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Just out of curiosity, are there old prepatch airfield inis in the terrains in question? Does the targets in reference a particular TYPE of airfield ini? ie: a desert_arifield*.ini or something like that? Are you terrain cat pointers references correct? Are you using a 3rd party 'parked airplanes' mod? --that'll have to be removed until comprt can readjust for the new parking spaces called out in the post-patch airfield inis Wrench kevin stein

Those profiles are gonna be a HUGE help!!! Be a simple matter to whip out the various different skins by just swapping the insignia around, via different layers in the template. My BoF Insignia psd (courtesy of simmerspaintshop.com) has those on it. Removing the upper wing units is, agian, a simple matter (always thought they'd have been removed -- too damn bright!) I had the same problems when doing the ML-KNIL Hawk 75; just trying to figure out the right colors is INSAAAANEEEE!!! That one got a 3-tone upper scheme simmerspaint shop had some pretty good color chimps, with RGB values that I used to recreate them: Medium Green /KLU Young Leaf: 83, 100, 90 RAF Dark Green/ KLU Old Leaf: 89,92,78 RAF Dark Earth: 123, 105, 78 Dark OD : 85, 79, 68 the 'natual metal' I"ve never gotten a really good handle on, I mostly use 15-20 % gray, and hope for the best. On the other side of the coin, the Kagero Buffalo book (which I got last week on pdf), mentions the KNIL getting wrong colors, as applied at the Brewster factroy. Some souces state 'used standard US OD in place of the greens' or "used standard RAF color schemes" Gets very confusing, VERY fast. I've even been scouring the web for more info. There's a Buffalo forum at some "Warbirds" site, with some VERY informed folks. Mostly from a Peter -somebody- in The Netherlands. I think he migh have written some books on the subject?? Also have to check into my copy of Culls "Buffalos Over Singapore" -- great piece of work! Wrench kevin stein EDIT: Gwar; the 4 seasons ANW is here at CombatAce I never updated/got a new counter code. Have to fix that someday....;) EDIT2: Looks like a small update on the Hawk 75 may be in order, to remove those uppper triangles!

Have you looked in the "Things You Need To Update Thread" and the "Official Patch Thread" above? Are you using the April 08 weapons editor? Have you set said 4/08 WE to "win95/98 compatibility''? I'm using the old Bunypak in post patch with no problems ... all you need to is open an entry with the NEW April 08 editor, and the the usual "open the entry, look at it, hit OK, and save" Works a charm Also, you just might have to extract the data and loadout inis, to make sure the AttachmentTypes and weapons names are correct -- as we have to do after every patch, all extracted object inis are disappeared. Basically, you start fresh Wrench kevin stein

Q: what's the Solomons have to do with a AVG campaign? Somebody needs a new navigator.... ------------- I don't recall there EVER being a Solomons Campaign pak that included aircraft. Up until a very short time ago, there weren't ANY 'canal themed aircraft and/or skins available. I should know ... I've made most of them!! (with more still to come) Mabye a very ancient one may still be a avsim? Don't know. I DO know that Baltika has it on his list. And the terrain itself has gone in for a complete overhaul....again. I'm just waiting for Deuces to finish off planting trees so I can recheck target area positions. Wrench kevin stein

A single "Golden BB" can take down a liquid cooled engine, where as a radial will probably withstand it. RE: P-47s returning to England with entire cylinder assemblies shot away, and the engine not only running, but producing plenty of power Less maintence, less 'accessories' weighing down the aircraft (radiators, associated piping, ducting, coolant pumps and resivours {sp?}), smaller more compact power plant (offset slightly by larger frontal area ie: less streamlining), simplified operation, replacement parts interchangable between other aircraft based on carrier. (although, this could also be said for V-1700 series Allisons or Merlins) Reliability. This is a discussion that crops up every so often...suffice it to say, the US Navy choose to go with radials. The US Army Air Force seemed to perfer V-12 in-lines (for fighters). It's basically in the designers corner. The AF was more concerned with streamling and speed, as all the necessary repair/maintence facilities are/were at large, fixed bases. The Navy was more concerned with getting the easiest, simplist powerplants to maintain, cause space be limited on them boats. Let's not EVEN go near the discussion of singles vs twins (mostly in the post-war Gen 1 Jets and later). The entire discussion is for a 'hole 'nuther thread!! Wrench kevin stein

