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one could always try downloading the aircraft....lod are usually included. wrench kevin stein

File Name: P-47D-20, 61st FS, 56th FG File Submitter: Wrench File Submitted: 01 Jan 2010 File Updated: 01 Jan 2010 File Category: P-47 P-47D-20 (Razorback), 61st FS, 56th FG Skin for SF/SFG/ WoV/ WoE, WW2 ETO Installs A reskin for Wolf's Razorback Jug, depicting aircraft from the 61st FS of the Famed 56th FG as seen in late 43 through early 45 (depending if the Razorbacks were still on inventory or not!) This skin depicts the OD/Gray paint scheme, but NOT with D-Day Invasion Stripes. It's just a rather standard ETO paint job, without the color diferentiation between the squadrons (as it didn't seem to be used, or had been replaced with regular paint, according to my references) Decals are included for 26 aircraft, letters A-Z, with serial numbers matched as close as possible to the actual aircraft they were used on. Some nose art is also included; again as close as possible to Real Life ™. Given some inaccuracies, I'd be forced to rate this as somewhere between 90-95% historically accurate. Also included are an updated data & loadout inis, with corrected light placements (formation, landing, tail, etc). This mod has NOT been tested in 08 level 1st Gens or ANY SF2 NextGens. There are some issues with flight models and other things that haven't been resolved as of yet. If you insist on using this mod in said environments, you're on you own. No assistance is available from me for any issues you will encounter. As always, it's reccomended you unzip this package to a temp folder or your desktop, or somewhere's else that's easy to find to gain access to the rest of this readme for full, detailed and fairly east to follow install instructions. Good Hunting, Wolfpack! Wrench kevin stein ***First Upload of the New Year!*** edit: corrected model sub-type Click here to download this file

The Sea Fury should be here at CA....disremember exactly where mind you, but I KNOW I've seen it! Skins exist for the Korean Era DAT birds (Banshee, SkyKnight, Kyushu Gypsies C-47, 13BG B-26s) all at my site, along with my hack job NKPAF IL-2 (minus the lod). As to the appearence for 4/5 season germany? I'd have to say 'more of less'. Korea isn't really known for vast forests, since the Japanese pretty much stripped the country during their occupation (everything that wasn't nailed down, then went back and got the nails too!!!). A quick run through of the penninsular with google earth (an INDESPENSIBLE tool for targeting!!) should show lots of fields and mountains and such. The full citylist, targets and types list already exist. The problem is, the coordinates aren't were they go on the map; which means retiling to match, then move, the retile (and flatten airbases as needed), repeat, repeat, repeat. I"ll zip up everything, except the texture set, as I haven't had time to start re-adding the missing tiles. (methinks its something messed up in the TFD, as it was originally built with the BN series, which is only 70-something tiles long) wrench kevin stein

EDIT: I named the aircraft wrong; Razorback are D-20 and eariler. So the 'title is incorrct). Although, given the 100% equality of the mapping between both of Wolf's Jug (razor and bubble), the skin CAN be use on both. Although I don't think the 56th's D Bubbles were OD/Gray.... dswan: what does the first paragraph say? wrench kevin stein

that oceanic white line looks like a tile edge* ... possible an issue with the canopyglass.tga and the sea.tag?? Just guessing of course... *but if that was the case,you'd expect to see more between the sea tiles...????? wrench kevin stein

