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Optional T-45A Cockpit?
Wrench replied to Coupi's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Mods & Skinning Discussion
I tried removing the 2nd guage set once upon a time, but found the meshes are all linked. So if you remove one set, the other vanish too I like this pit! -
SF2 Screenshot Thread
Wrench replied to Stary's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
2005: South China Sea, Anti-piracy patrol -
US Navy Seals model
Wrench replied to Ice Man's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - General Discussion
ummm...I don't think I put the city there ... scaling issues with these cursed tiles, doncha know! (of course, you could put it at the north edge of Islamabad) -
need an oil rig platform for Persian Gulf terrain
Wrench replied to Gepard's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - Mods/Skinning Discussion
or giant polar bears!!! -
US Navy Seals model
Wrench replied to Ice Man's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - General Discussion
why not just use the infantry squad we alrady have, slightly reskinned, and call them 'NavySeals'??? We've been re-tasking them for years as various different usages (even in my Himilaya terrain rebuild, they're "Yeti_Squad"!!) simple, quick data ini edits can replace the Soviet weapons with western. nothing to it wrench kevin stein -
Need help loading NATO 4+ on windowa 7
Wrench replied to Uscgace's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
I'd also start in BOTH the SF/Wo* and SF2 Knowledge bases and read EVERYTHING in there. Mind you, some stuff for SF2 might not be relevant (but 98.6% IS), but the basic 'working knowledge' gained will be invaluable. and welcome! wrench kevin stein -
North Dakota Tanker
Wrench replied to Julhelm's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - File Announcements
the updated I/I terrain I released some weeks back has the SF2 required _water.bmp. All one needs to do to confirm is actually LOOK in the terrain folder why a particular ship dosen't work, I have no clue. -
SF2 KC-135 A
Wrench replied to Veltro2k's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Mods & Skinning Discussion
veltro's computer died ... we're all hoping he come back in the near future -
need an oil rig platform for Persian Gulf terrain
Wrench replied to Gepard's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - Mods/Skinning Discussion
excellent! the simpler, the better! -
F-11F-1 Tiger for SF2
Wrench posted a topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - File Announcements
File Name: F-11F-1 Tiger for SF2 File Submitter: Wrench File Submitted: 01 May 2011 File Category: F-11 Grumman F-11F-1 Tiger -- For SF2, Any and All -- This is an upgrade package of the F-11F by Fleet Defender & Co (originally released in 2005). All the skins and decals have been updated, with many new ones created. Ini edits fix the overbright landing light; other tweeks add new AI sections, place weapons more centered on the pylons, round count corrected, and some other minor adjustments. A new avionics ini is included, that adds the radar ranging gunsight. The cockpit used is the stock A-4B Skyhawk, which is available in all versions of SF2, excepting stand-alone SF2:I mods folders. Merged installs should have no issues whatsomever. The lead-computing gunsight statements have also been added. 4 skins and decals are included in this pak (all that I could find!). They are: VA-156 (which became VF-111 in 1959) VF-21 VF-33 VF-111 Skins are by various artists, hopefully listed (correctly!) in the Credits below. Several of the skins were repainted, from a partial template I created, to remove the painted on Modex numbers. These are now all decals. Weapons included are just the 150 gallon drop tank; all others use stock in-game items. I've added several Mission profiles that I'm sure the actual aircraft did NOT perform (Strike, CAS, Armed Recon, and Anti-Ship). They're there for the playability factor. If you don't want to perform them, just edit them out of the data ini. As always, READ the enclosed readme for full, detailed instructions. This package has been broken down into the various folders that SF2 needs/requires/should have, to make it a LOT easier to install. Also, as usual, the expected 'Notes and Other Nonesense' comments by me. A full credits listing of those that worked on it, or contributed parts are below, and in the original release readme included. Happy Landings! Wrench Kevin Stein Click here to download this file -
need an oil rig platform for Persian Gulf terrain
Wrench replied to Gepard's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - Mods/Skinning Discussion
i would say, the drill rig, a flat platform, and the legs (wish I had a screenie of the old one from Fighters Anthology!!) -
512x512 Tweaked Tiles for CA_Stary's Enhanced SF2:Israel terrain
Wrench replied to SFP1Ace's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - File Announcements
sea1 and sea2 (depending if it's a GermanyCE/VietnamSEA based tileset -they use both) or just sea1 if desert based -
Needs help in finding mesh name....
Wrench replied to Wrench's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Mods & Skinning Discussion
thanks! I'm having to remake all the serial number decals, tho, as they're wrong. You can't really see it, but that's a 'new' twin bomb rack on the wing (for USN/Armada) usage. (to keep things 'real', I took the screenie on the Canary Island terrain! ) It's nice having a full template, even if it's HomeGrown . One day I"ll release the INAS Sea Harrier Mk.51 (stand in, as it's also using the GR.1 body-even if its nose is wrong. But EVERYTHING works! and, its a waste of Ghostrider883s decals just sitting here) wrench kevin stein -
NF4 issues?
