citizen67 Posted October 21 Posted October 21 22 hours ago, Gepard said: I'm near to finishing DRV 2.1 terrain. The only thing i still have to do is to rework Da Nang AFB again. Give me two weeks. There will be also a campaign?
+Gepard Posted October 21 Posted October 21 1 minute ago, citizen67 said: There will be also a campaign? I have not planned to create a campaign, so far. 1 1
+Gepard Posted October 24 Posted October 24 Da Nang Air Base (WIP) It is still a long way till it will be finished. 5 3
Tannethal Posted October 24 Posted October 24 Hi there guys. You are doing a awesome job of revitalizing this terrain! This sparked my interest to check in after ages. And my hat's off to wrench for even bothering with my old edits of Ubon and NKP. And yep i did n't bother with explaining why one needs to renumber / dupicate check target.ini entries . But hey you are a Modder and worked it out. These were done from screenshots of SEA Airbases from MS Flightsimulator and FS Scenery creator with a lot of help from Polak and later Swambast. Way back before the target area editor. Was a fun time and your retouching of this stuff brings up fond memories. Real life interfered with modding, but still have installs of SF2 on my pc. Time to dust them of. Gepard: think i used some of your Airbase objects back then and i think i even made one retexture for NKP to give it that dark blakish tarmac look. However I'm really enjoying your expansion of the airfields / bases. Btw. did a Sampan Mod for WoV too, and one sampan was skipped, the sail one LOD is 90° offset/moving sideways.... Been there done that, LoL Looking forward to the release! 2
Tannethal Posted October 24 Posted October 24 1 hour ago, Gepard said: Da Nang Air Base (WIP) It is still a long way till it will be finished. And seems i did a early DaNang Wip in 2009 too, not released and source files most probably gone for good. 6
+Wrench Posted October 24 Posted October 24 Tannethal, nice of you drop by!!! Thanks for the kind words!!! You gave me (us) a great framework to work with. Yup, Gepard has his hands full, and is doing a GREAT job on this!! Too bad about the Da Nang layout. But, hey, it happens to us all! Stick around for a while, see how things turn out!! 2 1
+Gepard Posted October 26 Posted October 26 Da Nang AFB (WIP) consist now of 500 single parts. Not finished yet, but the finish line is close now. I still have to do the airfield ini with the parked aircrafts for Da Nang and then i will make the never finished north vietnamese airfield Dong Suong. 7
+Gepard Posted November 3 Posted November 3 A question for the wisdom of the forum: Where was the control tower of Da Nang AFB located? I placed it at the tip of the arrow. Is this correct? 2
+Gepard Posted November 4 Posted November 4 The never finished airfield of Dong Suong The Americans bombed it so often, that it never became operational. 2
+Sundowner Posted November 6 Posted November 6 Not too sure about your Da Nang tower location but my reference's show it further down to the south on the old original pan, basically between those first 2 large hangars in your screenshot. Originally the old French built tower was used for a short while before the US built their own wooden structured version which again was in time replaced with a more modern "concrete" structure. All these US bases are very hard to depict accurately as they changed so much in the early years as various combinations of materials were used during construction then upgraded as need to suit newer aircraft coming the war zone, just the types and sizes of the revetments alone can be a complete nightmare 2
+Gepard Posted November 7 Posted November 7 I thought, that i would be close to finish the terrain. But when i placed Monkey Mountain EW site close to Da Nang i found out, that i had forgotten to place TOD trees and objects to a couple of tiles. Back to drawing board! Monkey Mountain Facility and clearly to see, that the trees are missing. 4
+Baltika Posted November 9 Posted November 9 Hey Gepard, Great work you are doing here! Thanks for your time and effort, I am looking forward to the full release. Slainthe! Baltika 2
