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Yes, but please don't think it is as far as Strike Fighters'. Modding here simply means that the original game files are unpacked (unlike the original 1997 game where they were packed in an inaccessible DAT archive) and folks can tweak some of them to an extent. What the community did with the fan made Total Air War 2.0 could now be done with the prequel ADF too. Limitations of the original game still remain, that means you cannot add any extra content (you cannot add new aircraft, terrains, weapons nor countries) aside from missions. Textures are limited to using the game's 256 color palettes and use the original 1997 unfriendly proprietary format, so texture mods are rather tricky to make. New 3d models are also impossible to make, no tools currently exist for that old proprietary format. That being said, yours truly has made mods for it already and some will be uploaded to Steam's Workshop when the time is due.

I'm very glad to announce that DID is going to release a remaster of F-22 Air Dominance Fighter this February. This 1997 classic will soon be re-released with almost 100 QoL improvements and fixes, fully compatible with current systems. Yours truly has been an official tester of this new re-release. I witnessed first-hand the great amount of work that went into fixing and improving what used to be broken on modern systems. I recommend all flight sim aficionados to check it out! If this sells well, DID will be able to remaster other old flight sims such as EF2000 and F-22 Total Air War. DID is also working on a brand new military flight sim game, so make sure to also check their YouTube channel for teasers. Wishlist now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3146140/F22_Air_Dominance_Fighter/ Here below the FAQ produced by DID and shared on various Discord servers:

This is Digital Image Design's F-22 Air Dominance Fighter, it's totally unrelated to NovaLogic's F-22 Lightning III, that's a different game and series.

Yours truly has been an official tester of this new re-release. I witnessed first-hand the great amount of work that went into fixing and improving what used to be broken on modern systems. I recommend all flight sim aficionados to check it out! If this solds well, DID will be able to remaster other old flight sims such as EF2000 and F-22 Total Air War. DID is also working on a brand new military flight sim game, so make sure to also check their YouTube channel for teasers. Wishlist now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3146140/F22_Air_Dominance_Fighter/ Here below the FAQ produced by DID and shared on various Discord servers:

It'd be cool to also have the prototype X-32 seen in the Joint Strike Fighter flight sim game, I think that one had a big chin intake which certainly sucks. In general I have soft spot for the prototypes like the X-32, X-35 and YF-22. These F-32s will be a great addition to the sim, looking forward to them!

@Erik having a look at comments to my uploaded files in dark mode, I noticed the same issue with copied bits being in light mode: This is from my Italy, Southern Europe (1963-1991) terrain add-on. Unrelated note, seeing NIELS' comment made me shed a tear. He was a great supporter of us modders, a wonderful chap. He's dearly missed.

@Erik you got it right, this is what I was referring to. Thank you!

Thanks for the detailed explanation, Erik! I'm glad I could be of help in catching issues. As for mod previews no longer being square images, I understand. The current format also takes less screen space and it's more proper for widescreen resolutions like you mentioned. I took the habit of making squared preview images in the past because planning maps for terrain add-ons are squares. I wonder if such square images could be rendered smaller and with the addition of black/white/void side bars, so that they could be displayed fully in the current format (just like you'd get side bars when viewing 4:3 videos in 16:9 screens). That way we'd get the best of both worlds, but not sure how feasible it could be, I guess it would require more work than it is worth the effort.

For some reason, I think due to me copy-pasting text from my docs, the ODS 30AE mod's download page has parts in light mode despite the site's theme being in dark mode. Not sure if it can be overridden by the CSS or if I should edit the file's details again. I'd avoid the latter because it'd also update the file date and people may wrongly assume the mod was updated. Unrelated note, I see the previews for mods no longer are squares. Some of mine are squared images and now they look off with the site's latest update. Any chance this could be changed?

True, and it's not only about the invisible wall. I tried porting the very small maps of First Flight: The Wright Experience Flight Simulator (2003), a game based on the engine of Strike Fighters Project 1, but they crash the game, such small sizes simply are not supported by the game engine of SF1/SF2. There must be some hardcoded values about allowed terrain sizes in the game's code.

I think just by manually editing (resizing etc.) the heightmap bitmap, I did that for the Italy/Balkans terrain I released. Of course by doing so further raw details of the original heightmap are lost. I'm not aware of a better and feasible way to do it when starting from DEMs.

Fantastic work, Erik! I always prefer the dark mode when available, many thanks for adding it!

My Balkans terrain already features both Switzerland and Austria and I confirm that AI crashes into valleys in airfields inside narrow valleys.

All is possible. The Balkans terrain I made required years of work, especially in tiling rivers and lakes, it meant manually placing, one by one, over 10,000 tiles. If you want it bigger, it means remaking the terrain from scratch (we cannot enlarge already existing terrains, they must be redone from zero) and with even many more cities, roads, rivers and lakes, which may require even more years of work of manually placing them. So yes, it's possible but not worth it. A few hundreds downloaded the terrain I made and it's not exactly popular, most folks rather enjoy simpler terrains without correct placement of cities and airports, lakes and rivers. I really don't feel like spending years of unpleasant work for something only a couple of folks would enjoy. If someone else wants to make what I did better and bigger, they're certainly welcome. I can assure it's no walk in the park. That's why I'd rather work with terrains having the same size of TW ones, they tend to be more focused and feasible to make. That's also why I admire Gepard for still working on new terrains, because creating and modding them burned me out badly.

I had no idea... Thank you for letting us know. May he rest in peace, my dear condolences to his loved ones.

