87 Days of Cactus 2022 Campaign

[Captain Kurt]

A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Campaigns Add-Ons

Description:

87 Days of Cactus Campaign 2022
67th Fighter Squadron, USAAF

Development by:
Captain Kurt
UncleTgt
Skylane
Highpockets

This campaign is based closely upon the history of the 67th Fighter Squadron flying P-400s and P-39s at Henderson field during the epic siege of Guadalcanal. Henderson was code named "Cactus", hence the campaign name.

Originally it was intended to simply update the 87 Days of Cactus mission set from 2001 by Carl Gulde with the most current versions of CFS2 aircraft and ships. However, it soon became apparent that in the last 21 years our understanding of CFS2 and the availability of many development tools and techniques unavailable in 2001 made the original missions obsolete. The development team decided that we would create a new historical campaign instead.

We did all we could with CFS2 to make it immersive, including new G2K ground scenery for the Guadalcanal theater, new local airfields as they were in 1942, new spawning bomb craters, ground and cloud textures, effects, the latest ships by Stuart277, Usio etc, the latest aircraft models available, correct period aircraft skins, etc.

The campaign is auto-loading and is complete with everything required - no additional downloading necessary.

To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit 87 Days of Cactus 2022 Campaign
The comments you make there will appear in the posts below.

[Finn]

Thank you guys - that is a huge decision to do a full campaign, so hereby a big YHANK YOU. I'll get it immediately, and look forward to fly it.
Finn

[kdriver]

Thanks very much pals - this looks like a monumental effort! I'll install right now.

Cheers,
Kevin

[Ravenna]

A brilliant idea. Thanks for such a huge effort and for making this so user friendly. Well done guys!

[p14u2nv]

Thank you very much Captain Kurt, UncleTgt, Skylane and Highpockets. I am looking forward to flying these missions again but this time with all the latest in updates for this campaign. Thank you all again. S!

[Shadow Wolf 07]

I thank you all for this great contribution to this sim and the PTO!

[Rami]

Stuart277,

You could easily replace the duplicate layer of excludes with the DEM 7 layer if you wanted to.

[Rami]

Captain Kurt and UncleTgt,

Thank you so much for all of your efforts on this! I'm looking forward to flying some CFS2 again over the summer.

[PSULLYKEYS]

Very rusty with this stuff.

I've installed 87 days to a fresh CFS install. Inspecting the Scenery config I noted that none of Rhumba watermasks and LOD mesh are installed. I added the 87 days to an install I had with Rhumba's stuff installed and noted the shorelines of 87 days do not appear.

Does this mean all of the Great UT addons will not work if I try to install them in the 87 days version? (Also the Maskrider (RIP) Philippines works great in the 87days but not in the Rhumba versions)

Thanx

[UncleTgt]

I had redrawn the Islands specifically so Rhumbas mesh could be used - its a much more immersive experience.

The shorelines should show.

I created some new shoreline types for this scenery. If you're not getting the green & blue squares, you probably have all the shoreline bitmaps copied to the cfs2/texture & cfs2/scenedb/world/texture folders, so I'm guessing it's something to do with the scenery.cfg order of the layers.

Maybe you have an exclude layer too high up the list?

Also, it should work even with Rhumbas newer watermasks active, so long as they sit below the Solomons scenery layers. If you have Rhumbas watermasks higher up than the Solomons, it will draw the Rhumba masks after the scenery - maybe this erases the shorelines?

[PSULLYKEYS]

Thanks for the reply UT.

You use the terms higher and lower. In so doing do you refer to the Scenery config or the scenery listing in setting in cfs2?

Sorry, my age shows.

[Captain Kurt]

Yes, he's referring to the scenery.cfg. It gets confusing - to me anyway - because the scenery order as it shows in the game command window is reversed in the scenery.cfg text file.

So higher and lower is relevant to whether you are talking about the order as it shows up in the game or in the text file.

Here is the text of the Scenery.cfg as included in 87 Days. Copy the order the scenery files are in and it should take care of the shoreline issue for you.


[General]
Title=CFS2 World
Description=CFS 2 Scenery data
Cache_Size=10M
Clean_on_Exit=TRUE


[Area.001]
Title=Default Scenery
Local=scenery
Active=TRUE
Layer=2
Required=TRUE
Remote=


[Area.002]
Title=Terrain
Local=Scenedb\world
Active=TRUE
Texture_ID=1
Layer=1
Required=TRUE
Remote=


[Area.003]
Title=CFS1 Library
Local=Scenedb\library
Active=TRUE
Layer=3
Remote=
Required=FALSE


[Area.004]
Title=Airport Facilities Data
Local=Scenedb\AFDFiles
Active=TRUE
Layer=4
Required=TRUE
Remote=


[Area.005]
Title=Scenery Ships
Local=Scenedb\Ships
Active=TRUE
Layer=5
Remote=
Required=FALSE


[Area.006]
Title=Aircraft Weapons
Local=Scenedb\weapons
Active=TRUE
Layer=6
Required=TRUE
Remote=


[Area.007]
Title=Vehicles
Local=Scenedb\veh
Active=TRUE
Layer=7
Required=TRUE
Remote=


[Area.008]
Title=Effects
Local=Scenedb\fx
Active=TRUE
Layer=8
Required=TRUE
Remote=


[Area.09]
Title=DEM mesh LOD 8
Local=SCENEDB\DEM mesh LOD 8
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=9


[Area.010]
Title=Solomons_Excludes_UT
Local=SCENEDB\Solomons_Excludes_UT
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=10


[Area.011]
Title=Runways
Local=Scenedb\runways
Active=TRUE
Layer=11
Required=TRUE
Remote=


[Area.012]
Title=Solomons_Excludes_UT
Local=SCENEDB\Solomons_Excludes_UT
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=12


[Area.013]
Title=87Days_Excludes
Local=SCENEDB\87Days_Excludes
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=13


[Area.014]
Title=Buildings
Local=Scenedb\inf
Active=TRUE
Layer=14
Required=TRUE
Remote=


[Area.015]
Title=FS2000_props
Local=Scenedb\fs2kprop
Active=TRUE
Layer=15
Required=TRUE
Remote=


[Area.016]
Title=87Days_Airbases
Local=SCENEDB\87Days_Airbases
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=16


[Area.017]
Title=Solomon_Islands_UT
Local=SCENEDB\Solomon_Islands_UT
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=17


[Area.018]
Title=Solomons_Reefs_UT
Local=SCENEDB\Solomons_Reefs_UT
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=18


[Area.019]
Title=Solomons_Rivers_UT
Local=SCENEDB\Solomons_Rivers_UT
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=19

[PSULLYKEYS]

Thanks Captain!