Nyghtfall

Scooters, what else? :)

View File SF2 Scooters! Vol.2 - Aggressors for TW A-4 and Fractures TA-4 Skyhawks 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. Submitter Nyghtfall Submitted 06/26/2015 Category A-4

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"

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.

true words!

I guess, what he meant was only 1 blank skin is needed for that plane...except the tip-tanks, because the tip-tanks-paintjob seems to vary often (at least a quick google-search showed that). If my guess is wrong, just forget what I wrote here :P

View File OA-4M UpdatePack for SF2 *** 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. Submitter Nyghtfall Submitted 05/09/2015 Category A-4

Ah crap then. Thanks for the quick answer! :)

Sorry for reviving that old thread, but my question is somewhat related I guess. I have separated a weapons station in a bomb-only-part (StationID=1, Group=1) and a missile-only-part (StationID=2, Group=1) and my cockpit has "ARM"-lights for each station. My problem now is, that I have to use 1 "ARM"-light for both separated stations (as both still refer to the same pylon). I tried it with no luck. Is there anything I missed or that I can do about it? Cockpit is a stock one, so not available for 3D-work.

A little update on this one. I tried to create some simple objects in the meantime in Blender and failed 2 times. I was already about to give up, but this week I started a 3rd and last try and it seems to me, that it could work this time. My Testobject is a simple Pylon with a Missile Rail attached to it, according to Blender it should have the right measurements, orientation and scale for all axis, has a material applied and I managed to UV-map this thing. So I guess next step is finding a willing person with MAX, that has a bit of patience with me and can help me converting that thing to a SF2-usable form. If someone wants to give it a try, please PM me! Attached is a picture of my "creation".

TA-4Js of VC-8 in two flavours. This unit flew the last operational Scooters in US service in 2003. I also played a bit with the cockpit (for the first time, so don't expect any wonders :P), Gear- and Hook-lever are working now and I managed to remove and to switch instruments. So I'll call it a day :)

That looks impressive. Good work! :)

"What If" A-4Ms would have been upgraded around 1990 and still in active service. A-4T "DesertHawk", US Marines, 1992 Inspired by dtmdragons A-4K Kahu II and HMH-466 helicopters during Desert Storm. ;)