Contact Us!
Questions? Comments? Let us know at Discord[discord.gg]. We'd love to hear from you!

Highlights

• Fully redone army, navy, and air force paths for RT56 Turkey, with new decisions and national spirits to go with. (included in the Gunnerside #2 update, but missing from its patch notes).
  
• Balance of power and additional focuses for monarchist Germany.
  
• Adopted new combat widths of 1.13.

Additions

• Some unique focuses and characters for the Sámis.
  
• Additional focuses and political advisors for Liechtenstein.
  
• Two new MIOs for Germany - Erma Werke and Hanomag.
  
• East and West Germany now have generic advisors. West Germany has it's own MIOs.
  
• Additional industrial companies for Liechtenstein.
  
• Added the port of Viipuri.
  
• Japanese members of the Kodoha faction will have more historical fates: retired if the control faction purge them and promoted if the Kodoha faction takes over. You will get a new chief of the army. Sadeo Araki received new traits and become a field marshal, another general can now become aide-de-camp of the emperor to control him and ensure the ambitions of the faction.
  
• Reshuffle and expansion of the democratic Denmark tree.
  
• Two new achievements for Denmark.
  
• New achievement for Germany.
  
• Added a new achievement for Israel.
  
• Added some MIOs for Israel.
  
• German voice lines for the German Kingdoms, alongside East and West Germany.
  
• Branch hiding partially implemented for UK.

Adjustments and Balance

• The German Air Force is strengthened with ~2000 planes, compared to the vanilla 916.
  
• Germany started with more airfields in historical locations.
  
• The steel cost of Infantry Equipment '45 reduced to 5 to align it more closely with other levels.
  
• Some of the German commanders adjusted, with Brauchitsch and Fritsch taking actual command. Model and Kluge were demoted to the rank of General.
  
• R56 Germany now has a focus to improve enigma again and a focus to increase synthetic rubber output, aside from some restructuring.
  
• Saudi coring decisions now core the new Jordan states but they all demand a minimal level of compliance.
  
• Made it slightly easier for Hatzohar to form a coalition in the Israeli elections.

Fixes

• Serious memory leak issue that was on the beta is fixed.
  
• If Indonesia starts independent, it now no longer locks itself out of some buffs in its fascist/communist branches.
  
• You can no longer choose the Molotov-Ribbentrop option to get a war goal on Lithuania in exchange for more Polish lands to the Soviets if Lithuania doesn't exist.
  
• Fixed issues with the formation of the United Front in China.
  
• Fixed research bonuses for naval gunnery and naval shells.
  
• Fixed Trotsky magically puppeting releasable that can also be released outside Soviet borders.
  
• Fixed UK being able to give Sudanese resources back to Egypt multiple times in the Anglo-Egyptian conference.
  
• Fixed rare issue of democratic countries being forced to join Germany's democratic faction if they declare war on a non-democratic faction member of them (base game bug).
  
• Sweden can no longer core Missouri
  
• [BBA] Fixed missing air techs.
  
• [AAT] Denmark no longer has incorrect starting ideas when playing the DLC tree.
  
• [AAT] Denmark no longer has unintegrated r56 mechanics when playing the DLC tree.
  
• [AAT] Danish MIOs can now be upgraded with the r56 tree.
  
• [AAT] Hid some decisions that don't apply when using MIOs, while porting a vanilla decision to select multiple special forces branches.
  
• [AAT] AAT Events have been disabled for the Road to 56 Sweden Focus Tree.
  
• [AAT] Fixed decisions for Scandinavian countries to refit convoys into destroyers
  
• [WTT] Updated the decisions Proclaim Nordic Unity and Restore the Kalmar Union, they should now properly core Denmark and Iceland
  
• [AAT] Further progress towards making Finland's historical path work well with Road to 56's different and more accurate starting ideology.

AI

• Poland no longer signs a mutual defence pact with Lithuania in 1938, as a result of the historical AI working properly since the previous update.
  
• Historical Italy AI is fine-tuned™, focus order is revisited and able to putting up a fierce fight in North and East Africa.
  
• AI would stop wasting command points on "Reserve Transfer" and "Extra Fuel Reserves" during peacetime battle plan.
  
• [AAT] Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden DLC trees have been integrated into the AI behaviour decisions and their behaviour should now follow AI plans like vanilla, including historical.

Localisation

• Added party names and changed names for East and West Germany.
  
• Some descriptions for Liechtenstein focuses and decisions.

GFX/UI

• Planes for the Samis, Québec, Iceland. New Biplane for China.
  
• [AAT] Fixed missing MIO buttons when modifying equipment.
  
• [AAT] Added the Norwegian and Danish plane models.

Credits

• Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project, as well as for opportunities to learn about the related history.

Contact Us!
Questions? Comments? Let us know at Discord[discord.gg]. We'd love to hear from you!

Highlights

• Monarchist path rework for Germany.

Additions

• Converted the decision system of the Polish Sanation rivalry into a BoP, alongside some other bugfixes and tweaks to Poland.
  
• German Kingdoms now have permeant cores, with a shared military tree.
  
• Added a new achievement for Israel.
  
• Added small focus tree for Arab nations during the Arab-Israeli war.
  
• [SWE] The Scandinavian Council focus has received a new sub branched which allows you to further develop Scandinavia after unification.
  
• [SWE] Added new military related focuses related to Landsverk, Armoured Cars and even Bicycles.
  
• [SWE] Added new Aviation related focuses, streamlining the process.
  
• [SWE] Added localization to a majority of focuses that were missing it

Adjustments and Balance

• Changed strait crossings in Denmark to match vanilla.
  
• Added Scandinavia Shared Focus Tree to Denmark.
  
• Renamed Jutland and North Schleswig to use Danish spellings.
  
• [SWE] Swedish Army Staff has been moved.
  
• [SWE] Conclude Rearmament has taken up a new position below Swedish Army Staff
  
• [SWE] Several focuses in the Swedish Industrial Reinvigoration sub-tree have had their days shortened.
  
• [SWE] Removed the old Aviation tree.

Fixes

• Finland and Norway trees should no longer change on reload.
  
• Soviet unit models having black textures.
  
• Fixed certain technologies not being researchable with MIOs.
  
• Fixed display of Victory Points.
  
• Fixed Orkney Island port being missing along with the British Home Fleet.
  
• Fixed Jan Mayen missing a port.
  
• Fixed broken railways in Denmark.
  
• Fixed MIO's for Poland and Egypt.

AI

• [AAT] Finland should now follow historical AI.

GFX/UI

• Incorporated new vanilla Finnish 3D unit models.
  
• Several new portraits for monarchist figures within Germany.

Credits

• Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project, as well as for opportunities to learn about the related history.

Fixes

• Fixed planes having a speed of 0.
  
• Fixed economic laws and modifiers not setting the proper amount of consumer factories.
  
• Norway's new characters (leaders/advisors/commanders etc.) merged with our old ones.
  
• Fixed CTD after hovering over certain doctrines.
  
• Icons for the Road to 56-exclusive shocktroop special forces doctrine specialization.
  
• [BftB] Democrat Parti Turkey can no longer lock itself out of all foreign policy (including Ottomanist) paths.
  
• [AAT] Finland's tree will allow you to do the neutrality path while democratic, BoP is still being overhauled.
  
• A small mountain of other fixes!

Howdy folks! Operation Gunnerside has arrived! The day 1 mega-patch from your friendly neighborhood mod team!

The '56 gang has been burning the midnight oil for weeks now to merge AAT with our latest and greatest content. ...that is until someone asked, "Wait, why are we still using oil?" and we all switched to electric. After that things went quite quickly, and here we are!

Special words of affirmation and seductive appreciation for our leads, fine contibutors, and for all the other members of the team that have held off on their planned coup just for this patch. Also, Katten over at Paradox for enabling this Day 1 dance contest. Also also, to all the cats that did not get pets while we were busy. Your furry sacrifice will definitely be forgotten.

Note: This is just an initial patch. Getting our mammoth mod to work with new DLC is always an epic act of complicated insanity, so expect bugs! Please be sure to give us feedback and post over on Discord[discord.gg] when you find bugs or any issues! Together, we can squash all those critters together and make the '56 / AAT relationship a successful one!

