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I am currently working on the creation of a 'flyable' aircraft carrier for use as a target in online bombing scenarios for CFS2.

By flyable I mean that it should be treated as an aircraft by the game, although in actual fact all I want is for a player to be able to CFO to a location and then sit still and bob around on the water

I've been experimenting with the stock Essex, and, by including an airfile and a little aircraft.cfg file tinkering I can get it to appear in the game. My assumption is that the damage profile provided in the original will still work and that the model/texture files will allow other players to see the ship in the normal way. The fact that I can see the ship offline would appear to bear this out.

I'm having some difficulty in controlling the contact points in the aircraft.cfg file. This is a similar issue to the seaplane issues I was having some time ago, but my experiments so far are not proving successful so I'm here begging advice again...

I can get accurate enough reference points from the dp file to give me a reasonable idea of where the ship 'ends' and 'begins', what I wonder is how many I will need to make the ship float placidly and level while on the sea.

I'm using contact point class 4 and am assuming a 'scrape' (float?) point in each corner of the bottom of the hull, one on each of the port and starboard sides amidships and one slap bang in the centre on the underside of the hull.

At present, however, the carrier performs something of a cartwheel and explodes when placed on the water... ahem.

Eg.

point.0=4, 460, -40, -40, 1574.8032, 0, 0, 0, 0.896361, 2.5,0.9809,0,0,2,0,0 //port bow
point.1=4, 460, 40, -40, 1574.8032, 0, 0, 0, 0.896361, 2.5,0.9809,0,0,3,0,0 //starboard bow
point.2=4, -430, -40, -40, 1574.8032, 0, 0, 0, 0.896361, 2.5,0.9809,0,0,2,0,0 //port stern
point.3=4, -430, 40, -40, 1574.8032, 0, 0, 0, 0.896361, 2.5,0.9809,0,0,3,0,0 //starboard stern

point.4=4, 0, 7, -40, -40, 1574.8032, 0, 0, 0, 0.896361, 2.5,0.9809,0,0,4,0,0 //port midships
point.5=4, 0, 40, -40, 1574.8032, 0, 0, 0, 0.896361, 2.5,0.9809,0,0,4,0,0 //starboard midships
point.6=4, 0, 0, -40, 1574.8032, 0, 0, 0, 0.896361, 2.5,0.9809,0,0,4,0,0 //hull midships

point.7=2,   460,-108, 67, 1200, 0, 0.00,  0.0, 0.00, 0.0, 0.00, 0.0,  0.0, 5 // deck port bow
point.8=2,   460, 100, 67, 1200, 0, 0.00,  0.0, 0.00, 0.0, 0.00, 0.0,  0.0, 6 // deck starboard bow
point.9=2, -430,  -108, 67, 2400, 0, 0.00,  0.0, 0.00, 0.0, 0.00, 0.0,  0.0, 9 // deck port stern
point.10=2,   -430,  100, 67, 1200, 0, 0.00,  0.0, 0.00, 0.0, 0.00, 0.0,  0.0, 4 // deck starboard stern

static_pitch=0.000000
static_cg_height=0


I've not started playing with any of the other values yet, just points 0, 1, 2 & 3 - I'm assuming the others will either not matter or can be fixed once I'm properly afloat...

Any thoughts?

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Pads

Pads, Pads! I know what your 'sinking feeling' problem is with the CV-9 exploding. If you have DPEd (if you don't, get it from Simviation in utilities) then change the ammo weight on all guns to 0.0, otherwise the ship is 'overloaded'. Just give me an IM to keep in touch. A ship project together would be good. Look out for my CFS2 IJN player submarine on Simviation.

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Hi again Pads! Sorry actualy, I thought it was about the DP. Get the US PT boat from Mark Walsh at Simviation. His aircraft.cfg and airfile will work for all CFS2 ships, I've tried it! So just get that....

I'd love to do a ship project with you , I'm realy into the ships, I've tried the Soryu as a player ship, it topped 30 knots and worked, just as you modify the DP (see the upper part of this post!)


Regards,

Bombardier

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Mmm - fixing ammo weight doesn't seem to help and the CFS2 ships for FS2002 are proving problematic, too.

Still, that's why we like doing this right? 

Giving it up for the night

Pads

Gosh Pads, glad you like it I'll try post a Soryu on Simviation LOL!


Regards,


Bombardier

I tried that once with a tube I created just to see if it worked

It doesnt
It crashes when I take it to the water

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what I mean that it goes splash

Great, I've downloaded those, I'll try'em soon!

Like those ships! I'm gonna try get that Tidori PB on Simviation.

maybe you could make it landable as in a player is controling the vessel and another player could land on the deck... giving you a realistic landing situation (ship in motion)

i remember a site way back that had converted all cfs2 ships for player use. wish still had the link, they were stock, flew, and landed fine on water.