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Yeap it's very easy, open the "Options.ini" file you can see above and almost the very last line is this - [Mods] ModsEnabled=TRUE Directory=C:\Users\IanH\Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2 Europe Editors=StrikeFighters2 now replace the Directory= with the location of your new one i.e my old one was this - [Mods] ModsEnabled=TRUE Directory=E:\SF2 Europe Editors=StrikeFighters2 and paste all your Mods into your new location, easy! However, you ***MUST*** keep the Options.ini file in its original C: location for this to work. Again hope that helps!

Unlike SF1 in SF2 ***ALL*** mods now get installed into the "Mod" folder which is here - "C:\Users\YOUR_NAME\Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2XXX" where XXX is folder you want to put the Mod into - i.e StrikeFighters2 Europe or StrikeFighters2 Vietnam etc. Nothing gets put into the Program Folder like we used to with SF1. Here's what my SF2:E install looks like - "C:\Users\IanH\Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2 Europe" Hope that helps, there's lots more info in the Read Me's for those Mods and in the SF2 knowledge base Section of this forum if you need any more help.

With only 3 recruits injured out of 33000 in service it's not the fault of the RAF or it's training techniques that meant that those 3 ended up damaging themselves whilst marching i.e they had weak bones etc. Thousands of other females and short males have passed through basic training without similar injury and the "Info" about them being "forced" into 30in paces is rubbish, stride length is not and has never been measured during RAF basic training. However, the lack of care they got from the medical staff "Just get on with it" etc even with 3 pelvic fractures, is sadly all too common in the RAF medical service. We can produce the best medics in the world for places like Afghanistan yet back at home a lot of medics (but not all thankfully) are pretty poor at their job, so much so it's a favourite topic of discussion - "What did the medics do wrong with you?" is a common daily conversation.

Blimey, this is an old fault from when SF2:NA 1st appeared, I didn't realise it was still out there! You need to edit the controls Default.ini file directly (C:\Users\YOUR-NAME\Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2 Europe\Controls) and NOT use the in-game editor.

B52 - As per usual with the UK Military it came down to cost and we're broke and can't afford to mod it We can't even afford to re-paint them either

I'm hoping that, due to the pretty sub-standard (for HBO) acting, this turns out to be a trailer made by the CGI company who were bidding on the contract to supply just the CGI (and not those actors!), rather than an actual trailer for the finished HBO series.

It's the max inlet temp thats the most important for engine damage. My Mach 4 "Testbed" (BAE Hawk ) used a max inlet temp of 2000'c without blowing up even though the Engine damage temps were still set to only 500-600'c so the higher the better!

Ace888 is working on some AMI skins for Bongodrivers SF2 Typhoon BETA if you don't mind waiting a while.

Thats a fantastic video, TK should use it as an Advert for the SF2 series - "If you change everything this is what it could look like"

It goes in your "C:\Users\******\Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2 Vietnam\Terrains" folder and in-game it replaces the stock terrain so it's still called VietnamSEA (not GreenHell etc) but when you start a mission the terrain will be the new one.

Hi All, I know you can add Specular=0.300000 Glossiness=0.200000 Reflection=0.000000 to the aircraft skin and edit the figures to make the skin more/less gloss or matt but it does nothing when added to either the weapon data.ini or the weapon.ini. Has anyone any ideas how it's done? Many Thanks!........................................................IanH

Yeap, they were designed around an older Eurofighter model and I just copy/pasted the co-ords from that model just to check it worked so it's "not pretty" at the moment

Bugger - Teras made some CFT's for a What-If Iraqi Typhoon and myself and Ace888 are trying to use them to simulate the latest Tranche 3 Eurofighter but the mapping isn't very good (1 pixel is about 6cm2 on the skin) and they're Very shiny (50's polished metal shiny!) rather than a modern Matt finish. The black dots on the CFT's are 1 pixel on the skin map!

I've found a slightly quicker method using Paint.net for Transparent Decals - Write your text in the colour you want the outline to be (i.e white for German, dark blue/black for AMI etc) the click Effects (top menu bar) then Stylize, then Outline. This will make your words look like the outline only. Then, like PS, select Magic Wand (Flood mode to Global on top menu) and delete the background colour to leave just the Outline and Save as a Transparent TGA. I've not used GIMP but I hope there's a similar method that you can use.

