ChampionsVA56

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

View File SF2 Mescalero Proving Grounds part 2 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. Submitter ChampionsVA56 Submitted 01/01/2011 Category Full Terrains

View File SF2 Mescalero Proving Grounds part 1 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 1 (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. Submitter ChampionsVA56 Submitted 01/01/2011 Category Full Terrains

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..........

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 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

I tried to PM it but the darn file is to big to upload!! I may need you to PM me an E-mail address to send it that way. The terrain is still called "Range" because changing the name screwed up the terrain tiles or something. This is a pretty EXTENSIVE re-work and I"m only half finished with the new Drone aircraft There will be 15 total when done. I will send what is finished so you can play with them.....blow them out of the sky!!!. Also will send over the F-4N for the Missions I made.......attacking the Firebee and the "Super Firebee"....he he!! Let me know what you think. Some arrre not easy to take down...they have countermeasures and use them well . During install you may want to hide your files so as to not OVERWRITE anything. I have the CAT Pointer set to SF2V "VIETNAMSEA" since thats what I have been using.....I have the full SF2V GOLD expansion pack installed also. WHAT I REALLY NEED HELP WITH: I tried in VAIN to get some ARMED_RECON and CAS routes working with the Movement ini. I made 2 "Clone" ground objects with the "Range" nation in the userlist. They are the QT-34_85 tank for CAS and the Q_Zil-157_ZPU-1 truck for ARMED_RECON Missions. Both have had their guns "neutered" so they don't fire. I would like to have these used exclusively on the range for "moving targets" and have set up numerous checkpoints with marker shacks to compile the routes. SOMEWHERE I'm not getting something right so I'm asking for help!! HELP!!

Ok...here's my question of the week. I made some new damage textures (TGA's) for the F-102. One for each skin panel using the correct name and called out the "_holes" in the ini file. But only the fuselage damage decal shows up. Is there a specific call-out in the data ini for damage to appear on the plane parts or is it in the LOD files?? Champ

OK.....let me put a package together.......I will have to make a few tweeks to not overwrite your files (re-name the range inis etc.) Give me a day or so... ANY INPUT on ANYTHING would be most appreciated. I hope to post this before X-mas.......CHAMP

Well...tried that too.....no dice. If I were to send you a copy of the Range I put together....would you take a crack at finding what I'm doing wrong?? Champ