Important:

1. Before using Gunship mods, enhancements and add-ons, you should have a basic understanding of how to find, copy, and delete files on your PC. This applies to any sim enhancement.

2. These are all developed by fans, who have reverse-engineered the workings of Gunship in their own time without any manufacturer support or documentation. Bugs will sometimes appear, (and we welcome those reports), but every effort has been made to prevent any serious problems. None of these files effect your computers operating system in any way. They only relate to the cosmetic aspects of Gunship. "Undo" procedures are usually included.

They originally appeared on John Sponaur's  "The Unofficial M1TP2 Edits and Missions Site". That site is temporarily unavailable, so these items appear here with the generous permission of their author and former host.

M1 Tank Platoon 2/Gunship
Map Editor

by Larry Hookins

12/20/98

(click below to view screencaps)

M1Edit2c.zip

223KB

M1 Tank Platoon 2
Map design

by Larry Hookins

09/21/98

A detailed description of how M1TP2 builds its maps. Gunship maps are very similar. Anyone working on terrain editing will find this very helpful.  

1) Enhanced height editing. You may now optionally change the heights for the entire map. You may perform averaging functions on selected terrain or the entire map. Averaging a part of the map will smooth it out. This effect can be quite dramatic. See under Map Editing Features below for details.

2) When editing height, if you add a space after the height specification for an area, that amount will not be cleared and will still be in effect for the next height edit. For example, if you want to raise an area, entering "+10,1 ", including the space at the end, will allow you to click twice on an area to add approximately 10 feet to the area each time. Right click to cancel an operation, or backspace over the old specification to clear it.

3) Press the F key to "flood fill" a portion of the map with water. All terrain adjacent to the selected square that is the same height will be filled with water. This allows quick editing of lake areas.

4) Press the D key to remove all the water areas from the map.   The water and shorelines don't match very well in the Egypt and Lybia1 and 2 terrains. Open one of these terrain areas in the map editor, select an area on the overview map to go to the main screen, preferably one that's bordered by ocean. In the main map, press the D key (answer Y to the question about removing all the water), then press the F key and click on a square that was previously ocean. The water will now match the shoreline.

5) A bug was fixed that would cause the program to crash if the user selected an area on the overview map that was on the right side or bottom of the map.

French Speech Pack

by MicroProse
(With many thanks to the anonymous contributor!)

NEW! 06/20/2002

FSpeech.zip

4.1 MB

Installation
There are two ways to add the French speech pack to the English language versions of Gunship. (This probably works for the German version, too, but I haven't tested it.):

Method #1
ALL units speak in French, all the time:

1. Rename your Gunship!/Data/Speech folder as Gunship!/Data/Speech_orig
2. Unzip FSpeech.zip into a new folder named Gunship!/Data/Speech.
3. Launch Gunship, then go to Configuration -> Game -> In Game language. Change this to Local.
4. C'est tout.

In this method, all the message captions are also in French.

Method #2
Eurocopter Tiger crew speaks French instead of German:

1. Rename your Gunship!/Data/GSpeech folder as Gunship!/Data/GSpeech_orig
2. Unzip FSpeech.zip into a new folder named Gunship!/Data/GSpeech.
3. Launch Gunship, then go to Configuration -> Game -> In Game language. Change this to Actual.
4. C'est tout encore.

In this method, all the message captions are still in English.

At this point, the Eurocopter Tiger still has German markings, and there is no French "side". It would be possible to repaint the Tiger with French markings, and I think the gunship.exe could be edited to use French instead of German units. If anyone is interested in repainting the Tiger with French paint scheme, get in touch.

Uninstallation
Reverse the folder naming process described above.

Rotor sound stereo upgrade

by James Trapp

NEW! 8/23/2001

STEREOGS.ZIP

83 kb

Listen to the difference:

AttackRotors - original .wav

AttackRotors - new stereo .wav

Installation
Put the files AttackRotors.wav and HokumRotors.wav in your Gunship!/Data/Sound directory.

Uninstallation
Copy AttackRotors.wav and HokumRotors.wav from your Gunship CD and put them in the Gunship!/Data/Sound directory on your HD.

By Alessandro Borges. Used to edit 3D objects in the Microprose 3DZ format. If you've never done 3D object editing, the learning curve is a bit steep, but worth it. This is how we make and reshape objects.

There is a wealth of knowledge about this side of things in the EAW community.

This link goes to Alessandro's website

This link goes to Cord's excellent 3DZ tutorial at his site.

Let's us do things like this:

GUNSHIP! original terrain tile set

Use these as templates
for building your own snow, jungle, or ? terrain

This zip contains the 83 original terrain tiles shipped with Gunship. The format is 256 x 256 pixel, 256 color in pcx format. Each tile represents an area approximately 500-600 meters on a side. This seems to vary according to which map is in use. I suspect that is because the topography uses real digital terrain data, and the points on that grid get "closer together" the farther North or South you are.

These are the original tiles with there original palettes.

You don't need these unless you want to create new terrain.

Updated 7/2002

GSTiles.zip

(2.6MB)

(Mine. Crude but effective...)

This was made and contributed by Tim Huntington, and is very cool. It is optimized to let you fly as the Copilot/Gunner. All the commonly used commands to the AI pilot  (go left, come down, etc.), are mapped to joysstick controls. Very slick.

TimsGunshipReadme.txt

For more info about doing custom aircraft skins, you may want to check out these great tutorials by these talented  European Air Wars "skinners":

Chompy's skinning / painting tutorial:
Mosi's skinning tutorials

I'll be posting any that I make here, and if anyone else decides to "adopt a unit" and make a skin with that unit's insignia, I'll be glad to post them here for you if you like.

The skins for doing this with other helos are included in Mod M8, and custom versions of those are welcome, too.

Honor those who Serve.

Apache customization kit

336kb
(w/ instructions and 1st Cav
skin shown above.)

This is an aircraft from the 1st Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, "B" Company "Vampires", as flown by Chief Warrant Officer Ronald D. Young Jr., 26, of Lithia Springs, Ga., and Chief Warrant Officer David S. Williams, 30, of Orlando, Fla.

Temporarily guests of the Iraqi government, but now home SAFE!

Artwork by MicroProse adapted by fng2k

1-227LB.zip
258kb

This package contains skins for a UH-60 Blackhawk and a AH-64 Apache from the 1st Battalion, 160th Special Ops Aviation Regiment (SOAR). Typically these guys don't fly with any markings for obvious reasons...but what fun would that be. :-) The 160th are the "best of the best". Their nickname is the "Night Stalkers" which points to their pioneering flying in zero visibility night flights.

Unit insignia and fantastic detailing by Roughneck, artwork by MicroProse Black-skin conversion by fng2k

160th_SOAR.zip
247kb

GUNSHIP! /M1 Tank Platoon II Wallpaper

Converted from original graphics to 1025x768 .JPG

(Thanks to eddy for the idea!)

To use, click on the thumbnail to open the full-size image. Then Right-click on the full-size image and select: "Set as Wallpaper"

Updated 12/2003

Download all 12

GS_M1wlpr.zip

(892KB)