AF=Midway Project USN and IJN CV Package.
This package includes;
USN: CV-5 USS Yorktown, CV-6 USS Enterprise and CV-8 USS Hornet
IJN: Akagi, Hiryu, Kaga and Soryu
All MDL's are stock from Microsoft, all modifications by Pen32Win
Features:
New Flight Deck Textures, I have painted all 7 CV's as close to the actual decks as I could working from photos and several paintings. The Kido Butai CV's look pretty fresh as they were refitted after their Far East Operations. Big-E and Yorktown are in their light blue scheme still. A Minor difference between them but enough to notice from the air. Hornet is in her Dark Blue scheme which she aquired for the Doolittle Raid. After the raid the twin stripes down the deck's port side the B-25's used as guides were painted over, but you can still see faint traces of them.
The DP's have been change drastically. You can no longer sink a CV with just a couple of bombs or torpedoes, you'll have to work at it much harder.
Why? Well let's look at a few facts. To sink the Yorktown it took, 3 250Kg Bombs, one of which exploded in the stack, two ariel torpedos, two submarine launched torpedoes, another sub torpedo the blew up DD-412 USS Hammann which was along side her and then 8 to 12 of Hammann's Depth Charges exploded within 100 Yards of her, and she still stayed afloat for more than 12 Hours. All of this after being nearly sunk at Coral Sea!!!
In the case of the IJN CV's yes they were sunk or forced to be scuttled by just a few bomb hits, BUT! They had left dozens of 800Kg Bombs laying around in the hangar deck, fuel lines full on deck and a deck load of aircraft fueled and armed ready to launch when they were hit. A monkey with a couple of handgrenades could have turned them into burned out hulks...
That's why I made them so tuff. When you fly the AF=Midway Project missions you'll have to damage them, not outright sink them. The DP's also have been altered so the AA guns aboard the ships can be destroyed. They support, Large Bow Wakes, Oil Slicks and the IJN CV's use the Wind Marker Effect as well as all of the know fixes for the USN CV's. A full Effects package will follow.
Installation:
Un-Zip to your desktop or a temp folder. This will create a folder called "AF=MIDWAY CVs". Inside are 7 Folders you place inside of your "SHIPS" folder. That's it. If you want to change some of your old missions to use these just put in these names for the stock name:
AF_SHA_ENTERPRISE_CV-6
AF_SHA_HORNET_CV-8
AF_SHA_YORKTOWN_CV-5
AF_SHJ_AKAGI
AF_SHJ_HIRYU
AF_SHJ_KAGA
AF_SHJ_SORYU
Have fun with the new toys, more on the way.
AF=Midway Project Credits:
The number of people involved directly or indirectly is huge, truly a community effort. There is no way we could complete the project without the work of the following individuals and groups. I am thankful for all of them and their works. I sure hope I don't miss anyone. If I do, I will correct it ASAP.
The AF=Midway Team:
Philippe Burnage - Bomb Sight Gauge, Val Texture, PBY Panel Mod, Testing
Dan Griffen - SBD, Kate, Val 9-Way Panel Sets, Original TBF Main Panel, Testing
Jacek Poltorak - Testing
James Smith - Scenery Design Support/Education, API Macros, Multi-Res IJN 800Kg Bomb, Testing
All of the Above - Moral Support and Friendship.
Contributing Designers - Direct Contributions, Add-Ons Used/Modified or Knowledge Gained From:
Jon Wold - Original TBD Main Panel
Gramps - TBF-1, F4F-3, F4F-4, SBD-2, SB2U Skins
Aluminum Cloud - Original SBD-3 Skin
Nanni - Effects Development
Nibbio - Effects Development
Ghostpony - Effects Development
Ralf-J. Triebel - API Macros
Doc G - API Macros
Frank Maetzler - Concrete Texture
Derek Leung - FSSC
Martin Wright - DXT Bit Map, Split GVR
William M. Roth - Air Edit
R. Kibria - "frhed" Hex Edit Tool
Vladimir "SaQSoN" Kochmarsky, Rob Cox, Michal "MikeSK" Skakuj - F2A Buffalo
Harry Follas and Brian Horsey - Original PBY Catalina
Scott Jelinek - Original B-26
Daisuke Iga (A.K.A. daikie)/Kawauso Works - Original IJN 800Kg Bomb
JWB - Gauges
DFD - Gauges
Joel Shepherd - Research
Chris Hawkinson - Research
Hawkeye - Aircraft CFG Information
Dan Goodwin - Aircraft CFG Information
Bruce Thorson - Airfile Information
Snake - Airfile Information
David C. Copley - Roll Damage Fix
Trying to bring it all together:
Pen32Win
Aircraft:
AIB-17 Texture Mod, DP.
