Strike Fighters 1 Series by Thirdwire

UPDATE 8.03.2008
 
v2.01
 
-included missing 23mm.tga and pinky.tga used by 23mmobjecthiteffect -thanks to Canadair for finding it
-included flareflash.tga, available in separate fix download
 
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This is a major update and extension of my "Enhanced Explosions" effects pack.
 
If you've been using original Enhanced Explosions, you know what to expect -Hollywood style cinematic explosions, created to give TK's sims
a blast. Also I still enjoy old "Jane's ATF" very much, and I missed some of it's spectacular fire in the sky lately.
 
New stuff included is mostly about ground strikes and various air2ground weapons effects.

Yes folks, the F-4ES and the RF-4E for Wings Over Israel by the Mirage Factory

Here My first uploaded mission
 
FOR SFP 1 desert terrain, and you may cange, after use Deuces too.
 
YOU NEED :
SU-27 addon http://marcfighters.combatace.com/arq/Marc..._Su-27_v1.0.zip,
 
and UCAVs addon, can download in Combatace >Thirdwire Series > Add-on aircrafts section
How to install :
 
Extract / unzip / unrar
Just drop ( cut or copy, and paste) to the Missions folder
 
and fly
 
ONLY FREEWARE USE !
and free modify
 
vulkan

The truth is i forgot about this skin so if you want a complete Macross skin take and this
 
 
Have fun and a nice fly

Modern Range and Red Range Targets Upgrade
 
This little package will update the Modern Range and Red Range with the addition of more target areas, a new movement ini for practice Armed Recon missions, and general tweeks to some of the destroyed effects. Somehow, it seems to have either gotten lost, or somebody never did upload it......
 
Included is the Factory Place, Truck Depot, and the Rail Yard. The 'ship target', as seen in my WW2 upgrades, has been switched over to use the stock 'Cargo Ship'.
 
Remember -- as there is no ocean on this map, there are NO anti-shipping missions. Also remember, since there are 2 Ranges (one for each side), you =CANNOT= fly a Western/US/NATO aircraft on the Red Range. Just as you =CANNOT= fly a Soviet/WarPac or other 'enemy' classed aircraft on the Range. The game engine WILL crash out with a 'singlemission.dll' fault. So, make sure you have BOTH terrains installed.
 
This mod works in SF, WoV, WoE. It -should- work in WoI with the correct terrain cat pointer; this has NOT been tested, and is at present NOT supported.
 
Please see the enclosed readme for relatively simple install instructions.
 
Happy Practicing!!!
Wrench
Kevin Stein

This is the M270 MLRS used by many countries since the 1980's to present date .

This is the double seater version of the A-7E Corsair.
Please make use of the README file!
 
Enjoy it!
 
Florian

Strike Fighters Briefing Pack Readme
 
For some reason the creators of many of the third party terrains that have been released have omitted to include a briefing.ini file with the terrain or have included a blank document. What this means is that when you click on the briefing tab in the mission setup area you will get a black screen and a CTD, which kind of ruins the atmosphere when you're getting pumped up to go out there to defend the free world against the rampaging communist/Nazi etc hordes.
 
Here is a collection of briefing.ini files for most of the terrains out there that have this problem with what I hope is some appropriate text to get you in the mood for your mission. Feel free to edit them to suit your needs.
 
I've also included English briefing.ini files for Gepard's Israel and Suez terrains as the originals are in German.
 
