Trotski

oooh ok....will look at this later on in the morning, I sort of did what you say here, but not as you have put it, I'll give it a go and see what happens, if I am still stuck I'll give you a shout.............just wish it was possible to sort out the gunners on the other MF 11's , as they are quite frankly awful , but it's a little beyond my understanding and expertise, be nice to have some up to date early longhorn/shorthorn Farmans .

Hi looking for a pointer in the right direction , on one of our older aircraft, I am messing around with Borts Farmans, specifically the MF11 , as that is really the only shorthorn you can do anything with, as the gunners on the other ones are ancient, and rather awful looking these days, however as the MF11 is just like the Longhorn, I was attempting to remove the obseerver from the rear seat and have an armed observer using the rifle armed models ( as has be made possible on the MF 7 ) however as the bugger is hardwired in, I am experiencing some difficulty in hiding it, I can make the face disappear but the main body aint budging, so i am getting this problem................................... As you can see I still have the shadow of the original observer behind my replacement , so, my question is , can I hide this , and if so, how ? been trying to hide it all different ways but with no luck, as I said I can make his face disappear, but not the main part of him ......HELP !!!

100 years ago today, the guns on the Western front fell silent for the first time since 1914. 10 million Servicemen and women lost their lives or were wounded, in the bloodiest and most wasteful conflicts of modern times, and 100 hundred years later, we are still killing each other, young men women, and civillians dying in pointless and needless wars around the Globe. Spare 2 minutes of you life today, to remember those who served, or are serving today, and of those who gave their lives in the name of Freedom, At the going down of the Sun And in the Morning We WILL remember them LEST WE FORGET

All of what Streak said up there ^^^^ .........the beauty of the SF series, is if you have all the titles, including First Eagles, you can fly the full history ( with a few small exceptions) of aviation combat, from the skies of Flanders and other WWI theaters, through the mid war period, and on to WWII and Korea, then Vietnam, Israel, the Scandinavian front, the North Atlantic , through to Desert Storm and beyond, no other Flight sim that I am aware off gives you this in one family of sims. there are more aircraft and mods on this site than you can shake a stick at, and there is a pretty active modding community keeping this sim going, long into the future I hope.

..........................................................................Double Ugly; Rhino; Old Smokey; Lead Sled; Elephant; St. Louis Slugger; Eisenschwein ("Iron Pig"), Fliegender Ziegelstein ("Flying Brick"), Luftverteidigungsdiesel ("Air Defense Diesel) (Luftwaffe nicknames); Tomb (early RAF nickname); Kurnass (Israeli nickname meaning "Hammer")................nothing subtle or fragile about the F4 , but boy what an aeroplane, love em' even though was constanly deafened by the buggers when patrolling the airfield...............................................

yes Vietnam is a must, but like I said get 'em all eventually if you can, I have the full set, including all the DLC and First Eagles as well....greedy ?.....moi ?.....nah lol lol lol the main thing is enjoy the sim , if you have never tinkered or modded before , its a good and relatively easy sim to work with as well, and the community on here is great, and friendly and will point you in the right direction if you get stuck with anything at all.

As a further note, if you only have the SF/NA part, I would recommend getting the full set as that will also increase your "stable" of available aircraft, also the add on DLC packs are worth having as well, I assume you have been on Thirdwires website, and seen all the goodies on there ?

You wouldnt be infringing any copyrights as far as I know, there has never been an issue with using any 3rd party models, skins , terrains, or campaigns, you are allowed to mod, alter and pretty much do anything you like, other than re publish copyrighted material from and of the TW series, ie. If for example, you created a skin for , lets say one of those F-14's you have already, if you then uploaded it to this site, you wouldnt be allowed to upload any of the copright material, LOD's etc so the same goes for downloading from here, nothing on this site is in breach of anything, so download away, and have fun !!!

Most excellent mate !!

And I am an Ex Serviceman, and NOT a Civvy, and I still dont give a damn. We shouldnt be involved, most of the issues in the near and middle East have been caused and exacerbated by Western and Soviet meddling, and as I said previously, we cant do bugger all about it, and our respective Governments sure as hell wont do so either, and even if we all stood up and complained, demanded, ranted and raved, they wouldn't take heed anyhow, as Governments are no longer ( if they ever were in the first place ) for the people, by the people, I mean shit, we live in so called enlightened and civilised countries, but still we, in the 21st bloody century , are seeing increases in food banks, and homeless people living on the sodding streets, but our Governments can afford to piss about playing fuckin' war in places where they are not wanted, not liked , and certainly far from welcome, and the bastards who SHOULD be helping out in their own region, sit on their fat entitled arses with thumbs firmly rammed up where the sun dont shine , I will mention no names of these countries, but I am sure you get my drift !! Sick of all the international brinkmanship and pissing contests , my guns bigger than yours bullshit, but hey ho, sod all I can do about it, so no, fucks given = zip, zilch, zero, nill, nada .

My take on this , is can we do anything about it ? will we do anything about it ? can we actually do anything about it anyway ? and as the answers to all of the above will most likely be a resounding NO then why do we actually give a shit, not worth getting hot under the collar about, and being a bunch of grumpy gits on our friendly Combat Ace, where we simulate flying into other peoples countries, and bombing the living shit out of 'em .......................NUFF SAID !!

At the end of the day, its just a minor niggle really, as I seem to spend more time cataloging, all the bloody files I have, so many duplicates and extraneous garbage, will take me a month of Sundays to beat it into a manageable and workable order, I keep getting side tracked making new skins for different aircraft, I need to get the Skyraider ones I was working on finished, the other disaster area is the amount of weapons I seem to have accumulated, most of which I will never use, or are really not needed so trying to thin that particular trash heap down as well, and I havent even go on to the aircraft I REALLY like yet arrrrrrgh....the humanity !!

