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View File Post Vietnam USAF F-4 Phantom INI, Skins and Decal mod This is a simple mod for the stock TW USAF Phantoms. It uses new decal folders to allow tailcodes for most units that flew after 1973, four main paint schemes that were used between Vietnam and the Phantom's Phinal Phlights in the 90's, and ini edits to take advantage of some effects, sounds and new weapons loadouts. If you wish to know more, please read the readme it should explain most everything. Thank you to Sundowner(most of the skins), Malibu43 and Spillone104, Slartibartfast, Wrench, Dave, EricJ and a host of others. I hope that You enjoy built up in SF2V/E/I/EXP1 and 2, Windows Vista. Will need SF2E to make all Phantoms work. Now updated to Sep 2011 patch. Submitter daddyairplanes Submitted 06/24/2011 Category F-4  

http://bbs.thirdwire.com/phpBB3w/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8355&start=8 'It has to do with having an entry for DecalLevel=0,1&2 in the Decals.ini. Dels ' dels pointed it out to me in the May patch thread. if its a skin specifically for USN VF-84, dont bother it wont change it anyhow. if the skin in question however is say a Belgian Starfighter then adjust so you have 0,1 or 2 in the decal.ini. dunno the why or the exact order yet but its how it works.

Phantom tanks seem to work fine for me. have different skins on most of mine but its the same ol tanks all the same

are you talking in the loadout screen?

so there i was tryin for a photo op for the Keflavik PAO, when along comes a Beagle... and you thought you had problems taken a pic of the kids when a puppy goes by! (they were all loaded for CAS originally. sigh)

but that thing is going on 3 weeks now!

headline should have been FOR SALE----CHEAP. 1 Mirage fighter aircraft. most parts intact. definite project aircraft! 10 million USD OBO! Recently washed!

prob cause another swedish hunter would be another 2.99. not faulting the man, if he puts the effort into it i do assume he expects to get paid for it. it will be interesting to see how much a completely new plane is, as opposed to a reskin/ini edit of a current plane. as for me, fly primarily in Europe so i plan to drop 2.99 offa next weeks check! forgot the reason for postin again sites back upas of 0715 EST. went to it checkin something in game for slartibartfast. nice feature, just hope updates let you initiate instead of goin automatic

thank you VR

thanks Stary! the hunter is an interesting choice as there are 2 Dutch Hunter skins in game already(as of June Patch). but i agree that i would likely buy a Mirage F1 if it came full round of skins.(at least 75% of users known). now if he releases a F-16A, USAF skins and decals its freakin on!

did you guys get to it from in game? no joy that route and i cant seem to get to the site.(0630 EST) ok after several attempts to get to TW site i can only concluded you guys went hog wild and broke the store! seriously tho whats avail and howmuch ea?

soulfreak is there anything in particular you are looking for? or were you just asking GP knowledge?

thank you for the input EricJ. i knew the moderators would have better knowledge than me, if no capabilities. If enough people vote yes on this then Erik might shoot a reorganization next time he upgrades the site. this don't garuntee change but hey maybe good old democracy might change things. You don't ask/vote the answer stays a definite no.

one of the moderators could enlighten us on that matter better. judging by the opening of the Prophead and WhatIf forums recently, and threads that were moved into them i would not think so but those are powers above my level so i only speak from observation, not practical knowledge.

As was noted in another thread the SF2 Download section is getting close to the 1000 file mark, especially the aircraft and skins sections. This is simply to see who thinks it is getting a bit unwieldy to search through, and who thinks it is time to organize a bit. The template to organize is there in the Gen1 download section though we may not need all the subfolders just yet. Thank you for your time, and kep your comments civil please.

that was brought up several months ago but it was felt that there wasn't enough mods out at that time or time by the folks in the head shed to organize. however with close to 1000 mods now we may wish to request som organization once again, particularly in the aircraft and skins

more of a Bourne trilogy guy myself, the books not the movies!

she does epitomize the arguement for "why can't you?" my wife and and oldest are excited tho in a house of 5, im the only one not too interested in Harry and Co. i watch the movies occasionally, they debate bits from the books!

geez

both the largest and BLOODIEST campaigns ever. the ancients had the numbers but not the technology and while those in WWI had the beginnings of the tech, it was not as refined in form or use as by these two juggernauts. Thank God the world will not see the likes of this again.

no problemo glad to help. just always double check folder names/ filepaths vs whats in your ini's. i'd say that will be 3/4 of any probs you have in Gen2 with skins/decals.

yeah well if you listen to it right at the point of impact schitt is said the same in farsi as in english it seems

any mods go into (ahem) {user)/SavedGames/ThirdWire/StrikeFighters2Europe/Objects/Aircraft/{yourplane}/{yourskin} the decals need to go into a similar folder but decals instead of aircraft. also no need to update the {your aircraft} ini as far as the textures unless you want a certain skin to be the primary. then you merely plug that in as textureset001. also do make sure all skins names match up in all ini's or you will be seeing a white aircraft til you find the mismatch. ESPESCIALLY the same for your decals and folders!