Nope, sorry. Wrong. Like EJ stated it's airbase SIZE; it has nothing to do with how the physical model in constructed. This has been an ongoing issue since the 06 patch -- To state it simply: Large aircraft need large runways. There is only ONE large runway in the entire series -- Runway 4 (or airfield 4) However, that having been said, you CAN change this line: (shown is the B52D) [MissionData] NationName=USAF ServiceStartYear=1966 ServiceEndYear=1973 AircraftRole=BOMBER AircraftCapability=DAY_AND_NIGHT Availability=RARE Exported=FALSE PrimaryRoles=STRIKE,CAS SecondaryRoles=ANTI_SHIP NormalMissionRadius=1864 MaxMissionRadius=4214 Ceiling=18288 MinBaseSize=LARGE you can attempt to change to MinBaseSize=MEDIUM. But you may wind up trying to take you Buff or Bone off from Runway2, which is substantially shorter than Runway4, which is again shorter than Runways 1, 5, and 6, even though it's classed as a medium runway. But personally, in the case of the Himalya terrain, I seriouly doubt you'll be operating a Buff from a base that's at 10+ thousand feet above sea level Or, you can just do a simply copy/paste of a Runway4 set up over the exising medium runways on the Himalya terrain; which may cause other problems of the airbase NOT fitting within the required flattened zone for airfields. I direct you to the ever ignored Knowledge Base, for a post on this selfsame subject: http://forum.combatace.com/topic/12147-ctd-planes-in-single-missions/ although Dave's conclusion of using SMALL is slightly incorrect (as it should be MEDIUM), the gist is there wrench kevin stein

the same way as you do any other ... make sure the image is square (128x128, 512x512, etc) and centered in image (directly in the middle I mean to say) Convert image bmp or jpg to 32bit tga with alpha channel. Done it, literaly, a few hundred times. No different than any other ... as seen on the several hundred full color nose arts I've done. A little more detail is required; like, are we speaking of text with different colored letters within the words??? Or images (ie: nose art?) or things like serial numbers? (hint: get familiar with the paint bucket or flood tool) TKs decal tutorial is in the downloads section, probably in the Utilites sub-section. Reccomended Required reading. Other than he states "4 decals max per mesh" -- rule of thumb that seems to work better, is "no more than 3 per mesh", as has been recently seen. one main thing to remember, is the alpha channel acts like a hold-out matte (if you're familiar with how motion picture special effects mattes work), blocking all but the parts you want to show, from showing. also having a really good image manipulation tool helps -PhotoShop is still be best, but GIMP comes fairly close (and it's free!!) wrench kevin stein

version 3 is the full scale with Brain's tiles and your trees ... you know, the one I screwed up badly on!! I don't have the payware versions, just the original freewares. yesturday, I went back into one of 5 TE installs (I've split them for different terrains) and re-discovered that I do have a WoE tiled version. Unfortunately, there's a major glitch that I can't figure out....the texturelist is only 77 tiles long. I've tried renaming/copy-pasting the full WoE texturelise in, and no matter what I do, nothing after SC75B shows up!! I can add tiles (like the VietnmanG-AB1 and my G-AB3), so I guess that I'll be adding the others -78 thru 125 (the 2 AB tiles) by hand. Then the rebuilding of the tiles can begin, and the retiling -gonna be a nightmare!!! arrgh!!!. And then the retargeting...and movements and etc. I guess I'll get started on it when I finish WW2 Tunisia/Western Med in a few weeks. Unless, of course, somebody MUCH smarter than me wants to do it! but doing it that way WILL allow the full 4 seasons, which i really think is the way to go. Expecially since so much happened in the winter of 51/52 edit: didn't rebel ryder do a long-barreled Sherman? that could be used instaed of Geo's. Also, isn't there an M-26 Pershing out, maybe by RR?? I don't know if M3 halftracks were still being used during the Korean War (meaning: I haven't seen any pictures of them), so the standard USTruck could be used, as also the 'generic' Soviet vehicles. There's a couple of T-34s out - Pasko's (also with a snow camo) and I think RebelRyder did a version or 2. wrench kevin stein

Remember, too, the old Skypat Cat extractor don't work on SF2 sims ... you'll need Gerwins extractor. Works a charm on the new series; albeit extracting ALL files from the cat; but you'll probably find something after extraction you'll be needing anyway.... wrench kevin stein

No Fresco's in that time frame. look in the Campaign's Forum ... hgbn is starting up a mod wrench kevin stein

