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..Uhhh Good morning !

The Shining

Okay, thanks EricJ. Yes, I have SF2:NA. Thanks for the suggestion

Hi EricJ -- can confirm it's happening with the carrier Ronald Reagan. Launching from their, wingmen point nose down through the deck and crash. When launching from the Enterprise, seems to work just fine ... so seems to be an issue with the one carrier as you had said.

There you go TAPES_F-105D.7z

There are parked airliners at Istanbul airport in the Anatolia terrain, and also I think at Sarajevo airport in one of the Balkans terrains (Strahi’s iirc).

uh huh...

For my Vietnam install I'm not using the game "parked" aircraft slots anymore, everything is now a static aircraft so that I can get the right aircraft on the right airbase for the time period. I've also made about 50 (maybe more) extra vehicles, bomb trailers, generators etc & skinned them all to five 1024x1024 jpgs. And about 80+ new buildings all using about seven seperate jpgs. With 650+ tile textures you've really got to get into some creative thinking if you want use-able framerates....distance lods are a must ! As I only fly A/G missions ground object and terrain variation is a must for me........& don't get me started on rivers & roads.....

MiG-21SM. Close to the coastline of the Kuril Islands, mid 1970th.

Most have probably missed this fact that with Strike Fighters 2 North Atlantic, additional types.ini statements for a terrain have been introduced. Here below you'll find the extra ones: [TargetTypeXXX] Reported=FALSE DetailLevel=2 FadeWithDistance=TRUE IgnoreHeading=TRUE AdjustZBuffer=FALSE The most interesting and useful statement is DetailLevel. The Ground Objects graphics setting in the options has always been rather pointless in Strike Fighters as it would only affect randomly parked aircraft. This DetailLevel statement makes it much more useful when applied to most if not all target types defined in a terrain's types.ini. DetailLevel=3 means that the target type will spawn only when Ground Object settings are set to Unlimited, a value of 1 means that the target type will only spawn when Ground Object settings are set to Medium or higher. The below screenshots show it clearly. Ground Objects set to Unlimited; even the smallest eye-candy objects are shown, loading times are obviously higher. Ground Objects set to Low; only priority objects (those that should be targets for missions) are shown, loading times are quicker. The downside is that it requires a terrain modder to add such DetailLevel statement to each of the eye-candy objects in a types.ini file. If you have 300 or more, you can imagine it takes quite a bit of work and trial and error to choose which priority to assign to each object. This update/feature will be part of the IraqWA terrain in a future update of the ODS 30AE mod. The other statements are also used in the stock IcelandNA terrain, here below a summary of what I managed to figure out about them: FadeWithDistance - No matter what, it doesn't seem to work. it would have been cool to have terrain objects fade like TOD entities; most likely this is a placeholder for something TK never implemented properly. IgnoreHeading - Rather self-explanatory, it makes the object type ignore the heading you give to it in a terrain target area of the targets.ini file. TK uses it for the countless tree LODs created for the IcelandNA terrain. AdjustZBuffer - When set to false for runways, they suffer from heavy z-buffering issues on tile based terrains. Most likely this option was needed for specific runways on the IcelandNA terrain, since runway LODs are placed over another LOD, that of the terrain. For our usual tile based terrains, this statement may be of little to no use. Reported - The only statement I couldn't figure out. For sure you wouldn't set it to false for main terrain objects. This info may be useful to terrain modders wiling to optimize their own terrains and make them more scalable depending on graphics settings. Please admins, pin this topic for future reference.

I have no issue with the Super Hornet. You'd have to get with FastCargo as he has the original max files.

Indeed, that's true. You can't use the stock lods for statics. The landing gear doesn't show, and they look like derilects.

trailblazin.... oh, those guys back there look familiar

Hi all, Here’s some great news for WOFF users. Hot on the heels of our recent Battle of France release for our WW2 simulator, WOTR, we are pleased to announce that we are now working on a new WOFF BH&HII Expansion! Current release expected early 2024, and we will release more details as the Addon progresses. Note details may be subject to change.

Back in the Bad Old Days, attrition was going to be a serious problem for NATO forces, forcing you to sometimes go with what you got for the mission tasking. So let's go kill a Hardened Shelter. This is called the I Lost sight of it: Where The F**k is it???!!!??? maneuver. Lost my wingman who decided to go chasing after a Sam Site....and ran into a nest of ZSU-23's. But the target was hit, and home at last.

Someone plays not with hard fm

Hey, is that friendly?

KPAAF MiG-15bis