RL hasn't been kind to me, Kevin. It's a miracle I found the will and time to release what I released. Not to mention that in the PM group I had mentioned long ago how broken the aircraft data is here and there, and that I needed help in improving and fixing stuff. I didn't get help on that end, so this release is flawed. If someone wishes to fix the flight model physics and other aircraft data bits, that's much appreciated and only then I may consider updating the package, even by adding any extra skins that are made in the meantime. Without help, I'm afraid there aren't going to be further updates to this in the near future, I no longer have the luxury to work on mods at this stage.

Thanks to you for the kind words. I wish I had time to rework the aircraft data properly, but RL hasn't been pretty in the last two months. At least it's not collecting dust on my computer anymore. Like I said in the description, this add-on is flawed here and there. Help is appreciated in fixing and improving it.

View File F-35 Lightning II Skin Pack F-35 Lightning II Skin Pack December 13th, 2025 (1st Release) by daddyairplanes, simonmiller416, kblomkvist and Menrva >For Strike Fighters 2 games This is an extra skin pack for the F-35 Lightning II aircraft family add-on. Skins are based on ideas and depictions from other sources. Here below a list of the included ones: -Joint Strike Fighter (inspired by Innerloop Studios' Joint Strike Fighter game and relative artworks) -JASDF 302 Hikotai (as imagined and created by kblomkvist) -USAF 74th FS with Shark Mouth (as imagined and created by daddyairplanes) -USAF 75th FS with Shark Mouth (as imagined and created by daddyairplanes) -USAF 76th FS with Shark Mouth (as imagined and created by daddyairplanes) -USAF 65th AGRS Black Camo (as imagined and created by simonmiller416) >Credits (in no particular order): -daddyairplanes, for producing additional and/or missing USAF skins for the F-35A. -kblomkvist, for all F-35 skins he released, including those of his SF2 USAF F-35 redux package. -simonmiller416, for the USAF Aggressors black skin he made. -dtmdragon, for the templates from his F-35A/B Lightning II International Operators skin pack. -My girlfriend, for supporting me in all of my endeavors. >Disclaimer: This is a freeware; yet it can be redistributed ONLY in other CombatACE mods/mod packages. This mod may NOT in any way, shape or form be used in any payware additions. Submitter Menrva Submitted 12/13/2025 Category F-35

View File F-35 Lightning II Add-on F-35 Lightning II Add-on December 13th, 2025 (1st Release) by daddyairplanes, Wrench, simonmiller416, kblomkvist, Astore and Menrva >For Strike Fighters 2 games This is a complete add-on of the F-35 Lightning II family of aircraft, featuring all of its Real World operators. The result of a joint effort by the community, the package currently includes the following operators and relative skins produced by daddyairplanes, Wrench, simonmiller416, kblomkvist and Astore, with tweaks by yours truly where needed for quality consistency: -United States Air Force, 23 F-35A skins -United States Marine Corps, 5 F-35B skins, 1 F-35C skin -United States Navy, 3 F-35C skins -Italian Air Force, 2 F-35A skins, 1 F-35B skin -Italian Navy, 1 F-35B skin -Japan Air Self-Defense Force, 1 F-35A skin -Belgian Air Component, 1 F-35A skin -Royal Air Force, 1 F-35B skin -Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm, 1 F-35B skin -Royal Australian Air Force, 1 F-35A skin -Royal Danish Air Force, 1 F-35A skin -Royal Netherlands Air Force, 1 F-35A skin -Royal Norwegian Air Force, 1 F-35A skin I further polished the package with reworked data and weapon loadouts, my own selection of sounds, new cockpit and HUD textures and other smaller tweaks here and there. The incredibly detailed weapons included in the package are the courtesy of ravenclaw_07. NOTE: Unlike previous mod packages released by yours truly, this one does not match the quality standards I usually aim for. Real Life got in the way and I cannot spare enough time for modding as I'd like. This aircraft add-on is far from perfect, there are issues with AI, the flight model physics, loadouts not being accurate as they should be, the cockpit being just wrong and mostly a textured screen, and on and on. If in the future someone provides better data fixing such issues, and/or newer 3d models for the aircraft and for the cockpit, then I may update this package and give it further care. For now enjoy it as is and do not ask for further fixes and/or improvements, I cannot do those at this time. >Credits (in no particular order): -Klavs81, for having created the original F-35 3d models and cockpit we still use to this day. -FastCargo, for having updated the original F-35 package to SF2 standards. -Astore, for our great friendship and for creating much nicer cockpit textures, skins and emblems for Italian F-35s. -daddyairplanes, for producing additional and/or missing USAF skins for the F-35A. -Wrench, for producing missing skins for all F-35C and F-35B operators and for the F-35A skins of other NATO countries. -simonmiller416, for the USMC, USN and USAF Aggressors skins he made for the F-35B, F-35C and F-35A. -Dino Cattaneo, for his F-35 add-on for Flight Simulator X; the new cockpit textures are partly inspired by his. -JosefK, for the AGM-158C LRASM weapon mod. -ravenclaw_07, for his quality missiles and bombs add-ons. -Coupi and GKABS, for the canopy structure improvement via "FakePilot" part. -kblomkvist, for all F-35 skins he released, including those of his SF2 USAF F-35 redux package. -My girlfriend, for supporting me in all of my endeavors. >Disclaimer: This is a freeware; yet it can be redistributed ONLY in other CombatACE mods/mod packages. This mod may NOT in any way, shape or form be used in any payware additions. Submitter Menrva Submitted 12/13/2025 Category F-35

Package has been updated to v1.1; now it includes the nations seen in the upcoming Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve.