Prowler1111
Charter Member 2011
awesome development..ever think of doing it but a 1980´s air wing instead? (ducks under desk)
Prowler
Prowler
Some U.S.S. Nimitz WIP shots
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wilycoyote4
Charter Member
navtchief, yellow shirt in pryfly wants you, on the double, to have a cup of Navy java and a little chat about the greenie board.
Ain't the boat grand !!!!!!Thank you Wilycoyote4 and Mr.Mugel for your replies. It makes sense that the native FS9 carriers can't be used as they reside in the Addon Scenery directory and consist of Scenery and Texture folders but have no .cfg file.
I do have the Ark Royal IV for FSX though which resides in the SimObjects / Boats directory and as Mr.Mugel points out, has a model and texture folder and a sim.cfg
For now I only want to make the Ark Royal available as a single carrier. I have added the following to the cvn_id.cfg :
[formation.10]
title=Ark_Royal (Single)
unit.0=veh_carrier01_hd_ark_royal, 0, 0
In the "Select ship or ships formation" window the Ark Royal is present like so: Ark_Royal (Single), but when I try to select the carrier in the "Select position type" window I keep getting the following error message:
Error inserting object 'veh_carrier01_hd_ark_royal' : Create oject failed
If Iam overlooking something obvious, kindly point it out to me. If it requires troubleshooting and/or plenty of trial and error, please don't waste your time. Many thanks either way.
I do have the Ark Royal IV for FSX though which resides in the SimObjects / Boats directory and as Mr.Mugel points out, has a model and texture folder and a sim.cfg
For now I only want to make the Ark Royal available as a single carrier. I have added the following to the cvn_id.cfg :
[formation.10]
title=Ark_Royal (Single)
unit.0=veh_carrier01_hd_ark_royal, 0, 0
In the "Select ship or ships formation" window the Ark Royal is present like so: Ark_Royal (Single), but when I try to select the carrier in the "Select position type" window I keep getting the following error message:
Error inserting object 'veh_carrier01_hd_ark_royal' : Create oject failed
If Iam overlooking something obvious, kindly point it out to me. If it requires troubleshooting and/or plenty of trial and error, please don't waste your time. Many thanks either way.
GypsyBaron
Charter Member
In my "Boats" directory I have the Ark Royal. Looking at MY
sim.cfg file for the Ark Royal I see the title as:
title=Ark_Royal
Thus, in my aicarriers.cfg file I have:
[formation.1]
title=Ark Royal, Clemenceau and 5 escorts
unit.0=AI_DDG62, 0, 350
unit.1=Ark_Royal, -200, 0
unit.2=AI_DDG53, -400, -100
unit.3=USS_Conyngham, 750, -400
unit.4=USS_Cowpens, 100, -650
unit.5=VEH_Clemenceau, 600, 100
unit.6=AI_DDG69, 800, 700
Note that the unit.x=..... should be the exact match to
the "title=" entry in the sim.cfg file.
That can be any old title you wish but the two entries
must match. Likewise, your naming of the formation
"Ark_Royal (Single)" appears since that text can be
anything you wish and doesn't need to match anything else.
So, check the sim.cfg file for YOUR Ark Royal in the
SimObjects\Boats directory and use the "title=" entry
as your "unit.0=" entry in the cvn_id.cfg file.
Paul
wilycoyote4
Charter Member
hi Agung, I'm going to try on my pc. I think you indicated the wrong info for unit and
[formation.10]
title=Ark_Royal (Single)
unit.0=Ark_Royal, 0, 0
yes, now it works
wilycoyote4
Charter Member
I was testing, lol, GypsyBaron beat me to it, lol, and that's an interesting fleet GypsyBaron !!!! Where did you get those ships, please? :ernae:
SkippyBing
Charter Member
Wily,
Nice screenshots, what you may not have noticed is that the meatball and sponson aren't textured! There's an updated installer here http://flyingstations.com/ark-royal.html which fixes that and a couple of other minor things.
Nice screenshots, what you may not have noticed is that the meatball and sponson aren't textured! There's an updated installer here http://flyingstations.com/ark-royal.html which fixes that and a couple of other minor things.
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BananaBob
Guest
When I first looked at that hangar shot, I thought it was real, great job Javier, that's what I strive to do in my work and bro, you've mastered it.