I'll get you everything I have; and help out as much as I can (since I've already done up most of the aircraft and know where pretty much everything is/goes on the penninsula, and nearby China, Russia and Japan -well, at least the parts of Kyushu and Honshu that show on the map) mind you, all 3 versions of the terrain I have need work -- I've been able to blend Edwards old 'regular' and winter together to give you 2 seasons, but the tiles have no correlation to each other (meaning, targets don't sit where you put them from the one season to the other) version 2, based off the 63% map with Stary's tiles, is approx 80% completed, but it's only one season (fall it looks like) version3, the full scale (100%) --well, we all know the story on that one. What REALLY needs to be done, is create a completly new HFD & TFD, and use the GermanyCE tiles; that way you can have all 4 seasons with Stary's tile mod. That would be the best way to go. As to the ADs, NONE of them we have are fully correct -- there were lots of -2/-3 being used (with only 2 wing guns, but that's really a small matter). Also, the mapping on the stock one is different, so none of the skins I've done will work on it. (and the fact that maybe not everyone HAS SF2V) Also have to bug MPPD about Monty's Ver.7, with the fixed animations, cut meshes for wing pylons (as parked aircraft loose their outer wing panels!!! -unless another 3d Guy wishes to look at it. I have the MAX file, and a list of "requests for changes" wrench kevin stein

It's been over a year since Major Lee's site closed ... he had some REALLY cool stuff there. iirc, ML had done one or another of the 56th FG squadron Razorbacks (have to check my SWOTL install to be sure). I'll look at it, and maybe upload it (if that's ok with Ken -I know he pops in once in a while; or he can upload if he wants). I know the decals are 'out of order' (missing the 000 number, but that's a super easy fix wrench kevin stein

RATS!!! How did I miss this!??? Well, better late than never! Happy Birthday Otto! Many happy returns of the day! wrench kevin stein

I'll bet the problem is NOT in the data.inis at all, but in the main ini. open the gepard.ini, and if it don't look like this (especially noting the highligted section): it not gonna show up. if you open the 2S6.ini and mroland.ini, you'll see that statement is probably missing as well Knowledge Base links on the subject: http://forum.combatace.com/topic/11815-ground-objects-format-update-no-groundobjectdata-ini-anymore/ and at the bottom of this post: http://forum.combatace.com/topic/21870-the-mods-thread-a-listing-of-whats-available/page__view__findpost__p__113930 wrench kevin stein

I haven't had any of those issues with the P-82, per se.... Unfortunatly, there's a LOT that needs adjusting in Wolf's Jugs (rolling radius, landing gear spring/damping -- driving me nuts as I've got one for Central America that bounces all over the runway!) that having been said, one thing I've found is you don't PUSH these older (06 and eariler) birds too hard in 08/SF2. They will stop flying for no apparent reason. No more yanking and banking to the limits of the envelope, or they'll depart like crazy! What is really needed is for all the FMs to be looked at by experts. (which we all know ain't happening anytime soon). A lot got changed in the 08/SF2 FMs in regards to how stalls are modeled ... some aircraft have the StallMoment= line that can be adjusted (by shear guesswork) to around 0.50; mind you I have NO idea what the values represent (and some don't even have this line!). Other things are like landing gear rolling radius .. they seem to all sink into the ground a bit more than usual, or are sitting levitated off the ground! Tail wheel steering, must be a positive number, etc, etc, etc. but definately check the stickies in the PH Forum ... I've been trying to post updates and things that help. wrench kevin stein

