NEWS!

04 FEB 06

It's all quiet on the western front in the 718th TFW's AO. With the aborted Netmeet in January, that I was as guilty of missing as any other, things have ground to a halt. There was some flying on MadDog's F4 server but it seems to have trickled off. Life has a way of ketchin' up to us it seems.

Several peeps had mentioned the complexity of F4 as a reason flying seems to have tailed off. More along the lines of with IL2 and such ya just strap the bugger on and fly. Now this was not a huge fault but lust mentioned in passing. In my case I may have to upgrade the firmware of my router which I am loath to do at the moment. It seems that F4 while WAY ahead of it's parent sim has issues or better yet some routers have issues with it. I had to DMZ my PC to see MDs' server. That said a hearty THANK YOU to Mike for all his work on setting up the server. Its may seem thankless but it is appreciated very much.

Also MIG deserves and also TEEG a big thank you also. I was unaware at the time how much money was spent buying chairs and tables for the meet. Hosting a meet can be a huge thing by itself but a double thanks is in order when extra money is spent.

Hopefully we can work out a schedule soon.

Finally in The news is the imminent release of the newest patch/update for IL2/FB/PF et al. There will finally be a flyable Tempest and Mosquito! YAY!! There will also be a flyable Ju88. Additionally there will be the usual extra spit and 109 variants modeled.

Here is the READ ME:

README
Pacific Fighters v.4.03 (4.03m)


Warning

The current version 4.03 (4.03m) is not compatible with the previous versions of the sim when playing over the network (Online). Both the server and client must have the appropriate versions in order to connect.

For your convenience, we have introduced different version numbers for the stand-alone installation and the merged (FB+AEP+PF) install.
4.03 – for stand-alone PF
4.03m – for merged (FB+AEP+PF)
Attention: versions 4.03 and 4.03m are not compatible with each other when playing over the network (Online).


Add-On Installation Instructions (Please read carefully)

The 4.03 free add-on installs only over 4.02 (PF stand alone).
The 4.03m free add-on installs only over 4.02m (FB+AEP+PF merged).

In order to install this free add-on, run the following:

1) For Stand alone: PF_patch403.exe and follow the on-screen instructions.
2) For Merged: PF_patch403m.exe and follow the on-screen instructions.

Please note that the merged version of Pacific Fighter will get all additions and features that are listed below, while the stand alone installation will only get the Pacific Fighters-specific ones marked by ‘*’.

New Features


New Aircraft.

Flyable aircraft:

Do-335A-0
Ju-88A4
Tempest MK.V
Mosquito FB.MK.VI*
MC-200 III
MC-202 III
MC-202 VII
MC-202 XII
MC-205 I
MC-205 III
J2M3*
Bf-109K4 C3 1.98Ata
Spitfire MK.IX 25lbs

AI aircraft:

J2M5*
N1K2-Ja*
Mosquito F.MK.IV*
MC-200 I
MC-200 VII
MC-200 VIIFB

Ju-88 Notes:

Top Rear Gunners.

Unfortunately, the Il-2 / FB / PF code was never intended for a single crewman alternating between firing positions due to online gameplay limitations. In Ju-88 cause we would not be able to prevent the AI from, for example, firing the rear right top gun while the player fired the left gun. Due to these limitations and in order to keep a level playing field, the right top gunner in Ju-88 will always be controlled by AI.
The Ju-88 is no different in controls from other flyable bombers on all other respects.

3D model of cockpit.

Please accept this cockpit as it is.

New ground objects:

New buildings (coming soon to a Norway map near you from third party!)


Modifications and fixes

There is a large number of small modifications to the entire code of our simulation.
We accumulated user input and fixed lots of big and little things in order to polish our simulation even further. We sincerely thank all of our users who were so helpful in the process!

Flight Model

Reworked the following series:
Bf-109 – increased maneuverability;
Yak – decreased sensitivity;
LaGG - corrected weight (approx. 300 kg added).

Increased damping factor for the ball indicator.
Minor changes in reaction of the controls.


Additional Notes:

If you have a computer with a Pentium 4 processor, you may occasionally encounter game lock-ups or crashes to desktop. In order to solve that, copy your il2_core.dll into the il2_corep4.dll (for example, with the following command: "copy il2_core.dll il2_corep4.dll"; or, in Windows Explorer, navigate to your sim installation directory, delete the existing il2_corep4.dll, make a copy of the il2_core.dll, and rename the copy to il2_corep4.dll)

Graphics:

Reworked water render

To see the updated water render please modify the Water section in the file conf.ini in the [Render_OpenGL] section.

Water = 0 or 1 – No changes in version 4.03.
Water = 2 – This mode is visually similar to water = 3 but it runs on ATI cards 9800, X800, X1800 and later models.
Water = 3 – Fast render mode with Vertex Shaders 3.0 (NVIDIA 6600 and later models)
Water = 4 – Better quality mode with Vertex Shaders 3.0 (NVIDIA 6800 and later models)
Reminder:
ATI supports modes: 0, 1, 2
NVIDIA 6600 and later models support: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4
NVIDIA cards before the series 6xxx support 0, 1, 2 (2 is not recommended)


Special thanks to the third party creators


Mosquito - Ian Jeremiah
Do-335A-0 - Clemens Hahne
N1K2-Ja – Vladimir Kochmarsky
Ju-88A4 - Jan Niukkanen, Dietger Pohl
Tempest MK.V - Alexandru Voicu
J2M3 – Mikhail Toshpulatov, Vladimir Kochmarsky
J2M5 - Dani Santos
Italian fighters -
New Buildings – Nils Hjelmevoll

29 APR 05

Just a quick update on News and such

NCOIC out