As always, with giga high-fives and 27-part secret handshakes,

-Gxp and the whole '56 band


Contact Us!
Questions? Comments? Let us know at Discord[discord.gg]. We'd love to hear from you!

Highlights

• Rt56 and AAT are now "going steady". Flowers, dinner, and maybe coffee might be involved.
  
• Complete revamp of the Israeli tree, with a revamped independence war and 10 different possible leaders.

AAT-Specific

• Most new advisors/leaders/commanders etc. processed, with appropriate advisors available depending on chosen tree.
  
• A bunch of new states, mainly in Scandinavia.
  
• Notably not (yet) ported: AI behaviour for new countries (TODO), new combat width meta. (do you want this?)
  
• [AAT] Gamerules to select focus trees for all new countries.

Additions

• More unique focuses for Tannu Tuva.
  
• Some new achievements.
  
• Added the mayor of Cayenne and head of the pro Free France committee as a historical democratic leader for Guyana.
  
• New Slovak commander Stefan Jurech.
  
• Added the Sultanate of Darfur to the map.
  
• [NSB] Expanded light tank technology.

Adjustments and Balance

• The Italian Air Force is strengthened with ~1400 planes, compared to the vanilla 700.
  
• The Italian divisions are overall better equipped at the start.
  
• German civil war democratic side made to have slightly more divisions, this should make them win more often.
  
• Disabled silly "overlord adjective" "country name" puppet names.
  
• [BBA] Italy starts with the Heavy Machine Gun technology.

Fixes

• Restored cores for Naples which are used in Italy fragmentation game rules.
  
• Iran's communist plan and Andorra's flexible foreign policy AI plans should now work.
  
• Fixed Colombian focus "War with the Andeans" automatically bypassing.
  
• Fixed Austrian focus "Restore the Liechtenstein Protectorate" automatically bypassing.
  
• Added generic advisors to more tags that were missing them.
  
• Azad Hind now has access to an economic focus tree path.
  
• Fixed shared focus "Baltic Unification" not giving cores on all Baltic states for players without WTT.
  
• Fixed missing description of the fall of Ulan Bataar.
  
• Fixed missing event for Stresa Italy.
  
• [BftB] Turkey can no longer defile *and* continue Ataturks legacy.
  
• [BBA] Italy should now pick between all its AI plans for going alternate history (Except Roman Empire).
  
• [Non-BBA] Italy should now correctly go monarchist, while Mussolini can do alternate history diplomacy that's done by dedicated leaders for BBA users.
  
• [Non-BBA] Fixed the cost of the initial level of the Flying Boat.

AI

• Soviet Union concentrating too many troops in the Far East during a European war has been resolved.
  
• Italy will be more aggressive in the Ethiopian theater.
  
• Germany would deploy more troops to the Russian frontline.
  
• The minimum required number of supply trucks for AI has been slightly increased.

Localisation

• Rewrite localization for Convoy Supply technologies.
  
• Fixed some typos in the German 'Establish Reichskommissariats' decision category.

GFX/UI

• Additional fixes and improvements for generic portraits.
  
• New Chilean portraits have been added for Anton Pulanich, Olegario Reyes del Río and Emilio Daroch Soto.
  
• New Slovak portraits have been added for Ariosto Herrera, Franz Karmasin, Jan Ursiny, Janko Jesensky, Gustav Husak, Jan Golian, Jozef Nemsila and Rudolf Viest.
  
• New icons for CAS 0 and CV CAS 0.
  
• [LaR] Added Kaiserreich operatives.
  
• [Non-BBA] The Italian Naval Bomber I "SM.79 Sparviero", was replaced by the "Caproni Ca.335".

Credits

• Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project, as well as for opportunities to learn about the related history.

Contact Us!
Questions? Comments? Let us know at Discord[discord.gg]. We'd love to hear from you!


Highlights

• Focus tree for Québec, which for now is only accessible when releasing it.
  
• Reworked the Uruguayan focus tree.
  
• Added CAS '30 , CV CAS '30 , Naval Bomber '30 and CV Naval Bomber '30 for non-BBA interwar counterparts.
  
• Added new combat tactics.

Additions

• Expansion to the Liechtenstein focus tree.
  
• Netherlands-specific Benelux coring decisions.
  
