Making AI boat plans

[limjack]

Hi Jim,

Your return leg starts before the outbound leg and overlaps. Try changing 17:00:00 to 12:00:00.

George

Thanks ananda, will change that around.

Jim

 

[limjack]

You guys are the BEST!!!! You have taught me well and I have a visual of a carrier running the planned rout!!!


Jim

 

[dswo]

Yep, it is protected or something so must be a vista thing. Sent it to my desktop and it converted it with no issues and no error message.

At least three possible solutions then:

1. As administrator, unprotect the original folder.
2. Save the new file in another, unprotected scenery folder.
3. Create a new folder, with "scenery" subfolder, and add it to the scenery library. E.g., "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Addon Scenery\Nimitz carrier traffic\scenery". The new files would go in "\Nimitz carrier traffic\scenery" but "\Nimitz carrier traffic" is the folder you would add in the scenery library. Same as any other add-on scenery...

 

[limjack]

I will play around with it but the easiest way for now will be just to save the bgl file to desktop in a folder and then drag it into my scenery folder. I also will give choice number 3 a shot.

Jim

 

[wilycoyote4]

I hope others who have made AIBoat files will post them here. I'll post one soon. I'm now able to add other ships on the same route but farther back behind the carrier. I'm now working on a second route next to the first route, for another ship, as a better convoy.

 

[CrisGer]

i have been eagerly following this thread and the research to make good routes for the carriers and carrier task forces as naval is one of my main interests.

Has anyone made a good task force route? thanks so much for all this hard work, i am about to re install my FSX so i am in the research phase currently. much appreciate all the great sharing.:ernae:

 

[wilycoyote4]

another convoy route

Here is another bgl going around Oahu but farther from the shore. There is a carrier, a cruiser and a destroyer, namely Javier's Nimitz class and 2 default ships.

Dswo's bgl is posted in this thread and is an excellent bgl that is a great companion to this bgl. Both circl Oahu. My thanks to dswo for his instructions.

 

[Tulkas]

Thank you very much for this thread guys, at first I was not able even to compile due to errors.

Now I got a compiled .BLG but the boat is still not showing up. I would be glad if someone can take a look and tell me whats wrong because I am not able to find out.

The traffic is from Aalesund to Trondheim (Norway), espectacular zone with montains and fiords especually if you install the freeware scenary that you can find here www.flightsim.no. Vigra is the closest airport, just on sight of the spot where the boat should start the journey.

BoatsNimitz

AC#4,30,"CVN68_7"

PlansNimitz

AC#4,B4321,40%,24Hr,05:30:00,10:47:34,4321,normal,ferry,04:45:00,10:02:34,4321,reverse,ferry


I have my boat traffic density slider set up to 50%. The folder structure where the .BLG is saved is:

....Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Addon Scenery\Nimitz Alesund\Scenery

I attach the .BLG and the original .KLM file

Thanks

Tulkas

 

[Tulkas]

Humm... I get an "invalid file" error messege when I try to attach the files... if some when ones to help, I will send them by email

Thanks

Tulkas

 

[wilycoyote4]

.......the boat is still not showing up. ......The traffic is from Aalesund to Trondheim (Norway), espectacular zone with montains and fiords especually if you install the freeware scenary that you can find here www.flightsim.no. Vigra is the closest airport, just on sight of the spot where the boat should start the journey.
BoatsNimitz
AC#4,30,"CVN68_7"

PlansNimitz
AC#4,B4321,40%,24Hr,05:30:00,10:47:34,4321,normal,ferry,04:45:00,10:02:34,4321,reverse,ferry

What is the file name of that scenery, please?
I don't know if anyone has tried to help but I can start. I guess you have other default ship traffic working correctly ---if not, then a traffic conflict with an FS9 traffic bgl may be present.

AC#4 -----perhaps it should be AC#1 unless you have 4 ships but I see one although this may not be a factor.

Are yout times local Norway or GMT?

 

[ananda]

PlansNimitz

AC#4,B4321,40%,24Hr,05:30:00,10:47:34,4321,normal,ferry,04:45:00,10:02:34,4321,reverse,ferry

You have an overlap of the times for the two legs. Change the second start time to 12:00:00.

 

[dswo]

Lamont Clark's website has gone dark. But you can still get AI Boat Traffic Compiler, with documentation, at fs-shipyards.org: http://www.fs-shipyards.org/index.php?ind=downloads&op=entry_view&iden=263.

 

[GaryGB]

Hello:

Updated URL for Lamont Clark's (aka "lc0277") "AIBTC" and other info... hosted now on a French FS website:

http://lc0277.gratisim.fr/boat/



BTW: For those trying to adjust highway traffic speeds, also see:

spb2xml : Decompiler for SimProp Binary (SPB) binary files to XML:

http://lc0277.gratisim.fr/software.html



Other related lc0277 FS web pages:

http://lc0277.gratisim.fr



PS: FSX default scenery objects thumb nail / GUID pages are here:

http://lc0277.gratisim.fr/sceneobjects/


Hope this helps ! :mixedsmi:

GaryGB

 

[PHo17]

and I downloaded the following ai-carrier package:

AlaskaCarrier123.zip - Fictional Carrier traffic in Alaska
...
"This add-on give you naval traffic for some ships and carriers around the Alaska
For those carriers: Ark Royal, Clemenceau and USS Nimitz v2"
...
By Hanimichal (Hanibal__111)

I took off from an airfield AK28 or AK29 (don't remember for sure) and there was nearby on some bay one of these carriers. Very odd! - it was jumping and turning like hell sometimes nearly upside down (for minutes). When I got nearer it suddenly disappeared (sank!). I have never seen an AI-boat behave like that. Who/what can explain what's the matter with this traffic?

Pekka

Edit: I put that USS Nimitz v2 also as AICarrier's carrier and it behaved there the same way. Other AICarrier's carriers (and other boats) seem to begave normally.