Wrench replied to Emp_Palpatine's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
one of the reasone I INSIST on 'clear' tiles for airfield zones. to fix the Danish airfields, yes; they'll need reflattening. If you or some you know (not me sorry -- too busy!) can work the terrain editor, you can create a specific citylist.ini for just those 3 airfields, and use that list to reflatten them i'd call it nf4citylist.ini, and just list them out with the usual format (i'll use aaa/bbb/ccc for base name (insert the real name found in the targets ini), and xxx and yyy for the X/Y coordinates [City001] Name=AAA airbase TextureType=3 Randomness=0 PositionX=xxx.000000 PositionY=yyy.000000 Width=6.000000 Height=6.000000 HasAirfield=TRUE [City002] Name=BBB Airbase TextureType=3 Randomness=0 PositionX=xxx.000000 PositionY=yyy.000000 Width=6.000000 Height=6.000000 HasAirfield=TRUE [City003] Name=CCC Airbase TextureType=3 Randomness=0 PositionX=xxx.000000 PositionY=yyy.000000 Width=6.000000 Height=6.000000 HasAirfield=TRUE the PositionX= and PositionY= are taken from the _Targets.ini. You ONLY need the 1st 3 digits of both the coordinate sets. Example: Name=Key West NAS Position=336000.000,680000.000 Radius=6000.000 it takes 5-10 minutes to set up and so forth*. Then, after flattening, move the new HFD into the terrain folder, and fly a mission over each base. Use the free camera view to see if things are flat. Or, if you've got expansionpak 2 with the mission building, create/build a new mission STARTING from those bases. Again, using the free-camera to double/triple check everthing. now, you just need someone to do it! *=given the assumption of a preexisting GermanyCE setup Terrain Editor -
need an oil rig platform for Persian Gulf terrain
Wrench replied to Gepard's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - Mods/Skinning Discussion
i'd guess something generic, like this: http://merchantmarinejobs.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/oilrig.jpg wrench kevin stein -
Graphics question
Wrench replied to whiteknight06604's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
start looking at the PSU ... pretty much the same symptoms that my old single-core machine presented before it blowed (watching too much House... "the computer presents with random restarts and crashes") wrench kevin stein -
Needs help in finding mesh name....
Wrench replied to Wrench's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Mods & Skinning Discussion
scroops???? whoda thunk it!! what a strange name!! but that's got it!!! Thanks DanW!! wrench kevin stein -
WOE AV-8A
Wrench replied to amariani's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
super easy man .... zip up the appropriate skin folders, then go the Private Messages, 'new message' to me, then attach the file (just like attaching pics to a post), then, send it! shoot .. didn't even know we HAD those skins!!! might've saved me some work. what the heck, righ! Had to do the ini work, at any rate!! edit: stupid me .... why not just use the link the nice man gave you Kevin??? (smacks head). Sometimes I just get dumb...I got the skins ...now, to resize with my homemade template (all 5, as I had to reskin for the Mk.51), and see what we gets! wrench kevin stein -
SF2 Screenshot Thread
Wrench replied to Stary's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
good one PH! I'd met Dan O'Herlihey several time when I worked in Malibu ... super NICE guy. nice -and LUCKY!!- shots Sid! -
512x512 Tweaked Tiles for CA_Stary's Enhanced SF2:Israel terrain
Wrench replied to SFP1Ace's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - File Announcements
looks like an incomplete alpha channel; needs to run out the border edges of the tile. open in photoshopt or other image manuiplator that can handle the 32bit tga w/alpha, and use the clone stamp tool with a large brush (50+), 'sample' the middle section, and paint out very edge of the tile wrench kevin stein -
SF2 Screenshot Thread
Wrench replied to Stary's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
The Matador.... The Matador ..... is ME!!! (bonus points awarded to ID source of quote) wrench kevin stein -
Russian AC carriers
Wrench replied to amariani's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
isn't there a 'stand in' soviet carrier in the 1stGen downloads? If that's marcello's it still gonna be a while wrench kevin stein -
WOE AV-8A
Wrench replied to amariani's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
all ini work is done; a couple new weapons, some new decals (including BuNums for the lower fin) although, the mesh name for the 'divot' at the fues star needs figuring out! US insigina are ALWAYS complete -- no holes EVER!!! if you have the skins done, I can pass that along, or send the skins to me, and i'll write up the read me (nice job on the stripes too!) Whatever you like! -
need an oil rig platform for Persian Gulf terrain
Wrench replied to Gepard's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - Mods/Skinning Discussion
funny... JimBeamer and I were just discussing that via PM the last few days!! Yes, definatly .. such an itme would dress up not only the Persian Gulf, but ASW, SoCal, Libya, Iran/Iraq and a couple others! wrench kevin stein -
Another Spitfire!
Wrench replied to ndicki's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - World War II Forum
great ... now I'm gonna have the theme music from "Battle of Britan" in my head the rest of the night... no, seriously, it looks great! just need the proper Mk.1, and there ya gone