SupGen

  You might find some of this thread interesting: http://combatace.com/topic/78025-terrain-avoidance/ .

  RIP

  Stratos, look for Caesars posts in the pinned DACT thread. He's got dogfighting the Tomcat down to a science.

GIMP. Free download.

I should mention, that when I zipped it up, I didn't remove a couple of sub-folders. One has the water fix, and the other is the limited nations fix. You all can just toss those, as all the needed bits are in the main terrain folder.

 

 

 

wrench

kevin stein

 

 

    I think you were supposed to chuck those.

Thanks SupGen. That looks to be the motherlode of good orientation material.

  Anytime.

  Anthropoid, read the three articles called "Moving Mud" in this section: http://www.simhq.com/_air/acc_library.html#briefing . The second one is especially useful.

  Make sure you don't have the Razbam FLIGHTENGINE.ini in your Flight folder; it's old and screws everything up.

  ken, check out this thread, especially the links in the second post: http://combatace.com/topic/82375-any-good-bombing-instructions/ . Good luck!

  In the Cockpit.INI. :

[CockpitSeat001]
ModelName=HornetA_Pit
Position=0.0,4.15,1.05
Offset=0.0,-0.2,0.0
ViewAngles=0.0,0.0,0.0
MaxYaw=180
MinYaw=-180
MaxPitch=110
MinPitchFront=-90
MinPitchRear=-90
LightRange=1.5
LightInnerConeAngle=50
LightOuterConeAngle=60
LightAngles=0.0,-30.0,0.0
DiffuseLightFactor=0.5
NightLightOn=0.25
NightLightColor=0.6,0.3,0.4
Gunsight=GunsightFront

MinYaw and MaxYaw.

Excellent, thanks again Wrench! Now, if only we also had Zuikaku and Shokaku... and maybe Hiryu, Soryu, Kaga,....Oh well, someday.

  deanklef, you might find some of the earlier posts in the WWll threads interesting, back around page 8 forward, or so. This one might help after you've got your weapons sorted: http://combatace.com/topic/77300-carrier-vs-carrier-not-happening/ . There are some other good "how-to and wuffo?" threads back around that time, too. Good luck.

  Thanks, Wrench!

  The existing Pit1.lod is hiding in the Terrains folders in the Cat files, where the main game installation is. Like anything else, what you put in the Mod folders will override it. You're welcome, and good luck!

  10,000 rounds per minute is one thing; tracking and hitting a hyper-sonic target is another kettle of fish. The Chinese have been popping things out of the oven pretty regularly to counter Western forces, lately. Eurofighter? We've got one of those. (J-10, I think.) F-22? We got that, too. (J-11 ?) Short-field, C-17 knock-off? Check this out, and on, and on. I'm not saying we should discount their claims completely, but take them with a large grain of salt. They're buying Su-35s so they can reverse-engineer the latest Russian engines, for chrissakes. I can't wait to see the RCS of that new J-11, for instance ( preferably lit-up by a US F-15 or F-22). There's more to stealth than making a plane that looks like ours. Just my $.02.

 

 

SG, I assume the one you're talking about is the original 1stGen??

  Affirmative. I didn't see anything in 2ndGen.

  Unfortunately, if you download the Zuiho Wrench mentioned, you'll find that 7Zip can't open it; it says "Unsupported compression for..." everything in the folder. The only thing I got was the datd .ini. The CVE-118 Sicily, which is a repaint of it, opens fine. So at the moment we don't even have a Zuiho.  Maybe someone who has it can re-upload it. Hope so.

  Leo, check this out: http://combatace.com/topic/84119-veltro2k/?do=findComment&comment=676753 . You can download a new Pit1 lod that solves the shadow issue. Very nice!

