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I disagree, in some respects. To elaborate.... some aircraft can keep their 'general shape', but have all KINDs of modifiations. We're all VERY aware, I'm sure of the differences in the Spit and Hurri marks... Hurricane's fer instance, 8 gun, 12 gun (which can be a simple data ini edit to create the IIB from I), 2C with 4 20mms, 2D with 2 40mm gondolas, SeaHurris with hooks. And then there's the Trop versions, with the Volkes filters. Now, a base version (I'm using Wolfs upcoming as an example, based on the 1 screenie I've seen...) could be used for pretty much ALL of them, and using the fake pilot method to add the Volkes filter and cannon barrels; just like the old Pakso mod for the Mig-17PFU. But due to some physical differences, the SeaHurri would need their own model. Simply for the hook; although this again, is easily 'faked' by a simple data ini edit. But people seem to really want the visual on the external views. Same for Seafires. Spits are another issue, expecially if someone wants an LF clipped wing version. Or anything after the Mk.V, with it's 2 radiator housings, not to mention the cannon barrels. Then Mk. VIIIs and up, with the different tail shapes. And the trop filters... Again, this MAY be doable via the fake pilot method, but somebody has to BUILD the bits to stick on! A lot of this goes back to the problem some people have obtaining those already in existence. I really want to see Wolf's Spit and Hurri released .... this is just ME speaking, as a player and mod maker, not as anything else. I just wish the hell I could actually DO something in 3d to help out!! wrench kevin stein

That is one of the FUNNIEST, and most honest statements I've ever read on ANY board!!! You can leave the SystemName= intact in the various {**Wing} sections, as they'll not be there anymore via those Component edits. It goes without saying, of course, the Loadout.ini will need adjusting as well, but again, that ain't nutting! As may the WeaponsStations in the data ini This is what a 'completed' removal statment in the data in looks like, from the TBF-1 The screenie is what it looks like. You'll notice the missing wing gun barrel, about 1/3 the way out from the fuselage, and little 'stub thingys' under the wings are gone for the HVAR mounts wrench kevin stein

File Name: Martlet I/III Fleet Air Arm File Submitter: Wrench File Submitted: 26 Jun 2009 File Category: Allied Fighters Grumman Martlet Mk. I/III Pak for SF/SFG/WoV/WoE - WW2 MTO Installs (06 Patch Level) This is a mod of my mod of the F4F-3 variant, based on Pasko's F4F-4, as used by the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm, the Martlet I & III. These these 2 marks were 'acquired' by the FAA from the French and Greek orders, they were never recieved by the countries they were destined for due to "an inconvient lack of a deliver point" (ie: overrun by the enemy). It is the standard, non-folding wing version, with 4 50 caliber machine guns. It IS fully carrier capable, and can be used in user-made missions or campaigns. This is a brand new skin, using my home-grown templates (as also used on my USN versions), representing a semi-fictional skin for 805 Squadron, Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm. I say semi-fictional, as this is designed to either compliment or replace the FAA 805 Buffalo that I did earlier in 2009; for those that can't get the F2A Buffalo, this will suffice. It carries the standard FAA camo scheme of Extra Dark Sea Gray/Slate Gray over Sky, as seen on other Martlets serving in the Middle East/Western Desert in 1940/41. New decals for serial numbers have been created; these ARE accurate serials assinged to Martlet I & IIIs, as taken over by the Royal Navy. Again; in this semi-fictional usege, they fit quite nicely. This is a complete aircraft mod with all parts needed to unzip, install and fly away. REMEMBER: although designed for the MTO (ie: Battle for Crete, and Defense of Alexandria, etc), this skin IS perfectly usable for FAA Squadrons flying from English bases (ie: Orkneys, Scapa Flow, etc). BTW, the letters ARE for 805 when flying their Buffalos from HMS Eagle, during the Battle for Crete. They were all lost at Malme, Crete (well, there 3 or 4 that were really there...that is). I have supplied an "alternative" cockpit ini, modified from Geo's F6F-3, for those that may want a more 'closer approximation' of the Wildcat's Real Life ™ pit. The cockpit is NOT supplied from the Hellcat, so you'll need to obtain it yourselves from Geo's site and transfer over the cockpit folder, and from this version, the "US_N-3_Gunsight.tga". Instructions for that are below, in the "To Swap Pits" section. In truth, THIS would be the way to go. It's much closer, and better looking than the original, which isn't a US Navy pit at all!! = IMPORTANT: This aircraft is designed for use in SF/SFG/WoV/WoE, at the 06 patch level -ONLY-, It has =NOT= been tested it in post 08 patch SF/SFG/WoV/WoE/WoI. It has also NOT been tested in the NextGen, SF2 series. You use it in these enviroments at your own risk. = =This mod is designed for use with the WW2 Weapons Pak by me, as it contains all the needed weapons . If attempting to use this aircraft with any other weapons pak, you'll need to add ALL the WW2 era bombs, torpedoes, etc. They are NOT included in this package.= As always, it's reccomended you unzip this to a temp folder somewhere's thats easy to find. This will give you access to the rest of the readme for full, detailed install instructions and the Usual Notes and Other Ramblings... Good Hunting! Wrench Kevin Stein Click here to download this file

