Vietnam Air War - Corsairs

[yakarov79]

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Vietnam Air War - Corsairs

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Simple skin pack with a few sets of skins for Navy versions of A-7 Corsair II - A/B/C/E that flew during the air war over Vietnam between 1967 and 1974.

This mod offers my personal approach to the Corsairs in the Vietnam War. It is not intended to replace or compete with previous packs. I recommend testing it before removing any older mods, as you may prefer one over the other.

Basic modding skills are required to run this mod.  (copy/paste, mod folder structure, etc.) 

A fake pilot is required to run this mod.

It is designed for and works only in SF2 series.

To run this mod, you also need access to TW lod files from SF2 Series.

userlist.ini included covering the correct years of use of specific models.

Skins cover the years 1967-1974  CVW deployments during the Vietnam War. All squadrons year by year - and supplement to Intruders from previous pack. So you can have them correctly loaded on flightline... mostly squadron/skin start default date is compatible with A-6. 

The pack contains skins and decals. 

Skins sets are made in pairs - two squadrons for CVW for a specific year. 

I could not find all the correct BuNo / Modex but I am considering this as ongoing work in progress, so one day if I will learn something new there will be an update. Also, not all squadrons have CAG markings, sometimes i could not find info on markings...so I left it, again there might be an update if new info appears.

I believe that the pack after unpacking is around 2.6GB. So make some space for SLUF.

All skins, new bump maps, specular, and decals are made by me. 

 

Mod has the reworked ini files. weapon stations. And specific stations - MERs to accommodate various loadout options. Now, on the outer wing pylon, you have the option to load two different sets of bombs on the front and aft rows on the MER. 
Weapon stations are made in a specific manner. So, a quick explanation. Station group 3 serves as the main mid wing pylon, but to make things a little more fun there is also station group 4-5 that surpasses group -1 - Reason - to load mixed load on MERs. So you can have front row with a different load and aft row with a different. All is quite easy to understand and easy to operate. There is one thing that you have to remember, you should not load  2 pieces of ordnance on those (front and aft) positions - this is a simple walk around the problem so .... on those two stations, the group should be loaded 4 or 6 pieces of ordnance. You play, you will see. Also, I recommend relying on loadout.ini.

USN - MERs and TERs - are compatible with my previous pack - 'Vietnam Air War - Intruders' mod.

On outer pylons  - If you need to use AGM-45 - use loadut.ini setup. This will load Shrikes and launchers automatically, as launchers are set on stationGroup=7 - not visible in the loadout menu.

On mId pylons, you can load launchers on your own (stationGroup=5) and Shrikes on StationGroup=3. Then all is well.

AIM-9 are loaded via loadout.ini. By default I added one sidewinder always loaded. If yo want to change things - edit loadout.ini.

I highly recommend picking up piece by piece from optional mods, testing, and deciding whether to use them or not.

 

Credits:

yakarov79 - launch rails, pilot models, fake pilot parts, templates, skins, decals, research and some other stuff that might be worth mentioning..but I do not remember at the moment. 
All weapons are made by Ravenclaw. I have included in the mod all weapons that are listed in the loadout.ini. files.
refueling pods made by Nyghtfall and borrowed from his A-4 pack.

 

 

This mod or any part of it, in this form, should not be used in any campaign, mission pack, or any mod without my permission. While the model is not mine, all things around the model itself is my work. 

 

report bugs.

enjoy. 

Jarek Hereda.

P.S.

This is huge, a lot of copy-paste for me, all decals.ini, textur.ini, etc...So if you will find that one decal is not showing up or something...just check first - maybe there is some bug in *.ini file. Fix, post solution, etc... So others can benefit from your fix. 

I put a lot of effort and time, and checked everything twice..still gremlins can appear. 

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• Submitter
  yakarov79
• Submitted
  08/20/2023
• Category
  A-7

 

[Sundowner]

Top quality as usual.  

[yakarov79]

Small update. Now it is a full aircraft mod with ini files as a whole mod. And "weapon/skin" - compatible with the previously uploaded Intruders pack. It is also part of my Vietnam War CVWs deployment project.