SF/WO* Object Mods

Another in the series of adding shot up aircraft!
 
(Note: Many aircraft use 2 or more skin bmps, hence 2 or more damage tgas. They are all in their respective folders, excepting those that have only one skin map)
 
-Dev A-Team Aircraft:
 
Ta-183 Huckbein
Ki-45A & C Nick
Ki-61 Tony
Ki-100 Tony 2
Spitfire F. Mk.22
Seafire 46 (called "Seafire47_Holes.tga" - works for both)
Tempest II
B5N Kate
B6N Jill (tenzan)
Ki-46 Dinah
P-40E Warhawk (included RAF/RAAF Kittyhawk)
 
-Wolf257 Aircraft:
 
P-36A Mohawk (remaned P-40B damage, mapping 95% identical)
 
-Ajunaidr Aircraft:
 
Mystere IVA
 
-RussoUK Aircraft:
 
F-84 ThunderJet
Tiger Moth
 
-Pasko's Aircraft:
 
He-219 Owl
F-82 Twin Mustang
F-80 Shooting Star
Vampire FB 5
Venom FB Mk.4
 
 
-Geo's Aircraft:
 
F6F-3 Hellcat (I think the only one he never made any for!!)
 
-MontyCZ Aircraft:
 
-Simon Porter Aircraft:
 
Sea Fury FB11
 
-3rd Wire Aircraft (Stock AI MiGs, etc)
 
IL-28 Beagle
 
 
 
-Other aircraft mods, based on the above units:
WW2 P-80 Mod
WW2 P-82 Mod
 
 
PLEASE read the enclosed readme, it has full instructions for installing.
 
Happy Hunting!
Wrench
Kevin Stein

THIS FILE IS OBSOLETE. NEWER VERSIONS THAT WORK WITH LATEST THIRDWIRE UPDATES ARE AVAILABLE AT THIS SITE.
 
This mod will decrease your take off times by at least 50%. This is done by placing 2 aircraft on the runway and decreasing the separation between the first few aircraft on the taxiway. A couple of issues:
 
1. Third Wire aircraft seem to work well with this mod but some third party aircraft can tend to miss the waypoints due to "bouncing" and they may end up wandering around the airport.
 
2. Due to the reduced taxi and take off separation, large player flyable aircraft may overlap with the A.I. aircraft and explode on the runway. There are 2 optional files for the large airports that were tested with the TU-16 Badger but they may not work with the B-52 which hasn't been tested. If you have A.I. only large aircraft you shouldn't have a problem.
 
 
This mod uses basic runway and taxiway lighting that includes some fixes done by "Sidewinder86", "Eightlein", "Piett" and last but not least, "Comrpnt", who did the tricky fix on the large airport taxiway. Thanks Gents!

<< "I spotted an afterburner plume at twenty miles." >>
 
This is the only quote I recall from a Vietnam War air combat book I read back in hi~school and I forgot the title and author. The author spotted the afterburner at night, against the stars if I recall, and said it was a MiG-21. They (F-4 crew) locked it up and downed it with a Sparrow.
 
The VOLCANO MOD attempts to address, or bring attention to, a long missing feature in all combat jetsims: long distance visibility of afterburners especially at night. To do this, we oversize the afterburners as the sim, along with every jetsim it seems, does not model the brightness intensity of afterburner plumes. The same philosophy was used in sizing the recent 3D Rocket Exhaust effects, making larger flame plumes optional for missiles on a sliding scale of selectable effects sizes.
 
With the smaller of two oversized afterburner systems here, I can just see a MiG-21's pixel sized R-13 afterburner flickering from a little over 20 miles using 30 degree field of view (FOV) and 1280x1024 screen resolution. I believe that higher resolution would allow longer visible distance for any given FOV. The full size screenshot shows very late twilight F-106 AI squadron takeoff to the South, using the smaller size afterburner system. The yellow arrows point to aircraft in full afterburner following the AI leader.
 
The VOLCANO MOD uses specific engine names in aircraft DATA files. Any engine afterburner can be done at any time with a simple calculation. A list of engines currently modelled here and simple formulae for calculating their afterburner data are in the instruction file. These are some of the engines that will be of use in a mythological strategic strike/intercept campaign (Siberian Sky), and include engines that were used, or could be used, by Strategic Air Command (SAC) and manned Soviet Air Defense (IA-PVO) from the 1940s to the 1960s.
 
ThirdWire thread discussing grafix for classical era strategic air warfare: Volcanos erupt on page 3 ~> http://bbs.thirdwire.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=4964
 
"VOLCANO" was a name used by one or two of our Old Timer SF simmers some time ago who poked fun at an early experimental closeup cameo screenshot that I poasted (it looked pretty bad). The name stuck.
 
