CVA-63 Kitty Hawk

Did you know that Wings Over Europe contains a carrier and you don't need a legal copy of WOV to use it!

If you use the cat-extractor to view the object cat file (\objects\objectdata.cat) you will find a list of files that start with CV-63 or CV63.

First extract all these file and drop them into a newly created directory CVA-63 (which you should create in \Objects\GroundObject\).

Then you need create a file in that directory which you call CVA-63.ini, this file is required to tell the game where it can find the different lod's and bmp's for the carrier.

In that CVA-63.ini you need to paste following data:
[BEGIN QUOTE COPY ALL TEXT AFTER THIS ENTRY]

[GroundObjectData]
ObjectName=CVA-63
ObjectFullName=CVA-63
ObjectDataFile=CVA-63_DATA.INI

[LOD001]
Filename=CV-63.LOD
Distance=600

[LOD002]
Filename=CV-63_LOD002.LOD
Distance=800

[LOD003]
Filename=CV-63_LOD003.LOD
Distance=1000

[LOD004]
Filename=CV-63_LOD004.LOD
Distance=2000

[LOD005]
Filename=CV-63_LOD005.LOD
Distance=15000

[LOD006]
Filename=CV-63_LOD006.LOD
Distance=30000

[Shadow]
CastShadow=FALSE
ShadowLOD=CV-63_SHADOW.SHD
ShadowType=1
ShadowCastDist=10000
MaxVisibleDistance=150

[END QUOTE COPY ALL TEXT BEFORE THIS ENTRY]

To install the carriers in a campaign or or single mission follow these instructions and now you can fly from carriers in WOE without needing a legal copy of WOV.

I won't use the Kitty Hawk class of carriers in my campaign. Instead I'll opt for the CVN-75 provided by Digital Overload. In my next post I will provide more background information on that carrier.

More information on the CVA-63 Kitty Hawk can be found here. Information on the Kitty Hawk class can be found here.

A tutorial for the cat extractor can be found here.

Happy Flying