Check the Knowledge Base, the "Bunyap Weapons Pak Fixes Thread"...there's a couple of issues I addressed about the 'Varks in there that might be helpfull Wrench kevin stein

Probably for me to finish of 3 or 4 RAF skins.... I know I started an AASF Battle, a Hurri and something else that I disremember right now. The AdA Hawk 75 and DB-7 already exist, but we're missing all the other French aircraft. Plus anything the Belgian AF might have had. We've got a Fokker XXI, so a Dutch fighter is covered. What else would be on the Allies side? I have to go back and find my notes and whatnot...I'd started some work when the BoB map came out, as some folks were expressing intrest in the BoF set...but nearly 2 years (?) ago?? Editating the BoB map/campaign data for BoF would be left up to Baltika ... I'm just a skin and ini kinda guy! Wrench kevin stein

Is that simulated fabric I see on the aft fuse and fin??!!! Oh, I hhhope so!! Wrench kevin stein

None taken -- since I don't work for Brewster! Don't forget, the F2A WAS the first modern monoplane delivered the USN in the mid-30, so it was quite advanced for 1936!! Oddly enough, Brewster was a sub-contractor for Vought, and built several hundred Corsairs .. complete aircraft. They also made bomb racks for the -1A and -1Ds. Disremember the disgination to seperate the Vought built (F4U) from the Brewster built versions Wrench kevin stein

Um...actually, there's a good possibility they will. After all, the seasonal code originated in FE, which is where I 'borrowed' the idea from for the ANW 4 season rebuild. Post patch FE and SF/WoV/WoE (ie: post 9/08 & 10/08 ) have some FE coding in them. There's another thread in here, by me, with some screenies of an imported terrain -- you'll have to do a search to find it. Should be from Sept/Oct time frame. All you need to do is move the original GermanyCE terrain folder over INTO you FE's /Terrain folder. The reason for this is, the SF/Wo* series NEED one of the Original 3 Terrains ™ for the cat pointer line. I've tested several of the add-on terrains, mind you WITHOUT seasonal sub-folders, and with one of the Original 3 ™ present, they work fine (i think it was Edward's WW2 North Africa terrain). Be advised, however, you'll be missing a LOT of the ground objects, FE-wise, so you'll be stuck with a more 'modern' looking terrain (airfields will be the paved ones, all the buildings, etc, etc, sam sites, etc....and so forth) What that means, is you'd need to extract the 'era specific' building and such from FEs' stock terrain cats (LODS, tga, bmps, destroyed LODs, etc), copy/paste them into the terrain you want to add, copy/paste their entries from the FE terrains *** _types.ini into the newly imported one's **_types ini, and rebuild the **_targets.ini of the terrain you moved over. Probably, a complete rebuild of said _targets.ini. A lot of work? Yes, indeed. Identifying and extracting the FE terrains objects should keep a body busy for a day or so... Is it worth it? That's all up to what YOU want to see in-game. Wrench kevin stein

But don't you loose the 'real world' coastline outline that way?? In this, the coasline at Kanehoe Bay is not correct, due to the lack to detail, but I'd like to keep it ( the bay outline) as close as possible I think what I have is an extreamly "odd" case, as there's no other map, and no other airfield that's, literally, at the water's edge. It being a seaplane base and all... To me, for fixing MY issues (other than several million dollars worth of therapy....) sounds more like HFD editing....which I ain't exactly very clear on. Yet Wrench kevin stein

Wouldn't it be easier to just zip up 8 or 10 of these into single packages, and upload THAT pakcage? When posting in the Announcements Thread something like: "Hangar and Loadings Screens for the following aircraft a b c d e f g etc" Release threads for other Mods get lost this, with (I hate to call it this) "mini-floods" of smaller mod paks, that drive them down and off the 1st page and out of sight. Also dosen't tie up your end with upload after upload after upload; have them all together in one, simple to upload (and download) package. You can even group 'types' togehter in coherent packages -- like, all the MiGs, NATO aircraft, US, Swedish, whatever. Give that some thought, please? Thank you!! btw, nice choices of pics! Wrench kevin stein

