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QuickSand 1966 Campaign issue
Wrench replied to Padre's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Sci-Fi/Anime/What If Forum
wouldn't it depend on which F-4C that's being used? There are 3 of them ..... and loadouts WILL change with mission year, and which model is being used. It's how the game works. that, and Falcon IS the standard loadout for early Cs. actually, that for for another member (who's still here), who consistently was always posting utterly incorrect answers, and totally messing up people's games. One of several "sufferers" of Persistant HUA -
Burning Sand Campaign NEVER ends
Wrench replied to WingZero's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - General Discussion
sound like the standard Middle East situation to me ... the s**t never ends, just goes on and on and on and on..... -
Alternate TFD Terrain Tilemap editor/viewer
Wrench replied to gerwin's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Mods & Skinning Discussion
don't place airfield within 1 tile of the coast -- they'll never flatten correctly (even in the TE). Unless you extract the height bmp, and "paint it flat" manually (way too much work, and often makes it worse) -
Newer weapons for series 1?
Wrench replied to warthog64's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - General Discussion
have you even tried converting them down? If the lods are ANSI, it's a very simple matter to copy/paste the weapons data info the the main weaponsdata.ini, do the 'regular add weapons dance', and go from there. 5 minutes work to find out -
HAWK_HIPIR model?
Wrench replied to AGOSTINO's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Mods & Skinning Discussion
my point exactly if anyone is so interested, I'd glady make availalbe US Army manual FM-44-1 "US Army Air Defense Employment" on pdf. Albeit dated (1965), it's got more info than some folks here will be able to use. -
SF2 Screenshot Thread
Wrench replied to Stary's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
All your Drones are belong to US!!! nice model -
what, never heard of time warps??? it was easier to just leave things in the _types ini from the WW2 mod, rather the rebuild/renumber. I take it you added a year to the ActiveDate= line in their object listing? (it was 0 before, so they'd show for WW2) I'm still tied up with Central America, and staring rework on Gepard Persian Gulf, but if you need help, just shout out! the tiling and city placemtns and such should be about right; so hopefully I won't have to rebuild a TE for that
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Need A 3D Guru
Wrench replied to Dave's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
Florian, that is SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTT!!!!! -
hex editor
Wrench replied to amariani's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
XVI32; easy to use and it's free!! http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm -
Well it's official
Wrench replied to Romflyer's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
Seahorses... what's next, Aquaman??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3yb-Zuykfc&feature=related -
USN Phantom questions
Wrench replied to daddyairplanes's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Mods & Skinning Discussion
they're just standard or garden varity Level=2 decals. Look at some of my Skyhawk and/or Phantoms skin/decal sets ... they change and WILL rendomize (as all Level 2 decals do, and will stay matched with each other) the numberlist is usually for the Modex numbers, but does control the 4 digit tail BuNum and the "aircraftname" 6 digit BuNum as well (as long as they associate in order example: 500 (modex *** ) 5094 (tail 4 digit) A-4C 145094 (bunum on aft fues) they'll always match what I do, expecially for Modex of a certain sequence, is NOT use the generic USNFighterNum or USNAttack (or USMC for that matter) decal pointers. I pull ALL the relevant numbers from their cat, rename/renumber for each use. like above, for the A-4Cs used by VSF-1 -available in our d/l section-shamelessplug!--, (actually, in this case I made new Modexs -Modexi?)as they were 500 series, and called them "Num***" For the 4 digit, I called them "FNum" (fueselage number) BuNums were easy, as just 'BuNum', with the aircraft type name, and the full 6 digit number. in the screenie below, you can just make out the aircraft type name and bunum decal under the stab. reusing the stock ones, if the Modex is 201-219, I pull them, and drop them in the /D subfolder, and rename to fit what I need, and create a number.lst accordingly. it's actually pretty easy. Do you have the full USN BuNumber listing? I hae the complete list from 192-something through 1988. It's also somewhere in the 1stGen downloads section. If you cant find it, I'll repost or PM it to you (or anyone that wants it) -
No hits with Exocet in Falklands
Wrench replied to harryleith's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Mods & Skinning Discussion
The Super Etendard Combo Pak that I uploaded in October has a LOT of fixes/tweeks and modifications. Including the CGR Exocets, and the necessary data ini edits http://combatace.com/files/file/12345-super-etendard-super-etendard-m-for-sf2-by-foxmonter/ -
Boeing ACH-47A "Guns A Go-Go"
Wrench replied to JimBeamer5's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - File Announcements
the LOD is ONLY available from the DAT --- you'll have to wait for Capun to approve your membership. -
Dirty Bird Exhaust Effect For SF2
Wrench replied to NeverEnough's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - File Announcements
extract the data ini from the relevant ObjectCat, place said data ini into the aircraft folder, and edit away! -
CF-18
Wrench replied to Romflyer's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - File Announcements
I know I sure would! -
I don't know if some of the regular 'tricks' work in FE, but changing sides is just a text edit. IF the 'ActiveYear=' tag is valid in FE, you can turn on the Royal Army stuff near Gaza around 1917 or something (iirc, I set the map time frame around 1915) if the year edit works, it's be something like this: [TargetArea120] Name=Royal Army Camp, Gaza Position=304000,370000 Radius=2000 ActiveYear=1917 <--- was 1915 Location=1 Alignment=FRIENDLY Target[001].Type=CommBuilding1 Target[001].Offset=0,0 Target[001].Heading=0 same for the RA strongpoint outside the camp/city then, the city of Gaza would change to Location=8 (for Ottoman Palestine) I'm not much of a campaign guy; but I think most can done with in the campaign ini should be able to use the one, base terrain, maybe with different inis depending on year or whatever (again, I'm not knowledgable in that area) Give Baltika a shout; he's a Campaign Guru!
