Wrench

Only virgins, if you can find any, and guys with a 'brain cloud'. You also have to drink lots of orange soda..... Hmm...looks like a litttle outgassing from the vent.. Oh no!!! The lava plug's been blasted free!!!! aieee!!! (natives running screaming sound) Either that, or Dr. Zim's reactor exploded... I think it's doable...I just don't understand the effects/particle system. I think it'll need a new effects ini, VolcanoSmokeEffect or something like that.. Wrench kevin stein

Funny you should mention that, since I'm beating meself senseless adding a butt-load of new stuff to New Guinea 2.... (they'll be a few new objects, like a faked AK class cargo ship - with MGs!, and several new and rebuilded target areas - still having trouble with the ditched B-17 off Port Morsby....) One could theoreity 'hide' a factory inside the caldera, and increse the size of the smoke emitter several hundred times.... That would be nice for the MTO maps; Vesuvius and that one on Sicily. Be easy enough to create a small building, say from the 'shack' and give it an emitter...simple hex editing and renaming... something else to work on! == and I gotta finish off those damn Zero's skins too.... Of course, it might come out like my burning oil well...not very (pun intended!) back to google earth to find that volcano.... Wrench kevin stein

Well, if its for WoE only, you can use all the existing stuff from the objects cat (sort of like how I got the F-104ASA-M to have such a nice HUD - 'borrowed' from the stock F-15) Use the avionics70.dll, extract the needed tgas from which ever bird has the CCIP -don't remember which offhand, put them in the Draken's cockpit folder, copy/paste the CCIP bits in the a NEW Draken cockpit ini from wherever they came from, not forgetting to make the changes in the Draken's main ini (pointers to the Av70.dll, etc) Test fly many times -- you may need to adjust the size of the sight tgas (text edits in cockpit ini) Fly some more, and that should do it. See, I told you adding stations was easy! I can't think of how many times I've done it (lots of WW2 birds, the Scorpion mods, dozens of times!) It'll be a nice addition. Remember, you don't have to release the WHOLE plane...you can just do a skin and ini pak (like I do). Let the end user transfer over the main lods. But DO let the folks that made it know, so they can be credited properly. It's only the right thing to do! btw, if you want, you have my permission to include my Draken Hangar Screen. Wrench kevin stein

You'll have to physically (or in this case, "text-ualy") remove them for the targets ini. Oh, don't forget to renumber the target areas...they MUST stay in numerical order. Also, don't forget to NOT have an airfield listed as the first target area...make is a city or army camp or AD site Wrench kevin stein

Everything in the game is in meters. For terrain objecters, I pretty sure it uses the types ini, even if 'UseGroundObject=TRUE' is set. For ground objectors, the GO's data ini. Wrench kevin stein

Oh, sure, the little (ok, xtra-large) f**ers always show up in the super-named cities!!! Tokyo, New York...hell, even London gets it a few times.. What do we get here in Los Angeles??? Giant Ants, and Korean Dragons!! Well, I guess the rep of the LA gangs has even reached Monster Island.... Brainles: when I get done witu updating the Okinawa map, just look for Odo Island...heheheheheheheheeee Now, I just need a giant footprint lod.... Wrench kevin stein

I can't even express how MUCH of a desire I have to see Isreal...like you say, it's something every Jew should do at point in their life. (do we make pilgrimages???) All our historical roots are there; physical and spiritual. Something I think a lot of, in particular us non-secular Jews, need to get back in touch with. My mother went, many years ago, and I relish looking at her photos, especially of Jerusalem and the Wailing Wall. I'd want to do ALL the touristy things!!!! Float in the Dead Sea, see the ruins, ... oh yah, the 9 yards. Maybe someday! Wrench Kevin Stein

Download my 'shipwreck' terrain object - it's here in the 'Other Objects' section in the 3rd Wire d/loads. There's a turorial in ther on placing objects. I have a nice, generic "Army Camp" layout that's usable -- or you can use the "Terrorist Training Camps" layout I did that in' the Lybia Upgrade terrain pak Wrench kevin stein

Works the same for decals, excepting you have to declare which mesh is used; right wing, right outer wing, right flap, etc. Then, top/bottom, left/right Decals just use the left/right up/down or up/down fore/aft corrdinates (dependin in where it's going -- wings, for instance, use fore/aft & left/right; tail or tailfin/rudder use fore/aft, up/down) Thanks, Czech6! It's good to hear that once in a while! Wrench kevin stein

Another thought occured to me... do you have ALL the AAA units??? The game only comes with, what? 4? 5? There's a boatload in Pasko's SAMs and Vehicles Paks, avaliable here and at my site. To really make things nasty...try networking them with a Fire Can.... Wrench kevin stein