As a further note, just to bore you a bit more, the easiest work around I hear you say is to fly the 3W version, however, I hate that aircraft it looks wrong , and Montys in my opinion is a far better model, plus Montys has the sliding Galland hood which is nice too its just a shame he didnt make the model with the gunpods "hardwired" in as the 3W version is, but no doubt he had his reasons for doing so, but who would want to fly this aircraft without gunpods ? its a minor issue I know, but one that offends mine eyes and sends my OCD into overdrive harharharhar

Yes that is correct it is a gunpod, and no its not integral with the airframe , like it is on the 3W S-199, if it was then the problem wouldnt exist hehehehe...........as for re colouring or repainting the thing, again not the issue as I can do that quite simply, as I have dne with the Drop Tanks, the problem is this, I have arranged the drop tanks so for each different coloured skin there is a matching tank , so for example if I was flying with for arguments sake 2 aircraft, ie, myself and my wingman, and my aircraft was a sand coloured one, and my wingmans was a green one, my drop tank would be blue/grey and his would be green like this ................................................from my aircraft to my wing man. then from my wing man back to my aircraft as you can see same flight but the drop tanks match the chosen aircraft, this is done by placing the texture bmp/jpg from the drop tank folder into the skin folder, then re colouring the tank IN the skin folder to the colour you want......so that is simple , and no hassle or issue........however !!!! and here is my conundrum.......with the gun pods, it dont want to play, like so........... same example but now with gun pods carried, so fram me to my oppo....... As you can see my gun pods are the correct colour, and match the drop tank colour and the aircraft as well...........then.....yeah you guessed it !! 'orrible blue narsty gunpods hanging off that nice green aeroplane....no wonder the enemy flies away in disgust, and the CO? is having kittens !! and even if that Czech aircraft was flying alone, it would still have blue pods Now, one would assume, that to solve the issue, you follow the same story as the one with the tanks, simples , right ????....errr nope not having it, refuses to play, and tells me I can have any colour gunpods I like as long as they are blue !! Logically speaking, as the file setup and architecture for the guns file as it is for the tanks file you would thingk adding the bmp/jpg of the guns into your skin folder and recolouring ( as with the tanks ) to taste that would be the answer, but as with many things in SF/FE it wants to make your life miserable, annoy your C?O, and cause the Enemy to bog off and fight someone who has the common decency to have matching carpets and curtains, I hope this clarifies the situation better.

Tried that but no joy grrrrrr........sometimes the simplest of thing are the most irritating

leave the texture in the skin folder its self but not in the gunpod folder you mean ? so the gunpod folder will only have the 2 inis, and the lods yes ?

I have both in fact but I find montys to be better, just a personal flavourite

montys

No that wont do the trick, as the gun pods are not part of the skin but the same as a drop tank, or any other ordnance, like I say I have got the drop tanks to change colour with the skin of the aircraft , ie, if I have 2 aircraft in my flight, and one is that green one in the picture, and my wingman has a silver finish, the drop tanks on each aircraft will match the airframe they are hanging off, in theory, if you can achieve this with a drop tank, then the same should go for the gun pods, as the file structure of the GP's is exactly the same as those of the FT's , and in this particular aircraft along with the skin jpgs there is also a bmp copied from the FT but coloured to match the skin , this works very well , but these bloody gun pods are horrible, I mean, no one will engage me in combat as my bits dont mach !!!....true story !!

Hello Combat Ace World, got a quick question for one of you 'orrible lot wot is in the know. I am fiddling around with the Mezec's and Messers, and I have run into a bit of an issue which I am struggling to rectify ( if rectified it can be ) As those of you in the know are aware, this little gem from the AVIA stable both the S-99 and the S-1-99 carry cannon pods , now, I am trying to match the curtains to the carpet, ie I want the darn things to match the colour of the parent aircraft wot is carrying the bleedin' things, I have got the drop tanks to work in the colour department, but these pesky gun pods are bugging my silly little head , one would assume ( and I know one never should ) that as in each skin folder it has a bmp of the drop tank and if you change the colour of that bmp , like majik it matches, and the Squadron Commander is a happy Teddy Bear !! and going by that assumption, ( there I go again !) you would think dropping the bmp file from aforesaid bleedin' gun pod folder that it would work the majik and CO's happiness enhancing factor would be most high , and he may then confirm my leave..........errrm sorry I digress, however doing this does not have the desired effect, and I am stumped and confustimicated as to how ( if at all ) this end may be acheived, and I can go on leave, the CO will be happy, and my AVIA will be all a matching and pretty like. please refer to this piccy to see what I am attempting to get at.

ahh so its not available for down load yet ? looked on Starys files and cannot see it there

Hmmm the only pit I can see for the g-91 is the one for the G-91Y , so the throttle quadrant and the instruments are all wrong as they are set up for twin engines not one, and the Rohdesian one is using a Hawk 'pit, is there another one , that I cant see ?

I didn't realise here was a pit done for it, mus go look for it, love the G-91 a very pretty aeroplane, along with the Jaguar , and most SAABs , with Mirages running a close second , got to be one of my favourite jets, saw the Tricolori when they flew them on several occasions.

Cant have too many Ginas, wouldnt mind a "T" myself, we need a proper cockpit for the a/c as well

VR is the way forward for sure, at the moment though it is relatively new tech so correspondingly the prices for 1st and 2nd generation kit is very expensive, it will get cheaper, and I am gonna have to wait for the time that happens, for flight sims it just ads so much more to the experience, also games like Star Trek Bridge Commander, is just amazing , excited for the future .