+Gepard Posted November 9 Posted November 9 Over the weekend i made the TOD files, which i missed the last time. Then i made 2 new tiles for the coastline and created for them the TOD files. So the Da Nang area looks at the moment I reworked the coastline a little bit to come closer to the reality. This is the look to the north, the peninsula in direction of Hue. In the next days i will make final checks, to find mistakes. Then i will write the readme and give credit to all guys, whom files i was using in this terrain. And afterwards i will release DRV 2.1 When all runs fine release will be next weekend. 7
+Gepard Posted 3 hours ago Posted 3 hours ago (edited) DRV 2.1 terrain is uploaded now. The Admin must give the okay, then you can download it. Here a look in the readme: DRV 2.1 terrain Democratic Republic of Vietnam or better known as North Vietnam ***************************************************************************** ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This terrain is written for SF2NA and SF2E or SF2I or SF2V. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I. Short description: This terrain covers North Vietnam, parts of South Vietnam and Thailand. The timeframe of the terrain is from 1964 to 1979. It is made as a NavalMap so that you can fly carrier missions against North Vietnam. You can fly following missions for the Americans and their allies, the South Vietnamese: SWEEP,CAP,ESCORT,INTERCEPT,STRIKE,SEAD,ANTI_SHIP,RECON,CAS,ARMED_RECON For the North Vietnamese you can fly this missions: CAP,INTERCEPT DRV 2.1 is an updated version of DRV 2.0, which is a rework of DRV 1.4, a terrain which i made 20 years ago. I gave it a new tileset, reworked some tiling and some target areas. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I+. Update DRV 2.1 reworked the tiling of the terrain reworked the placement of TOD objects on the tiles. removed as many "potholes" in the landscape as possible added the north vietnamese airfield Cat Bi reworked all north vietnamese airfields to gives them a more or less correct layout reworked all american air bases, to give them a more or less correct layout renamed airbase Cam Thy to Tho Xuan renamed airbase Hue to Phu Bai Combat Base added the airfield Da Nang East (Marble Mountain Airfield) reduced the number of SAM sites relocated Gia Lam Airfield from west of Hanoi to east of Hanoi ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ II. INSTALLATION: To run this terrain you need SF2NorthAtlantic and SF2 Israel or SF2 Europe or SF2 Vietnam. Unzip the folders Objects and Terrains into your saved game folder ...ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2XXXX Thats it. If you have SF2Europe installed you must do nothing more. If you miss SF2E and have SF2Israel you must open file DRV.ini with Notepad editor and look for the lines: //CatFile=..\IsraelME\IsraelME.cat CatFile=..\GermanyCE\GermanyCE.cat change the entry into: CatFile=..\IsraelME\IsraelME.cat //CatFile=..\GermanyCE\GermanyCE.cat If you have SF2Vietnam, but no SF2 Europe then open DRV.ini with Notepad editor and look for the lines //CatFile=..\VietnamSEA\VietnamSEA.cat CatFile=..\GermanyCE\GermanyCE.cat change the entry ino: CatFile=..\VietnamSEA\VietnamSEA.cat //CatFile=..\GermanyCE\GermanyCE.cat save the file ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ III. Credits. Tileset is basing on Starys Green Hell 3.0 tileset. I converted it to jpg format and merged the 512x512 tiles to 1024x1024 pixel tiles. Tileset green made by Wilches Korat Air Base ArmourDave Huey Wrench Cobra ??? Radardome Grumpapotamus airfield components are taken from AirfieldDevKit_v1.1 made by Pureblue design of Nakhon Phanom AFB by Wrench, inspired by Tannethal, modded by me design of Ubon AFB by Wrench, inspired by Tannethal, modded by me Crader Wrench Techniker.LOD is made by Geezer, modded by me industrial factories are made by Geezer. POW.LOD is made by Geezer, modded by ZwergUhu Pit1 is made by Raven, modded by me I hope i have not forgotten someone. . ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IV. This Terrain is Freeware. Commercial use is not allowed. And i say it again for the YAP, YankeeAirPirates file thiefs, the usage of this terrain and/or parts of the terrain for commercial use is not allowed!!!!! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ V. For remarks, comments, bugs, etc please use CombatAce forum or send me a PM. Hope you enjoy it. Michael (Gepard) Made in Germany 16. November 2025 Edited 3 hours ago by Gepard 1
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