ChampionsVA56

Glad it's getting a warm reception. This was my first BIG terrain type project. Had to learn alot by trial and error and by using this forum to ask questions. Stand by everyone for another drone pack (Part 4) which should be out early next week. Drones will include the QF-106, F6F-5K Hellcat,QF-80F, QF-4G Phantom and a surprise missile drone (thanks to FastCargo). The drone controller will be the F9F-5KD Panther.....a re-use variant of the recon Panther. Haven't decided on a Hunter Killer yet. Here's a neat website with a great story about the F6F-5K Battle of Palmdale ........................CHAMP

THIS IS a really nice facelift for ANYONE who has installed GH3!! Very nicely done. The Vietnam SEA terrain has never looked better guys!! TOP NOTCH download.

U R most welcome. More drones will be released over the next few weeks. Good catch on the file naming issue. I always FORGET to do that (early onset Alzheimer's excuse). CHAMP

Yep...I see what you mean. I just flew a full mission up north and yes......terrain is wonderful but the targets were out of place. So.......put old terrain back for now and wait! Can't live without my gold expansion pack...no way.

I just ran it with the Vietnam Gold expansion pack.......no issues here. This new terrain set......... IS TOP NOTCH. Very nicely done Stary. This time Vietnam looks like........well........VIETNAM. Fly to low on this terrain and you get waterbuffalo poo on the windsceen. An A+ dude.

I would have loved to do a PDF installation file like the previous range....but.....uh...I don't know how!!! Guess I must have slept through that lecture in college!!! SO......if anyone out there would like to help...?????

Kill em......killem all!! Glad you like it........enjoy.

File Name: SF2 Mescalero Proving Grounds part 2 File Submitter: ChampionsVA56 File Submitted: 01 January 2011 File Updated: 29 January 2011 File Category: SF2 Series Add On Terrains Welcome to the Desert Southwest of the United States of America. To be more precise.....you are in central New Mexico, home of the Mescalero Apache tribe. The year is 2011 and a new SF2 bombing range file is here. This is my attempt at creating the ULTIMATE place for SF2 fanatics to PRACTICE and MASTER their air combat skills. So put on your feathers and war-paint....grab your best horse..... and give it a try.......CHAMP Features: - Upgraded home airfield with additional facilities, additional runway and full lighting for night ops! -OVER 15 detailed target areas on the range for air to ground bombing,rocketry and gunnery practice. Numerous target types. - OVER 30 TYPES OF DRONES will challenge your air to air skills (or lack of them). Yes....you CAN fly the drones also!! - A detailed READ ME folder with INSTALLATION instructions, range overview, intel photos and of course CREDITS! Tested on all four SF2 titles......both stand alone and merged. This is part 2 (of 2 uploads to complete the range mod) First set of 8 drones and one drone controller included. Bonus set of F-4N Phantom "hunter-killers" Batteries not included. Use of the DT-28B Trojan requires access to the A-team Skunkworks download files. This access is however...NOT...required to use the Mescalero Range or any other aircraft/drone. Click here to download this file

Anyone have a secret edit for a Gunpod to change the loading of tracer rounds? I've seen the TracerMixRatio edit in scripted missions and TracerLoading edit in Groundobjects.......but both have no effect when added to the weapondata ot gundata for the gunpod. THANKS...Champ

what is that blister? I found a mesh called rwr_tail .........I'm not a F-4 expert....so its a shot in the dark for me.

Looks like you are using Windows 7...good...me too. Follow this path...........C:/Users/ your profile (not the public user profile)/ Saved Games/Thirdwire/ StrikeFighters2 (or StrikeFighters Vietnam...Europe...Israel....whichever you want to add the aircraft to). This is where any mods (added aircraft,terrains,etc) go. There needs to be an Objects folder.......if not...make one. Inside this folder make an Aircraft folder. Put your new add on aircraft in here. All mods are placed in folders in this saved games area. You no longer need to visit the Programs Folder where the game files live...........hope this helps..........

