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Is there a special trick to activate pilot skins in SF 2? I have a Pilot folder in my mods directory. I have there pilots and seats from already installed plane mods; others in their own folders, others no. I downloaded a great set of HD pilots from the SF1 section. I put them in folders just like the other pilots I had and named them after the lod_001 name par ex: Red3202 I properly edited the DATA ini of the plane I want to enable them: // Crew --------------------------- [Pilot] SystemType=PILOT_COCKPIT PilotModelName=Red3202 SetCockpitPosition=TRUE Position=0.0,2.50, 0.73 MinExtentPosition=-0.25, 2.10,-0.40 MaxExtentPosition= 0.25, 2.85, 0.91 HasArmor=TRUE ArmorMaterial=GLASS Armor[FRONT].Thickness=64 CanopyNodeName=Canopy CanopyAnimationID=3 Alas, I keep having the default pilot skin in the plane... I checked the spelling over and over again! What do I do wrong and the skins don't appear? Any ideas?

A scale spoiler for the game also is the different level of detail on various ground objects and the terrain texture tiles... the ground looks blury and the objects crisp... When you fly close to the ground they look like floating on it. Is there a way to fix this? How this is not yet adressed in SF2? I mean what's the need for a 1024x1024 mp pilot skin that the game supports, if it can't support larger ground tile texture resolutions... Am I wrong?

Well not actually,I downdoaded my game recently and was updated by default, but I installed a couple of Campaigns... The funny thing is that even if I had already made a copy of the Aircraft folder, stored in the same directory (unfortunately) my game changed the inis in there too...go figure

I checked it out too and I found the shadows enabled... [shadow] CastShadow=TRUE ShadowCastDist=10000 MaxVisibleDistance=800 I found another problem though... I'm loosing the cockpit .ini entries from the modded planes! It happened twice...for some reason the game restores the edited ini files to their original form. Is this because of an error on my computer?.. because it doesn't happen in my laptop where I have also a modded installation...

I've just noticed this strange bug in MiG-17 A... Only the pilot casts shadow, not the plane ! Has anyone noticed this before? Graphics are maxed out. The MiG is the stock one...modded flyable, with new pilot skin also... although AI when the picture was taken...

Thank you all, for your support guys... I've sorted things out... :yes: It took me a day or so but I guess I got overwhelmed... Thank you all for your patience..

Hi all, Thanks for the warm wellcome yesteray! Today I got the whole bunch of SF2 series... :) Downloading now the bonus merged install. Is there a comulative mod that's easy to intall... (Drop it in your game directory, saying), to start with? 'cause even if I'm a rather experienced in IL-2 modding, I'm having a hard time here. I didn't manage anything to work yesterday... In IL-2 we have a mod activator that makes your life easy. Things here remind me the first steps of IL-2 modding with lots of editing work needed... I spend all day yesterday, reading topics here on modding but... things elementaty to you who play and mod for years seem mountains to me... Thanks

Thanks TurtleHawk! I've been reading the forums all afternoon, but I haven't figured out the trick...yet. For Example I tried to install the Hollywood explosions mod. According to the installation instructions I have to find and buck up two Folders named Flight and Effects. I found the Flight folder...no trace of the Effects folder though! I Opened with the cat tool the FlightData.cat and found some relevant files with the Hol. Eff. mod that are supposed to be replaced, but where on earth is that Effects folder and how can I put the modded file back to the game? I think I'm missing something funtamental here. I am used to IL-2 mods and modding and having a hard time here...

Hi all, I'm new to SF series... I just got SF2 Israel, (so forgive my ignorance) and wanted to add some mods. I got the cat extractor from the Utilities section, installed it but it seems that I cannot use it properly??? Every time I try to extract a cat file I get an error messege. Sould I try reinstalling it? Do I have to extract every cat file in my game to start adding mods? Thanks.

Yes I've made such skins. Send me a PM with your e-mail so I can send them over to you.