Even on Ace- the enemy fighters are bad- if i actually try i can never be shot by them, they take ages to line up their attacks and when they do just a little change in ur course and they break away or cant get any shots on you.

On teh other hand- the enemy bomber gunners are rediculously accurate- i put it on ace to compensate for the enemy fighters but then the bombers gunners are shooting like they have some kind of auto aim!

is their some kind of dispersion mod because the hand held guns ie- JU88 etc- the bullets basically travel down a hose pipe their is no dispersion at all....

but also they are too acurate in acutally aiming the things....

Ive looked in the CS directory to find any files on ai but i didnt. A mod owuld be awesome!

Has anyone made the ai better ??? Any payware mods or anything?

would be more than happy to help with ai improvements etc...

any information regarding this subject is greatly appreciated.

ok thanks.

That is good, but the fighter ai- it really needs attention.

In fact there ar not many games where the fighter ai is very good come to think about it- both the cfs1 and cfs2 both had appauling ai- il2 sturmovik had dissapointing ai- a good one i can think of though is the Rowans BAttle of Britain- even though i m not too keen on the game itself- an appauling damage 'model' and flight model etc- its ai i noticed was  VERY good- the first flight sim i played where i had to fight the ai off my tail but he always came back.

I just seem to really like the cfs3 engine- graphics- spawning ground units, upgradability etc and the 1% avhistory planes- well they are THE REASON  to get this game- wow, without them i would of given up with the crappy original planes a LONG time ago. Thanks a lot to those guys- really. Hope to see tons more awesome planes from them.

.... the only thing i can see that really needs adressing is the ai-

it would be good if a group of us could delve into bringing up the ai dogfighting...

Anyone has the same opinion- please post- i would like some suggestion

Air Combat AI is being addressed in the 1% Version 4 aircraft for MAW.  A number of V4's will be released before MAW in unique AvHistory livery.

The AI in all the CFS series aircraft was optimized by the developers for angles fighting first, there was never any real effort to add BnZ detail to any of the CFS series because of time constraints caused by release date commitments.

Additionally different methods are bring looked at to better reflect both hand held & turret guns effectiveness which is over done in the series to say the least.

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Yes the MS software in all 3 versions is optimized for Turn & burn style fights.  Some additional AI work was done with CFS3 so its improved over 1&2 but its still really a T&B AI.

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Yes we will be releasing some Version 4 planes prior to MAW including Molly's G version.  None of the MAW Easter eggs or MAW specials will be released but you can expect bread & butter planes like P-38, P-51 some Spits along with various 109 & 190 marks.

Most likely all 4 jets (2 Allied 2 German) we have done will also be released.



They would be out already but we found a hiccup in the flight package that was very hard to nail down.

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Sorry about that.....What is the max size?

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No I am still running an old Nividia FX-5600/128mb. The game is running at 1600X1200X32.

Thing I liked about the picture was the way the camo on the upper wing blends into the terrain.  WildBat did most of the jet skins for us.

FSAA is running "application controlled" instead of off.

FSAA (I've just learned that the proper word should be Anisotropic filtering) can't be controlled from cfs3, it must be done in the driver panel.
It's AA (anti-aliasing) that can be set in cfs3config.

I have to agree with Bear - it's happened once or twice in my life. 

My understanding was that when he used the term FSAA, he was referring to anti-aliasing, which is why I asked the question regarding how he set up anti-aliasing in CFS3.
Since we all know that there is no setting for Anisotropic filtering in CFS3, I didn't ask him about that.

I now have FSAA set at "application-controlled" in the 6800GT Nvidia Panel, but set at x4 in the CFS3.cfg. Naturally, when I go back and look at the CFS3.cfg it still says "none", but we know that's a bug - as Bear says.  So I guess I'm agreeing again. 

What that means is that if he's wrong, I'm completely screwed 8)

It's said the AI use the same flight dydnamics as the player aircraft minus fuel and ammo weight & they always fly the perfect pattern.

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Bloody hell AV!, I could'nt get CFS3 to behave at any setting with my old 128MB FX5600, I've only really enjoyed the sim since getting a GeForce 6 series, whatever your doing mate, it looks great!  8)


FWIW, I find the CFS3 AI bloody good, either that , or, I'm crap..... 

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Does the forum have any exisitng posts / links on how to do this??

Cheers

PS - Re GFX cards - my CFS 3 runs pretty well on a 128mb GF4 Ti4600 card.................although a 256mb 6600 GT is on order

>>>Set the enemy fighter as a single B17F, then choose a decent single seat fighter - I tried the 1% Bf106-G6........The ai must be flying a skin, not a flight model with the same physics engine as the palyer aircraft!! <<<

This is an invalid test unless both planes flight models are from the same source and built to the same specs.

Just did your test & can run all over the 1% B-17G (we dont do a B-17F yet and can't speak to its flight dynamics) with the 1% Bf-109G6.  

Can beat him quite easily in a one or two circle fight, climbing spiral, decending spiral,  6 o'clock overtake or 12 o'clock merge with an Immelman reversal.  

I does not seem to matter how the engagement is started neutral, advantaged or disadvantage as in less then one B-17 turn the 109 is inside the B-17's circle and has a gun solution.  

It will also out climb & out dive the 1% B-17G

Can load the FRAPS movies if you need proof  

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Dogfight was chosen deliberatley - to see how cfs3 asked each flight model to perform.

Cheers for the advice....I suspect I need to revisit my main cfs 3 settings page.