ID4 DESTROYERS

     Scenery with extra-terrestrial ships from the movie 

                      "Independence Day"

                 for MS Combat Flight Simulator 2

    Authors: Milan Lisner, Vladimir Stoje ( December 2000 )

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Table of contents:

   1. Introduction
   2. CFS2 Installation 
   3. How to activate your new scenery
   4. How to fly around Destroyers
   5. Known problems
   6. Sources
   7. About authors
   8. Copyrights

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1. Introduction
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You could have seen this extra-terrestrial ships in the movie
"Independence day". If you saw this movie, no extra comment is necessary.
For the others, here is at least basic information:

A giant space ship approached the Earth. After she parked 
on the Earth's orbit, a number of smaller ships were launched
which started to descent to the Earth. Then these smaller ships - each
measured 16 miles in diametr - hovered over the biggest cities on Earth.
People didnīt feel anything wrong, until these cities were destroyed 
- therefore the ships are called "City Destroyer".
People start to fight, but the "Destroyer" works also as a "mother ship" for
small attackers, which will devastate most of Earth's air forces.
The chance of survival seems minimal.
Now the well known "Area 51" enters the picture. There people
store one flying saucer, which crashed on Earth after WWII near Roswell
and which comes to life now ...

What do you think, how will the story end?
I will not tell you, try to get this movie e.g. on videotape.
For Sci-fi fans is it a must, for the others is it at leats good enjoyment 
with excellent special effects.





2. CFS2 Installation:
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Unzip files from this archive to your CFS2 "Scenery" folder.
The folders structure should look then as follows:

CFS2
  |
   - Scenery
        |  
         - Id4_Destroyers
              |   
              |-scenery
              |-texture


Files *.BGL should be in the folder SCENERY
Files *.*AF should be in the folder TEXTURE


3. How to activate your new scenery:
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[1] In the CFS2 opening screen select 

     Settings... -> Scenery Library... -> Add area...

[2] In the dialog box "Select scenery directory" find folder
    with just installed scenery:

        ..\CFS2\Scenery\Id4_Destroyers

    and doubleclick on it

    Fill "Scenery area title" , e.g. ID4 Destroyers
    Check on "Use this scenery directly"

[3] OK

[4] After database rebuilding I recomend to restart CFS2 
    



4. How to fly around Destroyers:
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Destroyers in this archive are above 4 areas.
Every Destroyer has its own BGL file and all have common textures.

New York ... file DestNY.bgl
London ..... file DestLond.bgl
Midway ..... soubor DestMid.bgl
Prague ..... file DestPrag.bgl


If you want to see the Destroyer over Midway, in the opening screen
select "Free flight" or "Quick Combat", and as your "Start location"
select airfield: 

             Midway

Then you will se the Destroyer's in front of you. 


There are 2 airports within each Destroyer -
on the top of destroyer's "tower roof" and a "beehive" inside the "tower"

You can access them simply by following this procedure:
( there is a little problem with it in CFS2,
  see "Known problems" below )  

[1] Menu: World -> Go to -> Airfield
[2] Select desired airport:

      ID4LON_flattop ..... London,   Destroyer's "tower roof" 
      ID4LON_inside ...... London,   Destroyer's "beehive"

      ID4NY_flattop ...... New York, Destroyer's "tower roof"
      ID4NY_inside ....... New York, Destroyer's "beehive"

      ID4Mid_flattop ..... Midway,   Destroyer's "tower roof"
      ID4Mid_inside ...... Midway,   Destroyer's "beehive"

      ID4PRG_flattop ..... Prague,   Destroyer's "tower roof"
      ID4PRG_inside ...... Prague,   Destroyer's "beehive"

[3] OK


Or this way ...


[1] Menu: World -> Go to -> Airfield ->  Advanced Go To ...
[2] Global region:  select "Destroyers"
[3] Country:  select "Any"
[4] Search result list: select desired airport
[5] OK





5. Known problems:
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In CFS2 doesn't work correctly setting of start position on Destroyer's
airports. Your aircraft will appear below the alien ship.

You can eliminate it e.g. by using SLEW mode - you can then set your 
position manually:
Move your plane up, and when you pass e.g. "beehive" 
runway, change your movement down, until you touch-down on runway.
Then switch of SLEW mode and you can start normally.

If you encounter any display troubles, restart your FS2000. Or try to 
reinstall another add-on scenery in the same area. You can try also
reorder scenery priority.



6. Sources:
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 - CD ROM "Inside Independence Day"
 - videotape with movie "Independence Day"
 - "CINEMA" magazine


7. About authors:
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  Milan Lisner - 3D model, textures, documentation

  E-mail:  mlk@volny.cz
  WWW:     http://mlk.sim-arena.com


  Vladimir Stoje - Scenery implementation, Destroyer's airports, crash detection

  E-mail:  stoje@volny.cz



8. Copyrights:
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This package may be freely copied and distributed
under the following conditions:

* Selling or putting this package or part of it on CD-Rom
  is not allowed without the written permission of the author.

* Redistributing this archive with any files added, removed
  or modified is prohibited.

* Using files from this archive in another aircraft
  is not allowed without the written permission of the author.


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