Here's the modern AMI, GAF & RAF fonts - http://www.ianhenshall.com/sf2/Fonts.7z - The AMI font is 99% right but the Number 1 is slightly different (has a bigger diagonal down sweep) Couldn't add this to the above post for some reason???

Steve - For the Eurofighter serials use the font from Simmershop that Russo linked to and then to make the outer highlight in PS use "Stroke" to add the white border, like this - Using a similar method I'm pretty sure we can do the Italian ones in the same way once we get the font! Do exactly the same as above but after the "Stroke" use the Magic Wand (with "contiguous" unticked at the top of the screen) to select the inner of the numbers (which such select all the numbers simultaneously) then Right click on the Text Layer and select "Rasterize Type" and the Click Edit (from the top menu) and then "Fill" (using the fuselage colour) to leave just the Stroke Outline! Like This - The same steps as above but then using Magic Wand with Contiguous Unticked click 1 number to Highlight ALL numbers Then Rasterise Type - Edit - Fill Leaves you with this Bingo - I think I've got it Well it looks pretty damn close to me! Italian Font - Actual Font -

ThunderCloud - That effect is virtually smokeless (i.e Clean) whereas the Harrier effect is very dirty and the dirtiest Stock effect is the J79 by far!

Here you go - http://www.ianhenshall.com/sf2/Typhoon_tank.7z I've also spilt Bongodrivers Typhoon into 2 versions, the Original F.2 (A2A only) and the Newer FGR.4 (multi-role) for a bit more authenticity if anyones interested?

Overshoot -

Indian Navy FRS.51 LUSH - Did this and the older FRS.51 over a year ago (I think) with Wrench and Ghostriders help but it was waiting for the ELTA pod, which has just been included in Ravenclaws F-4 TuAF pack and a few other weapons mods and the new model (two old ones combined) still needs a few areas tidying (decal bleed etc) yet. Some Dissimilar Air Combat Training with the Indian SU-30 MKI, it turned into quite a fun fight! Whilst attempting a very low level pass over "The Bad Guys" I ran across my No3's strafing run

Who knows anymore Here's the one I use which I'm pretty sure came from CA (somewhere) with 153 different RWR icons and an RWR.lst too. http://www.ianhenshall.com/sf2/RWR.7z

It's a bit complicated as it's split into 4 places ands each piece must be edited - Data.ini - Contains whether the A/C has any RWR and the frequencies that the RWR works between (ie 2-18Ghz). Avionics.ini - Contains how the RWR works, what type of display it uses and where the RWR.lst is and what it's named for that particular A/C. RWR.lst - Contains the list of Icons that can be displayed on that aircrafts RWR screen. It's usually in the cockpit folder but it's name/location is set by the Avionics.ini file Flight Folder - Contains every Icon that can be displayed on the RWR screens ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now there's also information about the Radars that you want to detect that may need adding - GroundObject/Aircraft folders - All Radar using A/C or Ground Radars (SAM etc) have an entry in their data.ini files called [DetectSystem] and this "should" have an entry called "RadarFamilyName=". This entry is what causes the RWR display to use a specific Icon "IF" you have created a TGA, called it "RWR_???" where ??? is the RadarFamilyName and finally placed it into the Flight Folder. If there is no entry than the RWR will use it's very basic default Icons ("U" etc). Thats how I think it works but I may have missed something out so if anyone else can think of anything feel free to add it here.

Cool - Been playing TAW v2.0 for what feels like years and it's still fantastic so I hope EF2000 can live up to that!

Found the cause - If you select "Game" Flight and "Game" Avionics it causes the crash. Deselecting one or the other has allowed everything to work except the A-10C which still crashes when in-game and pressing F2. Such a shame that this is stopping me play what looks like a really good game

Hi there, on one of my info trawls I came across http://www.airwar.ru which has hundreds of plan drawings for various A/C from WW1 to modern A/C which I thought might be helpful as I did a quick trawl on here and couldn't see this site posted before. Here's the Google Translate version - http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.airwar.ru%2F&sandbox=1 - and select "Drawings" for the list. Hope that helps!