ndicki

Thank you.

Hi David! Seem to bump into one another in the oddest places!

I've found a new trick. Le Missionneur does work with SF2, in some ways better than KMD, with which I haven't managed to add vehicles to a mission for example.

The problem with LeM was that it couldn't find the terrain maps... So if you make a new folder in your Mods folder, name it "Terrain" as opposed to "Terrains" - SF1-style structure - and copy your extracted GermanyCE/IsraelME/VietnamSEA into it, it works.

Having said that, it doesn't like the stock aircraft - unicode files. So write the mission using SF1 aircraft you've imported, and then once the mission has been generated, you can hand-edit it to use the SF2 aircraft if you like.

Back to my game...

Thanks, Storm. Good to get us going!

You're going far further than I'd imagined! All I was looking for was a new CALLSIGNSUS.LST (which wouldn't be called CALLSIGNSUS.LST but CALLSIGNSIDF.LST, for example) with new names for the flights. I hadn't even thought of a new set of sound files - that would be fantastic!

Got enough Arabs to hand - I live in France! - but a good Israeli accent could be hard to find round here.

There are some speech files in the dowloads section, but they just sound American to my ears, without that characteristic Israeli something...

I'm just thinking that the US Vietnam-era call signs are fine for Vietnam-era US flights... But does anybody have any convincing Israeli and Arab ones - transcribed, all the same! - for SF2I or WOI? Just a little thing that grates and reduces immersion.

A very smart scheme! I got the tanks to work by following the re-naming bit as you advised but then copying and pasting the original 'Hunter9' loadout.ini and the 'Hunter9' weapon station section of the data.ini into the relevant GA.11 inis.

 

 

Ja, since we've now got two versions of SF2 to deal with, it gets a bit confusing...

Watch this space - I'm on an all-grey late version soon, as well. Just got the decals to recolour and in two cases, replace; two aircraft from the original batch were lost and replaced. The replacements kept the same tac numbers but had different s/ns.

I can imagine! No, as far as I'm concerned, it's a non-starter from that point of view. But it gives me one or two odd paint schemes to do when I get bored...

Very true - it wasn't like Flanders. But while I'm not going to do a campaign or anything - no idea how, for a start - there are some nice paint schemes!

I've asked MontyCZ, just to be on the safe side... It should be fairly obvious which side this one's on!

Uploading right now!

I've just been following this idea up - it's incredible the stuff they all had, and how many different factions there were. It would give you the chance to fight against just about any late-war fighter, regardless of its origin... So Camels vs N24s, for example... The only aircraft that nobody seems to have used are the later SPADs and the SE5. No idea why. Fascinating stuff...

LoL! There's a lot more what-ifs where that came from! I'll try and package them during the day.

Has anyone ever thought of the other post-War conflicts, such as the Russian Civil War? Check this out, and look at the list of belligerents on the right hand side of the page!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Civil_War

Obviously few factions had aircraft, but it's still an idea. Needs more research, as always!

Well done, Heck! These are the original 1920 SAAF colours which were replaced in 1927 with the orange, white and blue roundel we all know from WW2 photos.

Any interest, anyone? I'll upload them if there is.

They were used in "combat", during the Johannesburg Rand Revolt against militant white mineworkers (Maggie Thatcher would love it in old SA!) and the Bondelsvart Uprising in SWA in 1922.

http://www.tourbrief.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1962

Ok, you got me... roundel colors look African?

This is in the early 1920s, though, don't forget........... So the countries which gained independence since WW2 had not done so at the time...

LoL! Keep trying... The Irish Free State roundel, when used, was a green and orange ying/yang symbol, often on a white field. More common were orange-white-green wing bands, though. They've changed it a bit since then.

Anybody know what this is? Admittedly, it's post-War...

OK, so the technology transfer approach doesn't work... I've done the opposite with the L-39, which as issued is with tga textures.

Edit - No, you're right. Just tried it out, and the aircraft still appeared normally. I converted the bmp to tga, added an alpha channel, etc, etc, hacked the LOD, and... waste of time. Bugger. It works in another series of dims I know...

I'm sorry to hear this. 36 is very young... Please pass on my condolences to his family. He made some of the best add-on aircraft I've seen for this sim.

you can delte it via ini edit ;-)

You've got me there... I was going to hack the LOD and substitute .tga for .bmp, and take it from there. I've got no idea at all what you're looking at doing!

What if you alpha-channelled out the existing pitot? Just thinking aloud here... Don't know if that works with SF.