 
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*** ADDED TO INSTRUCTION FILE, but the replacement Zip file does not seem to upload here. So...
 
Grafix position of the afterburner may need to be changed to taste. This is done by changing the vector ExhaustPosition=[x,y,z], where...
-x is left, x is right.
-y is back, y is forward.
-z is down, z is up.
The numbers are in meters. I prefer the burner flame as close to the nozzle as possible, but without interacting to cause flickering of nozzle/flame.
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Just drop these .INI's into your Salmson2A folder(allow overwrite)
and you will have external bombracks on your Salmson.
 
Bwf.

Radar Screen Relocation
 
This tiny edit helps my tired old eyes see the radar screen by increasing it's size, making it non-transparent and putting in the lower middle of the screen where it doesn't interfere with seeing the outside world. If you like looking at your instrument panel closely or prefer to use the radar screen in the cockpit, this is not for you (and I envy your eyesight!).
 
Unzip and copy the HUDDATA.INI file into your Flight Folder. If you already have one there because of other modifications, you can simply copy and paste the following section:
 
[Display004]
DisplayType=RADAR
PosX=0.4
PosY=0.78
;PosX=0.865 ;ORIGINAL VALUE
;PosY=0.015 ;ORIGINAL VALUE
Width=0.165
Height=0.22
;Width=0.125 ;ORIGINAL VALUE
;Height=0.16666667 ;ORIGINAL VALUE
Alpha=1.00
InitTime=0.0
;Alpha=0.60 ;ORIGINAL VALUE
;InitTime=2.0 ;ORIGINAL VALUE
 
If you don't like the modification, simply delete the HUDDATA.INI file.
 
Enjoy being able to discern your radar returns!
 
Nick Bell
NicholasBell@verizon.net
July 20, 2007

Update for Kesselbrut's infantry pack for SP4. This is a restructure of the flat file layout into a hierarchical structure and change to add the appropriate section to the INI files.

This mod enhances the anti-collision and landing lights for the A-Team's VulcanB2. I've also added lights to the cockpit to illuminate the instruments, which helps with instrument flying at night.
 
Many thanks and credit to the A-team and their contributors for producing the Vulcan B2 add-on aircraft and also for granting me permission to post this related mod. If there are any problems with this mod then please contact me directly, not the A-team. Thanks.
 
Copyright information and installation instructions are included in the ReadMe.
 
Regards, comrpnt.

ZSU-23-4 Pack
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This is just a pack with 4 different types of
ZSU-23-4 that will give you a hard time.
Bad News for Helos and A-10's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe Harriers...............
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Types:
# ZSU-23-4 (1964): pre-production and then initial production models.
# ZSU-23-4V (1968): minor modifications.
# ZSU-23-4V1 (1972): more minor modifications.
# ZSU-23-4M (1977): one extra ammunition panier on turret exterior (now three), added an armoured cover for the guns, upgraded fire-control computer to digital, "Gun Dish" radar can operate independently in search mode rather than only slaved to the guns.
 
These have radar!!! So your aircraft (with RWR) will have a radar warning because
the ZSU-23-4 is tracking you down. If you are in 4 miles or less....
You are screwed... Man aren't you screwed. Just because you have ECM does mean you are safe.
It will still shoot you!!!!! So just take it out or you are dead. Plus
the tracers are set at 1 so you can have bullets in the sky. In night time the
sky fills up with light.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
by : Gerald14 for skins and info
And Combatace and Thirdwire.
Combatace for the hosting and great site
Thirdwire for the model

First Eagles Medals Pack v1.0
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This is an add-on for Third Wire's WWI flight sim, First Eagles ("FE"). The stock FE has a number of limitations on the award of medals (there were only a few medals for each air service, and they could only be won once). This meant that after a short time in service, any pilot you had created in FE could not win any more medals, no matter how successful a mission you flew. I wanted to change that, to provide more medals, and so that a successful mission will bring a medal, even if you have previously won that medal. This package will work with either the stock FE, or FE with the Expansion Pack installed.
 
