RanoAir wrote on Dec 18
th, 2006 at 11:51pm:
I downloaded Nick's Massive Crash Final, but in order to get the "breakage" effect, I need to be able to add a few lines to the select aircraft's aircraft.cfg file. It should be simple enough, but for some reason the aircraft.cfg file does not contain anything that can be modified. It is labled "CFG File", and when I double-click on it, a window pops up that says Windows can't open the aircraft.cfg file unless it knows what program created it. It has the option to go online and look it up automatically, but when I do this it just takes me to some website with downloadable tools of some sort, none of which help as far as I can tell. How can I convert the aircraft.cfg file into the normal format in order to add the lines needed for Massive Crash Final to work properly? The location of the files that I am looking at is:
My Computer, program files, Microsoft games, Flight Simulator 9, Aircraft, (aircraft type), aircraft.cfg
I am on Windows XP and am using Flight Simulator 2004.
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER WORKED WITH AIRCRAFT CONFIGURATON FILES:
If you do not know about aircraft.cfg files, they are located inside:
FS2004:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Fight Simulator 9\Aircraft\THE AIRCRAFT NAME FOLDER
FS2002:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\FS2002\Aircraft\THE AIRCRAFT NAME FOLDER
In example, the aircraft.cfg file for the default MS Beech Baron in FS9 is located inside the folder:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Fight Simulator 9\Aircraft\beech_baron_58
In order to edit a file you must open it in notepad. Right click, select open with... when the list appears, select "notepad" and place a check in the box "Always use this program to open this file type" and click apply. From that point on all aircraft.cfg files will open in notepad by double clicking.
REMEMBER TO ALWAYS BACKUP ANY CONFIGURATION FILES THAT YOU EDIT AS YOU GO ALONG PRIOR TO MAKING CHANGES. The easiest way to do this is simply right click the aircraft.cfg file before editing and select copy, then paste it in the same directory. This will create copies of your original configuration files named:
Copy of aircraft.cfg
...ready to be restored if needed.
There are also a few freeware programs posted that will make the edit:
visual_damage=1
However, doing it manually... As you scroll down the aircraft.cfg file in notepad visual_damage=1 must be placed under EVERY heading listed as: [fltsim.0]... [fltsim.1]... [fltsim.2] etc
There may be only one [fltsim.X] list for an aircraft or as many as 20 depending on how many variations of the plane and textures the aircraft has.
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