Spudknocker

Hey CA!  Does anyone know of any websites to look at that would have bigger/high res South African Border War photographs that could work for Menu screens?  Google Image search only comes up with very tiny images which are no good for menu screens

Ive found some bigger photos on the official SAAF website but these are of static museum aircraft and very few period shots taken in the '65-89 period.

Do people mind having in Game screen shots as the background of the menus?  I know that the "Modern Warfare" campaigns use these... 

Full Angola terrain getting closer!

Im making a campaign or hopefully a series of campaigns to go with the new angola terrain when the full version is ready for release! 

But Im running into trouble... I believe i set up the nodes correctly but the ground units wont attack.. Im trying to get the blue side to start off attacking right away on the first mission of the campaign is that possible?  

No worries Ikon rivers are coming soon!

Here we see the beautiful Cheetah in its natural habitat... this cheetah tends to prefer hunting Floggers as they have been found to be plentiful across the Savannah 

is there a Rhodesian Skin?

What I have found is useful is to make a new folder and point to that folder using the weapons editor.  In that folder have only a couple of weapons 10 at most.  I believe that when you hit save it tries to save every single data file in the weapons folder which in effect leads to crashes... SOOOO... if you only have a couple of weapons in the folder your editing in it works really well.  Then of course move your newly editied weapons to the weapons folder you want them in.

In other words step 1- Make new folder on desktop

Step 2- Place the couple of weapons you want to edit in said folder (V3S Snake for example) 

Step 3- Open weapon editor and direct it to your new folder... Click on V3S

Step4- Edit your weapon then save it... Because your new folder has only a few weapons in it it should not crash

Step5- Move newly edited V3S folder back to your weapons folder in your mods folder

F-14's 16's 15's and 18's are all awesome in SF!  But remember to fill in the Bad guys too!  Get the MiG-23, Mig-29 and mig-21 packs to make your dogfights a bit more interesting than just basic Mig-17 or 21's 

For terrains I would say most of them are pretty awesome!  def get the Iran-Iraq terrains for both eras and the Rends Germany terrain for starters, also Desert 3/4 they are fictional but truly they are the best terrains available! 

Ditto with strike hawk... Also use your rudder and change to a higher flight difficulty setting

Yep! Usually works!

On a seperate note does anyone know how to increase the experience/number of missions flown and kills of pilots from a particular nation?

Oh im not too sure then mate sorry! 

I have a semi-answer to this question.... if your running SF2 on windows 10 the game will shrink to the task bar and therefore crash when the computer tries to display to you a notification... Turn off notifications while your flying and that should fix it!

if you want a little more realism with your CCIP I believe theres a mod somewhere that limits the CCIP to only being displayed on the HUD of the aircraft instead of down by the pilots knees haha 

I have found that there is a work around for this and a way to make #4 attack targets without any frustration... The game assigns pilots to you flight in a specific way... You are leader, less experienced lower ranking pilot as your #2 and a higher ranking more experienced pilot in the #3 spot because he is his section leader and then #4 is usually the lowest ranking and lowest experienced pilot in the flight of 4... To make #4 attack all you need to do is go into the roster screen in the hanger menus and assign a higher ranking/ more experienced pilot to the #4 slot and #4 will have the courage to attack targets and actually follow your orders instead of just simply following you around... I have found that this trick works in all install eras and all nations... Hopefully that can help...

Another work around for this is to simply tell 3 and 4 to attack ground targets or air targets and once they break away to go hunting then go in and order #3 to attack a specific target while #4 roves around and attacks targets autonomously... the only issue with this approach is #4 can sometimes wonder pretty far from the rest of the flight (thats usually more common in attacking ground targets instead of air to air).  

Hey guys! So I was parusing the net and looking at the oculus rift headset it says it works with a lot of computer games. I was wondering has anyone looked into or thought about using a VR headset with strike fighters 2? I mean that could be SUPER awesome! Haha maybe add a little new life to the game?

ya that kinda answered my question thanks gerwin!  I didnt realize I could rotate a heightmap value

Gerwin in this tool is there a way to change how a tile slopes? say its 320 to 345 is there a way to reverse those and make it 345 to 320?

Just wait a few days Peeppu, In the mean time theres a ton of fantastic stuff here on Combat ace in the WW2 realm...

Dont be so hard on people that ask questions about the A-Team guys, A lot of new comers to CA dont understand there is an issue between the CA users and the A-Team users, I was one of those people who had no idea.  So its ok Peeeppu, there is just friction between the two factions of Strike Fighters 

Alouette III's dropping off Parabats into the Angolan Bush on an encamped Soviet convoy, Mirage F.1AZ's plying their trade with rockets and napalm... South West African National Police special units to mop up... ...Fewer bullets, fuel and beans for the terrorists to use to harm South West African citizens.

Same Same!  Hard cant figure out why it does that....

I will take a look I guess I just cant figure out how to turn all those channels on, I will look in the Eritrea terrain but the tiles I need to make are for the wetland and plains areas of the map 

ya the issue is I cant figure out how to get the land part to show up in gimp the only thing that shows is like a darkened area where the river shoukd be 

Hey everyone!  Are there any modders available to make some river tiles for the ongoing SW Africa/Angola terrains?  If you have any interest PM me please! Thanks!

I would definitely try the Mission Editor, If you have SF2 NA it adds a few different support missions like escort jammers etc.

SF series games are really geared toward 50's-80's in mind really so swarms of target drones are out haha but with a little creativity in the mission editor you can make some great scenarios!  

SF has the distinction of being between Arcade and hard core DCS/Lockon which is why I think so many people love it!  Its not gonna be 100% realistic but its still great for bombing Iranian nuclear bunkers or dogfighting over the Yalu... 

So i would def try playing with the mission editor and seeing what you can come up with!