I have an SF2 project soon to be posted. It will consist of over 25 target drones for the user to practice on over a revamped target range. The drones cover a good chunk of the US inventory from the 1950's to the near future (yes...there is a QF-16). All the drones are flyable........YES FLYABLE. Some are easy kills (the QF-9J Cougar) and others are a real pain (the QF-4S). WHAT I NEED IS DONATIONS!! Not money......MODELS!! If you have made a target vehicle or other full conversion drone that you would like to share with the community......consider including it in the package. Only freeware please. Only realistic stuff considered...... a QFJ-65X SuperStreaker target drone with warp speed and a cloaking device is not what I need......ha ha!! Full credit will be given to any donor when package is released (of course). Here is a screenie preview of one conversion drone(China Lake QF-86F) and a Drone Control Aircraft (the F9F-5K Panther of VU-1)..........THANKS....CHAMP VA56

THANKS WRENCH..........I'd definitely call this an improvement. I almost hate to shoot it down....too purdy!! The F6F-5K target drone lives again!!

Send in your drones of the Falcon GETS IT!!!! Just Kidding.............but guess what the USAF has in mind for its next target drone??? Yep, our good old fleet of F-16A's gets it next. The QF-16A will be available(and flyable) on my soon to be released range between the years 2012 and 2020. GET SOME!!!......... CHAMP

The QF-4G Target Drone..........finished. More Phantom fodder for us sick-ohs.....:}

I'll have to try that....thanks!!

THIS IS A MAJOR HELP!! Thanks........do you just (happen) to have one for the BEARCAT and TIGERCAT as well??.......I have some drone controller skins planned for them. If only there was a way to mate the Bearcat canopy and cockpit on top of the Tigercat.......or is there?? Anyone out there have these skins done and anyone wanna mate a Bearcat and Tigercat for me? (sounds sick....my bad).

GORGEOUS!!! THATS WHAT I NEED!!!! If it's not Soviet or "unfriendly" to the Western World.......it will work. I have the whole range set up for use by like 35 countries....mostly NATO and US Allies,Israel,Japan, etc........years of use range from 1950-2020. A non-US drone would be a great addition to the package so PLEASE consider having it included in the release. Full credits will be bestowed apon any donor. BTW...is this a true drone model (real) or is it a fictional work. Fictional is fine as long as it isn't too fictional......no Cloaking devices, ray guns,tractor beams..... OH wait...I see its real...never mind.........A French Nord CT20...NOW thats cool!! I saw a British drone model on Turbosquid or somewhere but they wanted a hundo dineros for the 3d file......If did that the wife would have me sleeping in the garage........ Here is another bunch of pics of whats gonna be BLOWN TO BITS on this new range..........that is the "PHANTOM SITTING DUCK GO BYE BYE" range.... In Order: MQM-107D Streaker, F9F-5K, PQM-102A, QF-106 and QF-4S. So as you can see......the delta wingers and strait wingers are gonna get their fair share also............. CHAMP

Hey....thats not bad. Looks like a drone.....flies like a drone.....you mind if I use it?? I just have to figure out a name for it........... I can think of a few naughty ones however:rofl:

Got the F-84,.........its called a F-84KX..........not much to go on info wise so the skin is a best guess......GMGRU-2 out of Chicoteague NAS,Virginia. Looks ok....so we go with it. I LIKE THAT QF-4B skin Sundowner.....mine is simular but not as PURDY. You want to have that added to the package?? I have a QF-4B all done and ready. I have the Phantom Drones Covered (QF-4B,N,S,E) and I'm finishing a G. If someone has a skin for a QRF-4.....that would be GRAND!!! They are running out of Phantoms.....so I guess they are blasting the poor recon models now.

Well....I need it for the Single Missions created by the game. I have been trying to find the ini line in the MissionControl ini and other entries. Since 2 planes are always launched on a recon mission...it must not be random and it must be somewhere!! Its not a big deal....I can live without it. The drone controllers only fly recon missions...thats why I'm asking. One would be better(more realistic).

Here is a Drone Controller.........DF-8F Crusader in formation with QF-104A drones.Thats someone else GREAT skin.....(I fixed the fuselage color). That is the Thermal-Electric( Nuc after 1970)Plant target below. OK....here,s a question.....any way on single missions in the game to get only ONE recon plane launched instead of 2?? Is there a ini tweek somewhere? Flight folder??

