A-6A Intruder - 'Flight of the Intruder' Special Edition

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A-6A Intruder - 'Flight of the Intruder' Special Edition

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A-6A Intruder, 'Flight of the Intruder' Special Edition Readme

 

This is a modification of the A-6A Intruder by Monty CZ/Column5, released to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the publication of the novel 'Flight of the Intruder' by Stephen Coonts.

 

 

Ensure you have the weapons pack installed.

 

Instalation:

1) Extract A-6A FOTI file into Objects/Aircraft

2) Optional: Extract Menu file to your main SF/WOV/WOE folder

2) Go fly and blow things up!

 

Contributors:

External model of plane by Monty CZ

Flight model by Column5, modded by gbreuder and allenjb42

Damage model by Monty CZ/Column5

Loadouts modded by allenjb42 to try to reflect the loadouts mentioned in the book for the various missions depicted.

Skins for Devil 505 and VA196 by gbreuder, based on work by pappychecksix

Hangar screen by Wrench, modded by allenjb42

Loading screen - 'Going In Hot' by William S Phillips, depicting 'Flight of the Intruder' author Stephen Coonts in action over Vietnam.

Menu music - samples from the 'Flight of the Intruder' movie soundtrack by Basil Poledouris

 

Thanks to all of those listed above - they did all the hard work and gave their permissions for release, I just packaged it all together - to Stephen Coonts and of course to TK for creating these great games for us to tinker with.

 

The Devil 505 skin represents the A-6A flown by Jake Grafton and Morgan McPherson in the book and movie 'Flight of the Intruder' by Stephen Coonts, who really did fly with VA196 over Vietnam. Although Morg gets killed in the first chapter of the book (and after about five minutes of the movie), he and Jake had flown together for two years prior to that point, so you can use the skin to recreate some of their adventures before Morg's untimely death. Besides, you can use the A-6B to fly with Tiger Cole!

 

Unfortunately there is no publicly available Morgan Mcpherson pilot model at this time, so if someone would be kind enough to make and release one I would be only too pleased to include it in an update.

 

In view of this, the data.ini is set up to use the Jake Grafton pilot available at Wrench's site at http://wrench1smog.com as the pilot, and the default PILOT as the B/N.

 

This plane is compatible with all of the A-6 skins currently available. You'll just need to go into the decal.ini file within the skin folder and edit it so that all references to the original A-6 model the skin was made for are changed to A-6A FOTI. Check out the skin folders within this download for an example.

 

Have fun, and good hunting!

 

Allen (allenjb42) Burton

 

Any problems, find me at combatace.com, simhq.com or column5.us

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• Submitter
  allenjb42
• Submitted
  07/24/2007
• Category
  A-6 Intruder

 

[WombRaider 1]

I would fix that ship name on the tail section, in the movie, they flew from the Independence CV-62, not the Enterprise, CVN-65.

[+allenjb42 4,131]

And in the book it was the fictional USS Shiloh!

 

Stephen Coonts flew from the Enterprise, so it's as much a tribute to him as theplane in the book/movie.

 

If someone wants to mod the skin with the Independence name by all means go ahead and I can add it as an extra skin in any update.

Edited July 28, 2007 by allenjb42

[WombRaider 1]

And in the book it was the fictional USS Shiloh!

 

Stephen Coonts flew from the Enterprise, so it's as much a tribute to him as theplane in the book/movie.

 

If someone wants to do mod the skin with the Independence name by all means go ahead and I can add it as an extra skin in any update.

 

I have both books in the series

 

It is only a minor detail, you did a superb job on the repaint. The sound clips were a nice touch. You made me watch the movie again, twice, lol!

 

If I have the time, I will make the correction, and with your permission, post it.

[+allenjb42 4,131]

That would be great.

gbreuder did the skin, based on pappychecksix's original VA196 skin.

 

Don't suppose you fancy doing a Morg McPherson pilot do you?

Edited July 28, 2007 by allenjb42

[WombRaider 1]

Make him with a 7.62 in his neck maybe? I have not clue one on how to make a pilot in the game. I could perhaps reskin a current one, and post it.

[charlielima 328]

Flight Of the Intruder is about Jake Crafton, who's squadron flew off the Shilo. (CV / CVA what?).

In the next A-6 book, what Marine Corps squadron did Jake fly for and boat they fly off? :ph34r: CL

[+allenjb42 4,131]

Make him with a 7.62 in his neck maybe? I have not clue one on how to make a pilot in the game. I could perhaps reskin a current one, and post it.

 

This might help:

http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showt...mp;hl=one+pilot

 

CL - As far as I know the Shiloh was fictional, and I don't think it ever mentions the squadron. Ditto with The Intruders, I don't recall it mentioning the carrier or squadron that Jake flew with the Marines.

 

I know that Stephen Coonts once wrote that he tries not to use real world stuff too much as he got his fingers burned with one of his books when he had an attempted assasination on President Bush Sr and had Dan Quayle step in to take over (Under Seige)

[VA27Badger 0]

Is there a SF2 version of this AC?

[Wrench 9,477]

The A-6A is stock in SF2:V, but is AI only; not player flyable.

 

HOWEVER....

it's easily converted to player-usable by adding the cockpit bits (some 83-ish items) extracted from WoV (or any 1stGen that has the cockpit parts in it's objects.cat) and transfred over to SF2. You'll need the cockpit and avionics inis as well

 

wrench

kevin stein

[+allenjb42 4,131]

Not as such, but if you download the excellent SF2:V Air & Ground Expansion Pack there are flyable A-6s included, and you should be able to convert the FOTI A-6 to make it flyable in SF2.

[VA27Badger 0]

Thanks guys