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File Name: SF2 Scooters! Vol.3 Skinpack for TW A-4 File Submitter: Nyghtfall File Submitted: 12 July 2015 File Category: A-4 Scooters! Vol.3 Skinpack for Thirdwire A-4 Skyhawks by Nyghtfall v1.0 ======================================================= *** SF2, SF2V required. Tested in full 5-merged installation *** *** DLC 019 A-4L for 1 Skin *** For this pack I used a somewhat different approach. While playing campaigns, your plane gets upgraded from time to time or the plane changes to a new variant. So I did skins for the upgradepath of some squadrons, that flew in Rolling Thunder Campaign in addition to the ones I already did for the following: VA-153 Blue Tail Flies (2 more in Redux), VA-155 Silver Foxes (completly new) and VA-192 Golden Dragons (2 more in Redux). VA-56 Champions is completely new and included upon special request. And last but not least I did 2 special skins for VMA-142 just for fun and these are included too. This pack contains new skins - VA-56 Champions, USS Ticonderoga, 9/1965 to 5/1966 for A-4E_65 - VA-56 Champions, USS Enterprise, 11/1966 to 7/1967 for A-4C_65 - VA-56 Champions, USS Enterprise, 1/1968 to 6/1968 for A-4E_65 - VA-153 Blue Tail Flies, USS Coral Sea, 7/1967 to 4/1968 for A-4E_65 - VA-155 Silver Foxes, USS Coral Sea, 12/1964 to 11/1965 for A-4E and A-4E_65 - VA-155 Silver Foxes, USS Constellation, 10/1966 to 12/1966 for A-4E_65 - VA-155 Silver Foxes, USS Constellation, 5/1966 for 9/1966 for A-4E_65 (experimental camouflage) - VA-155 Silver Foxes, USS Coral Sea, 7/1967 to 4/1968 for A-4E_65 - VA-192 Golden Dragons, USS Bon Homme Richard, 4/1965 to 1/1966 for A-4C and A-4C_65 - VA-192 Golden Dragons, US Ticonderoga, 12/1967 to 8/1968 for A-4F and just for fun: - VMA-142 Flying Gators, NAS Jacksonville, Florida in their '76 Bicentennial Aniversary scheme for A-4F_74 and A-4L Hangarscreens are included in 1920x1080 resolution as default and 1024x768 as optional. As always, feel free to read the readme and have fun with the skins! Sources ======= - Scooter! The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk Story, Crécy 2011 - US Navy and Marine Corpse A-4 Units Of Vietnam War - Osprey Combat Aircraft Vol. 69 - A-4 Skyhawk Association, http://a4skyhawk.org/ - GoNavy.jp - Airliners.net - Google in general Installation ============ 1. unzip to a temporary folder 2. open "Put_Content_In_Your_Mod folder" and do as you were told, if asked to overwrite, say 'yes' :P 3. enjoy! If VMA-142 Squadron is missing in the loadout screen, you should add the following lines in the squadronlist.ini ("<mod>\pilotdata"-folder) with XXX changed to the next free number: [squadronXXX] Name=VMA142 DisplayName=VMA-142 'Flying Gators' Nation=USMC Credits ======= - Thirdwire and TK for a great game, models and the cockpit-parts I used. - Old Diego - usnpilot02 from his Diego's Pilot Pack - Alejandro - escapac seat - ???? - J52-Engine-Sound - me - all skins, decals, loadingscreens, ini-work, higher resolution skin for rockeye-cbu Please PM me, if I forgot someone! Thanks ====== - mue for his great LODViewer, which was a big help while creating the camos and placing stuff! - all modders at CombatAce for their work and inspiration! P.S. ==== If you have any problems with this skin or have suggestions and hints, feel free to PM me. 12_07_2015 Click here to download this file

Back at base.

