IanP
December 19th, 2009, 06:42
I've finally managed to get down a groundplan of RAF Fowlmere for all the red and white checked noses that you might have seen recently, which uses Bill Womack's fighter dispersal pen object.
Unfortunately, as I have discovered to my cost on a number of occasions, FSX puts collision detection boxes around buildings that are about three times the size of the building itself, meaning that if you try and put a user aircraft correctly inside the pen, you just get a green bar across the top saying "CRASH".
As a result, I've put down the parking spots for the pens slightly outside the collision boxes, meaning that they don't look perfect, but they can be used by a "player" aircraft rather than just AI.
I've tested these spots with the RAS Spitfires Mk.XIV and Mk.IX, the A2A WOP2 Spitfire Mk.Ia, P-51D and P-47D and the FCS Hurricane IIC. Nick has tested all the parking spots with the Flight1 P-51D (this, after all, being Marinell's home base).
What I can't test it with, because I don't have it, is the Warbirdsim early Mustangs and, as Jan Kees has done a fair few "home based" aircraft for the station, can someone or some people who have the WBS pack please drop it in at all of the fighter pen locations and ensure that there are no crashes, please?
The parking spots in question - in the order that FSX lists them - are as follows:
10, 3, 4, 6, 60, 61, 65, 66, 7, 70, 71, 9
The link to the EGMA scenery version 0.1 is as follows:
http://www.ianpsdarkcorner.co.uk/historical/usaaf/egma/IJP_EGMA_v0_1.zip
Of course, if you want to play with it with any other aircraft you have, I couldn't stop you if I wanted to... ;)
This isn't finished yet, but it is completely usable.
Oh, and Jan Kees, Dave Q? If you gentlemen can provide me with a list of the aircraft titles for all your repaints, I'll set about trying to put together some AI files for them all.
Cheers!
Unfortunately, as I have discovered to my cost on a number of occasions, FSX puts collision detection boxes around buildings that are about three times the size of the building itself, meaning that if you try and put a user aircraft correctly inside the pen, you just get a green bar across the top saying "CRASH".
As a result, I've put down the parking spots for the pens slightly outside the collision boxes, meaning that they don't look perfect, but they can be used by a "player" aircraft rather than just AI.
I've tested these spots with the RAS Spitfires Mk.XIV and Mk.IX, the A2A WOP2 Spitfire Mk.Ia, P-51D and P-47D and the FCS Hurricane IIC. Nick has tested all the parking spots with the Flight1 P-51D (this, after all, being Marinell's home base).
What I can't test it with, because I don't have it, is the Warbirdsim early Mustangs and, as Jan Kees has done a fair few "home based" aircraft for the station, can someone or some people who have the WBS pack please drop it in at all of the fighter pen locations and ensure that there are no crashes, please?
The parking spots in question - in the order that FSX lists them - are as follows:
10, 3, 4, 6, 60, 61, 65, 66, 7, 70, 71, 9
The link to the EGMA scenery version 0.1 is as follows:
http://www.ianpsdarkcorner.co.uk/historical/usaaf/egma/IJP_EGMA_v0_1.zip
Of course, if you want to play with it with any other aircraft you have, I couldn't stop you if I wanted to... ;)
This isn't finished yet, but it is completely usable.
Oh, and Jan Kees, Dave Q? If you gentlemen can provide me with a list of the aircraft titles for all your repaints, I'll set about trying to put together some AI files for them all.
Cheers!