F/A-18 Series By The Hornet Team (BETA!)

[+Spectre8750 167]

Thanks Brain!

[GalmOne 1]

This is looking great but each time I install this, my plane is invisible in both the hangar and the game. When I actually start the game, I only get a HUD and no plane, and the game cannot be unpaused :(

[Stick 773]

You have probably inadvertently deleted something.

[GalmOne 1]

I guess I did by merging the folders? I installed it like any other mod. I put it into my StrikeFighters2Vietnam mods directory and merged folders accordingly.

 

Then I tried it again in my StrikeFighters2Europe mod folder which has NO other mods in it. I still had the same error. I forgot to mention that all my missiles are there but the other Hornets, as well as mine are still invisible.

Edited February 17, 2013 by GalmOne

[slick cowboy 142]

small bug... when I load an AGM-88 HARM i get a black pylon... something's missing... or am i missing an update?

[Svetlin 541]

No, you have come accross an old skin, that does not have the Harm adapters painted on.

[slick cowboy 142]

ok, i'll have a look in my weapons folder then

maybe i forgot to paste something, thx

[+EricJ 4,242]

It's not something in the weapons folder, the HARM adapter is part of the aircraft skin itself: The area inside the red rectangle are the HARM adapter textures I use.

[slick cowboy 142]

okido strange...

i'll re-download everything to be sure

[+SupGen 79]

A lot of the skins in the original release were missing the texture. Open the skin in Gimp and plop some grey in there; it works.

[+76.IAP-Blackbird 3,557]

Maybe you guys can help me, since this pack was released I couldnt fly those planes. I have a full merged up to date install and have no problems with the NA machines.

The game stops loading and aboart the loading procedure. Never saw them flying ingame.

[+Brain32 265]

Hmm that's mighty strange, although it's hard for me to help as I have pretty much custom version of the mod since working on it but I'll give my best so I need to ask a few questions:

1. Does it happen with all variants?

2. All skins?

3. Tried switching terrains? (99% of my game crashes are due to my terrain tweaking)

4. Perhaps certain mission profiles(CAP,CAS,Strike,Recon etc.) I remember I had some issues with that during beta time.

[+76.IAP-Blackbird 3,557]

I have tried the B,C and D and all ended up with a abrupt loading screen. I have also some troublesome terrains, but the change doesnt made a difference in the result. I have tried Desert, Israel, Germany and many other, just to see how it works.

 

Is there something that needs definatly Win7 or to be run with the NA.exe? I can run all planes so far with the normal SF2.exe and use XP so far. I`m a bit out ideas in that case

[+Brain32 265]

Hmm there really should not be anything but then again I did always ran it on a fully merged install.

 

Perhaps the carrier parking entires?

 

It's in the data.ini under [MissionData] like this:

 

CarrierBased=TRUE

CarrierParkSpan=7.97

CarrierParkAnimationID=7

 

Try commenting them out as that is NA feature although it would be pretty weird if that was the case...

[+76.IAP-Blackbird 3,557]

Good news, seems those files were the one my system doesnt want to load when you using SF2.exe on a XP system. The CarrierBased=TRUE works fine, the rest doesnt. The Bad thing is, the birds looks ugly under XP, the canopy is barely visible and the whole plane looks like a plastic kit. I think it`s time to upgrade to 7. ... unfortunatly

[slick cowboy 142]

i re-downloaded everything (i.e. both zips) and noticed that the decals are missing from the spanish, canadian and kuwaiti horners... luckily i still had the older cf-18 decals, which i think are the same...

[+Brain32 265]

Good news, seems those files were the one my system doesnt want to load when you using SF2.exe on a XP system. The CarrierBased=TRUE works fine, the rest doesnt. The Bad thing is, the birds looks ugly under XP, the canopy is barely visible and the whole plane looks like a plastic kit. I think it`s time to upgrade to 7. ... unfortunatly

Yeah the plane has bump maps and specular maps which are probably not supported under DX9...

[+SupGen 79]

i re-downloaded everything (i.e. both zips) and noticed that the decals are missing from the spanish, canadian and kuwaiti horners... luckily i still had the older cf-18 decals, which i think are the same...

 

Yeah, most if not all can be adapted; I'm doing that myself.

[+EricJ 4,242]

Here's teh decals for the Kuwaiti jets, just drop in your Objects/Decals/FA-18C folder.

FA-18C.7z

[+SupGen 79]

Thanks, Eric!

[+EricJ 4,242]

No problem!

[+SupGen 79]

You know, I think I'm losing my mind, but I completely forget about this thread: http://combatace.com/topic/77999-new-hornet-skins/ . Oh well.

[clanitho 0]

Well the first thing I checked was to compare the rudder section in the data.ini's between the CF-18 and the Blue Angel.........but they seem identical.

I will look further and will post if I find anything.

 

Hi Romflyer, do you find anything about rudder's problem ?

[+SupGen 79]

Hi Romflyer, do you find anything about rudder's problem ?

 

Check the link in my post above.

[clanitho 0]

Cool, many thank's.