USMC VMA-142 Flying Gators in their Bicentennial Aniversary scheme in 1976

File Name: SF2 Scooters! - Redux - a rework of all my earlier Single Skin Releases for TW A-4 File Submitter: Nyghtfall File Submitted: 06 July 2015 File Category: A-4 Scooters! - Redux - a rework of all my Single-Skin-Releases for Thirdwire A-4 Skyhawks ==================================================================================== *** SF2V required. Tested in full 5-merged installation *** For this pack I redid all my previous single-skin releases, brought them on the same level with the Scooters Vol.1 pack and rearranged them. I also corrected several errors from the older versions. Former VA-153-Skin with optional Coral Sea Marking is split into 2 separate skins for Coral Sea and Constellation now. Some skins are done for different plane-variants to reflect upgrades. So this Pack includes: - VA-93 Blue Blazers, USS Hancock, 1/1967 to 7/1967 for A-4E_65 - VA-153 Blue Tail Flies, USS Constellation, 5/1966 to 12/1966 for A-4C_65 - VA-153 Blue Tail Flies, USS Coral Sea, 12/1964 to 11/1965 for A-4C and A-4C_65 - VA-163 Saints, USS Oriskany, 6/1967 to 1/1968 for A-4E_65 - VA-164 Ghost Riders, USS Oriskany, 6/1967 to 1/1968 for A-4E-65 - VA-164 Ghost Riders, USS Hancock, 1/1972 to 10/1972 for A-4F and A-4F_LST - VA-172 Blue Bolts, USS F.D. Roosevelt, 6/1966 to 2/1967 for A-4C-65 - VA-192 Golden Dragons, USS Ticonderoga, 10/1966 to 5/1967 for A-4E_65 and A-4E_67 Updates include: - Added Weathering, that most early skins missed. - Insignia and several squadronspecific markings are painted on. - Many decals are redone and optimised (more blur for less flickering) - Corrected several errors in the baseskin, aswell as for the markings. - Added modexnumbers to the flap insides (possible with mue's great LOD-Viewer - Thanks mate!) - Updated cockpit with working Landing Gear- and Arresting Hook Lever - Included Hangarscreens for each skin in 1920x1080 as default and 1024x768 optional. Notes and Issues: ================= As there's no possibility of squadrons with mixed plane-variants, some skins are available for 2 plane-variants. At some point A-4C and A-4E got ECM-equipment and I'm pretty sure, those were used besides planes without ECM in squadrons. The other case are A-4E, that got the avionics hump at some point and were used besides ones without hump. I hope you have fun with it! Sources ======= - Scooter! The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk Story, Crécy 2011 - US Navy and Marine Corpse A-4 Units Of Vietnam War - Osprey Combat Aircraft Vol. 69 - A-4 Skyhawk Association, http://a4skyhawk.org/ - GoNavy.jp - Airliners.net - Google in general Installation ============ 1. unzip to a temporary folder 2. open "Put_Content_In_Your_Mod folder" and do as you were told, if asked to overwrite, say 'yes' :P 3. enjoy! Credits ======= - Thirdwire and TK for a great game, models and the cockpit-parts I used. - Old Diego - usnpilot02 from his Diego's Pilot Pack - Alejandro - escapac seat - ???? - J52-Engine-Sound - me - all skins, decals, loadingscreens, ini-work. Please PM me, if I forgot someone! Thanks ====== - mue for his great LODViewer, which was a big help while placing stuff! - all modders at CombatAce for their work and inspiration! P.S. ==== If you have any problems with this skin or have suggestions and hints, feel free to PM me. 06_07_2015 Click here to download this file

well, this is a scooter, not a phantom :) you just don't have enough thrust, to fight with your bombload still on the plane. you can try, but your plane looses lots of speed while turning and doesn't climb well. So your enemy has a bigger advancement and you have a lesser chance to survive. Just try to kill some S-60 AAA with guns and a full bombload on the plane and you can pretty well see, how different the planes responses.