  Bravo!!!

  bafmeister, the absolute best AIM-4s are in Ravenclaws WeaponsPack2, available here: http://combatace.com/files/file/13929-weapons-pack-2/ . There are also AIM-26As in there for more aerial nukes. As far as aerial nuke effects and nuke effects in general, try the ones I posted in this thread: http://combatace.com/topic/83173-nuke-effects/ . They are Lexx Luthors old nuke effects for SF1 updated to SF2 standard and they rock. They are a little complicated (I don't know if Veltro2K ever got them working) but they are worth it. I explained in that thread how to install them as best I could; if you have any problems post here and I'll try to help. Good luck!

  I'm good here in New York.

  Ok, Dillon, here's the deal. Now that we figured out why those effects weren't working, I went back and looked at the page you d'loaded those Hornets from and, sure enough, they are intended for SF1, not SF2. My advice is to delete them and everything associated with them and download hot, fresh, and tasty NEW ones from here: http://combatace.com/files/category/667-f-18/ . You need the top two files. These come with an ultra-complete weapons pack and are the latest issue. The only problem is the project team experienced some "burnout" towards the end and some things were not completed. When you see the amount of work that went into them you can understand the burnout issue. I would give them a shot.

  Dillon, from the looks of things, the Super Hornets you have are using old-style SF1 Effects. Go to your Effects folder in the StrikeFighters2 NorthAtlantic folder and open the F-18_Effects.ini. Right under [F18FuseVaporSmokeMaterial] add EffectShaderName=effectLightLevel.fx  Under [F18AfterburnerMaterial] add EffectShaderName=effectFire.fx It should look like this:

[F18FuseVaporSmokeMaterial]
EffectShaderName=effectLightLevel.fx
DepthBufferCheck=TRUE
DepthBufferWrite=FALSE
IgnoreRenderOrder=FALSE
AlphaTestEnabled=FALSE
LightEnabled=FALSE
UseLightLevel=TRUE
SpecularEnabled=FALSE
EmissiveEnabled=FALSE
AmbientColor=1.000000,1.000000,1.000000,1.000000
DiffuseColor=1.000000,1.000000,1.000000,1.000000
ZBufferOffset=0.000000
PriorityLevel=3
BlendOp=BLEND_SRC_ALPHA
NumTextureStages=1
TextureStage[01].TextureName=F18-fusevapor.tga
TextureStage[01].MipMap=FALSE
TextureStage[01].FilterEnabled=TRUE
TextureStage[01].StageColorOp=TEXTURE_MODULATE_DIFFUSE
TextureStage[01].StageAlphaOp=TEXTURE_MODULATE_DIFFUSE

[F18AfterburnerMaterial]
EffectShaderName=effectFire.fx
DepthBufferCheck=TRUE
DepthBufferWrite=FALSE
IgnoreRenderOrder=FALSE
AlphaTestEnabled=FALSE
LightEnabled=FALSE
UseLightLevel=FALSE
SpecularEnabled=FALSE
EmissiveEnabled=FALSE
AmbientColor=1.000000,1.000000,1.000000,1.000000
DiffuseColor=1.000000,1.000000,1.000000,1.000000
ZBufferOffset=2.000000
PriorityLevel=3
BlendOp=BLEND_INV_SRC_ALPHA_ADD_SRC
NumTextureStages=1
TextureStage[01].TextureName=F18_BURNER.tga
TextureStage[01].MipMap=FALSE
TextureStage[01].FilterEnabled=TRUE
TextureStage[01].StageColorOp=TEXTURE_MODULATE_DIFFUSE
TextureStage[01].StageAlphaOp=TEXTURE_MODULATE_DIFFUSE

 This will bring them to SF2 standard. Good luck!

  Just coughed up for a prime membership boss, sorry it took so long!

  Alright, I'm gonna assume all you Zipper drivers somehow missed this; so, here it is again: http://combatace.com/topic/62762-sf2-series-dact-reports-and-related-a2a-discussions-game-only/page-42?do=findComment&comment=676849 . Considering the different versions of the F-104 out there, it's probably better if you just go into the Data.ini and under Control Surfaces change the Setting[1].DeployValue= from 231.5 to 282.9 on all four flap entries. Again, this is not a cheat, the real world aircraft had this capability. Knock 'em dead.