The medals which will now be available in FE are as follows:
 
British medals (Royal Air Force and Australian Flying Corps):
Victoria Cross
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)
Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE)
Distinguished Service Order
Military Cross
Distinguished Flying Cross
Military Medal
Victory Medal
Silver War Badge
Croix de Guerre
 
French medals (French Aéronautique Militaire):
Legion of Honor (Légion d'Honneur)
Military Medal (Medaille Militaire)
War Cross (Croix de Guerre)
Combatant's Cross (Croix du Combattant)
Verdun Medal
Wounded Medal (Insigne du Blessé Militaire)
 
German medals (Imperial German Army Air Service):
Pour le Merite (Blue Max)
Order of the Red Eagle
Royal Order of Hohenzollern
Iron Cross 1st Class
Iron Cross 2nd Class
Military Merit Cross
War Merit Medal
Wound Badge
 
US medals (US Air Service):
Medal of Honor
Distinguished Service Medal
Distinguished Service Cross
Citation Star
Victory Medal
Purple Heart
Croix de Guerre

U.S Soldier in Vietnam

Vietcong AK-47

ZSU-23 in Green camoflage.

This package includes 8 generic hangars structures with inis and definitions for modders and terrain builders.

This is just yet another open canopy mod, but I went a bit further... For one, mine covers about every TK sim there is. Under the new code, every plane does something(except A-10,A-7s, and Harriers) The A-6, and the F-8E both have folding wings, and will be in that stance when you see them parked on the taxiways. The A-4 DATA inis include the non floppy deck crash into the carrier deck anomoly already installed! I also included all of the available Mig, and Su aircraft in on this mod too!
 
To install....
1. You need the latest patch (except for SFG)
2. If you have a mutant ninja install, this is set up for you! Just unzip to your sim's folder
3. If you do not have a merged install, you need to extract to a temporary folder, then place the plane folders individually.
4.To use the canopy, or wingfold
5.There are several cockpits available for the Mig-21s, and the Mig-17s, and Mig-19s. To make use of this mod fully, you might want to get some flyable red stuff going!
 
I hope you can make use of these files, they definitely added some immersion to my experience to the sim.
 
 
Good Hunting
Warren

IDF_Super-Sherman-M50
 
Need the destroyed model of the M-51
IDF_Super-Sherman-M51_Destroyed
 
Merry Christmas

Experimental, permanent searchlights and flares for nightfighter campaigns and missions.
 
Read the included readme for important information about the limitations and installation procedure.

USA_Sherman-M4a2-76-W

This is an update to the Bloodhound missile which allows the extra boosters to be ejected after use and also a much improved ( real world specs ) data .ini , there is also a minor model change aswell .
I would like to say a big thanks to winterhunter for his help with these updates .

This is a soviet style pilot of the first supersonic-jet era. He is wearing an all closed pressure flight helmet with visor.
As always, this is freeware under the conditions of the "freeware licensing" topic.
No readme included. Just place the files to your "aircraft" folder and add the pilot name "PilotWP" to the entry in the aircrafts Data.ini file!

Operation Desert Storm effects pack beta
 
This is a quick compilation of my current "realistic effects pack" WIP to give you some fresh, balanced effects for excellent ODS mod

oprava skinu bez nutnosti balíku predchozího

Hippy Van skin for RussUK's VW ground object. Quick & Nasty paint job!

Martin Baker Mk.7 Ejection Seat
 
just copy the content in to your Objects/Aircraft folder
 
to edit your data.ini the Pilots position is the Seat Position !!
 
have a look at the read me
 
 
Have Fun
 
ravenclaw_007

British pilot (Alpha helmet standard OD green)
This pilot is a reskin of the Hi-rez typhoon pilot make by Craig (Bongodriver) for his excellent Eurofighter 2000.
My rework was reskin helmet and oxy mask.
This is not seats like usual standard pilot made addons.
It requires a proper seat positioning on each plane.
 
Example with correct position on Tornado GR's using Aleducat MB Mk-10A:
 
// Crew ---------------------------------------------------------
 
[Pilot]
SystemType=PILOT_COCKPIT
Position=0.0,3.9,-0.2
PilotModelName=britishpilot
SeatModelName=Mk10A
SeatPosition=0.0,3.84,0.475
MinExtentPosition=-0.25, 5.91,-0.20
MaxExtentPosition= 0.25, 6.99, 0.92
CanopyNodeName=canopy_front_outer
 
[CoPilot]
SystemType=PILOT_COCKPIT
Position=0.0,2.4,-0.12
PilotModelName=britishpilot
SeatModelName=Mk10A
SeatPosition=0.0,2.34,0.555
MinExtentPosition=-0.25, 4.50,-0.11
MaxExtentPosition= 0.25, 5.44, 1.07
CanopyNodeName=canopy_rear_outer
 
Great for WoE and ODS.
Some Italian Air Force pilots during the leasing of Tornado ADV by the Royal Air Force wore the same equipment (Headgear)
 
Credits:
 
Craig "Bongodriver"
 
 
Enjoy!!!
 
Cheers
 
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