You can always try to get low, circle around a bit and cry for help/reinforcements. And if nothing works, get rid of the bombs and face your enemy...you still have 2 guns and a very nimble plane :)

Scooters, what else? :)

File Name: SF2 Scooters! Vol.2 - Aggressors for TW A-4 and Fractures TA-4 Skyhawks File Submitter: Nyghtfall File Submitted: 26 June 2015 File Category: A-4 Scooters! Vol.2 - Aggressors for TW A-4 and Fractures TA-4 Skyhawks ======================================================== *** DLC A-4G Skyhawk required. Tested in full 5-merged installation *** *** SF2 or SF2V for the A-4E cockpit and A-4F model *** This pack contains 14 Aggressor-Skins for the Scooter as used during it's career as plane for DACT - Dissimilar Air Combat Training. These planes were used to simulate enemy aircraft vs. regular Squadrons. Although a certain camouflage was applied often to 1 plane only, I decided to do 8 planes per skin for playability reasons. To difference the real planes and the "filler" I added the BuNos for the real planes in the loadout menu. The ones without BuNo are fictional. This pack contains skins depicting the following planes/squadrons: A-4E/F Mongoose without Hump - A-4E/F of VF-43 Challengers, 1992 in a light gray/gray wraparound camo. - A-4E/F of VF-126 Bandits, 1992 in white/gray/blue with light blue bottom - A-4E/F of VF-126 Bandits, 1991 in tan with brown stripes and gray bottom. - A-4E/F of VF-126 Bandits, 1991 in tan/brown/green with gray bottom. - A-4E/F of VFC-12 Fighting Omars, 1993 in an overall glossy engine gray camo. A-4E/F Skyhawk with Hump - A-4E of VF-45 Blackbirds, 1987 in brown with green tiger stripes ("Brown Tiger") - A-4E of VF-101 Grim Reapers, 1972 in 2 shades of bluegray with light blue bottom. TA-4J Skyhawk - TA-4F/J of VFC-12 Fighting Omars, 1989 in an overall glossy engine gray camo. - TA-4F/J of VA-127 Cylons, 1986 in a tan/green wraparound camo. - TA-4F/J of VA-127 Cylons, 1983 in a light gray/dark gray/blue wraparound camo. - TA-4F/J of VC-8 Redtails, 2000 in tan/brown. - TA-4F/J of VC-8 Redtails, 2000 in blue/light blue ("Baby Blue"). - TA-4F/J of VF-45 Blackbirds, 1993 in bluegray/gray wraparound camo. - TA-4F of H&MS-31 Aggressors, 1989 in 3 different gray wraparound camo. Included is a variation of the ACMI-Pod. For that I combined ravenclaws ACMI-Pod model with the data.ini of 331Killerbees CAP-9 to make it a missiletype-store than uses a build-in rail. New Hangar- and Loadingscreens are also included with a resolution of 1920x1080 as default and 1024x768 as optional. I changed the cockpit by removing the radar screen. Additional changes are the switched positions of the Accelerometer and AoA-Indicator and Levers for Arresting Hook and Landing Gear are operational now. As in dtmdragons original mod, I retained the cannons for playability, although they are not visible in game. I hope you have fun with it! Sources ======= - Scooter! The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk Story, Crécy 2011 - A-4 Skyhawk Association, http://a4skyhawk.org/ - Airliners.net - Google in general to gather pictures of aggressor skins. Installation ============ 1. unzip to a temporary folder 2. open "Put_Content_In_Your_Mod folder" and do as you were told, if asked to overwrite, say 'yes' :P 3. enjoy! If the Squadrons are missing in the loadout screen, you should add content of the "squadronlist_ini_addon.txt"-file to the squadronlist.ini ("<mod>\pilotdata"-folder) with XXX changed to the next free numbers. If the Aggressors-"Nation" is missing, you have to add the content of "nations_ini_addon.txt"-file to the nations.ini ("<mod>\flight"-folder) with XXX changed to the next free number. Credits ======= - Thirdwire and TK for a great game, models and the cockpit-parts I used. - Fracture, Wrench for the original TA-4J Pack and Model. - dtmdragon for his A-4 Aggressor pack, on which this is based. - RAVEN - LAU-129 missile-rail - ravenclaw_007 - ACMI-Pod - 331Killerbee - CAP-9 from his Ordnance Shop II Pack - Alejandro - Escapac seat - FastCargo - FakePilot - ???? - TopGun pilot - ???? - J52-Sound - ???? - 150gal OV-10A-tank - me - all skins, decals, loadingscreens, ini-work, modified A-4E cockpit. Please PM me, if I forgot someone! Thanks ====== - mue for his great LODViewer, which was a big help while creating the camos and placing stuff! - all modders at CombatAce for their work and inspiration! P.S. ==== If you have any problems with this skin or have suggestions and hints, feel free to PM me. Click here to download this file

on all 4 engines.