• Added a decision for warlords to join the United Front against Japan.
  
• Added a new general and army chief to Carpathian Ukraine. Will this be the final bit of content for them?

Adjustments and Balance

• Venezuelan 'Constitute women's rights' now changes the legal status of women to full equality.
  
• Historical air orders of battle have been implemented in Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, United Kingdom and France for both BBA and non-BBA players.

Fixes

• Chilean AI should no longer let a civil war happen on historical.
  
• Turkey now correctly starts with Etatism.
  
• Fascist Monaco now has a flag.
  
• Issues with Yoshisuke Aikawa and Naoki Hoshino advisors for Manchuria resolved.
  
• Vienot Agreement now available for Communist France.
  
• Republican Spain will no longer send their soldiers on voyage around Africa during the SCW.
  
• Sinkiang and Tunganistan are prevented from joining United Front until they have dealt with each other.
  
• Wanda and Wladyslaw will not leave Polish government after their faction is disbanded.
  
• Fixed some of the generic portrait names, now they should reappear again.
  
• Korean Independence Party name should be properly displayed.
  
• [Non-MtG] Portugal no longer starts without ships.
  
• [BBA] Selecting the R56 Swiss tree no longer means getting stuck with unhireable DLC army chiefs.

AI

• Improved aircraft templates.

Localisation

• Local names for Hazaristan.
  
• Fixed typo in Dutch operation Stroopwafel.
  
• Added Carlist and Anarchist operation names. The Carlist names are inspired by Spanish galleons from its golden century while the anarchist names are mostly written in Esperanto.

GFX/UI

• Portrait for Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, leader of Hazaristan.

Credits

• Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project, as well as for opportunities to learn about the related history.

• Quickfix for some missing portraits.

Contact Us!
Questions? Comments? Let us know at Discord[discord.gg]. We'd love to hear from you!


Highlights

• Focus tree for Costa Rica.
  
• Completely redesigned post-independence Palestine tree to address gameplay complaints and make it more unique to play (same for Israel is coming soon!).

Additions

• Added Delaware to the map.
  
• Additional focuses for Egypt and Liechtenstein.
  
• Added the Strait of Tiran between Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
  
• Added some more flavour to Israel.

Adjustments and Balance

• Nerfed Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's 'Conservative Nationalist' trait.
  
• Buffed Belgium starting air strength significantly.
  
• Structural and balance changes to Road to 56 Germany, to make paratroopers/marine focuses more attainable and impactful among other things.
  
• [NSB] Updated "Field Test New Tanks" for Czechoslovakia with NSB rewards.

Fixes

• Fixed 'Liechtenstein Gold Trade' from creating negative modifiers.
  
• Fixed the Azad Hind not being able to control all of Burma.
  
• Fixed a French focus being hidden under 'La Cagoule Coup'.
  
• Fixed an issue where Operation Charlemagne was not moving with the rest of the French monarchy branch.
  
• Battlecruiser Operational achievement is now possible to complete.
  
• Fixed an Egyptian submarine was incorrectly classified as a Heavy Cruiser I.
  
• Fixed an issue where a Heavy Cruiser class of Argentina was incorrectly classified as II.
  
• Fixed an issue where a Heavy Cruiser class of Spain and Portugal were incorrectly classified as I.
  
• Fixed 3D unit movement on the map being broken around San Marino.
  
• Manchuria can no longer get stuck with a high tier of low legitimacy due to Japan changing the tier of this idea.
  
• Installing a puppet government in Denmark won't give you North Schleswig if you aren't someone with a claim to it.
  
• Iraq now actually gets France's Syria if they successfully demand it. The demand Cyprus focus has been made owner-dynamic and the Gulf colonies demanding no longer works while at war with the UK.
  
• Changed Namibia back to Namibia as a strategic zone.
  
• [DoD] End the Regency will correctly instate Peter II as leader.
  
• [NSB] Fixed a bug that was preventing the light superstructure from being allowed to function as a light tank and use light weapons, such as L3/35 or TKS.

AI

• Alternate history AI game rules for Egypt.
  
• Template improved from 9/3 to 9/2, reducing strains on artillery production. It will be revisited after the width change of Beta.
  