AIB-26 Texture Mod, DP Mod.
AISB2U_VINDICATOR Air File Mod, Aircraft.CFG, Texture Mod, DP.
AISBD-2 Air File Mod, Aircraft.CFG, Texture Mod, DP.
B5N2_KATE Air File Mod, Aircraft.CFG, Texture Mod, Rear Gunner Panel, DP.
D3A1_VAL Air File Mod, Aircraft.CFG, Texture Mod, Rear Gunner Panel, DP.
PBY DP Mod, Texture Mod.
SBD-3 Air File Mod, Aircraft.CFG, Texture Mod, Rear Gunner Panel, DP.
TBD-1 Air File Mod, Aircraft.CFG, Texture Mod, All other panels except Main, DP.
F4F-4 Air File Mod, Texture Mod.
F4F-3 Air File Mod, Skin Mod, Aircraft.CFG, DP.
TBF_AVENGER Air File Mod, 9-Way Panel Set, Aircraft.CFG, DP.
Zero Texture
Ships:
Enterprise, Yorktown, Hornet, Akagi, Hiryu, Kaga, Soryu - Flight Deck Textures and DP's.
Scenery
Missions
Sounds
Effects
Legal Stuff;
The use of these Add-On is at your own risk and we take no responsibility for any damage you think they may have caused. They have all been tested in CFS2 and have caused no problems on any of our systems.
All Original Creations of the AF=Midway Project Team are copywrited and all rights are reserved by Small Business Insight Computing. Additional items used in the package remain under control of their original author(s).
The authors' rights and wishes concerning this archive must be respected.
The archive must be distributed without modification to the contents of the archive. Redistributing this archive with any files added, removed or modified is prohibited without written permission from the author(s).
The inclusion of any individual file from this archive in another archive without the prior permission of the author(s) is prohibited. This means, for example, that you may not upload an archive that uses our visual or flight models with your own aircraft or include it in a package containing a panel, texture or aircraft sounds without first obtaining the authors' permission.
No charge may be made for this archive other than that to cover the cost of its distribution. If a fee is charged it must be made clear to the purchaser that the archive is freeware and that the fee is to cover the distributor's costs of providing the archive.
Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp.
Combat Flight Simulator 2 is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp.
This package includes;
USN: CV-5 USS Yorktown, CV-6 USS Enterprise and CV-8 USS Hornet
IJN: Akagi, Hiryu, Kaga and Soryu
All MDL's are stock from Microsoft, all modifications by Pen32Win
Features:
New Flight Deck Textures, I have painted all 7 CV's as close to the actual decks as I could working from photos and several paintings. The Kido Butai CV's look pretty fresh as they were refitted after their Far East Operations. Big-E and Yorktown are in their light blue scheme still. A Minor difference between them but enough to notice from the air. Hornet is in her Dark Blue scheme which she aquired for the Doolittle Raid. After the raid the twin stripes down the deck's port side the B-25's used as guides were painted over, but you can still see faint traces of them.
The DP's have been change drastically. You can no longer sink a CV with just a couple of bombs or torpedoes, you'll have to work at it much harder.
Why? Well let's look at a few facts. To sink the Yorktown it took, 3 250Kg Bombs, one of which exploded in the stack, two ariel torpedos, two submarine launched torpedoes, another sub torpedo the blew up DD-412 USS Hammann which was along side her and then 8 to 12 of Hammann's Depth Charges exploded within 100 Yards of her, and she still stayed afloat for more than 12 Hours. All of this after being nearly sunk at Coral Sea!!!
In the case of the IJN CV's yes they were sunk or forced to be scuttled by just a few bomb hits, BUT! They had left dozens of 800Kg Bombs laying around in the hangar deck, fuel lines full on deck and a deck load of aircraft fueled and armed ready to launch when they were hit. A monkey with a couple of handgrenades could have turned them into burned out hulks...
That's why I made them so tuff. When you fly the AF=Midway Project missions you'll have to damage them, not outright sink them. The DP's also have been altered so the AA guns aboard the ships can be destroyed. They support, Large Bow Wakes, Oil Slicks and the IJN CV's use the Wind Marker Effect as well as all of the know fixes for the USN CV's. A full Effects package will follow.
Installation:
Un-Zip to your desktop or a temp folder. This will create a folder called "AF=MIDWAY CVs". Inside are 7 Folders you place inside of your "SHIPS" folder. That's it. If you want to change some of your old missions to use these just put in these names for the stock name:
AF_SHA_ENTERPRISE_CV-6
AF_SHA_HORNET_CV-8
AF_SHA_YORKTOWN_CV-5
AF_SHJ_AKAGI
AF_SHJ_HIRYU
AF_SHJ_KAGA
AF_SHJ_SORYU
Have fun with the new toys, more on the way.
