F-86 / Mig 15 Plane Sets

[Geist]

Anyone try installing the f86/Mig planes yet? I downloaded them from PeterD's site:

www.ecpdesign.net/

I tried installing the separate .exe's from PeterD's site and ran them as well as the Mig 15 patch. Mod files installed, air.ini, planes.ru, etc... all updated but planes wouldn't appear in the quick mission builder. Any suggestions? This is the first time I've tried installing additional planes so maybe I'm missing something?

[Stecher]

Wotan's been working on adding planes to our FS install. You may want to ask him exactly how to do it manually. From what he's said, you seem to be on the right track with those files, but obviously something's missing.

[Specter]

I haven't tried yet, but I have some time Wednesday night to mess around. You might want to check out AAA also, these airplanes are in the Modded Plane section too.

I love the Korean War Server idea, F-86 has always been one of my favorites. Oddly, it is very similar to the il2 fw190, crappy low speed acceleration, bad climb rate, good high speed maneuverability, dives like a banshee and better at medium altitudes (how much depends on the model).

Here's a pretty good list of aircraft in the theater. We have a lot of them and I found a couple on the AAA site (i.e. F-84).

www.korean-war.com/KWAircraft/index.html

Is anyone working on a conversion mod for Korea ala Canvas Knights?

[Geist]

One of the first sims I got hooked on was Rowan's Mig Alley back in 2000. I like Korea because it's jets but WW2 style dogfighting. Not woosie missile crap ! I've tried looking but all I can find is info on guys making offline missions. maybe try mission4today and see if anyone has made Korea campaign yet. Not sure what map would be good either....Thailand maybe? Need mountanous terrain. I haven't a clue as to how to build a mission either.....I see many hours of work ahead.....

Oh, I pm'd Wotan on FS and he said to do what I had done already. I'm obviously missing something so before anything, gotta get the planes to work!

[4./JG53_Wotan]

Ok - I assume you downloaded the MiG / Sabre plane pack here:

F-86A + MiG-15 pack (Beta 1.0) - Manual install only

Just extract the zip to your Il-2 main directory:

...\Ubisoft\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946

You will end up with 2 new aircraft folders in your MODS folder:

F-86A-5 Sabre
MiG15 (bis)

and 2 new skins folders in ...\Ubisoft\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\PaintSchemes\Skins

F-86A5
MiG-15(bis)

To be able see and fly these planes in game you need to add entries in 3 files:

In the air.ini (...\Ubisoft\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\MODS\STD\com\maddox\il2\objects)

add:

F-86A5          air.F_86A5 1                            NOINFO  usa01 SUMMER
MiG-15(bis)     air.Mig_15bis 1 NOINFO  r01   SUMMER

then in plane_ru (...\Ubisoft\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\MODS\STD)

add:

F-86A5               F-86A-5 Sabre, 1949
Mig-15(bis)     MiG-15(bis), 1950

then in weapons_ru (...\Ubisoft\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\MODS\STD)

add:

#####################################################################
# F-86A-5 Sabre
#####################################################################
F-86A5.default                   Default
F-86A5.2x207gal                 2x207 gal. Droptanks
F-86A5.2x120gal                 2x120 gal. Combat Droptanks
F-86A5.2x1000lbs                    2x1000 lbs. Bombs
F-86A5.none                     Empty

#####################################################################
# MiG-15(bis)
#####################################################################
MiG-15(bis).default                          Default
MiG-15(bis).none                             Empty

If you do that then you should be able to fly both the F-86 and MiG 15.

Now with the aircraft folders:

F-86A-5 Sabre
MiG15 (bis)

and due to the changes you made to your

air.ini
plane_ru
weapons_ru

this will "break" crt-2 - for example you won't be able to fly on Spits and 109s or in FS if those are "active".

What I did was I copied and renamed my stock "STD" folder to "STD_JET". I then built a bat switcher "JETS_ON" and "JETS_OFF" so I can "one click" comment out / activate those aircraft / folders:

F-86A-5 Sabre
MiG15 (bis)

and

STD_JET

This is the same way we set up the new FS Mods pack. We created a "STD_FS" folder and the FS bat switcher comments out / activates the new aircraft, the STD_FS, the other "FS Mod" folders.

I have one other STD set up just for our squad "STD_53". We have additional aircraft from other mod sights like SAS, HSFX, UP etc...

For example, we have the Fw 190 A-2, a different Fw 190 A-3 then UI 1.2, Fw 190 A-7, Fw 190 A-7 Sturmbock, a wider array of Bf 109s etc...

We even switch out buttons files to try out "different FMs".

Wotan

[Specter]

Thanks for the help Wotan.

I got it working Geist. I copied the MODS/STD to MODS/STD_KOREA and made the updates Wotan said to MODS/STD_Korea. I'll probably make some sort of switcher at some point, but for now all you have to do is comment out the STD_Korea, F-86 and MiG-15 Folders to get back to a normal/FS installation.