• The AI would invest less in air equipment.
  
• Added AI strategy plans for Egypt.
  
• [MtG] The German historical AI will not focus on capital ships anymore due to a condition misplacement.

Localisation

• Localization fixes for Liechtenstein.
  
• Partial localization for Australia.
  
• Made the Iranian "Restore Constitutionalism" localisation dynamic, since it's recycled in the Saudi tree.

GFX/UI

• New portrait for Abbas II of Egypt and Albania.
  
• A few new political advisor portraits for Liechtenstein.
  
• Minor updates of two loading screens.
  
• Revamped ideologies icons.
  
• The new equipment icons from Lamp's Eqpt Icons for British armour have been integrated with the previously-overlooked tank icons.
  
• [BBA] Revamped airframe icons.

Credits

• Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project, as well as for opportunities to learn about the related history.

Contact Us!
Questions? Comments? Let us know at Discord[discord.gg]. We'd love to hear from you!



Highlights

• For historical flavor, the Soviets will now attack Poland as in real life, with associated content for Poland, their faction leader and Germany.

Additions

• New Democratic Japan Path.
  
• Manchurian Investment Tree Overhauled.
  
• New decisions and state modifier for partisans in occupied German land.
  
• New Union Stabilization mechanic to improve Levantine Union gameplay.
  
• Revamed Levantine Union democratic tree.
  
• Revamped Israeli war tree and tweaked effects for some focuses.
  
• Additional focuses and decisions for Liechtenstein, including their own gold trade!
  
• New focus for Czechoslovakia and Poland for Liechtenstein-owned properties.
  
• Added a new way to kill Hitler.
  
• Added Kazakh characters.
  
• Added communist focuses and some other improvements for the Norwegian focus tree.
  
• Added Gyorgy Lukacs for communist Hungary.
  
• [LaR] Added anarchist commanders.
  
• [LaR] Reshuffled Portugal democratic path to make it more appealing.
  
• [MtG] Added a news event if Trotsky takes control of Mexico. (featuring Frida Kahlo)

Adjustments and Balance

• Changed RT56 Manchukuo tree to not break if you aren't a puppet.
  
• Light Tank Recon can no longer get 300 soft attack.
  
• Made it so Hungary's 'Liechtenstein Treaty' actually include Liechtenstein.
  
• Changed Poland's monarchy from despotism to absolute monarchy.
  
• The technologies increasing the range and building speed of supply hubs can now be identified under the name: "Supply Node Technologies" in some focus trees.
  
• Improved communist canada slightly and changed incorrect traits of some of their chiefs of the Navy and other details.
  
• Enver Hoxha for communist Albania now has a trait, making him more viable in the leader choice event.
  
• [DoD] Romania getting German licenses will also come with a free military factory.

Fixes

• Puppeted France/Britain can no longer leave your faction to create NATO.
  
• Fix incorrect traits for advisors in Cuba.
  
• Fix a problem about the number of research slots in Armenia.
  
• [BFTB] Said-i Nursi will no longer fire himself, making him unselectable.
  
• [BFTB] Added a bunch of bypasses in the Turkish focus tree.
  
• [WTT] If the Netherlands is a puppet of Germany, they will not refuse to release the Kaiser.

AI

• AI Majors should not be obesssed with planes.
  
• Told the AI to use the added R56 technologies they were ignoring since the release of NSB.

GFX/UI

• Added small versions of Central Asian portraits.
  
• Added more unique capitulation pictures.
  
• Fixed some badly written dynamic pictures.
  
• Replaced some focus icons.
  
• Replaced some Ukrainian portraits.
  
• [Not NSB] Anna Anderson - Anastasia Romanov will not appear as a man in multiplayer for those without NSB
  
• Fixed some starting plane variants using default pictures rather than interwar planes.
  
• [BBA] Turkey will have Jet 2d icons.

Hi Folks! June's here and we have another batch of goodies for you to enjoy! Check it out below.

As always, we appreciate your support and continued feedback... so long as you put it in a haiku poem. All other forms of feedback will be ignored for the month of June.

-Gxp & Co.

Contact Us!
Questions? Comments? Let us know at Discord[discord.gg]. We'd love to hear from you!


