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Two weeks.

Correct. The cliffs are made as LOD. GKABS made them for me. Thanks. It works fine now for me.

Back to the roots. I have gone one step back and started to mod the old, already uploaded Kuz to make them working. The LOD had some malefunctions. the guns does not look in the right direction. The gun turrets mostly are of wrong type. But as a first step ... I tried to include the skin of the new Kuz into the old one. I added names and shipnumbers, which i had already done and, and, and ...... So it looks now: Not perfect, but better than nothing.

I asked GKABS for new White Cliffs of Dover. Thats the result:

I need the wisdom of our great community. My question: Is it possible to limit the timeframe in which a Force (air and ground) can operate in a terrain? For instance my old Afghanistan terrain: Can i somehow limit the soviets to operate from 1979 till 1989 and the western forces from 2002 till today? Or my Battle of Britain terrain: How can i limit french or american planes to the historical correct timeframes whithout to mod the planes? Is it possible to mod the terrains_nations.ini file?

Do you mean my old Afghanistan terrain which was made for WoI? If yes here are some files for a quick and dirty fix to make it work in SF2: Afghanistan_data.INI Afghanistan_NATIONS.INI Afghanistan_targets.INI copy the files into Afghanistan folder and let overwrite the old ones. Then you can make screenshots like this:

What if the Korea War would have fought one year later and the Tommys sent out their first Hunters.

Thats a pity. Then the best solution would be a special installation for SF2 especially for Afghanistan terrain, as i have done it in the old WoX days. Thanks for your answers.

The tactics for combat missions in manpad infested areas is following: Before you enter the area where manpads are suspected, you should start to drop flares. Every 4 or 5 seconds one. Continue this procedure till you leave the suspected area. Since range and maximum altitude of manpads are known it is easy to avoid their fire distance. And in doubt, drop flares. Better one to much, than one to less.

The most simple solution is a bucket of diesel. The Wasps or Hornets think it is water and when they drink it, they are poisoned. Simple. Its better than try to shoot every single Hornet or worse shoot into a nest. One failed shot and you need to get outa there ASAP.

German Bomber over London Docks. (small picture shows original BoB footage) Screenshot from Battle of Britain 2 "Operation Seelöwe" terrain (WIP)

Over the Kuril islands.

Last sit rep this weekend: First try to populate the target area Tilbury Docks: I used factory buildings (shed roof buildings) instead long warehouses. The orientation of the buildings does not fit perfectly to the tile, because the target editor spin buildings in 5° steps. This has to do by hand. But it is only a first try. Finish for today. Feierabend.

Repainted the water, made the coastline fit with stock tiles and so it looks now. Not perfect, but better than before.

Sit rep: The tiles of small rivers are dark now. This job has done and i'm satisfied with it. London tiling is also finished so far. Perhaps here and there some small things to do. Now i'm going down the river Themse and i have made 2 new tiles for Tilbury docks and the near Fort Tilbury. Making tiles from black and white ´photos is not as easy as thought. (As usually) The colors does not fit. Not yet. Give me 2 weeks or so. ;-)

I think i will release the terrain with the JPG files. The TGA files could come as goodies in a seperate folder, so that guys with good computers can install the files with water effect.

Its a nice addon for the new Battle of Britain "Operation Seelöwe" terrain (WIP).

Sit rep: The color of the small river and the Themse in London area does not really fit. Thatswhy i'm reworking the small rivers to give them a dark, more natural looking color. Screenshot is showing a WIP old (light blue) and new color (dark) of small rivers. after repainting the small river tile looks more european than before. I decided to make the small river tile as JPG, instead TGA. A JPG tile has a size of around 300 kb, a TGA has 4.097 kb. The workload for the computer was to high, so that it could happen, that during dogfight with many planes the fps rate dropped significantly. With JPG it does not happen.

Knowledgebase SFP1, WoX https://combatace.com/forums/forum/191-modding-terrainsenviroments/

The Hornet would have been the best successor for the F-4F. It was available in the late 80th.

Perhaps a design like the nose of the Concorde. BTW a Concorde would be a nice to have bird.

Last screenshots for today: He-100D1 at 5.000 meters over London.

If you want to take a short look into the german Mi-24 book follow this link: http://www.blickinsbuch.de/9783613038974&account=4223004745 For the english version i havnt found a "view into the book". But i will ask the publisher, perhaps he has an idea.

Sit rep: I have started to make new tiles for the river Themse west of Batterypark in London. The screenshot shows a view from west to east. Batterypark, Hydepark and Tower of London i have marked on screenshot for your better orientation.

The VKK-6 suit was widely used, but only for flight at high altitutes. Lets say 10.000 m plus. For combat missions close to the earth up to medium altitutes the PPK-1 was worn.