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Nations & Medals Expansion


Nations & Medals Expansion
April 13th, 2019 (1st Release)
by Menrva


>For Strike Fighters 2 games
This mod is an extension of the stock ThirdWire _nations.ini file. It adds new nations and respective national decals, missing from the stock game, and it adds numerous medals (made by Capitaine Vengeur and Charles) for the stock countries. Here below a summary of the changes:
-Added a number of new service markings decals, for the added nations.
-Remade decals for the fictive countries of SF2 to match the default 256x256 resolution of other national decals.
-The Mercenary decal no longer shows Dhimari colours; now it's generic and adapt for various scenarios involving mercenaries.
-The Soviet Air Force becomes the Russian Air Force since 1992, with proper new decals showing up since 2010.
-The Soviet Naval Aviation (Russian Naval Aviation since 1992) has been added as a separate service.
-The (Free) Libyan Air Force has been added and becomes active in 2012, in place of the Libyan Arab Republic Air Force.
-Biafra and Katanga have been added and are active for a short number of years, as historically accurate.
-The Rwandan Air Force has been added, active since 1962, with later finflash showing up since 2002.
-The Niger Air Force has been added, active since 1961, with alternative insignia in use since 1980.
-The Djibouti Air Force has been added, active since 1977, as historically accurate.
-The missing post-Yugoslavia nations, namely Montenegro and Republika Srpska, have been added.
-The missing ex-Soviet Union nations of Belarus, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan have been added.
-The Irish Air Corps has been added, with alternative decals in use since 1955.
-The People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force has been added as a separate service, active since 1953.
-The Somali Air Force is known as the Somali Aeronautical Corps before 1960, as historically correct.
-The Burkina Faso Air Force is no longer active since 1964, now it's active since 1985; it shows up as the Upper Volta Air Force before 1985.
-The Bahrain Amiri Air Force becomes the Royal Bahraini Air Force in 2002, as historically accurate.
-Created and added low-vis insignia and finflash textures for the Pakistan Air Force.
-Fixed a stock bug in SF2 with the Sultan of Oman's Air Force not being selectable since 1959, as it should be.
-Fixed a stock bug in SF2 with the Republic of China (Taiwan) Air Force not using the old roundel as it should be before 1992.
-Activated unused low-vis finflash included in stock SF2 for the Canadian Armed Forces.
-Other very small changes here and there to other stock nations.
-Added new medals for the following nations and respective services: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, East Germany, West Germany, France, Finland, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Korea, South Korea, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States.

Modders and users are advised to tweak their _userlist.ini files and _data.ini files for aircraft and ships, to make use of the new naval aviation services added by this mod.


>Credits (in no particular order):
-Capitaine Vengeur, for his Modern Russian Federation Medals and Modern Ukrainian Medals packs.
-Charles, for his Medals Pack v2.0 addon for SF1, which I have improved and updated to SF2 standards.
-mue, for sharing info about the functionality of the alias.lst file.
-paulopanz, for creating decals for Rwanda and Niger, which I have further tweaked.
-eburger68, for few decals I borrowed from his huge campaign mods.

I included the original readme files from the mentioned mods, where available, to the end of giving proper credit to everyone involved directly or not.


>Disclaimer:
This is a freeware; yet it can be redistributed ONLY in other CombatACE mods/mod packages.
This mod may NOT in any way, shape or form be used in any payware additions.


 

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This mod is by no means complete. It was sitting on my HD for quite a while, so I have decided to upload it now rather than never. Future updates are to be expected, as I have plans to improve and expand it even more.

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I installed it, but my Campaigns for Strike Fighters 2 using Dhimar and Paran sides stopped to working...since this "sides" dont exists anymore... 

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1 hour ago, madvad said:

I installed it, but my Campaigns for Strike Fighters 2 using Dhimar and Paran sides stopped to working...since this "sides" dont exists anymore... 

Not my problem. This mod does not change stock nations, Dhimar and Paran exist as in the stock SF2 game, they are not flyable. If you want to fly for Paran and Dhimar, you'll have to make your modifications to it. This file is an extension of the stock _nations.ini, it does not remove anything.

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3 hours ago, Menrva said:

Not my problem. This mod does not change stock nations, Dhimar and Paran exist as in the stock SF2 game, they are not flyable. If you want to fly for Paran and Dhimar, you'll have to make your modifications to it. This file is an extension of the stock _nations.ini, it does not remove anything.

Yeah, but in your "nations.ini" this nations does not exist anymore.
All of the AI Planes for this sides become "mercs" and lost the decals

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10 hours ago, madvad said:

Yeah, but in your "nations.ini" this nations does not exist anymore.
All of the AI Planes for this sides become "mercs" and lost the decals

I will not repeat myself again; Dhimar and Paran do NOT exist in the original _nations.ini from SF2. Dhimar and Paran are created in the desert_nations.ini file, in fact they are not flyable, they are AI only. AI planes are using the correct decals on my install, as long as you have not edited the original desert_nations.ini file from SF2.

I have not changed anything to Paran or Dhimar, so this is not my issue. You must be doing something wrong with your installation, because eveything works fine on my end. You must install all that is included, not just the Flight folder, but also the Menu and Objects folder. If you're using modded terrains and/or other files, there's nothing I can do. My mod is simple, unzip and play it. It has no bugs on a clean SF2 installation.

EDIT: if you do not believe me, here's the screenshots.

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The planes are using my hires decals. If you're using a modded Desert terrain, it's your issue, not mine. Attached here the stock desert_nations.ini file extracted from the SF2 game, this is how it has to be: DESERT_NATIONS.INI

I will not provide more help than this. Your issues are due to your custom mod folder. Nobody else has reported such a bug to me, and I cannot replicate it with my own, clean mod folder. For over 100 users, this mod seems to be fine.

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Mod package has been updated to Version 1.1; minor changes + a fix for another bug existing in the stock SF2 game.

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Still pending...

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3 hours ago, Menrva said:

Still pending...

Aproved, mods don't get a warning when a file is updated, best way to procede when that happens is to PM a mod and we will aprove the file in no time.

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1 hour ago, Stratos said:

Aproved, mods don't get a warning when a file is updated, best way to procede when that happens is to PM a mod and we will aprove the file in no time.

Thanks Stratos. So, can I bother you when that happens? I don't want to stress you guys over such things.

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3 minutes ago, Menrva said:

Thanks Stratos. So, can I bother you when that happens? I don't want to stress you guys over such things.

Of course you can, that's my job here, no bother at all!

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Mod package has been updated to Version 1.3; worthy improvements and additions, read the change log for further details.

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Mod package has been updated to Version 1.4; read the change log for further details.

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