Did some flying today again and made good progress. Several Warehouses, a fuel tank, an ammo bunker and a good amount of AAA was detroyed by the Silver Foxes with the sad loss of another Pilot. Enemy defense was heavy as ususal and I got hit and lost my right elevator and the right speed brake, but I made a safe return to the carrier. On the way to a fuel tank deep within enemy's land I got hit again by AAA. Although I ejected successfully a safe reovery wasn't possible, so I was declared MIA. DID is a nice idea...you focus more on stayling alive and return healthy to the carrier instead of attacking the last AA, because you still have 10 cannonrounds left. :)

As this is pure fiction why not just add whatever looks good. I like it. Good work Dan. :)

Here I am. VA-155 Silver Foxes with A-4E Skyhawk during Rolling Thunder Campaign, Vietnam 1965. 4 Missions so far with 2 losses in the last mission - RIP guys! P.S.: forgot to take a screenshot of mission 3's end, just a screenshot of action as stand-in, sorry :/

I learned russian in school...but unfortunately most of my already limited knowledge is gone. :( I guess you want a real translation, not just english words written in russian?

De Zeven Provincien - either "DZP" or just "ZP" not sure De Ruyter - "DR" Tromp - "TR" Evertsen - "EV"

Hey there, as 3d max 2009 seems to be unavailable, I read, that (with the help of a 3dmax-user of course) you can use Blender to create 3d models too. So after another day of constant fighting with Blender to get things done the way I want, I just wanted to ask, if someone can recommend a good read about Blender. An overview of the most used and important things to create 3D models would be very hepful. I guess forgeting everything you know about using Windows-programs seems to be key to learn it. ;) So any help is appreciated! Rene/Nyghtfall

I can totally understand you...I regularly hit the wrong buttons and distort everything...or create new windows and cannot get rid of them. Blender's handling concept appears to me very questionable. I never had a windows-program before, where you had to forget everything you know about software...hotkeys and shortcuts that work in most windows-programs....they do not here...in fact they are sometimes even switched in functionality over windows. I read somewhere that you have to take your time to learn it and once you know what you're doing, everything gets clear. I still want to believe the guy that wrote that. ;) But still...the results can be used in SF2.somehow...and that is what counts. :)

Nice find! What a timing... :)

Test successful! Russouk2004 gave it a shot and converted it. And it's working quite nicely. So for 3D-Beginners without MAX like me its a chance to get into this, learn something while creating fakepilot-objects that are maybe useful to other people. Thanks mate! Cheers Rene The Sidewinder-Pylon is the new one!

@Eole2: Nice work, I like it! Just tell me, if you need more. :) Screenshot...One would think, this camo would've worked.