Actually, your half right.... they ARE called out in the data ini, and MUST be listed in the SystemName= sections, but they are global measurments; ie, from 0.0 on the LOD. the lights don't care what compenent they're attached to. You can have the LandingLight callout in the fuselage statement, for example, as long as the coordinates are spelled out in the Lights section Explination of coordinate system: All measurments in meters 00.00,1.50,3.5 00.00 is your left/right of center, negative numbers (ie: -6.5) would be on the left wing 1.50 is your fore/aft distance from the center of the model; negative numbers are aft 3.5 is your verticle distance from the center of the model; again, negative numbers are BELOW the centerline. Having dialed in several hundred lights...this is something I know! For an example, look at these from the P-51D: Now, I'm not going to post the component sections, but if you look at the Fuselage sctions for the Mustang, you'll see it lists the system "BottomRedLight", where the coords definately show it placed on the right wing. Hell, I started the adding landing light trend 4 years ago.... looking for a specific aircraft??? I probably already got it Wrench kevin stein

Increase your enemy air defense level to HARD or HEAVY (whichever it is)...and get back to us. I think you'll see some differences.... Wrench kevin stein

What he said!! That "NAVAL_BASE" thing is good to know...looks like I'm making a few changes in the Okinawa types ini...take the smoke out (which might not be good, as there are ships at convoy stations that need it...hmmmmm). More things to experiment with! Wrench kevin stein

WP and NATO are not used as 'mainline' countries in the weapons pak. They're used for 'oddball' stuff (like the Fresco radar bubble) and for other countries. That's just how wpnsgt set it up. Doing it as above will work perfectly, trust me!! (yeah, and the Czech's in the mail! -- the German is in the plate armor -sorry, old D&D joke) NationName has to be Pakistan; we're creating a nation specific aircraft; like the Indian Fishbeds, Egyptian MC-205s, whatever! It's no longer ours, it's one of 'theirs' Wrench kevin stein

Ok...quick and dirty; please don't laugh at the skin, I just grabed one to use, for to be checking weapons loadings Interesting to note, there dosen't seem to be Paki Sabre skin in downloads section...I was SURE we had one! bombs, M117: rocketpods, LAU3A, 19 shot: data ini: make use PAKISTAN is the NationName=; don't know the operations years-you all can figure that out. Like I said, this is just a quick weapons fix hardpoint data: No need to worry about the HVAR stations, they aren't used you'll note I left the IRM stations intact, even though I think the PAF didn't use them. There are Pakistani AIM-9Bs in WePak, if needed. loadout ini: There was no CAS mission loadout (ATTACK), so I made a new one. new 19 shot Pak LAU-3A: In theroy, thought I didn't test this, you might be able to load the PAK SNEB pods, or any of the other PAK specifc weapons (FAB and RBK bombs). Don't know the historicality of their usage, but there ya go! There's also an reasonably nice Hangar Screen for a Paki Sabre; Ghostrider should have all of them I made 'ways back. Wrench kevin stein

Next question: do you want to have a Paki LAU-3 19 shot RP, or use my already made 7 shot pod? what the heck...it only takes a few minutes to make one! Wrench kevin sten

Because Pakistan is a semi-friendly country???? No, seriouslly... Pakistan has it's own attachment type (WP I think), and nation specific weapons. BTW, drop tanks don't care who they work for...there's not nation specifice attachment for them (ie: P-51 tanks showing up on Me-109s, etc) didn't I do the Paki Sabres in the Loadouts Thread???. I'll check and if I didn't I'll get something up later today. Plenty of Paki weapons to choose from in the WepPak! Wrench kevin stein

Embedding them in the terran makes double damn sure they show up!! Expecially for docked ships. Oddly enough, in the WW2 maps, at least the PTO one's I'm fiddling with, I have most of the ships set to "UseGroundObject=TRUE", and they show up. As for the destroyed lods, for the stock items, they're inside the terrain cat. (I should know -- I pulled most of them out to make them 'standard' terrain objects for destroyed cities and such) As to the lod extension, it dosn't seem to be used, even on stock items, like the barracks shown. My understanding is, that if it's a vehicle, say the M35 truck, since it uses the GroundObject, the GO's data ini info is used damaged and destroyed models. Personally, I always add the destroyed and secondard effects when working in the terrain types ini: The 'smallrocketgroundexplosion' gives a nice effect. As to docked ships, ALWAYS check in the data ini for the vessel, as they won't have their stack's smoking. Depengind on how you want them, you'll have to pull the effects off the data ini: Here, you'll note the LODs called out. OTH, it seems like the game engine dosen't seem to care... I know this isn't anwsering your questions; but it looks like it might work both way. Docked/parked/moored/whateve ships I've always used the extensions, and they seem to work. Biuldings and such, I don't think it matters. Wrench kevin stein

