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On 3/31/2024 at 9:13 PM, Wrench said:

just breaking in here ... just curious as to HOW you can fire a radar guided missile from an aircraft that DON'T have an air intercept radar????

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Good point! I second that.

It's like in Kafka movie! LOL

With some significant delay we will restart soon "the engine" to our project. Stay tuned!

https://ibb.co/v1WnM1C

On 2/19/2024 at 10:31 PM, mysticbrave123 said:

I've just bought the merged pack for £80 but having so many troubles it was supposed to cut out us having to merge the files etc.

1 Apparently there is a bug that only generates one mod folder(North Atlantic) none of the others appeared and my Save games folder is on my G drive

2 Because of this I cannot do anything like change mapped buttons for joystick because there is no folders where the controls can be saved, strangely the North Atlantic works but that has a mod folder.

3 My age I am 71 have gamed all my life love the cold war aircraft the lightning what a plane and others, anyone help please

Sir, there is a valuable tutorial to do exactly that signed by our esteemed collegue MIGBUSTER in the knowledge base. Please take a look.

On 2/19/2024 at 9:56 PM, PFunk said:

Getting back into SF.

Anything I need to have that's new?

yeah, first a new haircut, second the muffins sold on the corner's coffee shop are great! LOL

Welcome back bro!

I think we'll be the last ones joining the party cause we have a serious delay caused by issues in real world, but we're getting there...:)

I reported the facebook page for link to piracy (it's a link to the game on MediaFire of the SF2 NA gamekit), for IP infringement and for not asking permission for IP work. I also reported on ModDB the page for IP infringement and publishing material without authors consent.

6 hours ago, Wrench said:

Am I really that bad???

Well, maybe not as much as you should LOL

18 hours ago, Goob113870 said:

That pretty much looks like what I have every time I  do a merged install of SF2,Vietnam,Europe,Israel,Exp1,Exp2 & North Atlantic.

my problem now is say I want to do the Mod wings over Korea and I follow the steps to make a duplicate copy of the .Exe and .ini and rename them to proper mod name and run the Exe so that it makes a mod folder in the Users/Saved Games, nothing happens now.

 

I am not familiar with the mod you are talking about. This what I suggest you to do:

- read carefully ALL that modder who made the mod says there.

- don't hesitate to contact, via PM, the author of the mod, to give you suplementary explanations if you feel you need them

Usually these mods just tap into some new or modified terrain and they did that on a (modified) stock map. The common problem is often the path to that exe file. If it is wrong , them the game won't know what "executable" to start, taking into account that the mod was tested and it works as it should.

Wrench is Maitre extraordinaire (I love this title LOL) du terrains, so your best bet is to approach him and ask for help on the matter on hand. If he is not busy and you catch him in a good mood (a very important condition LOL) he might explain to you, after taking a look to the files (smacking you around a bit too), what is really happening there. But if he's not in a good mood, well...if I were you I would run as far and as fast as I can LOL

However the situation he will help you eventually so I would keep the spirits high on this one. :)

20 hours ago, bazillius said:

you are very rich with Local Disks . Rich man.

They are fake just to induce envy into members ;) LOL

2 hours ago, Goob113870 said:

I just updated to windows 11 and reinstalled my strike fighters 2 full merged in correct order. Now I go to make the Vietnam Air/Ground gold mod folder and nothing happens when running the newly renamed exe. It does not show up in the c:\ThirdWire\Saved Games location. 
i’m stumped as to what the problem can be. Anyone have issues with this happening in Windows 11.

i think I encountered this early on in win 10 also

Make sure you have something similar. I use the Strike Fighter Israel 2 as default "game" and interface. Click on the attached picture to zoom in.

On 12/6/2023 at 4:10 PM, Gunrunner said:

A primer/undercoat is a layer of paint you apply before your actual paint, either to increase adhesion, protect from corrosion/rust/other environmental elements, enhance shadows when talking about model painting, or a mix of all.

Zinc-chromate is one such primer used in the aviation industry since at least WW2, and it's well, yellow.

Thx for the insight, it helped.Though I still remember a little chemistry from school, I didn't know that this mix is yellow. I know how Zinc looks like, I know how Chrome look like, but I never seen the new chemical substance resulted from the mix.

primered in zinc-chromate = abundent in zinc/chrom combination or I missunderstood ?

2 hours ago, madvad said:

Nice!!!
But the first picture is the south korean T-50, isn´t?

Oops you are right, it just slipped me LOL. I corrected that. Thx.

Did you eat your cookies and the milk ? Did you behave all this time ? Whaaaat? You didn't ??? LOL Well, anyway St Nicolas has news for you.We are officially launching our AIDC T-5 Brave Eagle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDC_T-5_Brave_Eagle) thread. Our AT-5 is almost done, some details still remain to be nailed down.

As you might know by now, AT-5 is a trainer that has ability to carry most weapons the F-ck-1 could, except radar guided A2A weapons and the TC-2A anti-radiation missiles. It has no gun so we took the initiative to create an external gunpod for it.  Model itself is finished, though we might have to add an additional mesh to the back seat for the Hud repeater among other things. Since the AT-5 is a F-ck-1 modified version, we created templates for the AT-5 fuselage and updated them many time during the development. We still have some work here and there, for instance to adjust panel lines and the fade-in parts for the gills and airscoops. We planned, for now, just three skins for it (see the first two pictures and the last one included) though they will be a (real) challenge for the team given their complexity but I think we will manage it in the end. Decals are already planned to be implemented for it, too. We like the details so for the prototype we'll build a slightly different AC.lod with additional antennas. We made brand new pilots for the plane and we will also update soon the F-ck-1 with these new created pilots for it, too.

Given the present period of the year and the fact that some members of the team will take soon a well deserved holiday, we will have important news for you at the end of the January, next year. Until then we will work to the skins and to some left details. Stay tuned.

PS - I included four pictures as well for our model.

9 hours ago, PeacePuma said:

Apparently you didn't understand my comment... it doesn't matter if you have a cockpit or not (I posted the sentry mods without a pit and they asked me the same thing), I'm just telling Gepard and others who see this thread in the future, that the pit F-16 is very similar and can still be made to look even more by being creative. . that's all.

Not every comment is a criticism or a clumsy question... sometimes the translation or the reader's humor causes them to interpret the wrong things.

Ok, if that comment was just a suggestion for the ones who are keep wondering about cockpit choices made, then I can see your point. Not hearing the tone/voice of someone who just writes a message can be , sometimes, deceiving and submitted to interpretations. Taking into account that, in your statement you were not referring to anyone specific, I just assumed you were talking to me (the initiator of the whole thread), that is why I chose to answer to you.

1 hour ago, PeacePuma said:

   

Just a comment... or take it as a thought out loud... why use the F-18 cockpit if the F-16 cockpit is almost like the original? I would use that one, maybe being picky I would remove some bits and happily fool myself. Even with a fake pilot you could (in theory) add accessories and with INI editing some elements can be moved and/or disappear... even making things disappear and painting them with an editor is also an option.

As I answered to Michael (see the post above yours), I am telling you, too, that the F-18 cockpit has nothing to do with our choice to hook this plane up to a cockpit. It's just the test cockpit that was used, and that's the all of it, it just remained that empty entry there, in the cockpit.ini file. If it would have been other cockpit, the same, you or anyone else, would have asked why that one and so on. Now do you see where I am getting with this ?  Furthermore, there is not a single statement in this thread, in plane download page's file or anywhere else on this website where we, EVER, said that there will be used the  X, Y  or Z cockpit for this plane. So why do you keep asking that I wonder folks ? Don't get me wrong, I am not upset because people are keep asking that, I'm just puzzled that people are asking that, instead of seeing the simple obvious...

Well, you know me, always trying to motivate people around me! LOL

4 hours ago, Gepard said:

I have a problem with the HUD. It seems to be that some of the symbols are missing.

 

Michael, if you remember, when we did that public test with our "B" version and you discovered that graphic glitch, you also asked me, in a post, where is the F-18 cockpit (the cockpit.ini file had an entry for a F-18 cockpit LOD). I am telling you now, the same I was telling you then: the F-18 cockpit is/was just for TEST bro ! We used it because we didn't have a dedicated one build (yet), that's the only reason. So, please, just download and use whatever cockpit suits you the best. When we will release a dedicated one (we stated that we will have one in the near future, in our road map, if you saw the post) I promise you that I will let you know personally when it will be ready. :)

PS - If you really want that bad that F-18 cockpit, I used one from SF1 series, I think it is still in the download section, just look it up. Apart from that I can't help you with the mattered you flagged (HUD material and stuff). As Eric implied you have to do some digging on your own to bring it up to SF2 standards.

If a moderator is present, please, approve, the update for the FCK-1. Thank you!

A little UPDATE.

I included a pilot seat MK-10 courtesy to AleDucat and corrected some entries (added missing copilot lines for B and D versions), in data.ini file, for each version for the new modified pilot. I already uploaded it and it will be available for download shortly.

To celebrate our launch of the FCK-1 , we uploaded, for you all, a new skin. You can find the skin here , as soon, as it will be approved by a CombatAce moderator:

I ask for any  moderator available to  approve the upload.Thank you.