Most definately sounds like a 'cat pointer problem' Follow the instructions in the Thread in the KB -- read the whole thing, especially my comments/instructions in the 2nd post. (as some of the info in the 1st one is a bit outdated, due to the new patches adding all the stuff form the older versions, ie: Strike Fighters desert_airfield**.inis) Wrench kevin stein

here she is, nearly finished.... I just have to do up serial number decals. Which will actually BE for B-25Bs... I'll do the usual 12, even though only 4 "will" be sent to Midway. notice the removal of the ventral turret and tail guns, (via data ini edits) as 98.6% of ALL B-25s either removed them in the field or were not installed at the factory (expecially on later models) C & D models could actually carry torps, and did so on severl occasions in SoWesPac...so, this isn't too far fetched! 69th BS, 38BG which is the actual unit delpoyed to Midway in their Maruarder (and later requipped with Mitchells!!) Wrench kevin stein

Sorry for you loss, too brother. Like someone else stated already, he's in Good Company. Wrench kevin stein

As far as I know, they just show up all the time. I've never seen a selectable capabality like that in any GO, stock or 3rdparty Wonder how that'll effect your searchlights...will the beam show up daylight? (just had a thought...apply a search/trak radar to it....what a nasty thought!) I don't think the ground object dlls (?) have that. Fubar would probably know -- he's been taking them 'apart' since day one! Wrench kevin stein

Capun performed a stupendeous great service for us all by including the OUT files with our aircraft releases (hence the removal of the exhaust stack outlets on the A-20A Havoc, and the decaled belly turret on the B-25B/C) Try this for the mesh name: TailGear oddly enough, on the Buffalo , I used a 0,0 coordinate, and it worked. For the Hurri, you might need to guestimate from the tail light position, moving down and forward Wrench kevin stein

To quote Bill Dana (Jose Giminez) from Ed Sullivan/"The Right Stuff": "Oh, I hhope so!" His ligth cruisers will most likely 'fit' better than the Brooklyn's I been using. I guess a PM IS in order...maybe after the holidays. Hate bugging folks this time of year; it's suuposed to be for family. Which is why I appriciate everyone's efforts all the more! Wrench kevin stein

-1C or early -3 TBM. He was shot down during operations around Iwo. (Ha-ha Jim??? - disremember) mid 45?? Don't know about any other time having to get fished out... Wrench kevin stein

(thinks hard before responding.......) . . . . . . well, all it takes is a knowledge of how the targets and types inis work, how to place targets, use Skypat's extractor tool... then one just needs to extract the destroyed lods and associated tga/bmps, create and add the entries for said destroyed buildings in the _types ini, create or edit the "Large Urban Module" (which, btw, is NOT centered on it's 0,0 point) and place it on the map via the _targets.ini. Only about a day and halfs work... Wrench kevin stein

It's here, the different season tile sets were included in the original. IIRC, it was done by Edward? I personally think it's a slightly better map than the stock GermanyCE, for the simple reason it's sssoooo much larger, covering the UK (well, most of it). Took me a while to find the screenies where I"d stored them on my site: the water extends almost 1 1/2 tiles inland here's some borrowed trees.. I'll try to have up zipped, and a link to you later today thanks man!! Wrench kevin stein

Well, we could cheat and just cover it with a 'metallic' decal. I just did the same thing on the 2 Buffalo skins I just released: the landing gear struts are ALL covered with a decal. Just wish I could get a better handle on metallic colors. I've done this on several mods of our (DAT) planes, to add a little 'extra flavor'. Wrench kevin stein

That could almost (ok, but not quite...) stand in for a California class. Obviously, some differences, but the hull shape is closer than Iron Duke's. Great stuff, hinch!! Wrench kevin stein

I thank you fro the offer! Most definately, will take you up on it!! Wrench kevin stein

Dload: In simple terms, NO. Building set in the TOD files are "terrain objects", and not subject to even mulit-megaton detonation damage. The various "Urban Modules" by Polak that I've been using, are. They use standard in-game buildings, which are targetable and destroyalbe. In fact, if one is exceptionaly clever , they can even be replaced by destroyed building, creating utterly destroyed whole cities: we see here a Phantom on a recon run over the remains of Yuma, AZ. Wrench kevin stein