Spectre_USA

Did you complete any of the nicely detailed steps shown above? From your listing of activities, it would seem not. The items you listed to have done will NOT get WW2 pilots in the aircraft.

Yeah, it would be. I have seen 2 different parties, semi-recently, working the jet, but neither have yet to come full-term. We shall see...

Like SilverBolt said, not a RoboTech fan, nor do I know squat about it, but that is a fine looking jet! Would very much like to see a USAF skinned one, maybe on the Raptor theme. Sorta, ya know? As to weapons, any idea on mounting, or is it all internal in RT land?

I agree GR, they aren't at all compressed, just combined. I just figured the concept would go over better thinking of it like a Zip file or summat. Point taken...

Hey Sig, maybe next time add a readme.txt, or a pic of the directory listing, like this? Contents of "open_me.zip"

I was gonna say the Avro Arrow. I like the sepia, blur, and grey scale of the pic, looks for realsies!

I use Paint Shop Pro, for the most part, as it has a browse feature to preview the pics before editing them. I am actually just replacing the ones originally installed with others to create a USAF Dissimilar Air Craft Training skin, but the last pairing, where the RAF red and blue banner is, just gives me fits. The fact that Dave just whips these decals out by the bushel leaves me in awe...

You don't "make" cat files, it is the compression method used by Thirdwire to combine a lot of files. With SF:P1, and all, you can extract files, edit them, and they will be read in before the ones in the CAT.

Well, dang it. I tried the one link, and got no where, they may be old and dead, or the site just wouldn't load for me. Got the newest Paint.Net, 3.13, I think, saved as un-compressed 24 bit, and still got my white tail. May have to try the DXT-BM tomorrow, or later today, as it is 01:30 hereabouts. I must have a mental block with TGA's as I just ain't getting it. Gimme a GIF anytime!

Cool. I will have to give it a try tonight! Thanks!

That li'l rascal will look mighty fine in formation with your `23, the Typhie, Raptor and/or Grippen. I really dig seeing all these modern wonders coming to life!

Why? I got a nice white tailed Typhoon when I tried to decal it, as TGA's kick my arse. I even tried using that tutorial, but amn't too swuft on the uptake. If you get back around here, LloydNB, I would like to see that drag and drop solution...

Welcome back St0rm. It seems a matter of personal taste, equipment usage regarding the patch. I am running it, as it cures a personal peeve of mine, the black box in the briefing screen due to 8800 card. There is a seperate weapons pack, from MF, I believe, for WoI, which thins things out nicely. I also have the F-15I/F-16I running in a homemade Lebanon War 2, 2006 campaign just fine. The last patch addresses a few foibles, but not all. I kept a seperate, unpatched install for a bit, but have since deleted as it works well for me...

I have an Outlook reminder setup for Saturday morning. Just wish I had a DVR...

Oh, heck yeah! A 2 hour special after supposedly cancelling the series? Man, I gotta get a DVR before the weekend...

It is actually kind of sad, as has not made a name change for DirectX in over a year, and yet there have been multiple version upgrades. Why the phobia of going beyond 9.0c is unknown. I would figure they'd be calling it 9.0h or 9.1 by now, but since making Vista DX-10, they just don't want to change it, and it causes much confusion with the few PC gamers left standing. So much for their, "we've been negligent of PC gamers for far too long, and are going to change that" stance...

D'oh! Why didn't I think of that? Would have saved some grief over the years...

Don't unplug your joystick? No, that has been a pain for some time. I get it a lot as I test out different controllers for my magazine column. Saving it does not help. Once you fire up with a different joystick, then try to go back, it is reset city...

Hi-o! I actually downloaded the terrain editor, in hopes I could use it to reference areas for creating connections to northern nodes, as per m other thread. But it looks like the "new" edition I have only does WoV and WoE. I wandered by Thirdwire, but they are currently down for an upgrade, IIRC. Anyone else have this file? It doesn't look to be in any CAt file that I can see...

As a 14 year flight line weenie, I tend to agree. Stepping, spoolin' and taxiing out would rock, as I always take off and land as it is, with a taxi to the ramp, and with patch 1 in WoI, shut down.

Ooo, looks like we just found us a "volunteer!" I bet it was Razor!

#1, welcome to the boards. #2, DO NOT USE ALL CAPS, it means you are shouting. Never a good thing. #3, in order to extend the years available, open your Options.ini, in the root directory. Once there, look for the following area, my example taken from WoI; [singleMission] AircraftType=F-16A_Netz MissionMap=ISRAELME MissionType=ARMED_RECON MissionTime=RANDOM MissionWeather=RANDOM AirActivity=RANDOM AirDefenseActivity=RANDOM LoadMission=FALSE LoadMissionFilename=F-15A_vs_MiG-23MF_(1v1).MSN MissionYear=2006 StartYear=1960 EndYear=2020 Service=ISRAEL In this instance, I have changed the end year to 2020, as is what I would suggest. Have fun!

Thanks for the insight gents, this looks like it will take some extensive mumbling. Even though I have the week off, I don't know if I'll find the time. It amazes me how the honey-do list seems to have quadrupled over night...

Good job in ADAF, best of luck in the Reserve elements! Enjoy your time with the fam, I know I'd go nutso without mine...

My Chapparalls tracked a pair of MiGs but never fired either. I watched from F7 view, and they sure looked locked up, but the AIM-9's never took off, same with the ADATS, which I have had working in SF:Gold just fine. All the INI entries I looked at looked fine, they have nicely replaced the M-113 20mm, and 1/2 tons with 50's, but are even more useless.