Fubar512

Whatever you do, try this tweak: http://combatace.com/topic/84199-frame-rate-tweak-for-nvidia-users/ It will noticeably improve your frame rate, often making the game playable when it was otherwise a slide-show.

Most of the modelers no longer create models (including cockpits) for the SF1 series. They focus instead on SF2, because SF2 features better avionics, bump-mapping, and specular-mapping. The avionics alone are reason enough to move on up to SF2. And unfortunately, there is no dedicated SR-71 'pit available, at all.

Nick, check your personal messages.

Not that I can recall.

Removing the center windscreen frames should be doable, but remember that the J35 has two support struts that run from the canopy bow to the top of the anti-glare pane, just in front of the IP.

Gun unjam and reload, though the statements for them need to added to the objects/aircraftobject.ini and control/default.ini files.

No Thirdwire product has ever been coded to produce a crash log. If your install is crashing, you can post about it at the Technical Support boards at http://bbs.thirdwire.com/phpBB3w/index.php or, you can post your system specs here, and we can attempt to help you. We would need the following data: operating system, hardware specs, and what mods you may have added to the install.

R2 droid auditions for the new series:

No. That title was released before the fhit hit the san.

Nick, expansion pack 2 is a $25 addon.

Expansion Pack 2 requires that you have SF2E installed. It is available here: https://store.thirdwire.com/store_w7_all.htm

Nick, Just to whet your appetite, some screenshots from a (modded) install of SF2NA: MiG-29K on approach to its carrier, passing the battle group's plane guard destroyer: MiG-29K, ready to trap on the Ulyanovsk:

And a Merry Christmas to you and your family, Nick!

Meaning, are you the Nick Tselepides who used to post on the SF1 forums at simHQ about 10-12 years ago?

The tail gun definitely yaws. A former coworker at a job I held some 30 years ago, served through two enlistments in the USAF, back before the Vietnam war. He was actually stationed at Wheelus AFB in Libya for a while. Anyway, I recall him showing me manuals that he still had for the B-47 and the F-100. I should have snagged them off him, as he was going to throw them away.

For future reference regarding the Stratojet's canopy:

I don't think he meant that it was broken per se, but was instead questioning the deployment (tilt). I know that at least up to the "E" model, the canopy was supposed to slide back, not tilt, and that's what was confusing him. If it's a later variant, then the clamshell (tilt axis) as shown is 100% correct. Here's a nice video on that bird, for everyone's viewing pleasure.

It is not open source. It is someone else's work that you are using, and taking credit for. If you had taken a few minutes to send a message to the model's author, he probably would have given you permission to use it. As it is, you did not even show him the courtesy of mentioning his name in the credits.

They run fine on XP, with the possible exception of SF2NA. I was running SF2,2V,2E, and 2I on XP, until I switched to Windows 7 late in 2010. What you'll lose in XP, are the DirectX 10 effects, aircraft and ground object bump & specular mapping.

Yes and no, as they would still require .ini file editing in the avionics, textures, and possibly flight data ini files. If you're planning on purchasing WoI, you would be wasting your money at this point, as the wise move is to go with an SF2-based title.

The canopy frame, or the canopy bow? If you mean the bow (the part that forms the windscreen), you must recall that it is a matter of simulating the perspective from which one views it while sitting in the cockpit. As it is angled forward and down, it would appear to be quite "thick" in real life, and when you add the canopy frame to the mix, yes it can appear somewhat wide.

You mean the one you uploaded that contained Veltro2K's model files, which you did not credit him with, nor ask his permission to include?

I'd say Paladrian's MiG-21 series 'pits, as well as his MiG-29A pit, though the latter ships only with the Mirage Factory's MiG-29A. There are pits for other Soviet aircraft, such as Armour Dave's Su-17, and there is an entire F-104G with 'pit from Thirdwire in our downloads section, for those who do not have SFP1. That last one requires a little slight-of-hand to install, as it's meant for SFG only: http://combatace.com/topic/57393-flyable-f-104s-for-sf2/ While the topic is meant for SF2, the method to extract the relevant cockpit files is the same for SF1. There are newer pits available, but the problem there is that 99% of the modelers have moved on to the SF2 series, because of its superior avionics, graphics, etc. Some of those pits might be compatible, but most aren't, as they use Unicode LOD files, which can only be read by either any SF2 title, or by WoI (Wings over Israel).

D Venom

Only in campaigns, because they read directly from the squadron list, whereas single missions (scripted or not) do not.