Strike Fighters 1+2

-Strike Fighters 1+2-

Programs and other things I made for the Strike Fighters series of flight simulators/games. All put here for anyone who has good use for it. See Combat Ace for news, discussions and downloads related to these games.

HFD/TFD ICELAND Terrain for Strike Fighters 2 North Atlantic

Remake of the Stock Direct-X 10 Lod based terrain, but in the classic HFD/TFD format.
FEATURES:
- A natural looking texture tileset, being a blend of ThirdWire's, gerwin/GB's and Stary's work.
- Gives High framerates and requires only a short loading time.
- Better low altitude radar evasion behaviour compared to the stock terrain.
- Shorelines and Lakes.
- Towns, millions of trees and even geysers (last two are made by Stary).
- As the target locations are unchanged, the campaign remains 100% functional.
- Seemingly windows XP compatible with a merged install.
- Works with any Strike Fighters Game; Wings over Vietnam, Europe, Isreal etc.
- Includes some toned-down textures for the SF2NA Iceland buildings and trees.
- Update 03-2024: City tiles with TOD building objects - Update 03-2024: Expanded standalone install, with harbor targets etc.

IcelandNA - Readme included (9,1MB).

Comments or suggestions: Topic at Combat Ace

Microprose Falcon 4 Korea terrain

A terrain conversion from the famous 1998 flight simulation. It depicts North and South Korea, with the DMZ as a separation. Comes with the classic tile set, but enhanced for the features of Strike Fighters, such as tile rotation and water reflection.

F4_Korea - Beta release 03-2024 - Readme included (19MB).

Comments or suggestions: Topic at Combat Ace

Novalogic Terrain Conversions for Strike Fighters 2

Other versions of these terrains were already available in this set Here at Combat Ace, as uploaded by Menrva who worked on these terrains with me.
But I was stubborn? and made different choices regarding terrain heigth scaling and the filling of the areas bordering the center terrain.
Next I improved and added some targetareas, also added some tailor-made tiles and TODs for these targetareas.

NL07_Steppe from F-16 Multirole Fighter and MiG-29 Fulcrum - 10,6MB - Update 03-2024.
NL08_Scrub from F-16 Multirole Fighter, MiG-29 Fulcrum and F-22 Lightning 3 - 10,7MB - Update 03-2024.
NL10_IslandJungle (aka Tropical) from F-22 Lightning 3 - 9,7MB - Update 03-2024.

TFDtool Terrain Explorer

Last Update: 09-2023
This tool will allow you to explore most aspects of terrains for the Third Wire Productions "Strike Fighters" flight simulator series.
- The TileMap with textures.
- The HeightMap.
- The Targets placement, with stock airfield preview images. (no direct editing)
- The Movement Routes. (no direct editing)
Allows zoom levels ranging 1 pixel per tile to 1024 pixels per tile, and generation of game-ready planning maps and water maps.
To get going with this you need to use either Catpack or the Third-Wire cat extractor, and convert any extracted unicode textfiles to simple ANSI format.

TFDtool - Windows application, Readme included (566kB).

Comments or suggestions: Topic at Combat Ace

Vehicles for Strike Fighters 1 and 2

Drag and drop ground vehicle addons for SF. All models are setup to move and fire. They will appear in either a Green or a Tan texture, depending on the terrain. The models are framerate friendly and have several 'distance lods'.

The High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), commonly known as the Humvee, is a four-wheel drive military automobile produced by AM General. In US army service from 1984–present. Now exported to over 60 countries.

M998 HMMWV Cargo/Troop - Readme included (600kB).
M1025 HMMWV Armament Carrier, Armored, M2HB - Readme included (600kB).

The M1 Abrams is an American third-generation main battle tank. In US army service from 1980 to present. Since it replaced the M60A3 Tank in 1997 it is the sole Main Battle Tank in US service. It has been exported to 5 other countries.

M1 Abrams Tank - v1.1c Readme included (700kB)

The BRDM-2 is an amphibious armoured patrol car used by Russia and the former Soviet Union.

BRDM-2 Recon Car - Update 2018, Readme included (670kB)
SA-9 SAM Launcher on BRDM-2 - Update 2018, Readme included (760kB)

Airfield 7+8 Addon Pack - - With Hardened Shelter model, Readme included (2,4MB)

M977 HEMTT - - Cargo Truck, Update 2018, Readme included (721kB)
M978 HEMTT - - Fuel Truck, Beta Release, Readme included (721kB)
M4A3E8 Sherman Tank - - Strike Fighters 2 only, Readme included (619kB)
M4A3(75)W Sherman Tank - NEW! - Readme included (640kB)
Panzer IV Tank - - Strike Fighters 2 only, Readme included (531kB)
German Flak 18 8.8cm Gun - NEW! - Readme included (520kB)
Sd.Kfz. 251 ausf. D - NEW! - Readme included (580kB)

Comments or suggestions: Topic at Combat Ace

CATpack archiver

A Strike Fighters .cat archive extractor and packer. There used to be skypats extractor for SF1, then this Catpack tool which for a while was the only one able to unpack SF2 archives. It unfortunately cannot extract the new cat format introduced in march 2011. The game publisher offers its own extractor now, which can extract most of the files, although some files remain locked on purpose.

CATpack - Windows application, Readme included (350kB).

Various smaller SF modifications by me

All hosted on CombatAce, which is much appreciated. The mods are listed in order of date, with the most recent projects first. Beware that some things are now incompatible with SF2 or already included in SF1/SF2. Most mods rely on stock or 3rd-party models, which are not included. All credits to the makers of these models.

IDF camo scheme for C-130 , for Third Wire model
USAF Silver Skin for F-5E Tiger II , v1.1, TMF model
USN-LoVis-Paintshop , v1.1, F/A-18,F-14,A-7,F-4S,A-4M
Damage overlay textures , v1.2, for WOI/SF2 addon Aircraft
CatPack (as above, mirror on combatace)
Previews of stock Ground Objects , html format
Sea variation tile , for Strike Fighters Gold / Project 1
French Silver Scheme for Mirage 5D , for Third Wire model
Skin Template for F-16A (Netz) , for Third Wire model
Generic Hill Scheme F-16A (Netz) Skin , for Third Wire model
Gull Grey A-6 Intruder Skin , for Third Wire model
Generic Hill Scheme F-4E+F-4G Phantom II Skin , for TW+MF model
A-4 Skyhawk updated Skin Pack , for Third Wire model
Sand/Desert F-15a Skin , fictional, for Third Wire model
Texture for Spruance Class Destroyer , by MikeWHL

Mercenary Sand Skins, for the nation of paran (Fictional):

IL-28 Beagle , for Third Wire model
MiG-17F Fresco , for Third Wire model
MiG-21PFM Fishbed , for Third Wire model
MiG-21MF Fishbed , for Third Wire model
MiG-23 Flogger Series , for Third Wire model
MiG-27 Flogger , for Third Wire model
MiG-29A Fulcrum , for TMF model
F-5E Tiger II , for TMF model
F-15A Eagle , for Third Wire model
F-16A Falcon , for Third Wire model
Mirage-IIIC , for Third Wire model
Mirage-IIIE , for Third Wire model (DLC)
Mirage-5D , for Third Wire model
Hawker Hunter 6 , for Third Wire model
C-130A Hercules , for Third Wire SFP1 model