Simviation Forum - Identical aircraft in Multiplayer

Mar 6^th, 2003 at 5:46pm

Antony Cummings Guest

When on Multiplayer (two of us) why do we see each other's aircraft in the same livery as our own? I was in an Easyjet 737, he in a BA 737, but I saw him as Easyjet, he saw me as BA. Is it something to do with GMax and FDS2? We also lose undercarriage on some aircraft of the other player. Any ideas!!! ???

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Reply #1 - Mar 6^th, 2003 at 6:09pm

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When in multiplayer, you can only se other aircraft in textures you've already got on your own PC. I would think neither of you both have each others textures.

I understand there's a patch to allow you to see each others liveries without actually having them, but I believe it causes a massive frame rate hit. You'd be better off exchanging textures with your friend.

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Reply #2 - Mar 7^th, 2003 at 6:44am

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Tipster is right. This is a known problem, I was doing MP with Fozzer he was in a biplane and I in an Apache. We looked like each others aircraft to ourselves. Only with the default aircraft did things appear normal.

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Reply #3 - Mar 7^th, 2003 at 5:59pm

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Grateful thanks to tipster and ozzy. I now have something to experiment with.

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Reply #4 - Mar 7^th, 2003 at 7:43pm

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If you look at the FS2002.cfg in the multiplayer section, theres several entries like these

ALLOW_PLANE_MODEL_SEND=0
ALLOW_PLANE_MODEL_RECEIVE=0
ALLOW_TEXTURE_SEND=0
ALLOW_TEXTURE_RECEIVE=0

Has anyone tried changing these values to one?

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Reply #5 - Mar 7^th, 2003 at 8:13pm

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I believe those are the entries affected by the "patch" (badly worded) that I referred to.

I can't be certain as I don't do very much on-line flying but I'm sure, if they work, that you have to have a severely fast connection to avoid your frame rates bombing out.

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Reply #6 - Mar 8^th, 2003 at 12:35am

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I think the best thing to do is just have the same aircraft for multiplayer

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Reply #7 - Mar 8^th, 2003 at 12:58am

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If you look at the FS2002.cfg in the multiplayer section, theres several entries like these

ALLOW_PLANE_MODEL_SEND=0
ALLOW_PLANE_MODEL_RECEIVE=0
ALLOW_TEXTURE_SEND=0
ALLOW_TEXTURE_RECEIVE=0

Has anyone tried changing these values to one?

yes, it uses binary code to say yes or no for those options in fs, if i am not mistaken 1 means yes, 0 means no

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Reply #8 - Mar 8^th, 2003 at 1:03am

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you're right, it does use a binary code for that. YOu can confirm this by looking at other options in the cfg file

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Reply #9 - Mar 9^th, 2003 at 6:38pm

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Thanks for all your replies, fellas. I can but try. ??? ???

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Reply #10 - Mar 9^th, 2003 at 8:23pm

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Simple just select: Send detailed aircraft info
Recieve detailed aircraft info
on the options menu under multiplayer that will solve your prob.

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Reply #11 - Mar 9^th, 2003 at 8:29pm

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Simple just select: Send detailed aircraft info
Recieve detailed aircraft info
on the options menu under multiplayer that will solve your prob.

Note the warning about the frame rate drop as a result though.

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