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Well, I can try and see if there's enough room for a medium airfield, but it'll be REAAAALLLLLY close to the Nicaguran border. It is sad, I know. One of our very close friends is from El Salvador; even though Jose isnt a gamer (of any kind), it'd be nice to have his (and your) country represented. Considering how much time he spent in the jungles and mountains with "the bad guys", before coming to his senses.... I was mostly concerned with making sure the Canal Zone and norther western Columbia was there, to be honest. I wanna napalm coca plantations out of existence... There's a screenie around here someplace, with the basic map layout...I'll see if I can find it so you can see what covered. Wrench kevin stein

"Get ready Sasha, we've got them right where they want us!!" Or: Hatch pops open on the commander's track, a confused looking young officer climbs out, map in hand... "Excuse me, we must have taken a wrong turn. Which way to Albuquerque?" Wrench kevin stein

El Salvador is "off the map", meaning it's just over the edge for the 80km limit ie: "The Wall" wrench kevin stein

We ran around in circles with this for the DS mod... There's actually 3 versions the IrAF used: F-7A (2 wing pylons) F-7B F-7BS (4 wing pylons) We settled on the 7A. TMF said (MAYBEEE!!!!) at some point of doing the 7B and BS, based on their 7A, but I'm sure it's low priority. All we'd really need is an add-on pylon set for the 7A, like for the Paki F-6s; added via that "fake pilot" and baddaboom baddabing, done Wrench kevin stein

That almost looks like a canopy tga issue.... or open the main ini (A-7E.ini), and comment out the shadow section?.... //[shadow] //CastShadow=TRUE //ShadowLOD=A-7E_shadow.shd //ShadowType=1 //ShadowCastDist=10000 //MaxVisibleDistance=400 like I've shown above the next question is ATI or Nvida? Or has that finally be laid to rest? WRench kevin stein

Oh, I forgot to mention I "reassembled" a package of ErikGens Sa'ar, with Museli's skins (idf style and loviz) for the Honduran versions, with Ordway's cockpit. The real buggabo will be the Nicaraguan Musntangs...that came pattern in INSANE!!!!! Haven't found any data on the Jug-Ns, as to if natural metal or camoed....not lookin forward to that either!! Wrench kevin stein

Now, that IS freeking weird!! The above layout is taken FROM the Korea map, IN WoE You sure you got all the items listed in the _types ini, and the numbering correct and sequential in the _targets.ini??? Wrench kevin stein

Went ahead and had a go at it, using "another skin" as the base pattern for the camo, and this is the result Please note the 2 different greens I'm experimentating with; one is more a 'olive' and the other is actualy RAF Extra Dark Sea Green (FS34127, RGB values 83,100,90). I think the greener green is a lot closer to a "spinach" color that you mentioned. With luck, maybe done later today (obvioulsy have to redo the darker green, and do the nose section up). This is also the first time I've added 'noise' to a skin -- makes it look a bit closer to the stock 3rd Wire ones in WoI (pattern is based off the Syraian Farmer in WoI) Wrench kevin stein

completed skin, minus the Arab serial numbers (which are in WoI -- I'm NOT making new decals!!!) I like this greener green MUCH better!! Wrench kevin stein

Abso-frackin-lutely!!!! That's the only way to get the BunyPak to work, due to it's naming conventions. Why do you think that whole thread was created?? The "how to" instructions are pretty clear, and simple to follow. That's how I wrote them... Unless, of course, you want to go through EVERY single weapon in the BunyPak, via the WeaponsEditor, and reset all the NationName= and AttachmentType= to "stock 3rd Wire style". or use the Mirage Factory pack, and add the weapons you want from the BunyPak, or use the "Community Pak" or..... Basicaly, it's a "roll up your sleeves and get to work" kinda thing. Wrench kevin stein