List of briefings included:
 
AE - Madagascar terrain
AmericaNW - American North West terrain
ANWgreen - American North West terrain (Green)
ANWwinter - American North West terrain (Winter)
DS - Desert Storm terrain
IR - Iran Iraq terrain
Israel 2 - Israel v2 terrain
Israel - Israel terrain
Kosovo - Kosovo terrain
libya - Libya terrain
LibyaWW2 - WW2 Libya terrain
Malvinas - Malvinas terrain
mideast - Middle East terrain
scal - Southern California (Top Gun) terrain
SE - South East USA terrain
Suez - Suez terrain
SW - South West USA (Red Flag) terrain
tiawan - Taiwan terrain (the USAFMTL version)
 
Ibstallation is simple - just extract the briefing you want to the appropriate terrain's folder, which you will already have installed within your Strike Fighters, WOV or WOE Terrain folder. The only other thing you may need to do is to check inside the individual terrain's folder in the .ini file to make sure that the line
 
BriefingText=
 
includes the name of the briefing.ini file. For example, in my Kosovo terrain folder the kosovo.ini file contains the line
 
BriefingText=Kosovo_briefing.INI
 
The only terrains that I know you will have to edit are USAFMTL's mideast terrain (which points to the original desert_briefing.ini) and Wrench's WW2Libya (which points to the libya_briefing.ini). All of the rest should work just fine.
 
Thanks to TK for SF, WOV, WOE, FE and who knows what else, and of course to the creators of all of these fine terrains for enhancing this great game of ours.
 
Have fun, and good hunting...
 
 
Allen (allenjb42) Burton
 
Any problems, find me at combatace.com, simhq.com or column5.us

This is a railway station for DRVv1.4.
Should also run with WoV.

This is the Korat airbase made by Armourdave of the original Vietnam team. All hounor belongs to him, not to me. He gave me the permission to include Korat AB into my DRV terrain and i want to say thank you for it. The base is a nearly 100% copy of the big US base during the vietnam war. And it looks very excellent.
The only weak point is, that you cant destroy single objects of the base, but, i think this is no real problem, because the US bases in Vietnam war were never attacked by vietnamese airforce.

A replacement for SF's default
unpaved desert airfield. Works well with Deuces Euro Terrain mod.

Modification of USAFMTL's Libya map into a WW2 Theatre. Designed for a SF/WoV EAW intall ONLY!! You'll need many WW2 objects; some are packaged, some are not. READ THE README!

Upgrade to concrete , metal runways, runway signs and taxieways for SF:P1 /WoV.

Graphic texture upgrade to SF:P1/WoV runways, taxiways and signs.

WoE Trees by Deuces
 



These are actually the VietnamSEA .TOD files created by Deuces for Wings over Vietnam. At his suggestion, I've renamed them as per the WoE GermanyCE naming convention, and have been using them in WoE with no apparent issues.
 

 
To install: Simply extract the enclosed GermanyCE folder into your Wings over Europe/Terrain folder and accept when asked (or warned) if you wish to overwrite the existing files in that folder (which it actually won't).

This is a mod for Wings Over Europe's GermanyCE Terrain, that includes a new tree texture, as well as new .tod's for almost every terrain tile. The .tod files contain positioning information for trees and objects for each terrain tile type. This mod will give you a much larger amount of trees to look at, as well as a higher res tree texture.
 
Please read the README.

This provides high resolution textures for the 4 stock concrete runways in
SFP1, WOV, and WOE.
 
Each airfield will have unique textures for the runway and taxiway.

If you want the fastest way to go between the two terrains then DL this and follow the install notes. You can then switch between the two with the flick of a button. (1/13/07)

Charles City and Sea repaint.
 
This tileset based on an idea of Charles Gunst who mentioned, that the cities in europe are more gray instead brown. He send me a gray repaint of the city tiles and a darker sea tileset. I made some refinement work and now it is ready for release.
Thanks for the idea and to good cooperation, Charles.

WW2 Axis Bombing Red Range for SF, WoV & WoE
 
This is a modification of several inis, and adding objects to give The Red Range a World War 2 flavor, for the Axis Powers.
This modificaton has been thoughly tested in SF and WoE, but not WoV. You shouldn't have any problems though, by making sure you 'cat file' pointer is pointed to the correct terrain cat. (see the Knowledge Base here at CA, or the newest Range readmes)
 
Many of these WW2 items have been borrowed from other maps, most specificlly Edwards superb PTO and EuroWW2. Others were scattered about, like the train station and factory place.
I'd like to express thanks to the Map Builders for their tireless work, hope I mentioned everyone!!!
 
