isreali terrain and campaigns

I got the terrain and the yom kippur campaign. Is there a one-stop-shop to download all the planes and skins required ? One page I was pointed to in a readme seems not to exist anymore (Marcsfighters). Saranaguay, any assistance ?

Michael

Michael,

Sorry I don't have an answer, but this is EXACTLY what I'm looking for as well. The terrain is fantastic!

Andy.

MarcFighters will be up at the first of the Month. His site is down for Maintence I think.


331KillerBee

Wehner,

AFAIK, there's no one-stop-shopping file. I few months ago, I added a few lines to David's tutorial. Here it is:


"For advanced users, I suggest you unzip the mideastwar.zip file in your unzipped folders. That way you may edit what you need.

1.Copy the YomKippur1 folder and the 5 Yomkippur TXT files in your Campaign folder;

2.Ignore the Flight folder including Nations.ini (not needed);

3.Copy the Mideast folder in your Terrain folder;

4.Take desert.cat file from your Desert terrain file and copy it. Then rename it Mideast. Drop that in the Mideast terrain folder;

5.Copy the 9 Centurion files into your Objects folder

6.Add the following lines to your GROUNDOBJECTDATA.INI file. You may have to extract it first.

[ObjectXXX]
ObjectName=Centurion
ObjectFullName=Centurion
ObjectDataFile=Centurion_data.ini

7.Copy the 4 texture subfolders into your A-4E folder, and add the following lines to your a-4e.ini file:

[TextureSetXXX]
Directory=FlyingD
Name=The Flying Dragon Squadron
Nation=Israel
Squadron=FlyingDragon
Specular=0.50
Glossiness=0.75
Reflection=0.00

[TextureSetXXX]
Directory=GD
Name=Goring Deer
Nation=Israel
Squadron=GoringDeer
Specular=0.50
Glossiness=0.75
Reflection=0.00

[TextureSetXXX]
Directory=FT
Name=Flying Tigers
Nation=Israel
Squadron=FlyingTiger
Specular=0.50
Glossiness=0.75
Reflection=0.00

[TextureSetXXX]
Directory=KN
Name=Knights of the North
Nation=Israel
Squadron=Knights
Specular=0.50
Glossiness=0.05
Reflection=0.00
8.Copy the 4 texture subfolders into your F-4E folder, and add the following lines to your F-4e.ini file:
[TextureSetXXX]
Directory=IAF2
Name=The Bats
Nation=Israel
Squadron=Bats
Specular=0.30
Glossiness=0.85
Reflection=0.00

[TextureSetXXX]
Directory=Lion
Name=Lion Head
Nation=Israel
Squadron=Lionhead
Specular=0.30
Glossiness=0.85
Reflection=0.00

[TextureSetXXX]
Directory=Hammer
Name=Hammer Squadron
Nation=Israel
Squadron=Hammers
Specular=0.30
Glossiness=0.85
Reflection=0.00

[TextureSetXXX]
Directory=TW
Name=OT&E
Nation=USAF
Squadron=
Specular=0.30
Glossiness=0.75
Reflection=0.00

9.Copy the IAM texture subfolder into your F-100d folder and add the following lines to your F-100d.ini file:
[TextureSetXXX]
Directory=IAM
Name=The Scorpion Squadron
Squadron=Scorpions
Nation=Israel
Specular=0.30
Glossiness=0.50
Reflection=0.00

10.Copy the 2 texture subfolders into your MIG-17F folder and add the following lines to your MIG-17F.ini file:

[TextureSetXXX]
Directory=DesertCamo
Name=Desert Camo
Nation=Soviet
Specular=0.30
Glossiness=0.85
Reflection=0.00

[TextureSetXXX]
Directory=Egypt
Name=Egyptian
Nation=Egypt
Specular=1.00
Glossiness=0.50
Reflection=0.00

That’s it, now go get your daily dose of SAMs!"


I understand Dave is about to update his campaign including Mirage III and Gepard's terrain. Any update on that?

Rolling thunder,

thank you, that is what I need badly .

I will try this as soon as I am at home.

Michael.

rereading this, I am not sure if we talk about the same thing: So far, I downloaded the israel13 terrain from Avsim , but you mention a file called mideastwar. Can you point me there ?

michael.

You'll get it at AVSIM. The MidEast campaign is a revised version (03/07) of the Yom Kippur campaign. Again, Dave is supposed to update it soon. Hope this helps.

To clear up some confusion:

Israel 1.3 is a terrain by Gepard and is the only really complete mideast terrain so far available (the only thing it is really missing are roads). It is the one that most people use and refer to, but sadly, so far, there is no campaign developed for it, so all you can use it for is to fly random and scripted missions (though there are some pretty good ones among the latter).

The Yom Kippur campaign was created early on by USAFMTL, our in-house campaign wizard. Because there was no dedicated terrain for the Middle East available at the time, he created one from scratch, but of course he didn't have the time on his hands to make it overly detailed. That said, it does use accurate satellite data and has a larger scope than Gepard's Israel terrain (it includes Cyprus and southern Turkey). This is the terrain called "Mid East", if I remember correctly.

ok, that is understood. I will now look out for mideast campaign as well. Thank you RT and Spanky for straighten this out.

michael

Actually you do need the nations.ini file. I changed some countries alignment in it.

Hi Dave,

Need any help or info for your update to the mideast campaing?

BTW, we're comming up on the 31st aniversery (however you spell that), of the Yom-kippur war.

Later,
Ziker

Im at least as interested in Israels wars as I am in the prospect of wov. this is where the big air battles took place. Any expansion in tis genre would be of great interest to me.

Hey Ziker,

31st anniversary of the Yom Kippur war, meaning Kippur is approaching fast. May you and all Israelis have a peaceful day of atonement this time.

I posted this many moons ago...

(I think I got the campaign from Check-Six )


For the Mideast Campaign, there are a few errors in the readme file. In order for the campaign to install, you must:

1) Check "use folder names" in Winzip, and
2) Unzip it to the Strategy First folder.

The readme says to unzip it to "the main SF directory" which could mean Strategy First OR Strike Fighters. Another problem is that it tells you to copy and rename the desert.cat file to the Cyprus folder. This is wrong. It should be the folder named Mideast. So the readme file has a typo.

NOTE: At Check-Six, the campaign called "Campagne Kippour" is an old version of the "Campagne Mid East War"-- so get the new one-- it has the A/C skins included.

Thanks Rolling Thunder,

I've had some strange things happen with the mideast campaign since installing SP2.

Aircraft not using the packaged IAF skins.
Arifield AAA shooting down their own aircraft as they try to land.
Aircraft stuck on runway, unable to take off for some reason.

anyone else get this?

I know an update is comming soon, but I'd like to know if the problem is just with me or with the campaign.

Ziker

I will at some point but do not expect anything with this for a long long time. I have got so many things going on right now that I have to back burner some.

Is there another place to get the Marc Fighter Skins? His site is down.

at check six, there seems to be no such file as mideastwar, same is true for avsim.
anyway, I am quite excited about the israeli terrain - it is marvelous. Thumbs up for Gepard !

michael

OK Dave,

Keep me posted.

Ziker