J7's just the 21F-13, right?? (basically with, iirc, additional outboard pylons) So, any skins made for that one should. Unless, of course, its the TMF version, then we'd have to get the templates from them (sundowner maybe??) Any 2-tone Farmer skin could easily be used as the 'base' skin for a camo version, you'd just need to add it as another layer to the template, create a new blank layer, and follow the patterns with the colors you'd want. Wrench kevin stein

well, after a quick 30 minutes searching the Web, all I've found is a few bits and pieces, most say they were natural metal (ACIG has a profile for one during the Iran/Iraq war). I know we used NM for the Iraqi F-7A in the DS mod, altough the Su-17 is desert camo. I'd say just leave it metal; that seems to be "consesus". Other than trying to locate the Osprey book "MiG-17 & MiG-19 Units in Combat", (which should be avaialbe somewhere!!), that's all I can think of! Wrench kevin stein

Hey Baltika, don't worry about fixing the water humps in the Marainas -- I got that taken care of (yes, I finally learned how!) Debating on wiether to do up a Guam based Type 52c Zeke skin first, or release the terrain and THEN do up the skin (actually only need redecaling of my original A6M5c skin). Everything else is 95% complete; just have to check some placements, movements (for the USMC landing beaches) and if or not to add the "Old USMC Barracks" on Orote Point, and it's ready to go. I gotta tell ya, between the Marianas and Hawaii, I HATE the fracking scalling issues in these games. Of course, we're trying to make it do things it wasn't really designed for!! Wrench kevin stein

Same one! We just call it "The WoI One", cause it came out in early 08 for WoI. It's also for Post Patch SF/WoE/WoV (and First Eagle, too!) Wrench kevin stein

aren't there some desert-ish skins in the downloads section??? I know I've seen some at Marcfighters ... if not, with the templates I made (also in the d/l section), they should be pretty easy to reproduce in 1024x *iirc, there's a Paran AF Farmer somewhere??? Wrench kevin stein

Give that man a cee-gar (not a Tainted one)!!! An almost skin (ok, a What If...) for use on the Panama map. As the FAN almost really did get Fishbeds, I thought it'd be a nice addition Wrench kevin stein

If using the BunyPak, yes. Just make sure you run the bunypak weaponsdata ini THROUGH the new WoI weapons editor to reinitalize it. It's not a perfect match, but works quite well. and make sure you read and UNDERSTAND my 2nd post in the Bunypak thread above -- that has the important bits. Wrench kevin stein

Decals have to be tgas. Nose arts are nothing, man!!! I've made hundreds (literlery!!!) Once you've done a few dozen, they become pertty easy. For "The Bowl", I can always try to add a few more mountains and/or valleys -- it's harder than I thought to do, but not too bad. I could even (shudder!!!) retile to more green-ish looking, what with all those custom 'grass' tiles I made for the Texas (ASW) rebuild. It's too bad we can't really do water falls.... Let me know what I can do to help Wrench kevin stein

with a clearer picture of the the above, those would be real easy to make decals from! (interestering to note, no one has commented on the 'nationality' of the 21MF in my screenie!!) Wrench kevin stein

Good catch on the instant action idea!!! I've edited many of them for my WW2 installs ... it's super easy to do and takes only a few minutes. You can choose any terrain you like, with a quick edit of either the options or singlemission ini (forget which right off the top of my head) Wrench kevin stein

1) check for matching skin bmp names to internal names in LOD 2) check decals ini for too many on a single mesh -- I see 2 stars on the wings 3) a bad day at the races?? Wrench kevin stein

Here's a nice one... mind you, it uses some items you may not have (but are in several other of my terrains mod -- in particular the AAA single gun bunker and quonset hut.) It's from the uncompleted new Korea map: Please note that this calls out SPECFIC SAM launchers and thier associated radars note the co-locating of the AAA guns and their 'bunkers' Wrench kevin stein

That's the one. the 9/08 & 10/08 ones were for WoE, WoV and WoI wrench kevin stein

That cheesy "Fighter Bowl" terrain I did might be just the ticket ... there's not much there, and what AAA exists is easily removed from the targets ini. There's even a big smily face built right into the terrain... Wrench kevin stein

Ok, I've just went back and edited the procedure in the KB, to clarify, and to correct my mistake as to which cat to extract the ini from to answer the question: LEAVE IT THE /FLIGHT FOLDER -- THAT'S WHERE IT BELONGS!!! why do you have so many pathways??? Are you creating folders where none belongs???? example pathway would be: C/ProgramFiles/Wings over Europe/Flight/singlemission ini If it'll help, I'll take a screenshot of my folder to show you... Wrench kevin stein