Mike, I've updated ALL of howling1's InAF Fishbeds ... they're all here (someplace!), check either in the 'cold war aircraft' section under MiG-21 or somewhere in that general vicinity! There should be some pretty good hangar screens floating around for Indo-Pak stuff, if I do say so myself (execpting the Marut, which I forgot to do!!!) Right, Ghostrider??? Wrench kevin stein

Haven't these already been done? The Fort would be easy enough...have the use the 17F,due to the lack of nose guns (and historically, ALL the turrets) and just re-decal it. ==EDIT: forgot I had this- Somethng like this: all guns, excepting the chin turret have been removed. Tail, ball, waist, upper ... all gone. The chin turret should actually be a rounded bulge, for a secondard radar. Same for the Hawkeye; I dont' recall seeing any in camo - course, that don't mean there weren't any. Whisky Cobra, same thing - do it with decals. T-6 has been done for several years -- actually, it's a Harvard. Done by me. Somewhere around her allenjb has an Israeli AF aircraft listing -- it should have all actually used, plus a few 'odd-balls'... Wrench kevin stein

On Star my ass!!! Get a Lo-Jac!!! "Mr Stein, this is On Star. It appears you RF-4C has been stolen. We're dispatching SAR teams to it's location, but don't hold your breath that it hasn't been parted out to keep other Phantoms airborne" So, that's what that little blue button on the mirror does..... Wrench kevin stein

"Cobra 1 check fire! Check fire! Friendly fire reported in your area" Opps...did I just shoot down Snoopy.......again??? Never have seen that twerp do his job! (as in a previous thread here) Sparky, have you checked AS missions in the WW2 maps??? Just for S&Gs, run a few and let me know. They all seem to be working for me. Wrench kevin stein

WW2 Solomons Islands Upgrade View File Solomons Islands Terrain Upgrade: For WW2 PTO mods The first of several... This mod is a relatively small upgrade to Edward's WW2 Solomons Islands terrain. What I've done is add several new targets and target areas, and replaced several airfields with a newly repainted "desert airfiled 1", which is now a medium dirt runway. You'll be getting new targets and types inis, along with a host of goodies to drop into the terrain's folder. It has been tested in SF, WoV and WoE, using their cats pointed to the terrain's main ini. As the new objects will be residing directly in the terrain folder, you should have no problems. All necessary items are included, so there should be no worries here. You MUST have ALL the Pacific Objects (ground units, ships, AAA, etc) already installed in you PTO version of the game; otherwise things won't be appearing. This is especially important for the ships -- make sure you have the barges, the Liberty ship, and all warships, both Allied and Japanese. Don't forget to check Geo's page for more WW2 goodies ... there's a lot of stuff that's usable here as well. It is also reccomended that you have installed (in this terrain ONLY) CA_Stary's WW2 hangars and buildings. They have a nice worn green wood-ish texture, and look really good in the SoWesPac! It is NOT included in this package. Edward's "Pacific Terrains.txt" readme is also included. = MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE LATEST, WW2 NATIONS INI IN YOUR FLIGHT FOLDER = = MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE LATEST WW2 FORMATIONS INI IN YOUR FLIGHT FOLDER = == MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE LATEST WEAPONS PAK FOR THE WW2 WEAPONS!! = If you follow the instructions below, you should have no (or minimal) problems...just remember - BACKUP your originals! And follow the fairly simple instructions in the enclosed readme. Of course, the general notes sections might be interesting to read; a full listing of credits, and my very public Thank You to Edward for creating the PTO terrains in the first place!!! Sorry, folks, no screenie. You all should know what SoWesPac looked like by now!! Happy Hunting! Wrench kevin stein Submitter Wrench Submitted 01/18/2008 Category Terrains

Having templates would probably be a good place to start...and there, unfortunately, aren't any. For the stock WoV or ADs; not that I've ever seen. They could be made however...with much work. Personally, I can't think of a more useless aircraft for the IDF ... what would they use it for? To replace the Vatours? Remember, it was originally designed as a low-level nuclear strike aircraft (and I can see the neighbors getting more than a little worried about THAT - to say nothing of the Bear in the far North*). As a bomber, it would be a great penetrator to hit the pesky targets across the Suez Canal, or up into Syria... but it's defensablity if low, when compared to others they had (Mirage IIIC comes right to mind) Not saying it couldn't fight...you just don't want to risk mixing it up with all the Frescos and Fishbeds (and yes, I KNOW Thuds killed some MiGs is SEA). Believe me, as the King of What If..., it's already been considered. (there's an IDF Hunter available...) Wrench kevin stein * can you say 'one-way mission'??? I remember, as a kid -possibly during the 73 war- when things were looking reaaaly bad, some speculation of IDF Phantoms reaching as far as Moscow, armed with Nukes. To say nothing of Damascus, Cario, Bagdad,.....etc. If push came to shove, and the end was near... well, my cousins tend to remember Masada, the Warsaw Ghetto...