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thank you wise and merciful hgbn. it indeed would have helped if the bmp in the F-4D_78 folder said F-4D_78 and not F-4D. and i thought i had to do with lod files. just proves a favorite saying of mine. don't assume. assumption is the mother of all f... ups. thanks alot hgbn

itried looking at another aircraft with a LOD (the EF-111) and vista would only atempt to allow photo viewer to open it. and then it said it was unable to. in any event i have no LOD for the 184th skin only bmp's but a quick scan of the F-4G from TMF looks like they dont have it either. what am i missing to get the grey back on this spook? or is it an older file and i've just created a cloud camo scheme

back at bragg i was the guy who could unlock it with a coat hanger. 20 seconds best record. and they say im a crook for some reason.......

the planes from WOV are from the vietnam era before HUDs and other aids. the avionics should relect that. i'm waiting to get my copy of SF2V in a few more months but the early F-100s F-4's and F-105's don't look nearly as high speed through the gunsight as a F-15, F-16 or Super Hornet. it seems to me a reflection of the tech of the times.

@kurfurst you might wanna look in your ini files and see if they are pointing to the correct place to find the lod files. had to do that a month ago to get my mavericks to show up. know roughly how to do it but i think snapper or fubar could put it into words better. if you dont get a response when i am off for the night i'll go through it in my mavvericks again so i can actually elaborate on the process

sorry fubar it was posted. been a screwy day and my internets up and down so i haven't read whole thing ea time like usual. it had seemed like everyone was focusing on me and it wasn't my original thread.

hey guys could you help kurfurst? he started the thread. i thought i might get some knowledge as well and had a similar(but not the exact same) issue. kurfurst sorry if it seems i hijacked your thread.

appreciate the tip snapper. EF-4C was the second plane i tried converting and was still figuring out quite a bit. have thought since to take SF2 stock F-4C and files from EF-4C. like the look of everything in gen2 better but alas no multiplayer.

i remember the show showing sketches of that one. that had a couple that weren't that big but big enough to carry ballistic missles in tubes similar to the road mobile ones(ss-20?). russians didn't make em pretty or with fine engineering. but they made em big and durable.

well mig 25 is the only aircraft to score a kill on a American flown fighter aircraft since the end of vietnam. im waiting to see what comes out in NF4+ before i change up 1st gen migs too much. will still prob add more afterward but i dont like duplication of effort.

i'm interested in the answer myself. went to change over the EF-4C from coulumn 5's site followed the directons in th KB and got the same results in SF2E. did not load it in my WOE though and deleted it of comp since im still learnin stuff trial and error. at time thought it was procedure i had done though it was amusing to watch a flight of sparrows ecm and shrikes in formation.

"Sorry to hear of your family probs and your 6 months left in country. I've got 8 days, then I'm outta here. Freedom bird to BWI. " well the family stuff is somewhat under control now. she's taking this one harder than kosovo or iraq. as for the 6 months i'm reminded of some air force docs i hung out with in iraq. especially towards the end of their 4th month they kept telling me " gee al you should cross into the blue"

looks and sounds like one of their eurkranoplanes specially designed to use wing in(over?) ground effect to carry heavier load. had program on it on military channel few years ago plus got a magazine article one it. on a waaaay more serious note it is rumored to have achieved a few kills against the VVS. when the fighter pilots got a visual on it they kept laughing so hard at it they flew into the ground

ok. six more months (knock on wood). but had fam emergency in june so no more r+r to look forward to.

i have WOE and SF2E installed on my laptop. the original install could run without the disk after installing then it required the disk after adding NF1+2. after i added NF3+4 it did not need the disk again. now on my laptop everything is going fine but some of my hooch mate here are getting interested in the game and all three have vista. as far as anyone knows will WOE consistently load on vista w/o needing the disk? i would like to get an in room network going for some multiplayer action btw i would think sharing the older version with folks in my unit should b ok. how ever those that ask about SF2E get directed to the Thirdwire website. think that strikes a balance between the soldiers and tk

i appreciate it. i have my install patched Oct08 and have copy of patch on thumbdrive.

i do remember reading somewhere that Saab designed th fuel gauge to display in percentages not lbs like most fighters. trying to make the math of how much do i have left easier. as for the AB question.... sporty and gets great MPG?

is it out on real dvd yet? still will buy haji disc at the next bazaar but they tend to be better quality when the movie is already on dvd than in the theatres still. something about that bobbing camcorder....

ok then. on my old desktop (xp) it always required the disk to run the program. when i got a laptop for the deployment and it had vista no disc needed after it was installed. then back and forth with the NF installs. guess we'll find out what works on their systems and hope for the best(3 other players in the room none needing the disk to run.) i appreiciate your advice.

it does. i dont have an issue with it running on my laptop. i was wondering if the running w/o disk was a fluke to my system or if it should work that way on any vista machine.

we have a new safety poster here saying not to go jogging on the runway finishes with don't become a hood ornament for a C-5 in my experience the safety folks don't have to imagine these problems they post about things that have happened....

btw ericj are you still in afghan? i see the ft hood but some of your comments thru the last few weeks had me confused

quit drinking(in Germany of all places!) 10 years ago. long family history behind it. however i do miss having a liter of Maiselweiss at the volksfest on base every year. still have the steins from each one. not a bad souvenier for 8 mark deposit.

ah knew they were WA NG but not the brigade or the Cali part. we tend to get lotta guard pass through bragg and bein your friendly nieghborhood cook i see and talk to alot of them.

seeing as the need is for air defense for CONUS you wouldn't even need a full up block 60. deliver it stock any how to keep lead in time down(same as how the Phantom kept its hook and folding wings throughout all blocks keep production rolling w/o interuption)but for that particular mission the only parts of the package you would keep is the conformal tanks and the aesa radar. even paint them in aggressor marking for a secondary tasking.