JSF_Aggie

There are three small desert strips added to the desert terrain in my old Harrier Campaign. It's in the SF1 download section. They're to small for an A-4 to take off from. There's the harrier FOB's in the ODS terrain you can use. It's just adding the object types to the terrain's _TYPES.INI and placing them via the terrain's _TARGETS.INI. For airfields, you'll need to place them on flat areas of the terrain.

There's a mismatch between the fuel tanks included for the C SEA, and the _data.INI and _loadout.INI entries. Fuel tanks are Tank195F-104_SEA_camo and the .INI entries are Tank195F-104_SEAcamo. The .INI's are missing a "_".

Well, my first guess would have been mission types assigned. However, I've just went 3 missions in with VF-154 and had no problems. I didn't fly them to completion, just flew in AP for a few minutes, ended, then started the next.

I'm 5 missions in to a LB II campaign with VA-37 and have no problems. The carriers are there every time. What squadron are you trying?

Anyone check if parked aircraft on the carriers appear in campaigns?

Beautiful stuff man. Thanks

Awesome mod HomeFries. Thanks

I think that's a side effect of fubar's water shader. I see the same on the sea/land transition tiles of other terrains that I use his shader. Still worth it though.

Colmack, Read through the description txt for my LHA mod... http://combatace.com/files/file/12751-lha-mod-for-stock-sf2na-version/ Do the CarrierParkSpan trick, and make sure your NATIONS match, that's as close as you can get as far as specifying a specific aircraft, at least best I can figure out. I'm surprised you saw a USMC aircraft on a Italian carrier, unless the carrier is set to USMC, or your running with a .MSN file that has a battle group called out as USMC.

I can look at it tonight too. I use to keep the _targets.ini changes current with each patch, but maybe I'm behind.

Nice ODS shots guys

For whatever it's worth, I asked that he unlock the terrain's _locations.bmp, and have had no reply.

Toro, it's a new skin I'm working on, for a campaign which includes CVW-7 in '81. You're welcome to them when I'm done. Here's another...

From a campaign I'm working on...

Here's the modified campaign files to get the Harrier aboard the LHA in the campaign. You need Wrench's AV-8A and my LHA mod as well. I've only been assigned STRIKE missions so far, which are difficult in the AV-8A. Anyone notice that all but one of the US ground forces start aboard the ships in the Marine Amphibious Group? Anyone play the campaign long enough to see them "land"? I'm hoping at some point to start getting CAS or ARMED RECON. If so, maybe just back up the AV-8A's campaign start date. I haven't tried yet, but it looks like you can assign multiple carriers to a single strike group. AV8A_NA_Campaign.rar

Are you having problems with the Ark Royal, or the LHA? If it's the LHA, try this mission. I have at least two parked harriers every time. I have a merged install, but at the moment, my only mods are Wrench's AV-8B, followed by this LHA mod. ********************** Squid, if you have a helo installed, belonging to USMC, and with the carrier=true and parkingspan variables, it would show up. The downside is there appears to be no way to define multiple parking spans for a single ship's parking, so you have no way to place the helos in a certain spot, and the harriers in another. AV-8A Harrier Strike 3.rar

View File LHA mod for stock SF2NA version ************************************************************************* ***** LHA Mod For Strike Fighters NA ***** ************************************************************************* This is a mod to make the stock LHA from SF North Atlantic usable as an aircraft carrier. You must have SF North Atlantic for this to do anything for you. ************************************************************************* ***** Installation ***** ************************************************************************* Drop the contents of the "LHA" folder into the top level of your mod folder. If you choose to, drop the contents of "Optional_Files" into the top level of your mod folder as well. Details below... ************************************************************************* ***** Notes ***** ************************************************************************* For single missions and parked aircraft to work properly: - A terrain with limited nations needs to have "USMC" as a FriendlyNation in it's nations file. A modified ICELANDNA_NATIONS.INI is included - If you're using Battle Groups in user-made missions, make sure the group's nation is set to "USMC" - For parked aircraft to show up, they must be "USMC" and have "CarrierBased=TRUE" and "CarrierParkSpan=2.00" in their _data.ini. A modified version of AV-8A_DATA.INI for Wrench's AV-8A is included. - The first catapult has no effect, and requires you to use thrust vectoring to take off. This also means your flight as to be limited to a max of 4, or the 5th aircraft will crash on takeoff. - AI aircraft don't use thrust vectoring to land, and must land with a fake arrestor hook to come aboard. One is included in the modified AV-8A_DATA.INI. - This was tested with Wrench's AV-8A, and the _data.ini included http://combatace.com/files/file/11938-av-8a-harrier-for-sf2/ ************************************************************************* ***** Bugs ***** ************************************************************************* Non-STOVL, USMC aircraft, sometimes have the LHA defined as their home base, in single missions. Setting "CarrierBaseSize=SMALL" for the LHA and "MinBaseSize=MEDIUM" for the aircraft, does not prevent this. Maybe this is something TK will fix for us. Submitter JSF_Aggie Submitted 03/18/2012 Category Aircraft Carriers

I got the stock LHA working as a carrier, with the parked aircraft being limited to just AV-8's. I'll upload tonight after I test a little more, in case anyone wants it.

Playing around with the NA LHA...

Man, I hope this means the AI will use thrust vectoring.

Cool, I'll have to give it a try now. It's been forever since I tried, maybe even prior to SF2.

There's a parameter in the Movement section of a ship's _data.ini that will cause the deck to pitch. However, last time I tried it would usually knock the aircraft off the catapult.

Yes, it showed up in one of the recent patches. If you're a user-made, single mission guy, there's also an "available/not available" flag you can set.