Does anyone know if there is a way to get wingmen to follow you through an attack, but actually fire and not just stay on your wing while you fire?

For example, if I want to attack a ship, I can just make an attack run and my wingman will follow me but not fire.  Or I can order him to attack the ship, but he will do his own thing.  So the only way to make a coordinated attack will be for me to order him to attack and then I follow him in.

Is there any other way to do it?

*edit* Ok, and I have another question.  How do I create a bombsite for a plane, like the one I've seen for the mosquito, where it's a separate little window on the screen somewhere?

Once I create the sight how do I get it in my plane?

Maybe I should have been more clear.  I was hoping to make a bomb sight that could be viewed as a separate window.  The bomb sight would be angle down at 45 degress or something.  This would make level bombing a little easier for planes like the b-25.

Here is an example:

http://www.simviation.com/files/cfs/GRYPHONMOSQPANEL.zip

They also have a mosquito with a bombsight view you see using the look down view.  This may be simpler.  How do I set up a certain panel to show up when I select a certain view.  Let's say I want to see the bombsight (or a big red cross, to keep things simple) when I look down, instead of the floor of the cockpit.  How do I do this?

I just spotted this. My Fox Four colleague Mike Eustace has been working on a panel including a level bombing bombsight for a forthcoming new campaign in the CFS2 Korea series. By all accounts it works extremely well. If you can wait a little longer you could use that.

PS. Quote:

You could always use the old CFS2.cfg cheat for now.

[CHEATS]
bomb_trainer=1

This is switchable with Cfo Weather installed.

Hagar wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2007 at 6:04pm:


Intersting.  I had no idea about the bomb cheat.  I'm not sure if that will geve me what I'm looking for though.  I set up a lot of low-level bombing missions for  the B-25, so it kind of needs to be a sight that I can access quickly from the cockpit while still flying level.

Also, I just realized that my panel is covering up the tactical display and damage text.  Is this a setting I can change somewhere, or should I look for a new panel?

Cfo Weather is a great utility if only for the bomb 'cheat'. In practical terms it's a CCIP (continuous calculation of impact point) like in modern jet's ground attack function. It is therefore independant of altitude and speed. In a WW2 bomber the bombardier usually controlled the a/c in the run up to target, but his sights could be adjusted to exact altitude and speed. The bomb 'cheat' is a superfast bombardier! I have found it by far the easiest sight to use in level bombing ops. Hits are not guaranteed, though, but they do get close!
One thing I have run up against with panels are a/c made prior to FS2000 which have a virtual cockpit. Any time I try to add a new panel I either get nothing or I get the new panel AND the VC showing together which kinda defeats the purpose. As the VC is a part of the model in those cases there is no section of the panel.cfg to bypass it. Does anyone know of a way to add a pop-up panel in the forward view (like the throttle panel) that will show me a view to the rear?

Piers

burninator wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2007 at 11:58pm:


After some thought, it occured to me the normal panel view is 2D. It seems that the 45° bombsight would be a problem. However, the panel's bombsight window could be drawn to look like it's at a 45° angle. Possibley it could be done in virtual cockpit.   I never ventured into that territory.
If the panel could be made to incorporate the [CHEAT], bomb_trainer=1 mod it would make things easier. I don't know if the mod would open in secondary window. It'll just take some experimenting.
 After some looking, I believe the panel editor I used may have been CfgEdit. I remember it would allow one to plop gauges in the panel and it would enter their location in the .cfg file, saving lots of manual editing.

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 Not really. Might try raising or lowering the seat to better see the messages. The tactilal can be moved like any other window.

Well, given the amount of time I have to spend on this, I'll wait if someone else is working on something.

But...who's mike?

Hi All,

The mossie bombsight is a group of gauges. They are installed in the Panel.cfg file.

For the B25 you should get my overhauled stock version it comes with the bombsight installed.
The TBD and the Kate also have it in their panels.

This bombsight only works in full screen mode it will not work in a Window.

Hope this helps,

B24Guy

burninator wrote on Mar 24^th, 2007 at 10:10pm:

I don't know why that should be. Never mind, you can be the first to try Mike's A-26 panel HERE
Read the instructions very carefully.

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B-24 Guy - I downloaded the overhauled B-25 and got the bombsight to work!...sort of...The pink and yellow cross hairs move around in a way that doesn't really make sense to me.  For example, if I let the aircraft fly level, both sights will eventually move to the top of the screen, so the accuracy was never really dead on, and most of the time was completely off.  I tried adjusting the 'angle' knob, but it didn't move at all.  Is that supposed to do something?  Is the sight behaving as it should?  Do you have any instructions for how to use it?

Thanks so much for all your help!   [/quote]


Hi Burninator,

It is working. Try this, use the autopilot to hold the alt. for you. Use the angle knob until the sights are near the bottom of the screen. Look for the target to appear and make adj. until the target is centered when the target and both sights line up drop your bombs.

With a little practice you will be droping them right on target.

The best thing is the sight automaticily adj. itself for alt.

You will find that it is the only bomb sight that really works.

Rgards,

B24Guy

Hi guys. I downloaded both the A26 and OH B25 files in the hope of learning some more about the panel.cfg file. I think I will, but it'll take a while.
My preference is the B25 bomb sight; fixed sights are just not good enough. I will agree with burninator though, the angle button doesn't move. If I place the cursor over it a small + sign appears but that's it. The angle is set at 20 degrees and won't budge.
What angle is it that it represents? As there are 2 cross hairs I'm guessing one is meant to sit over the target and the other represents the bomb fall position (like the Norden)?

Piers

B24Guy wrote on Mar 29^th, 2007 at 10:56pm:


This didn't do anything...