Hi,,Im pretty new to CFS but I have been toying with flight simulators a little & find if you look hard enough I usually can find info on just about anything. Heres my problem. I recently obtained CFS1 from my son as a birthday present. I enjoy it alot! I then brought my FS200&2002 investigative,imagination,and need to tinker into the picture & now wanted to make changes to aircraft, missions etc. Missions seem to be what I want to create & improve the most. I downloaded a few Mission Editors & Creators. My first being the simple DOS program Quick Mission Creator. That was fine, but flexibility & deeper control of the missions soon drove me to the other editors. I got CFSme (Keith Bedford) & CFS Mission Editor v3.0.3 (Cor Dikland). Between both I found that Cor Dikland's editor was more to my liking. It was able to create the missions I wanted & with adaquate flexibility. Now I want to go deeper, but outside of Michael Brookshire's Tutorial on creating a simple mission---which helped me very much initially--I find documentation on this wonderfull (my opinion) piece of software virtually non-existant! I've searced on the authors name, the editors program name, & exhausting other search criteria & have come up with nothing at all!!!??? Is there no user support, by author or other users, available? It would be a shame if there wasnt.    Well, here goes :

Question 1- Does anyone know of other tutorials/documentation on this software? Do they exist? Im looking for deep stuff--well deep as can be found or that exists. At this point almost anything above the formentioned tutorial would help.

Question 2- If anyone has personally unlocked this softwares full potential Id like ask a few hundred questions---LOL---but simply the most pressing issue is this.  I know that pressing F5 brings up the A/C spreadsheet. It looks like you can update this aircraft list to assign aircraft to formation pilots. Everything seems strait forward, but the A/C 4 digit numbering system has me stumped. Do you need to use a number for an aircraft that is known within CFS, or is it any number the program assigns that will be recognized by CFS? Is there anything else needed to create a CFS understandable add-on aircraft list? Is there a set list of Aircraft numbers that can ONLY be used?

Please help me here..I would be eternially (Lucifer need not respond!--lol) gratefull . Thanks,,,Bobby

Thanks for responding Hagar. 

I agree with a lot you say. The CFS1 is old & the programs created to support it just as old. The only hope I have is that I've seen many "recent" missions that stated they were created with CFS Mission Editor 3.0.3, and they were excelent, so hopefully the masterfull creators might stop on by here & see my delema. I have been tinkering with work-arounds, but nothing would be better than using my program editor of choice. CFSme is decent, but many manual entries     have to be made regarding waypoints etc... that just more knowledge on CFS ME 3.0.3 would be more desireable..Thanks again for your input! 

I know how you feel. I just got into CFS about 3 or 4 months ago, and I've kept hagar quite busy answering my million questions, LOL          I use cfsme2 because the screenshot maps are EXTREMELY useful in placing ground objects. I like Dikland's too, but I dont like being limited to the European theater. I wish you the best of luck.


Will

PS: Here's a tip for using Dikland's. DONT EVER erase all of the digits in the altitude box when working on waypoints. It causes the program to crash. I've lost so many missions that way.

Thanks Dave for the info.

I already had that tutorial, but for anyone reading this and wanting the file you can download it at

[url][/url] http://www.simviation.com/files/2cfs/cmv3003d.zip

Its good, but still leaves much to be desired!

Thanks again Dave