You'll need the original Red Range installed to make this mod to, as the terrain iteself is not changed. This is an object and ini mod, not a full terrain. You'll also have a NEW movements ini; now you can perform Armed Recon missions.
 
PLEASE read the enclosed readme for full, detailed instructions as to how to install. Although this mod can be used in any install, it is designed with WW2 =ONLY= in mind. Most of these mods, however, can easily be added to any other Range terrain (specifically, the movements ini and the new target areas).
 
= NOTE: one of the 3 new objects is a Nazi flag. If you live in a country where it is illeagle to show the swastika, you can change the pointer in the targets.ini to remove or switch flags. To this end, I've provided an alternative flag. It has already been added to the types ini, so all you need to change is the targets pointer, see full instructions in the readme.
 
Now, no excuses... get out there and practice!! With thanks to Deuces for creating the Range and Red Range, and to Major Lee for pointing the way for the flags. and all the other terrain and object builders!
 
Happy Hunting!
 
Wrench
Kevin Stein

This is just a small package of flags for use in placment anywhere on (just about) any map.
 
Several of these were added to the WW2 Range mods I release a 'ways back, for both Axis & Allied.
There are also (hopefuly) several modern, more current flags for use in the 50-and up for NATO.
 
This pak includes (with their actual part name):
 
WW2:
Imperial Japan - ijflag
Nazi Germany - 3rflag (for 3rd Reich)
Italy (fascist) - itflag (house of savoy sheild)
 
50s and Later:
 
American Flag - AMFlag
Iraq - IQFlag
Israel - isflag
Egypt - egflag
NATO sheild - NOFlag (I know, NO should be Norway, I'll that that one probably as NW)
Netherlands - NLFlag
Belgium -BLFlag
UK - UKFlag
Saudi Arabia - SDFlag
Playboy Bunny - pbflag
West Germany - GWFlag
East Germany - GEFlag
Russia - RUFlag (ok, Soviet Union -- it's still Russia to me!!)
 
There are full, very detailed instructions in the readme, with a complete listing of the flags that can be transfered over to your terrain of choice's ***_types ini, and instructions on how to place (or replace) an existing object with one of the flags.
Please!!! read it!!!!!
 
With thanks to Major Lee, who's DBS US flag inspired me to create these! Sorry, there's no screenshot.
 
Enjoy!
Wrench
Kevin Stein

Update/Upgrade of USAFMTL's Lybia terrain
 
From the Readme:
 
This is mostly a 'fix' of the targets, types, and movements inis.
 
I've peaked and tweeked the targets, mostly to try to remove of 'floating' objects in the Gulf of Sidra, and to add more things for everyone to blow up. I've added the Factory Place, Truck Depot, a Lybian flag to wave in the breeze, and quite a few surprises.
It should be noted, the water mod is NOT included in this pak...the oceans are just plain water, no wave action. You can get Tristan's Lybia water mod here at CombatAce, in the SF/WoV/WoE Terrain Mods section. If you're so inclined...
(the DATA INI is already set up for it's usage)
 
As I always reccomend, unzip to a temp director that's easy to find.
 
== REMEMBER TO BACK UP YOUR ORIGINAL LYBIA DATA, TARGETS, TYPES AND MOVEMENT INIS !!!!! ==
(just my way of saying I ain't responsible for you doing dumb things!!)
 
 
= A REALLY Important note:
 
The targets ini in this pak is designed with the ORIGINAL tileset that came when this map was first released.
I've tested it, in one of my many installs, with Polak's New Desert Tile Set - and it looks SPECTACULAR! But....
there is a problem with using this newest targets ini -- all the stuff will be buried by the latest terobjects (buildings built into the tiles). It makes the cities look how they're supposed to, but the entire targets ini will need rebuilding to move or remove all the added buildings, AA & SAM units, vehicle depots, industrial centers, parked ships, POL depots, well you get the idea -- everything must be tweeked AGAIN to make use of his tile set.
So, I reccomend NOT using his latest and greatest work, until I can get things moved around again.
Which means, expect another version of the targets ini built to work with the newest desert terrain tiles. It's almost ready, so it won't be more than "2 weeks" <vbg>
 
This is just a sample from the readme -- it's very extensive, and give FULL, CLEAR instructions on how to get it to work in all 3 versions of the sim. It also describes in detail what you can expect to see and experience; mostly.
 
