Dave

Ah so we military are just monkey's that like to see things get blown up? So as long as someone else does it, then you don't have to. Why does the word....hmm what word am I thinking of? Oh yeah that's it.

Didnt have to do much, you nailed it straight away Eric. All I did was add the insignias and decals. I did however re color your base camo to get a mod eagle scheme in. Thanks for stepping in in the last sec. Jimmy has some real life issue going on. So he had to step out.

Updated skins by EricJ.

1. You need the squadronlist.ini 2. Open it and and add your entry at the bottom Example: [squadron216] Name=510TFS <----------------------------- Must Match DisplayName=510th TFS Nation=USAF 3. Open the textureset.ini in the skin folder you want the squadron to use. Example: A-10 [TextureSet] Name=USAF Camo 1 Euro I Nation=USAF Squadron=510TFS <---------------------------- Must Match Specular=0.400000 Glossiness=0.400000 Reflection=0.000000 4. You see where my arrows are pointing? These must match. If they do not your squadron will not show up. 5. For campaign use..... campaigndata.ini (I used the WOECAMP2_DATA.ini for example) //----- Player Unit [AirUnit027] AircraftType=A-10A Squadron=510TFS <----------------------- Must Match ForceID=1 Nation=USAF DefaultTexture=USAFgreen1 BaseArea=Sembach Airbase BaseMoveChance=40 RandomChance=100 MaxAircraft=16 StartAircraft=16 MaxPilots=16 StartPilots=16 Experience=100 Morale=100 Supply=50 MissionChance[sWEEP]=0 MissionChance[CAP]=0 MissionChance[iNTERCEPT]=0 MissionChance[ESCORT]=0 MissionChance=10 MissionChance[CAS]=90 MissionChance[sEAD]=25 MissionChance[ARMED_RECON]=50 MissionChance[ANTI_SHIP]=0 MissionChance[RECON]=0 UpgradeType=NEVER Supply[001].WeaponType=Mk82 Supply[001].Quantity=2880 Supply[002].WeaponType=Mk84 Supply[002].Quantity=480 Supply[003].WeaponType=AIM-9L Supply[003].Quantity=240 Supply[004].WeaponType=AGM-65A Supply[004].Quantity=480 Supply[005].WeaponType=AGM-65B Supply[005].Quantity=480 Supply[006].WeaponType=CBU-24B Supply[006].Quantity=480 Supply[007].WeaponType=GBU-10C Supply[007].Quantity=40 Supply[008].WeaponType=GBU-12B Supply[008].Quantity=80 Supply[009].WeaponType=ALQ-131 Supply[009].Quantity=40 Supply[010].WeaponType=Rockeye Supply[010].Quantity=1440 6. in the main ini for the campaign that has the units it should look like this. (I used the woeCamp2.ini got example) [uSAFUnit028] UnitName=510th TFS 'Buzzards' ForceID=1 UnitID=27 StartDate=1979 DescFile=woe2Start.txt StartText=woe2Start1.txt If you look above in the WOECAMP2_DATA.ini you see: [AirUnit027] This must match the above woeCamp2.ini for example UnitID=27 That is all there is too it.

You have seen one take off??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!

Which is also in the Knowledage Base too. http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showtopic=8786

Spinners, Tailspin, 76.IAP Blackbird, savagkc, all community well knowns. (or criminals in Tailspins case) Have a good oen fellas.

When they tested them at Tinker AFB, we used Navy planes for it as well. So that is a very good question.

Termite Hill by Tom Wilson

Or just getting people out to vote. Some do not even bother.

You know that is something I hadn't thought of and brings up a very good point. Its getting to the point anymore when a person spends 2 years in just training status. So I think you have a good point Julhelm.

I remember that photo. It was an ANG unit in Vermont. Yeah it was a funny pic.

You need to look through the folders of your install. Your first step in modding, you need to be familiar with all the files that make up the sim. That is how I started in 2002. I got the cat extractor and I extracted all of contents of each cat file so I could see what was what. That is where you should start. Once you do that and you see what is in there, then the knowledage base will make more sense. Modding this sim takes patience and some reading. I can not stress that enough. I wish I had that knowledge when I had started. As far as the terrain editor goes, I havent messed with it in 6 years. I made a few terrains in 2003 and hated using that f***ing editor. As a few will atest to, keep a gun around with a round chambered so you can shoot yourself after it crashes on your and you lose your work for the 10th time. Also I recommend a good bottle of scotch, even if you don't drink, you will after using the TE, so your drink of choice might as well be a good scotch.

Page 6 in the SF utilities download page. Well there is a few in depth campaign editing thread in the Knowledge Base. Just start reading. http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showforum=193 Also have you looked at this for terrain editing? http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showforum=191

PG There is an entire Knowledge Base that tells you how to do all of that. Its right above the general forum.