Navy Chief
Senior Member
navtchief, yellow shirt in pryfly wants you, on the double, to have a cup of Navy java and a little chat about the greenie board.
Meet me in the CPO mess. They're having steak and lobster tonight, and I don't wanna miss it!
Oh yeah, and I hear a smoker is planned for later this week.......
NC
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Cerberus
Guest
Dang, amazing work.
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BananaBob
Guest
Loved the smokers, had them on the USS Sumter LST, which was my home for 6 long months, living in a stinkin' berthing area while you squids had comfy sleeping compartments, LOL, I was just happy for the ride, regretted the "shellbacking" though, LOL. :ernae:
Navy Chief
Senior Member
I never had the experience of living in a "sleeping compartment". Always lived in berthing areas. The only advantage, berthing-wise, to making CPO, was that there were 60 of us, instead of 84.
Go NAVY.
NC
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BananaBob
Guest
I'd like to say that Marines are the only people allowed to call you guys squids too and that it's a term of endearment when used by myself, I'm smart enough to know we are on the same team and whose boat we lived on, might have been Naval Officer quarters too I saw, it's been awhile. :ernae:
As a matter of fact, I've been thinking about that idea for a while. I grew up in the 80´s. Back in those days Intruders, Corsairs and Tomcats with their colorful liveries were synonyms of naval aviation. Besides of modeling and texturing the planes I'd also have to make some modifications in the carriers. Once I´m done with this first release it will be on top of my priority list.
Thanks guys the feedback! I´m getting closer to a beta release (hopefuly early next week) and your comments are encouraging me to do a final effort.
jymp, if you look closer, most screenshots have the FPS count on the upper left corner, judge by yourslef.
Javier
wilycoyote4
Charter Member
GypsyBaron
Charter Member
I'm pretty sure I downloaded the 'base' models from
Simviation and/or Avsim. I created other vessels of the
same type by editing the hull numbers.
"Arliegh_Burke_DD" is the base model folder name
My repaints:
AI_DDG53
AI_DDG62
AI_DDG63
AI_DDG65
AI_DDG69
AI_DDG73
AI_DDG76
"USS CONYNGHAM DDG-17" is the base model folder name
"USS_Ticonderoga" is the base model
My repaints:
USS_Cowpens
USS_Valley_Forge
USS_Shiloh
"VEH_Clemenceau" is the base model folder name
I have the original downloads buried somewhere here in my
1.3 terabytes of storage
Paul
Gentlemen a big thank you and many your way for your time and patience.
Now I feel like a complete idiot, it's taken me the best part of a day and I lost most of my hair and the rest of my sanity in the process.
I tried ALL of your suggestions meticulously MANY times and then some, messed with BOTH .cfg files in isolation and combined - uninstalled aicarrier2, reinstalled it, tried to examine the .xml... you get the idea. Began to consider selling up and living out my days in a monastery
Anyway, everything is working and thank you again. The mistake I kept making over and over again, and I hope this discovery will help someone else who might struggle, after editing the .cfg file I'd start a new flight, found that things didn't work, exited the flight (but never the sim), edited the .cfg again, started another flight and so on...
The only way I finally achieved results was by exiting the sim, editing the .cfg, starting the sim and voila
My apologies to Javier whose topic I practically hijacked and to you all, who like me are eagerly awaiting the maiden voyage of this marvel of a new carrier for our hobby. Thank you.
:ernae:
Agung
your way for your time and patience.Now I feel like a complete idiot, it's taken me the best part of a day and I lost most of my hair and the rest of my sanity in the process.
I tried ALL of your suggestions meticulously MANY times and then some, messed with BOTH .cfg files in isolation and combined - uninstalled aicarrier2, reinstalled it, tried to examine the .xml... you get the idea. Began to consider selling up and living out my days in a monastery
Anyway, everything is working and thank you again. The mistake I kept making over and over again, and I hope this discovery will help someone else who might struggle, after editing the .cfg file I'd start a new flight, found that things didn't work, exited the flight (but never the sim), edited the .cfg again, started another flight and so on...
The only way I finally achieved results was by exiting the sim, editing the .cfg, starting the sim and voila
My apologies to Javier whose topic I practically hijacked and to you all, who like me are eagerly awaiting the maiden voyage of this marvel of a new carrier for our hobby. Thank you.
:ernae:
Agung
MenendezDiego
Charter Member
Sounds like you need a beta tester