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With the setting sun...an EB-57E Canberra.

U.S.C.G. Grumman JF-2 "Duck" (1941)

If you've ever supported the When Thunder Rolled Project in anyway, first again accept my sincere appreciation and gratitude. I would ask that you please email me with your contributions list and an upcoming announcement at: admin@whenthunderrolled.com . If you're still interested in contributing in some way, we welcome and encourage you to reach out. Just to avoid any misguided speculation, this request is not implying any near-term release date. Thanks again, here's a good blast of early 2Q 2019 WTR screenies that are long overdue...hope you enjoy.

Supermarine Seafire FR.46 - 870 Squadron, Royal Canadian Navy, 1952 Skin Credit: Amariani

Action over the Battle of the Bulge terrain...

you forgot option 4,,,, 4) Win the lottery, forget about everything , and travel the world..LOL

There is NO mission editor in ANY of the 1stGen games (SFp1/Wo*). What JosefK was referring to was SF2, which does. So, disregard that post completly. As I said in my post, all you can do is save the mission, and then edit it by hand in notepad. That is it.

Wrench, I am aware of the availability of that spitfire VIII. Much appreciated! Nevermind why I do what I do anyways. Amariani. This is a strange node transplant mod like Avia S-99 flaps fix. I don't know how to share it yet. In case of interest PM me for instructions. Screenshot thread, sorry I am not home yet to grab one... Fixed! (Waterworld - Dryland oil refinery - Strike)

Romanian AF circa 1977

That F9F post gets my nomination for post of the month on this thread. CL

Don't for a second think that we don't appreciate your efforts in wrangling the beast in order to produce your quality wares, Veltro!

Dry Dock

Early in the war.....

I am sick and tired of working with 3D studio 2009 because it doesn't really support DirectX 10. 3-views look all blurry and paint looks like a first grader who needs glasses did it.... I have the 2011 version ,but of course the TW exporter is not compatible. and I might as well blow smoke up my butt before TW does an upgrade....a bit frustrating

There are two editors for SFP1 available here:

1983 is the default 'end date' for all the 1stGens No, you cannot take off or land on carriers in single missions in ANY of them. To start with, carriers are only available in WoV (wings over vietnam), and only in campaigns. Another of the reasons that SF/Wo* are deader than a door nail

@rwatson Check your messages. I invited you to join a PM thread that has just about everything needed to get a WWII ETO install started. I made it to help out another player with this same issue. It has been five years since I put in together so a lot of mods have come out since but it should still give you a good starting point.

Hello russouk, I just wanted to correct what you stated if you don't mind me doing so. you can only use max 2010 to save as 2009 but anything above that can only save three down for example 2014 can save as 2013, 2012, 2011. with the exception for 2011 cant save down.

Have a look through the knowledge Base first (https://combatace.com/forums/forum/99-thirdwire-strike-fighters-knowledge-base/) that'll get you acquainted with the nuances of editing the game. It can seem a little intimidating at first, but once you understand how the game operates, the file structure, where to place assets, etc, you'll find it's quite easy to alter. If landing on a carrier in a campaign is what you're aiming for (can't do it in a skirmish as far as I'm aware, sorry), then there's a specific section for that (https://combatace.com/forums/forum/190-adding-carriers-to-campaigns/) but again, it'll be fairly useless to go straight there if you don't know how to mod campaigns. But that is covered in the link to the knowledge Base. If you want to fight modern day fighters instead of early gen Red air, there's a relatively simple way to do that: install the aircraft as instructed in their readme files or as described in the Knowledge base, then go into the game's main folder (where the game's .exe is located). There should be a file called 'options.ini'. Make sure it's not set to 'read only'. Open it, then scroll down until you get to a subsection called [SingleMission]. It should look like this: [SingleMission] AircraftType=RAN FB-117A MissionMap=BOWL MissionType=STRIKE MissionTime=DAWN MissionWeather=SCATTERED AirActivity=LIGHT AirDefenseActivity=NORMAL LoadMission=FALSE LoadMissionFilename= MissionYear=1998 StartYear=1934 EndYear=2025 <<------------------------------------ Edit the year. Yours will likely be the default 'EndYear' which I think is in the 70s. Service=Australia You're going to want to edit the 'EndYear=' part. I usually change it to 2060 or higher. Now save the file. When you start the game, you should be able to select the year in the Single Mission menu to any time up to the year you changed it to. Any fighters that are available in the year you choose should be both available to fly with, or against. Whether or not enemy aircraft will be armed with any external loads will depend on if you have a weapons pack mod installed, or if the aircraft's loadout files use the default weapons names (ie AA-8, AA-9, AA-10, etc), or weapons pack designations (R-27, R-73, R-77, etc)***. My guess is that they probably won't have any weapons other than their guns, possibly not even those. Again, this will make sense if you read through the Knowledge Base section on adding weapons, or editing aircraft loadouts. Give the KB a read and have a play with it, and you'll figure out how the sim works pretty quickly. (***I should stress that, given this game is set in the 1950s to late 1970s period, you won't see modern missiles or basically anything made after 1970s without installing a weapons pack.)

If you set the material editor to "Hardware Display with Maps" it should make it smoother and clearer. Look at the difference in the 2 screenshots provided. Using 3D Max 2009. 1 with a standard display with maps which looks like you described lol. But if you set it like how I explained it should be better. You'll see more details/get better results. Another example

This do you.?...needs proper decs tho one on left is painted atm

you can use max 2014 iirc they save files as max 2009 I think I know 2011 does some of the plug in sites that have developers there sometimes do stuff by request,might be worth us trolling the sites and finding a guy who can make new exporters,there are clever peeps out there..btw i use 64bit then export out via 32bit one.

Spitfire VIII SEAC (Stock DLC Spitfire 9C with modded tail and tail-wheel)

Israeli F-16s...

Seafang dabbydociuos...

GAF F-4F

Coming along..

Hawkeye on Patrol:

Aussie Canberra B.20's

May the VooDoo be with you.

Corsair have one of the best skins I've seen in SF2 ;-)

Just some random stuff of AI

F-47N... prepared for training !

MATS C-135A.....when color mattered