Wrench

How right, listing the files needed to back. That's superb customer care!!! Wonder if it fixes the problem with add on terrains? (desert, suez, whatever) Better backup my targets and types inis...don't wan to loose the German Secret Sound Project :) Wrench Kevin Stein

That's done in case you don't already have the 'newer' files loaded in. Once you've added them, you don't need to again, unless something new is added, and that'll be stated in the read me. Wrench Kevin Stein

View File WW2 Allied Bombing Range WW2 Allied Bombing Range for SF, WoV & WoE This is a modification of several inis, and adding objects to give The Range a World War 2 flavor, for the Allies. This modificaton has been thoughly tested in SF and WoE, but not WoV. You shouldn't have any problems though, by making sure you 'cat file' pointer is pointed to the correct terrain cat. (see the Knowledge Base here at CA, or the newest Range readmes) Many of these WW2 items have been borrowed from other maps, most specificlly Edwards superb PTO and EuroWW2. Others were scattered about, like the train station and factory place. I'd like to express thanks to the Map Builders for their tireless work, hope I mentioned everyone ... I can fully understand the frustrations in placing objects now, after working on this and several other maps. You'll need the original Range installed to make this mod to, as the terrain iteself is not changed. This is an object and ini mod, not a full terrain. You'll also have a NEW movements ini; now you can perform Armed Recon missions. PLEASE read the enclosed readme for full, detailed instructions as to how to install. Although this mod can be used in any install, it is designed with WW2 =ONLY= in mind. Most of these mods, however, can easily be added to any other Range terrain (specifically, the movements ini and the new target areas). Now, no excuses... get out ther and practice!! Wrench Kevin Stein edit: updated readme, with proper credits Submitter Wrench Submitted 02/18/2007 Category Terrains

View File Nigerian Air Force Tiger Moth Nigerian Air Force Tiger Moth skin for SF, WoV, WoE This is a re-skin of RussoUK's excellent little Tiger Moth into those used (???) by the Nigerian Air Force, in their never ending battle for freedom against the aggressors from it's evil neighbor, Togo (also reccomended is the weapons modification pak for the Moth available both here at CA and my site) This little gem stems from the never ending, good natured ribbing amongst many of us that follow El Presedentie-for-Life, Sparkomatic. I'd actually made, and finished this, over a year ago, and promptly forgot about it. But with renewed intrest in the Nigerian money-schemes (as posted at C5s), I realized it was time for it's release. Defend the Honor of our Beloved Country!! Wrench Kevin Stein Submitter Wrench Submitted 02/17/2007 Category Pre War Aircraft

View File MTO Bf-109G10, JG77 Messerschmitt Bf-109G10 skin upgrade & ini tweeks for SF, WoV & WoE WW2 MTO Installs: This is a rebadging of original Bf-109G10, JG77 skin by Gramps, with basically, new individual number decals added. With thanks to Gramps for permission to modify. This skin represents Bf-109G10s from JG77 in the 42/43 time frame in Western Desert/Sicily/Italy; you know, the general MTO area. I make absolutely NO claims to historical accuracy Includes inis to upgrade data, cockpit and loadout. Also included is a NEW MTO 109 loading screen, never before released. Full instructions in the enclosed readme! Happy Landings! Wrench Kevin Stein Submitter Wrench Submitted 02/17/2007 Category Axis/BF-109/ME-109/Ju-87

View File MTO Bf-109G10 JG53 Messerschmitt Bf-109G10 skin upgrade & ini tweeks for SF, WoV & WoE WW2 Installs: This is a rebadging of original Bf-109G10, JG53 skin by Gramps, with basically, new individual number decals added. With thanks to Gramps for permission to modify. This skin represents Bf-109G10s from JG53 in the 42/43 time frame in Western Desert/Sicily/Italy; you know, the general MTO area. I make absolutely NO claims to historical accuracy Includes inis to upgrade data, cockpit and loadout. Also included is a NEW MTO 109 loading screen, never before released. Full instructions in the enclosed readme! Happy Landings! Wrench Kevin Stein Submitter Wrench Submitted 02/17/2007 Category Axis/BF-109/ME-109/Ju-87

View File MTO Fw-190 JG52 Focke Wulf Fw-190 skin upgrade & ini tweeks for SF, WoV & WoE WW2 Installs: This is a rebadging of the original Fw-190, JG52 skin by Gramps, with basically, new individual number decals added. With thanks to Gramps for permission to modify. This skin represents Fw-190A5 from JG52 in the 42/43 time frame in Western Desert/Sicily/Italy; you know, the general MTO area. I make absolutely NO claims to historical accuracy; I have too little knowledge of Luftwaffe camo & markings, and I'm sure there are much more educated folks out there on the subject. So, accept this as a simple, easy replacement with limited accuracy Also includes updated data, cockpit and loadout inis, with a new gunsight tga. Fixed damge tga are included. Happy Hunting! Wrench Kevin Stein Submitter Wrench Submitted 02/17/2007 Category Fw-190

