Can anyone tell me where to find a good freeware utility that will reduce the collision bubble size I have not only in just my stock aircraft but in ALL the aircraft I have loaded in my aircraft folder.
Thanks
Can anyone tell me where to find a good freeware utility that will reduce the collision bubble size I have not only in just my stock aircraft but in ALL the aircraft I have loaded in my aircraft folder.
Thanks
This utility will do it (+ more besides...)
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...tid=49&id=2243
You can use mdledit (attached) for stock aircraft.
...and for all others:
Find and open your CFS2.cfg with notepad. Scroll about halfway down to the [MULTIPLAYER] paragraph. Change COLLISION_SECS=2 to COLLISION_SECS=0 (I use -2 minus 2). Save and close the cfg file. Minus 2 sets the bubble at your wingtips. When you view the aircraft on your preview window in QC or Free Flight (Select Aircraft), the "bubble" is about the size of the plane you see there. Remember, it is a sphere, so vertically it is a big as it is horizontally.
Oops you beat me to it UncleTgt I never saw that one.
"De Oppresso Liber"
Hey SW, I think your cfg edit is the more "elegant" solution...:iidea:
Thanks so much guys! Got to get to work though will try it out when I get more time. 18 MORE DAYS TILL RETIREMENT!!!!! YEAH BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"De Oppresso Liber"
I have a windows 7 system and every time I try to use the Mk_Mdl utility it to reduce the collision bubble size it says the "conversion failed" and I get this pop up.
The program or feature "\??\C:\Program Files (x86)\Mk_Mdl\MDL.exe." cannot start or run due to incompatibility with 64-bit versions of Windows. Please contact the software vendor to ask if a 64-bit Windows compatible version is available.
Does anyone have a solution to this?
Thanks.
I have a 64 bit system. Would really like to use the Mk_Mdl utility but it just won't run on my system. All my other utilities run just fine. Wish I knew what was causing this.
I also get this pop up:
MISSING FILES: mdlc.exe
The MDLC program by Ivan Hsu was not found. In order to use this software you must have a
copy of the MDLC files installed in the same directory as this mk_mdlc software.
That is the problem, i donīt know why it doesnīt work with 64bit,...Wish I knew what was causing this.
Guys,
It's no big mystery going on here. The proggy just isn't designed for 64bit computing - case closed. Nothing can be done about it at the user level.
Back when Ivan put the proggy together, XP 32bit was still the dominant MS operating system for gaming and the only folks really using its 64bit version were hardcore geeks with no significant interest in CFS2. So a 64bit version of MDLC was superfluous. These days we have every man and his brother dabbling in 64bit computing (whether they understand its merits or not) and some 32bit programs like MDLC are now obsolete without an upgrade. And like many of the "old guard" developers, Ivan is fully retired from CFS2.
So, without a MDLC upgrade, Mission's suggestion to install a 32bit system on a new partition and dual boot is the ONLY solution possible for using this program. The 'DB' has been my modus operandi for years (i've been dual booting MS OS's since Win98 and Win2000 overlapped). I was inclined to jump in with the suggestion earlier, but you guys were having so much fun...;-)
Anyway, Google is your friend if you want to do this. Anything and everything you could ever want to know about it is available on the web. Just read up on the how-to and get it done. Complicated? Yes, a little...but there are benefits.
CheerZ!
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Edit:
Just to correct the comment above of dual-booting being the ONLY solution here, its not. You could also install an XP 32bit virtual machine that runs within the shell of your 64bit system. But again, this will require some know-how as well.
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"If you're in a fair fight, you didn't plan it right"
If you are not up to creating a whole dual boot environment you can always install XP in a virtual environment.
I use Virtualbox from Oracle https://www.virtualbox.org/ and have a small XP environment just to run finicky programs like MDLC and ACM.
One nice thing about this is that my XP session is set up to mount my Win 7 CFS2 directory so that I can drag and drop files between the 2.
Gavin
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