Have you tried www.simmerspaintshop.com

How the hell?

Right on Growler!

RIP S!

Dave, The hardest thing about being on cruise is not letting yourself get into that groundhog day mentality. It is very hard to let that mind set slide in on you. It is very much wake up, get some water on your face, go grab breakfast, attended the morning maintenance meeting, go to pass down to your work center, work till lunch, eat lunch, work till shift change, give pass down and do tool checks, then progress to dinner. After shift it is go to the gym, go to a college class if your enrolled (I am not because I am that point with my college to start taking advance classes towards my major of aircraft maintenance), go study for a qual, or just grab a shower and head to bed. Rinse and repeat for the next one-hundred and eighty plus days. It sounds silly, but one has to work hard on preventing a dull mind set from getting in place. So that is where pranks and humor see to arise. What I have always noticed on the previous four deployments that I have completed is how much longer a deployment goes the cruder the humor goes. Since this is a family site, I won't go completely into the rudeness, but you have been there you know. To give you an example of a prank that was pulled recently. One of the guys in my berthing compartment always talks through every movie that we are trying to watch. Whether that movie is on the TV channels or someone's borrowed DVD. It is incredibly annoying and this joker has been doing this since workups. He makes stupid jokes or comments about the character. It wouldn't be so bad if it was every so often, but it is ever frigging moment. So a couple of guys went out and bought some water pistols while we were San Diego and snuck them onboard. Last night once of the guys had broken out his DVD of Iron Man. We were sitting around the TV trying to listening to the movie when the talker walked in. The guys with the water pistols were ready when he started to make comments during the movie, first was the verbal warning and then the talker started again. BAM! Three people turned and hosed the talker with ice cold water all over. To top it off our A/C works really well in the berthing. So he was starting to freeze a little bit. One of the guys told him that was his first and only lesson, he was going to train him like he trains his hunting dog. Every time the talker made a comment during a movie he was going to get a shot in the face with the water. Later on in the night after I got tired of watching the movie I went back to the rack only to see the three guys with the water pistols chase each other around the berthing playing tag with the water. Had to put a quick stop to it and had them mop up the water, safety reasons. Sometimes it is the simple things that keep us entertained for a while. We spent the last couple of days hanging out just south of the Hawaiian islands. Waiting for Hurricane Felicia to dissipate from around the region. Wait before you readers ask, the difference between a hurricane and a typhoon is which side of the International Date line the storm forms on. On the Eastern Side of the date line (i.e. the side that North America is) all the storms are called Hurricanes. Once you cross the international date line heading to Guam, Taiwan, Philippines, etc it becomes a Typhoon. Typhoon's are just as dangerous if not more so then Hurricanes. The biggest reason is that Typhoon's have a whole bunch of open water to gather steam and quickly transition from a simple tropical depressions to a full bore category 3 or higher storm because of all the warm water they are born in. On top of that take a quick look at the Pacific Ocean. Where are the major Land Masses that can suck up that energy? That is right, there aren't any until you get over to Japan, China coast, and South China Seas area. They take a serious toll to the nations in their path. These nations civil defense for weather like this is very good. I had a chance to experience the edges of a Typhoon back in 2006. I was visiting MCAS Iwakuni with a previous squadron and we were secured in our barracks, planted sand bags around the doors. Most of the locals moved further inland and up into the hills out of predicted flooding zones. I sat in my barracks room with my radio turned to the local AFRTS station and batteries installed. Waiting to see what would happen. I remember falling asleep later that night to the wind howling and rain just coming down in buckets. I woke up the next morning and watched outside the gate as local police were escorting power crews around to check on lines and poles. Other police were checking doors to make sure that everyone was okay. The only downside for me in the whole experience is that once the bases in Japan set a certain typhoon condition all the forces on the base are placed in a duty status. I am so use to living in Virginia or the Gulf Coast and doing Hurricane parties that it was a bummer when I couldn't buy any booze at the mini-mart to mix up some drinks while waiting for the storm to pass. Oh well. Getting back to the here and now, the ship found some calm water a couple of days ago away from the path of the storm and we just have been hanging out there to make sure Felicia doesn't zig or zag back into our path. We took a no fly day, yesterday and now back into the business of flying. I spent yesterday knee deep in planning meetings and preparing training lectures for later in the month. Today we have a no fly day because of transit time and we are also doing an underway replenishment or RAS. Basically we maneuver the carrier to come along a specific style of ship that is like a big cargo ship it is called a supply ship. Except it has bombs, toilet paper, toothbrushes, square turkeys, and fuel on the cargo ship. The only thing that seriously sucks about RAS days is the hangar bay is completely closed off due to large cargo being moved all over the place. We started early in the morning, around 0700, and probably won't break away till about 1100. Usually at break away we play some sort of song. Watching a RAS go down it kind of cool. Because we are connected via high tension lines, fuel lines and cargo lines you see all sorts of things moving back and forth. Also we have flight ops going on where we have helicopters flying back and forth between the carrier and the supply ship. There is gear slung under the helos as they go motoring around. Usually the Helo's are delivering bulky or awkward cargo containers over to the flight deck and then these are struck below on the aircraft elevators. Time changes out here are a killer right now. I am four hours behind Pacific and eight behind Eastern. I was jokingly telling my wife that soon I will fall so far behind her that I will eventually be ahead of her. Some time in the next couple of weeks we will cross the international date line and actually lose a day. Which reminds me of a old school Navy joke. It seems this destroyer was pulling out of Pearl Harbor for a deployment and they had a Captain's Mast after getting out in the deep blue water. This E-3, Seaman, had committed a couple of liberty policy infractions. So the skipper busted him down to E-2 and put him on restriction for 45 days with forty five days extra duty, finally took half a month's pay for one month. As part of his extra duty this now E-2 had to go and scrub dishes in the galley. His CPO checked up on him and every day this kid was caught singing a little song to himself, smiling as he was doing work, "They can take my rank , they can take my pay, they can take my liberty, but they can't take my birthday away." It seems that his birthday was near the end of the month. For the next few days this kid was spotted scrubbing away and singing his song. Up until the day before his birth which just happen to be the day the ship was going across the international date line. This E-2 showed up down on the mess decks and asked the cook for a slice of cake, as was tradition on one's birthday with this ship. The cook looked up at him and said nope. The Cook then explained to this poor guy, whose face got sadder and sadder, that it was now the day after his birthday cause the ship crossed the international date line. When I get a chance to sit down and download pictures I will. I have a few of the egg soup they served for breakfast, the triangle fish, and the square turkey's we have been getting for meals. Hope things are going good with the forums. Charles