File Name: OA-4M UpdatePack for SF2 File Submitter: Nyghtfall File Submitted: 09 May 2015 File Category: A-4 *** SF2+SF2I+V required for the KfirC1_77-Cockpit and optional A-4F_74-Cockpit, that is used here together with bits from the A-7E-Cockpit. Tested in full 5-merged installation *** This pack contains an update to the previously released OA-4M-Pack by Wrench. All skins and decals are newly done for this pack. Included are the following "new" planes and Skins: * OA-4M Skyhawk (2-Tone Gray Camo) - Initial Camo with large insignias and white modex. - H&MS-12, MCAS Iwakuni '81-'83 - H&MS-13, MCAS Yuma, '79-'83 - H&MS-32, MCAS Cherry Point, '79-'83 * OA-4M Skyhawk (GhostGray Camo) - 2nd Camo-Scheme, differently arranged with small insignias and lowvis modex. - H&MS-11, MCAS El Toro, '88-'90 - H&MS-12, MCAS Iwakuni 1986 (Yosemite Sam on Tail) - H&MS-12, MCAS Iwakuni 1989 (Yosemite Sam on Tail, Samurai on Aft Fuselage) - H&MS-13, MCAS Yuma, '83-'88 - H&MS-32, MCAS Cherry Point, '83-'90 * OA-4M Skyhawk (Overall Gray Camo) - There were probably just 2 planes with that camo 154306/DA01 and an unknown 2nd one. Gray overall with black markings. - MAG-32, MCAS Cherry Point, '89-'90 * OA-4M Skyhawk (Blue/Green Camo) - Experimental Camo on 154306/DA01. Dark green / dark blue with white bottom and black markings. - H&MS-32, MCAS Cherry Point, 1983 * OA-4M Skyhawk (Green/Gray Camo) - Experimental Camo on 154628/DA04. Green / gray with gray bottom and inverse markings. - H&MS-32, MCAS Cherry Point, 1985 Planespecific skins for the droptanks are provided (stock A-4 tanks), aswell as a new skin for the stock Mk.20 Rockeye II CBU. Optional: As there's no dedicated OA-4M-Cockpit available, the Pack contains 2 options here: * KfirC1_77 cockpit by default, from dtmdragons A-4M-pack as stand-in. It "feels" better than the big and roomy A-7-Cockpit from the original OA-4M-pack. I also made refinements over dtmdragons version to bring it more towards a modern Skyhawk-Cockpit. Landing Gear-, Arrestor Hook Lever and Rudder pedals are working now, I rearranged and reskinned the weaponspanel, to get rid of the hebrew stencils and Kfirs additional weaponsstations and I removed some instruments, that are useless here (Nozzle- and Shockcone Position). * A-4F_74 cockpit, which is slightly modified by me. It now has a HUD and the Radarscreen is used for the ARBS. Although it was not actually installed in real planes, it is added for playability. Also the HUD is rather small, but works. Included are Hangar- and Loadingscreens in 1920x1080 by default and 1024x768 as option. Just open the planes ini-files and you see what you have to change. There's a readme included. Feel free to read it! :) Installation ============ 1. unzip to a temporary folder 2. open "Put_Content_In_Your_Mod folder" and do as you were told, if asked to overwrite, say 'yes' :P 3. enjoy! Credits ======= - Thirdwire and TK for a great game, models and the cockpit-parts I used. - Wrench, Fracture, triplethr3at and pappychksix - original OA-4M Pack, Updates and of course the TA-4 Model - Nengajyou, daddyairplanes and Wrench - Yosemite Sam issue and Samurai logo - RAVEN - LAU-129 missile-rail - dtmdragon - Kfir-Cockpit-mod from his A-4M-pack and testing - Eole2 - testing, loadout.tga and optional A-4F cockpit-idea - Alejandro - Escapac seat - FastCargo - FakePilot - ???? - antenna/bent probe/avionics blister kit - ???? - avionics hump - ???? - J52- and damaged Engine-Sounds - Rudder-Pedals ini-statements taken from bobrocks AV-8Bplus - myself - skins, decals, loading- and hangarscreens, cockpit-changes, ini-work. If you created one of the ????-marked items, please contact me, so I can add your name in the credits! If I forgot someone, please PM me too! Thanks ====== - Eole2 and dtmdragon for testing and providing valuable improvement-advices. Thanks to you guys! - TMF for their A-7 and Crusader for valuable information regarding weaponsstations-arrangement, I found in the forum. - mue for his great LODViewer, which was a big help while creating the camos and placing stuff! - Soulfreak, for a A-4 decal pattern, I used here to place maintenance markings. - all modders at CombatAce for their work and inspiration! P.S. ==== If you have any problems with this skin or have suggestions and hints, feel free to PM me. Click here to download this file