About a quarter of the drones will come without the LOD files (cockpit and aircraft).......the Hellcat being one, the B-17 drone (A-team model) and there are a few drone contollers also (one being my T-28B with the Utility Skin). These LODs will need to be obtained through the proper channels of course. I will be releasing the drones and drone controllers individually once the new range package is released .Each drone or plane will have its own background and installation readme with LOD requirements and credits of course. I have to write the credits read-me yet for the terrain file...which will be a huge undertaking....This is my first dive into such a big project so I appreciate all the help and info I have been getting...... I expect to have to revise the package here and there but plan to support it the best I can. OH....the drone controllers are more or less eye candy. They are NEUTRAL nation planes you can fly for fun and they have their own parking areas amongst the drones.There is a separate section of the airfield for them with its own runway and facilities. I'll have to check into that missile for the Regulus stand in. So far I have 2 Firebees,a Mach 3 Bomarc and a Hounddog and FCargo's Tacit Rainbow made into target drones. They make GREAT targets......small but fast. Each has its own countermeasures and they use them well. As for how I did it? Each one thinks its a Firebee but I made tweeks to the data to get the performance/systems I wanted. So far so good. The Tacit Rainbow was a challenge.....the wing unfold animation had to be accounted for......but we got it. I did the ALCM earlier but the animation was off......tail unfolded and then re-folded...wings were fine.....a bug?? I put that one aside. So far....6 months of work in my " computer man cave" putting this together.......he he.....wife is really getting erked!!

I have the QF-100D already in the package.......same camo skin.I gave it fake guns so that it dogfights like a real fighter but is harmless. As for the F6F Hellcat drone...take a look.... The skin was a B_tch.........putting orange over dark blue was not easy. With 26 drones to finish (I'm on my last one now)....I had to skip the "make a new blank template" method and just wing it. I think it turned out ok. Sure is tough to hit with a sidewinder.....not enough heat.........makes a good challenge. I have the Hellcat on the range from 1950-1956. Its the only prop drone fighter in the package. I do have a QB-17L Flying Fortress for target practice however. I really would like to get a Regulus missile or a Snark in the drone set........something other than planes. I have a few missile drone oddballs thrown in. Hopefully others will contribute as time goes on.......Champ

I hope to start a discussion about the important odds and ends about setting up these routes. Here is the MOVEMENT ini from the SF2 Range (which has no Armed Recon or CAS missions due to lack of moving targets). Could someone( Terrain Wizards) cast some light on this area. [FrontLine] FriendlyBase=Home Base EnemyBase=Bombing Range Position[001]=000000.000,630000.000 Position[002]=295000.000,578000.000 Position[003]=339000.000,578000.000 Position[004]=508000.000,512000.000 Position[005]=547000.000,518000.000 Position[006]=701000.000,583000.000 Position[007]=999000.000,600000.000 StartShow=1 EndShow=7 [Route001] RouteType=TRUCK StartArea=Checkpoint 10 EndArea=Bombing Range RoutePosition[001]=461000,650100 RoutePosition[002]=417172,726165 [Route002] RouteType=TRUCK StartArea=Vehicle Depot EndArea=Checkpoint 10 RoutePosition[001]=409742,719102 RoutePosition[002]=461000,650100 [Route003] RouteType=TRUCK StartArea=Vehicle Depot EndArea=Industrial Center RoutePosition[001]=409742,719102 RoutePosition[002]=409351,725400 [Route004] RouteType=TRUCK StartArea=Checkpoint 6 EndArea=Checkpoint 10 RoutePosition[001]=377000,683000 RoutePosition[002]=466000,740000 [Route005] RouteType=TRUCK StartArea=Checkpoint 7 EndArea=Industrial Center RoutePosition[001]=359000,708000 RoutePosition[002]=408901,724970 [Route006] RouteType=TRUCK StartArea=Checkpoint 10 EndArea=Checkpoint 6 RoutePosition[001]=466000,740000 RoutePosition[002]=377000,683000 [Route007] RouteType=TRUCK StartArea=Checkpoint 8 EndArea=Rail Yard RoutePosition[001]=423090,704090 RoutePosition[002]=408528,720649 [Route008] RouteType=TRUCK StartArea=Checkpoint 10 EndArea=Rail Yard RoutePosition[001]=466000,740000 RoutePosition[002]=408528,720649 What would be required and what are the various entries on this ini and their significance. This would be MOST APPRECIATED as I am trying to make some things GO ZOOM and BOOM on the SF2 Range.......CHAMP