIS.PLANE IS ON FIIIREEEEE!
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πINSTALLATION :
Easier done than sai-erm, written!
The two stickers is in a .zip archive - easily extracted via programs such as WinRar or 7zip!
Just extract the contents to the game's directory!
(aka, where you installed the game, in my case :
C:/Program Files (x86)/Paradox Entertainment/Airfix Dogfighter )
One can either download/drag the archive in said directory, right click, then left-click "extract here", or alternatively leave the archive where-ever, right-click it, then left-click "Extract files..." and input the directory in the text-bar or navigate manually.
πTO UNINSTALL :
It's just two sticker, not sure why anyone would,
but just in case your computer's memory is about to explode :
From the game directory, either navigate to or manually add inside the top-bar :
[...]\User\Save\Stickers\Stickers
Locate the two .tga files with a name that begin with "Croat41-44",
then either move them elsewhere or delete them
πCREDITS :
Credit for the Airfix Dogfighter assets goes to the game's visual artists :
P. Andersson, K.M. Trœdsson, L.Krylov, G.Odgren.
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Hurray, I accidentally pressed "archive",
tried undoing, & now the mod is un-authed, meaning that :
1-It's temporarily unavailable for public download
2-Some poor staff operative will have to bother authorizing this again ("-.-)