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However it is designed primarily for use with HSFX servers. The main difference between these two is that SAS ModAct is a barebones mod activator (although it does come with a compilation of very useful mods) and you will probably want to build up your modded game installation by yourself.

If you want the benefits of using the latest official game version (4.12.1) then your selection of mods is practically limited to SAS ModAct and HSFX. Some are for both single and multiplayer use, but are only compatible with servers running that particular mod pack. Some mod packs are designed for single player use. What you should get depends on how you want to fly. Mod packs for older version of IL-2 include UltraPack 3 and Dark Blue World (DBW for short). This is usually referred to as mod activator and all mod packs share some version of this.Ĭurrent major mod packs for the latest version of IL-2 1946 (version 4.12.1m) are HSFX 6 and SAS ModAct 5.3. The first thing you need to do for getting mods for IL-2 is to actually have a way to activate mods. The bulk of asset modding is very similar to what FSO modding is like - making new aircraft, textures and maps, but a big scene is also skinning, and it is much harder to get a fully featured aircraft modded in IL-2 than putting a new ship to FSO (largely because of model format, animations for control surfaces, landing gear, cockpit model, etc. Lots of things can be done and there's some pretty interesting mods around, but compatibility problems are often a problem trying to get mods to play nice with each other. Instead, there is some limited amount of DLL modding going on for some specific purposes (which I will mention later), but most of the game changing modding is done with java coding. IL-2 modding is a bit more convoluted (and fractured) than FS2 modding but mostly because the game itself needs a bit of modification to get it to read mods from non-stock places and there is nothing like source code project going on, so the core executable doesn't really change.

The FreeSpace Universe Reference Project.

Il 2 sturmovik 1946-the signature collection