Opps.. right, as those places aren't "strictley" England, but the surrounding regions. Sorry!!! wrench kevin stein

Yes, please! Enlighten me!!! (more confused than usual!) wrench kevin stein

I've flown into the ground so many times, I've put rollers ALL over my plane....figuring I could slide along for a bit before jumping out!! Making the OTHER guy do it ... now THAT's cool! wrench kevin stein

For me, I enjoy the PTO much more than ETO/MTO (even though I'm at present rebuilding the North Africa map). Guess it's because my Dad was there, 44-46, PI wrench kevin stein

Oh dear...not sure where to start.. Definatly use WoE as the 'base game' install, ONLY at the 06 patch level (at present -- until we get 3-400 new FMs), and the 06 patch only add 1 or 2 items that may be usefull -- imporved AI and Vista compatibility for the terrain -ie water- effects. The GameEngine ™ generated parked planes create "issues" with the terrain object placed statics. It also couldn't hurt to have the WoV VietnamSEA terrain folder, as some terrains use that cat pointer (those that don't have the tiles IN their own folder) WoE also will support carrier ops, that SF don't. Also, if you really are into the PTO, you might consider 'splitting' the theatre into 2 game installs -- one PTO/Central Pacific, and the other CBI, as they use different plane sets Terrains -- just look in the D/L section. Be advised, that the Solomons upgrade is "still in the factory", as I keep forgetting to ask Deuces about finishing off the treesmod (we need a better jungle -actually, we NEED a jungle to start with!!) As to mods, well...(trying not to break arm patting self on back ) anything with my name on it!!! ArmorDave's Jap Planes Pak Wolf's WW2 Planes Pak Geo's WW2 Ground Object Pak, his Hellcat Pasko's Wildcat and Val If you're registered with the DAT, you'll be needing all the IJAAF/IJN, and USN/RAF/etc aircraft from them. And my Mods thereof...(ouch! pulled a muscle)... Oh, and the WW2 ships; DD, DE, CV, Liberty, etc. LOTS of stuff over at my site, that's not available here. Widesky, I haven't tested, but it should work. I'm using Polak's old skymod. Nor have I tested the 'hollywood' effects pakages. Baltiks'a Burma Campaign ... nice stuff!! Also, his Phillipines 1941 (btw, GreenHell works there too) For more specifics, just ask! Wrench kevin stein

Well, looking at the 2 data inis, you DIDN'T remove ANYTHING!! Follow the instrucions I provided above. As to the winder rails, can't help ya there wrench kevin stein

Here's a couple from 2005. Mind you, this is NOT the YORKTOWN class that's available, it's the Ooooooollllllddd "carrier" objects from the PAW terrain mod from that same time frame, which is why is looks so bad. Might give a try a reskinnig it at some point.... sorry for the small size of the shots.... wrench kevin stein

