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Ok, never mind that. I found Gerwins TFD editor and it took literally 15mins (so the tiles are what they are) to incorporate my first snowy peaks. Now I'm in trouble, cause I want to make those mountains as pretty as a picture. Beware of stock Thirdwire graphic settings and clouds *bleurgh*

Ah, much obliged oh master of Terrains Speaking of which, I have some questions that I think you above all others are equipped to answer: Could you, in one sentence, detail how I would go about retiling the map? Will i need to struggle with the Thirdwire terrain editor? Also, can the Tile heightmaps be bigger in size than 32x32? Is that anyway to make the mountains more "sharp" as opposed to round on the top?

Very nice!

I'm hoping I will get it to work! There is a nice team shaping up around this so I have high hopes. I guess this means I will have to finish that MiG-25 sooner rather than later

Nah, don't think so. I did tell him about SF2 modding, so there's always the slim chance he'll hop aboard the mod wagon. I was just mainly looking for permission to use his model, but there is always hope to get more good modders aboard! I have done some extensive tile-set testing, I've used JSF Aggies hi-res desert tiles, Starys IndoPak as well as his hires IsarelME tiles. Based on this, I am remaking the tiles to match Starys Isreal ME for the farms and mountains, and am using a recolored desert tile from jsf. Here are some pics. Still need to make roads and sort out the TODs as well as some minor seams and stuff. The problem is that the mountain area is tiled with just one tile all over, making for some bland looks. My dream is to have lush valleys and snowy mountaintops, but if i'm gonna lern to retile maps then this project will take forever

Hmm yeah. But I don't consider the transport choppers to be really important, most important are the gunships. I am currently contacting an old ArmA modding contact who has an excellent Mi-24 model.

From wikipedia. Thanks to all who have supported me so far, I'm hoping this will turn out to be good project! I am currently testing the campaign and it is working quite nicely. Initially the Iraqis had a bit of a upper hand and pushed into Irani territory, but after 4 missions (about two weeks time ingame) the IrAf losses are starting to mount and Iran is pushing back in the ground war. The AGM-65A Mavericks are used to devastating effect against Iraqi armour just like in real-life. The superior skill of the IRIAF visavi mission planning and recon assets is a bit hard to model ingame, but oh well. Iraqi heavies have not played much of a role so far.

I could use the Fitter temps. I have been on a bit of a skinning-spree lately

Nice one Carlo, those would be good to have. It is one of my favorite addon planes looks-wise, but the skins could always be bumbped up a notch!

Very cool, that's what I'm talking about! It's too bad the Thirdwire AIs have such low res skins as the templates themselves are rather nice looking. Good job, guess I can take that one off my list of worries.

Quote from Acig.org Hi guys, as you might have seen from my screenies I have been working a bit on compiling an Iran-Iraq war install, even contributing some missing assets. Yesterday, as by some divine inspiration, I decided to make a new ground war for the campaign. So I made, paper map in hand, a new 32 strategic node ground war. Yep. I am immensly proud of myself I actually discovered a fairly easy workflow for making them, I can detail it if anyones interested. So, what have I got so far: -Campaign starting on the 22nd of September, 1980, detailing the first part of the war. Includes, so far, accurate IRIAF and IrAf squardrons, as per Acig.orgs article in which I have supreme confidence. -Ground War -Collected avaliable resourcet at Combat Ace: IRIAF F-4D by Sundowner, F-5E pack and skins by MF/Paulopanz/Crusader etc. Iran/Iraq map by Wrench&Co, Swing wing Fitter pack for SF2 by eburger,lindr2 & Amokfloo etc. RF-4E by TMF etc -TW resources: IrAf MiG-21MF skin, F14A IRIAF skin DLC, Iraqi Su-7BM skin -Made a new Tu-22 and Tu-22KD skin. -Also incorporated the closed beta MiG-25PD and Mirage F.1 (neither of which were operational already in the fall of 1980, so no biggie for the early campaign) What is still needed -Proper IRIAF F-4E skin. I jury-rigged the F-4D skin for now but is there a real one floating around anywhere? Sundowner? -Su-20/22M/22M3 templates for making proper Iraqi skins -MiG-23BN, MS, MLA and MF skins. I favor the Thirdwire MiGs over Lindr2s but that might just be a matter of personal preference.. (Flogger23?) -MiG-21Bis and PF iraqi skins (Paulopanz?) -The Iran/Iraq map could use some visual love and TOD file goodness as well as some targets in the mountains between cities (just some villages or random stuff like Hill 123, 231 etc) to slow down the pace of advancement for iraqi units into the iranian mountains. Completely out of scope of my know how. I was thinking something more along the lines of this or this. I am willing to contribute making tiles if some mapping guy (Wrench? Pretty please?) would help me incorporate them. -Attack helicopters, first and foremost Cobras and Mi-24/25s, but also UH-1s, Mi-8s and Gazelles. Wasn't there a Hind released already? Couldn't find it. Mostly for AI. So I was wondering if anyone was interested in making this a co-operative effort? If not, I'll just release the campaign files and the Blinder skins and let each one fend for themselves It is a great setting to fly in SF2, we already have most of the stuff needed.

I actually got armed recon flying a Thunderchief the other day over germany. It used starys latest upgrade, before it I never got any armed recon missions..

The INI files I think have had it listed for some time, so it seems it has been on TKs To-do list. Damnit if he releases his before mine Oh well, that's the price you pay for being lazy..

I have been fiddling around with an Iran-Iraq war scenario this afternoon after getting bored with my RL projects that have lately been taking up so much time. Couldn't find it in me to fire up 3dsMax and chip away at all those waiting projects, but I felt doing a bit of skinning would be the perfect time to relax (I just found my ancient Intous tablet in my desk drawer too, had almost forgot about that one). Having just re-read Acig.orgs excellent Bombed by Bilnders article the target was natural. I also collected all the stuff I could find at Combat Ace. Turns out there is a lot relating IRIAF at least. Tu-22KD cruise-missile carrier. Read the article linked above, great read. Yes, the numbers are wrong and at the wrong place. F-5E by MF / PauloPanz. Fun little fighter, but I'm itching to try Sophocles new Tiger. Superb IRIAF F-4D by Sundowner. A quick decal job on this yet-to-be-finished bird. Patience, I have a feeling 2013 is the year of the Foxbat Mighty Blinders armed with Kh-22MP anti-radiation missiles. Haven't gotten them to shoot yet, but oh well. Trying to get a Mirage F.1 to quit bugging my wingman. This particular mission featured the best wingmen in SF2 yet. Flight of four, three survived, there were literally dozens of bandits around for like 20mins. 7 kills between us. Conventional Blinder-A bomber. Now if anyone could help me sort out the campaigns strategic nodes...