Additions

• Additional states in Burma, Israel and Jordan.
  
• Minor content improvements and focus reshuffles for Israel.
  
• Slightly adjusted pre-independence tree and added peaceful dissolution path for Mandate of Palestine.
  
• Added AI preferences game rules for Mandate of Palestine and it's splinters.
  
• Army tree for Burma.
  
• Added several unique advisors for Burma and Liechtenstein so they are no longer generics.
  
• Additional focuses and reshuffling for Liechtenstein, along with new flavour events.
  
• Added some historical leaders to Italian releasable states.
  
• New national spirit for Germany featuring the struggle against Soviet state on the Eastern Front.
  
• Political tree for Nigeria. (it's mostly a copy of Mali with minor changes)
  
• [NSB] Added small post unification trees for Idel-Ural, Transcaucasia and the Mountain Republic.
  
• [BBA] Made some effects better suited to the new structure of the air research tree.
  
• [LaR] Replaced generic end of mission warning with unique one for (almost) each spy mission.

Adjustments and Balance

• The Philippines now starts as a protectorate rather than a puppet.
  
• Improved some rt56 Canadian focuses by shortening them or adapting the effect to recent DLCs (NSB and BBA).
  
• Changed the trait of some Canadian characters to make them more interesting choices.
  
• Memel/Klaipeda is now demanded with better historical timings.
  
• Slightly changed Anschluss requirements to match both (Road to 56 and Vanilla) focus trees.
  
• Italo Balbo's friendly fire death now only happens if Libya has recently been target of strategic bombing instead of in any war with a major.
  
• [LaR] Some minor improvements to Anarchist Spain

Fixes

• Fixed the Vichy France tree.
  
• Fixed a Belgian focus taking over a year to complete.
  
• Fixed Israel not capitulating due to them holding a lake.
  
• Disabled a political advisor for France that required a disabled focus.
  
• Fixed some design problems in the Kazakh focus tree, added a pro khanate advisor (it's a guess, considering how many died under Stalin).
  
• Fixed some wrongly attributed dynamic event images (the American fall of Berlin, the independence of Canada).
  
• The Polish army can no longer blow up infrastructure in lands that Poland cedes.
  
• Czech focus "Petition League of Nations" should have correct effects on the outcome of Munich Conference.
  
• USSR will not suddenly re-emerge after the peace deal where multiple Russias were established.
  
• Venice is no longer given Suez if released by gamerules.
  
• Fixed the formation of the Baltic alliance in the R56 Lithuanian focus tree.
  
• Fixed some Iranian military advisors in Iran.
  
• Fixed some Manchu military advisors in R56 focus tree.
  
• [DoD] Yugoslavia can no longer do the join Comintern if there is no communist faction available.
  
• [NSB] "Form Scandinavia" should now correctly display for Estonia.
  
• [BftB] Greece shouldn't continue to drift towards communism if its government is overthrown

AI

• Finnish AI will be less likely to accept demands for Karelia if USSR has little army (on the border to them).
  
• Severely decreased chance to obtain Sudetenland by peace as Germany. No warmongers are welcomed here.
  
• German AI will be more inclined to ignore their Eupen-Malmedy claim.
  
• The AI should dig for resources more if it has lots of military factories, this should help the US which tends to suffer from large resource deficits in the late game.
  
• Made some underresearched techs more likely to be picked by the AI with actual tips on when to choose them.
  
• AI will be more willing to pick national characters.

Localisation

• Fixed the starting names of the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand.
  
• Updated the names of many Liechtenstein focuses to make them less generic.
  
• Iraqi tooltip about them not being able to join the war has now the correct localization.

GFX/UI

• Focus icon rework for Iran.
  
• Several new portraits for Burma.
  
• New portrait for Josef Hoop, democratic leader of Liechtenstein.
  
• Changed some overused national spirit icons in Australia, New Zealand.
  
• Made the mod compatible with the Eastern Front Plane pack cosmetic DLC.
  
• Added a Bulgarian Me 262.
  
• Custom picture of Japan allies Britain.
  
• [NSB] Fixed the order of the recommended tank icons in the tank designers.
  
• [BBA] Improved the 2D/3D use of the plane designer.