There is even MORE information for Vista users on disabling the shader (actually, a full DATA ini already adjusted just for them!).
 
REMEMBER: follow the instructions exactly as they're presented to you...you should have no problems getting this to run.
 
A full listing of credits and other people to blame are in the readme as well
 
HapPy HunTing!!
Wrench
Kevin Stein

Upgrade/Update for Lybia Terrain -- For Use With Polak's New Desert Tiles =ONLY=
 
This is mostly a 'fix' of the targets, types, and movements inis.
 
I've peaked and tweeked the targets, mostly to try to remove of 'floating' objects in the Gulf of Sidra, and to add more things for everyone to blow up. I've added the Factory Place, Truck Depot, a Patrol Boat (stock object, but I'm including all the extracted parts anyway), a Lybian flag to wave in the breeze, and a few other things that'll be surprises.
 
It should be noted, the water mod is NOT included in this pak...the oceans are just plain water, no wave action. This is fixed by the use of Polak's New Desert Tile Set, which includes modified water tgas. This package was designed for using JUST Polak's Desert tiles, so you'll have to go and get them from the CombatAce SF/WoV/WoE Terrain downloads section. The data ini included with this set is already set up for use with his tiles, and the water effects are activated. Vista users should read the note section below, as they are a 'special' case.
 
This has been tested in SF & WoE; It should also work in WoV, but I've not tested it in there.
 
There is, for some reason, a bit of strangness with the Anti-Ship missions. You seem be get given target areas that are NOT listed, far off from the routes I've defined in the movements ini. Also, there is NO provision for CAS missions, as this was originally set up for air strikes, recon, sweeps, etc. SO DON'T TRY ANY CAS MISSIONS - I'm not sure what would happen; you just might be sitting in the cockpit, and get a 'mission accomplished' or it may crash. Don't know.
If anyone is so inclined, and wants to build a 'fix' for the shipping routes, please do so, and post it so all and sundry can have it!
I've also fiddled with target area placements to give some kind of a front line, right across the Gulf.
 
There are further, highly detailed instructions, especially for Vista users, in the enclosed readme -- so for your own sake, read the cursed thing!!!!
 
Don't forget to grab Polak's Desert Tile set, here at CombatAce
 
happy hunting!
Wrench
kevin stein

Upgrade/Update for American NorthWest Series of Terrains
 
The original America Northwest Terrains; AmerianNW, AmericanNWinter and AmericaNWSpring, were released sometime back in 2003. They are exceedling FUN maps to fly on, as they are full of deep canyons and high mountain ranges.
This is mostly a 'fix' of the targets, types, and movements inis. I've peaked and tweeked the targets to add more things for everyone to blow up. I've added the Factory Place, Truck Depot, HQ centers, and 2 country flag to wave in the breeze, one for country 'Orange' (now called the Global Sedition), and 'The Alliance'. The HQ centers have vehicles parked at them, the layout for which was borrowed from Major Lee's DBS - I figured these are all his terrains, so using it would be a pretty cool touch.
 
The movements ini has been expanded to more Armed Recon missions, with additional truck routes for both sides. I added an oil field to the Alliance side, to give the Sedition forces something extra to bomb, and Alliance forces something to protect. I figure the story line would be "short on resources, the Global Sedititon is trying to capture the Salmon River Oil fields for their own"
 
With thanks to Major Lee for permission to modify and share
 
Please!!! read the enclosed readme for more information and full installation instructions -- with a little renamed, this upgrade can be used on all of the ANW terrains - and it's explained "how to"