AF=Midway Project Credits:
The number of people involved directly or indirectly is huge, truly a community effort. There is no way we could complete the project without the work of the following individuals and groups. I am thankful for all of them and their works. I sure hope I don't miss anyone. If I do, I will correct it ASAP.
The AF=Midway Team:
Philippe Burnage - Bomb Sight Gauge, Val Texture, PBY Panel Mod, Testing
Dan Griffen - SBD, Kate, Val 9-Way Panel Sets, Original TBF Main Panel, Testing
Jacek Poltorak - Testing
James Smith - Scenery Design Support/Education, API Macros, Multi-Res IJN 800Kg Bomb, Testing
All of the Above - Moral Support and Friendship.
Contributing Designers - Direct Contributions, Add-Ons Used/Modified or Knowledge Gained From:
Jon Wold - Original TBD Main Panel
Gramps - TBF-1, F4F-3, F4F-4, SBD-2, SB2U Skins
Aluminum Cloud - Original SBD-3 Skin
Nanni - Effects Development
Nibbio - Effects Development
Ghostpony - Effects Development
Ralf-J. Triebel - API Macros
Doc G - API Macros
Frank Maetzler - Concrete Texture
Derek Leung - FSSC
Martin Wright - DXT Bit Map, Split GVR
William M. Roth - Air Edit
R. Kibria - "frhed" Hex Edit Tool
Vladimir "SaQSoN" Kochmarsky, Rob Cox, Michal "MikeSK" Skakuj - F2A Buffalo
Harry Follas and Brian Horsey - Original PBY Catalina
Scott Jelinek - Original B-26
Daisuke Iga (A.K.A. daikie)/Kawauso Works - Original IJN 800Kg Bomb
JWB - Gauges
DFD - Gauges
Joel Shepherd - Research
Chris Hawkinson - Research
Hawkeye - Aircraft CFG Information
Dan Goodwin - Aircraft CFG Information
Bruce Thorson - Airfile Information
Snake - Airfile Information
David C. Copley - Roll Damage Fix
Trying to bring it all together:
Pen32Win
Aircraft:
AIB-17 Texture Mod, DP.
AIB-26 Texture Mod, DP Mod.
AISB2U_VINDICATOR Air File Mod, Aircraft.CFG, Texture Mod, DP.
AISBD-2 Air File Mod, Aircraft.CFG, Texture Mod, DP.
B5N2_KATE Air File Mod, Aircraft.CFG, Texture Mod, Rear Gunner Panel, DP.
D3A1_VAL Air File Mod, Aircraft.CFG, Texture Mod, Rear Gunner Panel, DP.
PBY DP Mod, Texture Mod.
SBD-3 Air File Mod, Aircraft.CFG, Texture Mod, Rear Gunner Panel, DP.
TBD-1 Air File Mod, Aircraft.CFG, Texture Mod, All other panels except Main, DP.
F4F-4 Air File Mod, Texture Mod.
F4F-3 Air File Mod, Skin Mod, Aircraft.CFG, DP.
TBF_AVENGER Air File Mod, 9-Way Panel Set, Aircraft.CFG, DP.
Zero Texture
Ships:
Enterprise, Yorktown, Hornet, Akagi, Hiryu, Kaga, Soryu - Flight Deck Textures and DP's.
Scenery
Missions
Sounds
Effects
Legal Stuff;
The use of these Add-On is at your own risk and we take no responsibility for any damage you think they may have caused. They have all been tested in CFS2 and have caused no problems on any of our systems.
All Original Creations of the AF=Midway Project Team are copywrited and all rights are reserved by Small Business Insight Computing. Additional items used in the package remain under control of their original author(s).
The authors' rights and wishes concerning this archive must be respected.
The archive must be distributed without modification to the contents of the archive. Redistributing this archive with any files added, removed or modified is prohibited without written permission from the author(s).
The inclusion of any individual file from this archive in another archive without the prior permission of the author(s) is prohibited. This means, for example, that you may not upload an archive that uses our visual or flight models with your own aircraft or include it in a package containing a panel, texture or aircraft sounds without first obtaining the authors' permission.
No charge may be made for this archive other than that to cover the cost of its distribution. If a fee is charged it must be made clear to the purchaser that the archive is freeware and that the fee is to cover the distributor's costs of providing the archive.
Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp.
Combat Flight Simulator 2 is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp.