View File MTO Fw-190, JG2 Focke Wulf Fw-190 skin upgrade & ini tweeks for SF, WoV & WoE WW2 MTO Installs: This is a rebadging of original Fw-190, JG2 skin by Gramps, with basically, new individual number decals added. With thanks to Gramps for permission to modify Includes updated data, cockpit and loadout inis, along with a new gunsight. This mod is very similiar to the ETO versions recently released, excepting this is designed for MTO style installs. Full detailed instructions in the enclosed read me, so please read it!! Happy Hunting! Wrench Kevin Stein Submitter Wrench Submitted 02/17/2007 Category Fw-190

View File Damage Tga Pack 3 Another in the series of adding shot up aircraft! (Note: Many aircraft use 2 or more skin bmps, hence 2 or more damage tgas. They are all in their respective folders, excepting those that have only one skin map) -Dev A-Team Aircraft: Ta-183 Huckbein Ki-45A & C Nick Ki-61 Tony Ki-100 Tony 2 Spitfire F. Mk.22 Seafire 46 (called "Seafire47_Holes.tga" - works for both) Tempest II B5N Kate B6N Jill (tenzan) Ki-46 Dinah P-40E Warhawk (included RAF/RAAF Kittyhawk) -Wolf257 Aircraft: P-36A Mohawk (remaned P-40B damage, mapping 95% identical) -Ajunaidr Aircraft: Mystere IVA -RussoUK Aircraft: F-84 ThunderJet Tiger Moth -Pasko's Aircraft: He-219 Owl F-82 Twin Mustang F-80 Shooting Star Vampire FB 5 Venom FB Mk.4 -Geo's Aircraft: F6F-3 Hellcat (I think the only one he never made any for!!) -MontyCZ Aircraft: -Simon Porter Aircraft: Sea Fury FB11 -3rd Wire Aircraft (Stock AI MiGs, etc) IL-28 Beagle -Other aircraft mods, based on the above units: WW2 P-80 Mod WW2 P-82 Mod PLEASE read the enclosed readme, it has full instructions for installing. Happy Hunting! Wrench Kevin Stein Submitter Wrench Submitted 02/16/2007 Category Effect Mods

I've got the 2 little puppies just about done, but as they're based off your work, I'm a needing to get your OK before release. 109F, JG26 109F, JG27 They're basically your desert skins, rebadged and redecaled; even got 3 of the 4 stab marking working on whichever one it is.. It's the same ini and skin tweek as I did for the ETO 109s. Just want to check with you before doing anything. If not, I can just redo the skin, but I'm super lazy, and would rather not. I also might want to re-do you 109E skin as well, but that's for another time. thanks in advance, Wrench Kevin Stein ps: anyone have any interest in something like this??? W

From the readme in every add on pilot, also posted on the "Pappy's Pilots" page at my site And that takes care of that!!! :yes: happy landings!! Wrench Kevin Stein

