Fubar512

The water "looks" better, because TK updated the terrain and water shader .fx files on all the terrain sets, with the latest patch series. The .fx files are in the .cat archive. But, something betters on the way

It has nothing to do with people not thinking outside the box, or discrediting someone without evidence. We are simply pointing out a few misconceptions on your part, so that others are forewarned of the potential pitfalls. That's all. And, BTW, I have a merged WoE/WoV on my system, so I am quite familiar with the subject at hand. And that leads me to this; WoE is made to work in a merged install with WoV (at the user's discretion), and as such, it includes all of the same terrain-objects. So all you've done, is to achieve the same effect that one would by patching their WoV install to the latest patch-level. Only in your case, you've used the newer cat file, and left the rest of the install as is (pre-patch). Another issue, is that the callout for objects placement is made by the terraintargets.ini. If there's an entry, for say a Desert-specific object, and it's not available in the terrain.cat that you're using, it won't appear. Having said that, it might be interesting to try the IsraelME.cat in place of the desert.cat, as long as the necessary WoI terrain-specific files are already extracted into the terrain folder, beforehand.

I hate to tell you this, but "the whole lot of buildings" and the hills being smoother, have nothing whatsoever to do with the GermanyCE.cat. The buildings you speak of are part of the .tod files in the GreenHell2 mod. The height, shape, and smoothness of the terrain is determined by the VietnamSea .HFD & .TFD files, both of which are addon versions, that you most likely installed with either GH2, or Brain32's tileset.

New gun sound entries must also be added to the soundlist.ini, which needs to be extracted from the flightdata.cat.

Well, you're close in one respect. The waternormal file that I used for the shader in that screenie, was a 3rd party, 16 kb replacement .tga for LOMAC's water.

Overexposed.....

Well, I can't show what I never recieved....

It may take a while....

We have a Google-Earth overlay that shows thousands of existing and former SAM sites around the globe. I'm using that resource to populate the GermanyCE terrain. When it's finished, I plan on uploading the edited terrain data.ini, along with instructions on how to modify (mostly reclassify) the SAM units to work with that updated placement scheme.

Those are suposed to be estimated averages of the total RCS of the aircraft listed (avg frontal/front quarter/side/rear quarter RCS). I believe that I found that list at ACIG.ORG, about three years ago.

For example, using the F-15A_Data.ini, we would edit it like so... [DetectSystem] RadarType=AIR_INTERCEPT Reference Name=Hughes AN/APG-63 RangeUnit=NM RadarAzimuthLimit=90 RadarElevationLimit=90 RadarSearchTime=1.0 RadarSearchRange=200 RadarSearchStrength=125 RadarTrackTime=5.0 RadarTrackRange=150 RadarTrackStrength=100 VisualBlindArc=5,6,7 VisualRestrictedArc=4L,8L MaxVisibleDistance=8400.0 DopplerLookdown=TRUE HasRWR=True BaseRCSModifier=10.0

Harold, it's the value in Meters2... For example, using the table above, a Gripen would use this value "BaseRCSModifier=1.0". I suspect that TK has them all defaulted to 1.0, which would make a Buff or a Bear loom large as a mountain from the AI's perspective, once you set them to their proper values.

Know, what would lead you to believe that I would know this? B-52 H: 100 m2 * 2.12 = 212 km A-10: 25 m2 * 1.5 = 150 km F-4E: 25 m2 * 1.5 = 150 km MIG-25: 25 m2 * 1.5 = 150 km Mig-31: 25 m2 * 1.5 = 150 km B-1A: 10 m2 * 1.19 = 119 km F-14 D: 10 m2 * 1.19 = 119 km F-15C: 10 m2 * 1.19 = 119 km Su-27: 10 m2 * 1.19 = 119 km Tornado: 8 m2 * 1.13 = 113 km Mig-29: 5 m2 * 1 = 100 km Mirage2000C: 3.5 m2 * 0.92 = 92 km F-5E: 3 m2 * 0.88 = 88 km Mig-21: 3 m2 * 0.88 = 88 km AV-8B+: 2.5 m2 * 0.84 = 84 km Av-8B: 2.0 m2 * 0.80 = 80 km B-1B: 2.0 m2 * 0.80 = 80 km F-16C: 1.2 m2 * 0.70 = 70 km F-18C: 1.2 m2 * 0.70 = 70 km Gripen: 1.0 - 1.2 m2 * 0.67 - 0.70 = 67 - 70 km F-18E: 0.75 m2 * 0.62 = 62 km Rafale: 0.75 m2 * 0.62 = 62 km Eurofighter: 0.5-0.75 m2 * 0.56 - 0.62 = 56 - 62 km B-2: 0.01 m2 * 0.21 = 21 km F-35: 0.01 - 0.005 m2 * 0.21 - 0.18 = 21 - 18 km F/A-22: 0.01 - 0.001 m2 * 0.21 - 0.12 = 21 - 12 km F-117: 0.001 -? m2 * below 0.12 = 12 km.

The RCS modifier values are in Meters/Squared. Be careful, as it's a fixed value, irregardless of aspect.

It's an entire Nike layout by ErikGen. Radars, launchers, pads, paved areas, etc.

Sorry, those lines are not valid, as they're not available in the aircraftobject.dll. It would be nice if they were, as they would allow for AWACs vectored AI fighters/interceptors.

100 NM Pheonix Kill: http://forum.combatace.com/uploads/1219754...43_32287480.wmv

Ummm, I've been fired upon well out of BVR range, and my wingmen have launched Sparrows at targets over 20 nm away, and have even had my (F-14) wingmen engage bombers out to 100 nm. You, as flight lead, have to ID the targets, and your wingmen will engage when they are within launch parameters for their weapons. Even the opfor will do this, once they acquire you on radar.

Tunguskas and Marder-Rolands are quite plentiful post-1990 in my installs.

WoV was meant for Vista? Wow! It was out almost three years before the release of Vista....I knew TK was good, but how did he know that?

Yes he did. BTW, here's two Nike site coords for you, close as I can estimate to their historical positions, on the GermanyCE map. [TargetArea335] Name=Hohenkirchen Nike Site Position=323911.000000,744018.000000 Radius=2000.000 ActiveYear=1961 Location=1 Alignment=FRIENDLY [TargetArea336] Name=Rodenkirchen (Stadland) Nike Site Position=353671.000000,714379.000000 Radius=2000.000 ActiveYear=1961 Location=1 Alignment=FRIENDLY We should place the Hawk batteries (and the Pat batteries when they arrive), by their historic positions, as well. That's going to be a daunting task, as there's a helluva lot of Hawk sites!

Yep, it needs a little tweaking, but, I was flying in a MiG-21 at the time, and the MIM-14 was meant to be a nuke-tipped bomber-killer. The last missile was fired at me when I was over 40 km away from the site....

They work fine. I heard a Sam launch call, and saw one Nike missing from the site. A minute or so later, my RWR lit up like a Christmas tree, and I saw this..... It still needs a bit of tweaking, but all in all, a very impressive modeling job by EricGen.