Hi, I'm new arround here, and this is my second post. And first time starting a topic.
I also should let you know that English is not my first language so if I say something horribly wrong, please be patient.
Well I gess I'll start with the things I would like to know.
nº1: I'm doing a Korea Air War Install with RED FALCON. I have Updated the Korea terrain, with the avaiable update and done everything else acording to instructions. The Problem is when trying to start a Campaing with the Soviet 1/196 reg. the game crashes. I've found the cause of the crash is the airfield set to them Siping AB (PCR). Because if you change it It will work fine. But not with every other airfield on the NKorean side. There apears to be at least another one that's also faulty (can't remember wich one). So asside from changing the squadrons to working airfields. Does anyone know how to fix this?
nº2 Is there a way to have the radar on the corner of the screen on hard settings? I like to have radar on hard but would like to have radar for those few types we don't have a proper PIT or the game engine does not suport the real plane PIT functionality (ex. radar on HUD). and the author chose to leave the radar for corner screen only.
nº3 I'm having trouble findong some skins for my campaigns. So if any know the whereabouts of this skins would REALLY apreciate it:
KN - A-4E skin: knights of the north israel 110 sqd
144 - IAI NESHER skin: Phoenix Israel sqn 144
Brown - MI-24 skin: 28th egipt heli Rgt
Green - MI-24 skin: 2nd Syrian heli Rgt (I have a Syrian skin I got from here but don't think it's the right one)
Discoveries:
nº1-Also with KAW - Red Falcon: the author gives this note:
Now me beeing stuborn as I am, I tried to fix this (since this is a KAW - Red Falcon, only install) by changing the Soviet Insignias wich are the Chinese insignias .TGAs and replacing them with NKOREAN .TGAs renamed to replace the soviet
and chinese insignias.
It worked, but... On the chinese planes the insignia seams to be places under a yelow transparent mask that changes it's colour. Any Ideas to fix this?
So this is what you have to do to have both the soviet and chinese sqds flying with Nkoreas Insignias.
Extract from the objectdata.cat any nkoren insignia #029 nation wich will be the files Insignia029.tga or Insignialv029.tga then copy it until you have 4 copies (don't know if the 4 are necessary but it's to much trial and error for me I prefer to have the 4 files) and name those copies with the soviet insignias file names wich are insignia005.tga, insignialv005.tga, finflash005.tga and finflashlv005.tga.
that's it.
nº2 - Don't know if this is any use to anyone but I've found that out of SFP1, WoV and WoE any game runs with any of the others .EXE.
nº3 - now this may be of use Probably for the reason above (that the 3 are realy the same game (after updates) with diferent content) you can get (most usefull) WoE objectdata.cat and put it in SFP1 or WoV (only extra 200mb from sfp1 datacat) this way you can save lots of trouble putting aircraft from the newer games into the older ones, not having to extract the proper files.
Also the WoE data.cat contains all the files from the older games data.cats even for planes not present in WoE and this is the reason you can import planes into WoE simply by copying the plane's folder.
It's also for example to give the Hunter F6 the FGA's cockpit in SFP1 this was fairly easy on WoE but not so much in SFP1 or WoV.
I know I'm not giving the more experienced crew any news. But for those like me that are new. I have found this knowledge very usefull yet for all my browsing this and the other forums didn't find any mentioning it. So this might save someone else the trouble to find it on it's own.
Don't know if it's to presumptuous but maybe the above n2 and n3 point belong in the knowledge database?
what do you think?
And once again if anyone can help me with my questions.