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major edit: I just looked over the Palestine_Data.ini, and the one in my FE2 install is dated 10/9/2009, and STILL has all the 1stGen statements (ie: using the 08 level fx statements) so, for those with FE/FEG, it should just drop right in and work (provided, of course, you have the 08 Desert.cat) if the inis need tweeking, gimme a shout!
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reverting/converting/perverting back to 1stGens isn't that hard for terrains basically, follow these instructions in reverse (kinda sorta) http://combatace.com/topic/54856-converting-sfwo-terrains-to-sf2-usage/ and MOST IMPORTANT!!! you must have the SF/SF2 Desert terrain in you FE/FEG/FE2 /Terrains folder to make it work! at the very worst, you take your 08 level Desert_Data.ini and copy the top sections (from the very top to the 1st instance of tile listing; iirc, it's Sea1.tga) into the Palestine_Data.ini. (but NOT eliminated that tile listing!) If somebody can't get it right, let me know and I'll pervert back for ya's.
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Well it's official
Wrench replied to Romflyer's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
oh, most definetaly!!! -
Map Utilities
Wrench replied to SidDogg's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
SFMap, by Kreelin (iirc), BUT... it only works in 1stGens, and all the inis MUST be ANSI. And it's kinda tempermental, at best. You can also generate plannimg maps with Gerwins tile tool. BUT... expect to do a LOT of repainting and 'hand lettering' for the lables (as in paint over the ones generated, and use the text function in PS). It's how I did the MidwestUSA planning maps -
Attempting bringing the A-37B into SF2 Vietnam
Wrench replied to Jug's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Mods & Skinning Discussion
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Need A 3D Guru
Wrench replied to Dave's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
been there, done that, got the kill marks. You'll find them running 'round on a LOT of terrain mods. no harder than the IJN barges Capun did for the WW2 PTO mods (just slightly larger) Crusader: nice to know, finally!! after all these years what exactly they are!! Now, to edit all my _types inis, and the Pboats main ini, so the name shows!!! -
Need A 3D Guru
Wrench replied to Dave's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
we've had those since Day 1 -- look in your /GroundObjects folder for a strange item called wait for it..... PatrolBoat speedboat with twin 14mm MGs, and a 'Generic' nation user tag -
USN Phantom questions
Wrench replied to daddyairplanes's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Mods & Skinning Discussion
forgot this: reccomended download, it be even if volume 3 (rhyme!) http://military-machine.blogspot.com/2009/06/usn-aircraft-carrier-air-units-vol3.html -
I want my F86f-40...
Wrench replied to Padre's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
copy/paste is the usual method. That's how I got all mine in from 1stGen to SF2. Be advised, the FM is still a bit 'off' for SF2 don't forget that you'll need to do the same in the /Decals folder -- copy/paste the ENTIRE aircaft folder, with the skin subfolders intact into the /Decals subfolder. Then, delete EVERYTHING from the main folder -the one you just placed in the /Decals folder (all the inis, lods, etc). Open each of the skin folders, and delete EVERYTHING but the /D subfolder (where the decals reside). it should be noted, MANY, if not all the original skin/decal sets will need some editing & renaming of certain decal tgas as they're numbered incorrectly (all Level=2 decals MUST start with 000). You'll see them if look. The may also need editing of the full path of the decal (to read as: F-86F-40\461FDS\D\*nameofdecal* for example) if they'r my skin/decal sets, the downloads are already set up for SF2 (well, actually, even 1stGens work that way, but we never used it). Don't forget the JASDF skin sets!