In the WW2 Euro, the "nazi HQ" building is a "terrain object", residing in the terrain folder. You can easily make it un-targable, by editing the _Types.INI, and give it a target value of 0 (zero) Or, if you're like me, and still want to lay eggs on it , you can just rename it (please note, the destroyed effects/model have been tweekified): [TargetType031] Name=rowhouse FullName=Communist Party HQ ModelName=rowhouse.LOD TargetType=COMMAND_BUILDING ActiveYear=0 TargetValue=500 UseGroundObject=FALSE DamagePoint=50.0 ArmorValue=100000.0 ArmorType=1 RepairRate=0.255 StartDetectChance=100 StartIdentifiedChance=100 IncreaseDetectChanceKey=0 MaxVisibleDist=12000.0 DamagedModel= DestroyedEffect=MediumShortStructureCollapse DestroyedModel=barrack1_destroyed SecondaryEffect=LargeOilFire SecondaryChance=100 while still remaing active, gives a more 'correct for the era' target As to the cat pointer, use the GermanyCE, even though the objects (warehouses, barracks, city buildings, etc) are pretty generic and usually in all the cat. I'd also do this to the main ini; I do this on ALL my terrains, expecially terrain mods I release. Just add these lines over any existing cat pointers: //CatFile=..\Desert\Desert.cat CatFile=..\GermanyCE\GermanyCE.cat //CatFile=..\VietnamSEA\VietnamSEA.cat You really DON'T want to use the IsrealME.cat for anything BUT terrains that are built using the IME tiles and/or naming conventions -they're completly different from all the others (which, in turn, are yet again different from each other). IME also has an expanded 'terrain objects' listing, with 7-10 new city buildings and an very nice arab-looking palace. As to the fin rwr box issue, I'll bet the box is mapped on a different skin bmp than the tail. Use the 'panel finder' bmp we have --should be in the D/L section -it'll replace a single skin bmp (do them one at at time, renaming the orignal skin to xF4****.bmp), and it's color/number coded so you can figure out what goes where. It's a GREAT tool! My guess is, you'll find it on the fueselage bmp (but I'm just guessing) as to removing the V-SEA terrain, just don't fly on it! Removing it's not good; at some point you'll be needing either it's tiles or it's cat for something. (I know for CERTAIN there are terrains that use the V-SEA cat, but don't have the VietnamSEA*** tiles included. wrench kevin stein

Unfortunatly, all the Unobtanium was used in building "Virgil", the deep-earth exploratory ship. So, we're stuck with Impevium --- Yes, you can upgrade the armor in ANY part of the aircraft....fer instance, the statement below is for one of the fuel tanks in a P-47: [FuselageFuelCell1] SystemType=FUEL_TANK FuelTankID=1 MaxFuelAmount=704.89 SelfHealing=TRUE FireSuppression=TRUE MinExtentPosition=-0.5,1.0,-0.5 MaxExtentPosition=0.5,3.0,0.5 HasArmor=TRUE ArmorMaterial=STEEL Armor[REAR].Thickness=6 Armor .Thickness=6 Armor .Thickness=6 Armor[TOP].Thickness=6 Armor[bOTTOM].Thickness=6 the armor types are: Wood Glass (look at the stock Mig-17) Aliminium Steel Titanium (ala A-10) wrench kevin stein

from the main screen, there should be a button "Options", from there go to controls, and there should be a 'mouse sensitivity' slider. Play with that, and see what happens wrench kevin stein

ArmorType=Impervium wrench kevin stein

Utterly missing the point ... NONE of the site guidelines were maintained with this upload. It's for the original poster to fix. Not anybody else. wrench kevin stein

NF.4 is NOT compatable with the Dec.09 patch for NextGen sims. Use June 09 ONLY wrench kevin stein

move the runway??? It's definately misplaced also looks like it's not centered in the 'AB' type clear-zone tiles, so repositioning it would be a start. Maybe even a retile of the airfield zone, if needed. what terrain? wrench kevin stein

Where's the required screenshot and readme for install instructions??? (with important things like, how to install, where to get the airplane, etc) see the sticky at the VERY top of this forum? ... follow the link inside for what are the MINIMUM requirements for uploads. http://forum.combatace.com/topic/51162-a-reminder-before-you-upload-a-mod/ If not repaired within 24 hours, this file will be disapproved until it's fixed. If not fixed....well.... wrench kevin stein

Looks like we're finally getting the Arrow!!! woot!! wrench kevin stein