Yes they do....

I am not sure if its true but man this is funny and it shows the red tape we have to go through around here. This letter is a thing of beauty (even if the language is a bit rough).. You definitely feel the guy's pain! An actual letter to the passport office... Dear sirs, I'm in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe this. How is it that Radio Shack has my address and telephone number and knows that I bought a cable t.v. from them back in 1987, and yet, the Federal Government is still asking me where I was born and on what date. For Christ sakes, do you guys do this by hand? My birth date you have on my social security card, and it is on all the income tax forms I've filed for the past 30 years. It is on my health insurance card, my driver's license, on the last eight damn passports I've had, on all those stupid customs declaration forms I've had to fill out before being allowed off the plane over the last 30 years, and all those insufferable census forms that are done at election times. Would somebody please take note, once and for all, that my mother's name is Maryanne, my father's name is Robert and I'd be absolutely astounded if that ever changed between now and when I die!!!!!! I apologize, I'm really pissed off this morning. Between you an' me, I've had enough of this bulls**t! You send the application to my house, then you ask me for my f***in' address. What is going on? You have a gang of Neanderthal assholes workin' there! Look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? I don't want to dig up Yasser Arafat, for s**t sakes. I just want to go and park my ass on a sandy beach. And would someone please tell me, why would you give a s**t whether I plan on visiting a farm in the next 15 days? If I ever got the urge to do something weird to a chicken or a goat, believe you me, I'd sure as hell not want to tell anyone! Well, I have to go now, 'cause I have to go to the other end of the city and get another f***in' copy of my birth certificate, to the tune of $60. Would it be so complicated to have all the services in the same spot to assist in the issuance of a new passport the same day?? Nooooo, that'd be too damn easy and maybe makes sense. You'd rather have us running all over the f***in' place like chickens with our heads cut off, then find some asshole to confirm that it's really me on the damn picture - you know,the one where we're not allowed to smile?! (bureaucratic f***in' morons) Hey, you know why we can't smile? We're totally pissed off! Signed - An Irate Citizen. P.S. Remember what I said above about the picture and getting someone to confirm that it's me? Well, my family has been in this country since 1776 .......I have served in the military for something over 30 years and have had security clearances up the yingyang........However, I have to get someone'important' to verify who I am - you know, someone like my doctor WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN ANOTHER COUNTRY! Sincerely, You Sure In The Hell Should Know Who. ..................And we want them to run our health care?!?

Well of course, I mean no really thought these things fly do they?

Exactily. The community has dick to with the MP of this sim. TK removed MP, thus that removed the MP community. So no one has silenced it, but him.