Action over Crete.... Wrench kevin stein

I've done this on a couple birds, but can't seem to locate them.... Looks like you've got all the bits where they should go already. Also, a Patial mistake on my part.... In the AVIONICS ini, you'll need all the HUD entries from the Eagles cockpit ini. Look at the stock Eagle avionics for guidelines. Also, the F-4E_AUP, F-4EJKai, the Phantom FGR.3, the A-4AR FightingHawk (albeit with Julheim' Kestral pit...and a mix-match of A-10 and F-15 bits), TMF's F-16 -which, if you haven't already done so, have a 'fix' for the GM radar, WoI's F-16s .... Since the avionics70.dll was fixed in the 08 patch, don't forget the add the GM radar sections reread my post above --- the aircraft's DATA ini, in the guns section. You'll need to add a line to EACH gun statement: AimAngles=0.0,0.0,1.5 or something similiar. The statemenet above will raise the angle 1.5 meters. Adjust as needed (probably down a bit) to get them through the center dot. And you'll probably be adjusting the 'size' of the sights/HUD, but that's easily done in that {Gunsight} section wrench kevin stein

I'd move it east at least 100km (maybe a bit more), to get the whole "Horn" on the map, and have some room on the right (eastern) edge to allow for the 80km "no fly zone" AKA The Wall wrench kevin stein

Probably missing the tgas. Use EVERTHING from the original series, placed IN the cockpit folder, make the necessary adjustments in the cockpit ini. See how that works What's the base HUD used? 3W F-15A???? btw, you're guns are going to be 'off center' too; you'll need to adjust the aim angles in the Kahu's data ini wrench kevin stein

OH NO!!! The Dark Clowns!!! Beware of Darth Bo-bo!!! wrench kevin stein

Dude, that screenie is frakking AWSOME!!!! my compliments! wrench kevin stein

all the names must match too, so if it's "AE.hfd", etc, and all the inis, you'll have to rename to 'eritrea', place all bits IN the TE as a sub-folder, and open from there. Can't work the TE from anywhere's else (ie: terrain folder MUSt be in TEs folder) and don't forget to COMPLETLY rebuild the city.ini, cause if you add stuff to the targets ini, they MUST match for you airfield flattening. wrench kevin stein

It's a DAT ships, CV-6. Also available in Gepard's Midway terrain. wrench kevin stein

Not without a complete and utter rebuild of everything, including a butt-load of retiling to 'fit' the new jet-sized airfields into the terrain. Meaning, adding the various VietnamGAB-1 and J-AB1 tiles, then laboriously fitting the airfields (1,5,6) into the excluded zone created by the new tiles. Runway 4 presents it's own set of problems -- as it don't quite fit in the usual 4-tile excluded airfield zone (just look at the Modern Darwing I just released, and see what I mean at Husadianian Int'l in Indonesia) BTW, converting Terrains up or down in time is a completely different kettle of fish, than simply converting the game for WW2 or whichever direction you're travelling on Time's Arrow. Doable? Absolutely -- I've already done it, as proven by the Darwin rebuild. Happen anytime soon? Not very likely (well, at least not by me) wrench kevin stein

But, because it's classed as a 'target area', ruined sites can (and sometimes are) assigned for Recon missions. Good for sightseeing. Just you wait and see the 'new' Cyrene in the "new" WW2 Western Desert rebuild.... note to self .. I really need the FSSC, so I can start testing/using the STT...with avsim down, I can't get it!! wrench kevin stein

DAT birds. I actually have an uncompleted C, ex-glass nosed, converted to a strafer (uses a decal to simulate 'painted over' glass -like my A-20A strafer mod). Never finished up decaling and etc for the 345th BG. I'll try and get a screenie up later, if anyone is interested. The major pity, is I can't get the NewGuinea2 terrain to take the 'necessary' trees, even editing/renaimg GH TODs...that terrain needs to be overhauled using WoV tiles, but it really don't work (tried with the Solomons, and it got all kinds of screwed up!!) There is a torpedo armed variant of the B, albeit an incomplete mod (missing lod and cockpit folders), over on my site wrench kevin stein

True, but the data ini edit procedure works on ANYTHING (well, except GroundObjects)...the only difference is we don't have the OUTs for 3W models, hence the need for a hex editor to find the mesh names. That's ALL it would be used for in that case (as in the A-4A Scooter mod, with it's removed refueling probe from the A-4B lod) wrench kevin stein

Can you post a screenshot?? It almost sounds like too many decals on a single mesh. I vaguely recall something of that nature with one of the skins...but I can't remember it!! (yah, age) Do a search on the Javelin, and see if anything pops up. wrench kevin stein

and we'll make fun of them, too :yes: wrench kevin stein