Hello.  I am having difficulty getting enemy fighters droping their load at airbase runway.  Any feed back
Thanks,
Vilik

Have they got an attack waypoint? Check the mission in the mission builder.

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That's probably the deal with the VB Lancaster and Thicko's Stirling. I don't know how to fix this up

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If I remember correctly the 1% Lancaster is merely the VB Lancaster with a 1% airfile.

The CFS2 1% stuff is now at Netwings.

And uh, hi Vilik!



Have you tried making 3 waypoints for an aircraft in Mission Builder--the first is Turn, the second is Attack w/ bombs and the third is away from the target and is called Land anywhere.


Unless you've tried that it's either the aircraft's airfile is too complex so it won't drop it's bombs or follow attack waypoints or I don't have a clue what the problem is.

Happy flying,




Bombardier

Thanks for your input everyone.  I will try different planes.   
Actualy this is what I am doing;

1-Pick an air base.
2-Pick an oposition plane.
3-Draw a 3 or 4 waypoint flight rout.
4-Select the runway to be bombed and mark Attack W/bombs.
5-Fly away (turn)

They come and just fly by.

Once I try stock planes I will let you know.
Thanks again,
Vilik

You might want to send a PM to Hagar about this. I don't know if he's an expert at solving mission problems but it's worth a try

Thanks Jimski! I'll look around. Stiz's Halifax is out and I've got it and I've already got the Stirling so it rules those two out.

That basic Whitley is a Ted Cook fs2004 design that I got at flightsim.com. While I was checking on it the other day I saw he also had a Manchester in fs2004. Another great job. I downloaded it and tried to fly it in fs2002 and it all worked except the engines were forever in idle. That has happened before to me and I guess it is an fs2004 effect.

Jimski

Bombardier

Thanks for the Manchester tip. I downloaded the conversion and after a while got it to fly. It flies fine but has two problems I don't know how to fix. One is that it is a frame eater. And second is that in cfs2 it is not fully painted, the tops of the wings and about half of the fuselage and wheels, etc, are grey. (It is fully painted way in fs2002.)
As for its AI performance, it bombs its targets and follows me nicely in formation but when flying in formation without me to lead the second plane usually collides with the leader.

Jimski

Bombardier,

I need a review of the uses of the basic files in an aircraft's folder.

The aircraft.cfg file is a text file where I can modify the flight characteristics. Yes? I know how to use that one.

The ".air" file is a nontext file that I don't know how to change. Not sure what it does but I know I can make an airplane fly with the air file from a different aircraft as long as I rename it. Not exactly sure what info is stored in the .air file but I know a plane won't fly without it.

The .dp file I assume has info of how the ac is affected by damage, plus info about the weapons loadout. Since it is a text file it can be changed and I have used it to tinker with weapons carried. Is that it?

I also see a .cdp file that I don't know how to work with and don't recall what is in there. Not all ac have a .cdp file. Yes?

I assume that the basic AI behaviour is deep inside the model somewhere and I have never found a way to tinker with it. Yes?

JImski

I downloaded the air file editor and looked at an old cfs file with it. I think nearly all of the items you can edit with it can in csf2 also be edited with the text "flight tuning" sections of the .cfg file, at least that is how I have been doing it. I saw no AI information there but about half of the data is listed as "unknown". I figured the AI smarts had to be in the .air file.

I took my Whitley bomber model, made for fs2004 by ted cook and redone for csf2 by buddha, which would not fly AI at all, it would simply fall out of the sky. I substituted the .air file from the new stiz Manchester, just putting it in the Whitley folder and renaming the .air file, and it flew great, including all AI functions! It thought it was a Manchester of course and I could hear four engines start instead of two, and it went too fast. Then I tried the .air file from the great GC-He111 which is a closer match to the Whitley and has a perfect AI function. The mod works great! So now my Whitley is fully AI functional although I still have to tune it to get it to perform to the specs in my history book ,but it is already very close. I feel I have the AI problem figured out now. I can't edit AI function but I can choose a .air file that has AI function that I want and then tinker with the flight tuning through the .cfg file or with the air file editor to make it fly per the book.

This gets back to the original topic of the AI plane not bombing its target. Many AI planes, especially add on fighters, were never taught by their .air files to do that. One thing that you need to do in mission builder for a bombing mission is to set the mission as a "strike" and many interceptors will need modified .air files to do that.

Is all this correct?

Jimski

Hi guys


Jimski I hate to be one of those people who couldn't give a <bleep> about historical accuracy but if you do that I'm pretty sure it will be problematic again

Vilik, make sure the aircraft loadout includes one with bombs. In some DPs the bombs don't work

Happy flying,




Bombardier

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Are you speaking of this version: http://www.simviation.com/files/2cfs/aired.zip ? If so, it should be removed from the CFS2 utilities page.; if you're not, try it .

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There was an earlier version in CFS1 at one time. There may be others elsewhere.

Bombardier,

In the instructions that came with Buddha's Manchester he says to use the .air file from the Alpha Wellington. I did a google search of "alpha wellington" and found more references to it. But when I went to alphasim.co.uk I did not see it. It might be worth a deeper search.

Jimski

Dang