It's very cool! I love having something totally different, being the inventor of the whole "What If.." genre for the SF series! I've already dialed in all the lights, added landing lights, and "fixed" the reversed decal problem (for the < kommadore marking). It was a super easy fix, as I recently ran into the same problem whilst trying to update the MTO JG27 109F 1) open ALL the luftnum decals in you favorite graphics program (PS, PSP, Gimp, as long as it won't mess with the alpha channel) 2) Flip the image HORIZONTALLY -- this will reverse it. a}"Save As.." and add the letter R when asked to ie: 'luftnumR***.tga', *** = whatever the number is. This will make the < face front. 3) Edit the decal ini to read; in our example below is the JG1, other would be the same: [Decal014] MeshName=Fuselage DecalLevel=2 DecalFacing=RIGHT FilenameFormat=PII/JGI/D/luftnumR <-- this here, changed Position=-1.2,0.25 Scale=0.7 DecalMaxLOD=3 (you can see that I also renamed the "decals" folder down to "D", this will shorten the path) Do this for all the other decals, for the other JG's as well. The only unfortunate thing is, you wind up with double the decals in each folder. For us with giant HDs, it's not a problem. But it sure does make it look better!! This is basically that same thing I used on the 633 Sqdn Mossie skin, and several of the last sets I've just released. It's a cheat, but it works superbly!! Can't do a thing about the R4M rack, but I'll keep trying. It just looks "off", and there's no real place to put it, due to the length of the main gear leggs, and alerion placement. But I'm NOT giving up!!! Want to add lights? (and you all know how much I hated electrical work when I was fixing cars.....) Open the PII_DATA.INI and scroll down to the relevant sections.... ( where the {} is really the square bracket) adding missing taillight: in the {Tail} section, add SystemName{002}=Taillight In RightWing add: SystemName{004}=RightLandingLight In LeftWing add: SystemName{004}=LeftLandingLight add the following OVER the exisiting light callouts: [LeftPositionLight] SystemType=LIGHT Position=-4.89,-0.35,0.42 LightSrcOffset=-0.0,0.00,0.00 Color=0.88,0.25,0.25 Brightness=0.03 LightSrcRange=0.5 CanFlash=FALSE [RightPositionLight] SystemType=LIGHT Position=4.85,-0.35,0.42 LightSrcOffset=0.00,0.00,0.00 Color=0.25,0.88,0.25 Brightness=0.03 LightSrcRange=0.5 CanFlash=FALSE [TailLight] SystemType=LIGHT Position=0.0,-5.50,0.75 LightSrcOffset=0.00,0.00,0.00 Color=0.88,0.88,0.88 Brightness=0.04 LightSrcRange=0.3 CanFlash=FALSE [LeftLandingLight] SystemType=LIGHT Position=-1.20,0.6,-0.12 LightSrcOffset=2.6046,49.0560,3.50 Color=0.98,0.98,0.98 Brightness=0.10 LightSrcRange=150.0 LightRange=45.0 CanFlash=FALSE IsLandingLight=TRUE [RightLandingLight] SystemType=LIGHT Position=1.20,0.6,-0.12 LightSrcOffset=2.6046,49.0560,3.50 Color=0.98,0.98,0.98 Brightness=0.10 LightSrcRange=150.0 LightRange=45.0 CanFlash=FALSE IsLandingLight=TRUE This'll put the landing lights in the main gear wells. I'm assuming a retracting landing light, like the Mustang's. Since it's all guesswork, what the hell, right?? I also changed the gunsight to a Revi 16 that I have the tga's for, from the PappaRomeo EAW gunsight pak. You can get that tga in the Fw-190A8R2 upgrade pak at my site, or here at CA. Open the PII_cockpit ini, and copy/paste the following OVER the existing gunsight section: HasGunsight=TRUE GunsightMilSize=65 GunsightName=LWRevi16B_GUNSIGHT.tga LeadComputing=FALSE MaxDepression=0 DefaultDepression=0 I've not researched German gunsights, so I don't know if any of them were lead computing. If so, I'll post the fix. And Timmy, thanks again for creating it!!! Wrench Kevin Stein

http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autom...ode=sst&id=4057 File Name: MTO Desert Camo Me-262File Submitter: Wrench File Submitted: 13 Feb 2007 File Category: ME-262 Fictional SWOTL 2 skin for the Me-262. Represents JG77 in the 1945 + time frame. Includes cockpit inin and new gunsight tga. It should be noted that there are 2 skins in this pak: 1 with swastika, 1 withOUT swastika, for those in countries that do not allow it. Please read the readme for more information, and detailed install instructions. Good Hunting! Wrench Kevin Stein Click here to download this file

Something like The Range would be cool. Wasn't there an old game (DOS days) that was like that? One airfield only, for each side?? On a side note, anyone know why NONE of the aftermarket terrains will work in FE, even if you bring the desert.cat (or any other cat for that matter) with it?? Wrench Kevin Stein

catch: Thank you for the compliment! Don't I wish I had that kind of talent!! No, they're mostly from my art collection (which didn't include much WW1 stuff -- WW2 & later was my big thing), or model box art. I'd love to use some of the art off the Windsock covers, but don't want to get into any hassels with the publisher & artists. (I know for a fact, the publisher play FE, and d/ls our planes) Wrench Kevin Stein

Geo's updated his WW2 stuff (both allied and german). I don't think anyone has uploaded any updated PTO stuff, so you'll have to do the edits yourself. You'll need to open the ini for EVERY one of the GroundObjects (unless, of course, they're already SP4 rated) and add the following lines. Example is the 3.7inch Empalaced AA gun (ie:37inAAEmplaced.ini): [GroundObjectData] ObjectFullName=3.7 In.AA (Emplaced) <- all 3 lines must be added ObjectDataFile=37InchAAEmplaced_DATA.INI For ships it's the same [GroundObjectData] ObjectFullName=IJNS Akagi ObjectDataFile=Akagi_DATA.INI There should be a thread in the Knowledge Base Sticky explaining it in better detail than this little quickie. Wrench Kevin Stein

Changing the face? Very doable -- Diego made the pilot figures for the OV-10 Bronco, and the pilot is USAFMTL!!!! You'd need to have a picture of (whomever), and be able to shrink it dow to fit over the existing pilots face. Mind you, if you using a late model pilot figure, you'll have to contend with the lowered visor, or add the face to the un-mapped section on the left (well, the black part, anway - it's mapped to the visor in most cases) I think we have a couple for FE that have real people's faces; Charles used himself on one, and another might be Georing. Wrench Kevin Stein