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stormtrooper271

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I have the Aerosoft Seahawk and I would really like to use the ships that come with it with AI Carriers, I got the USS Valley Forge to work with AI Carriers But I am mostly interested in the X-Craft and the Wasp class carrier. All of the ships have .MDL files.

Any help is appreciated.

EDIT: I figured out how to make the ships work with AI Carriers but now I have a new question, one of the ships has its model in many different parts, how do I write this in the model.cfg so it will show all of the parts together?
 
Can you say what you did to make the X-Craft work? That's the main one I'm interested in too. I've tried it several times but with no joy.
 
To get the X-Craft to work I made a new folder in simobjects-boats titled XCraft. Then I made two new folders, Model and Texture. I copied the xcraft.MDL file and made a model.cfg for it.

Then I copied the textures out of the main Aerosoft ships folder that had xcraft in the name, followed by the texture.cfg out of the same folder.

I just copied the sim.cfg file and placed it in the XCraft folder and changed the title from Aerosoft_ship to xcraft to match the model.

EDIT: Some screen shots of using the XCRAFT in AI Carriers
 
Not sure how you got this to work. I am pretty good at this stuff and everytime I try to select one of the Aerosoft ships that I put in seperate folders, my sim crashes. I am suspecting that they do not want us using the ships witout the Seahawk :(

LouP
 
I was able to use Valley Forge and assumed that all of the other single-mdl file ships would be fine. It was Boxer that I wanted to get working and had no luck due to the multiple mdl files. I bought that set just to use the Boxer with AIcarriers as well lol. It was my brother in-law's ship :)
 
Did you get the Xcraft to work? No luck here. I had the jayhawk in FS9 and just purchased the Seahawk/Jayhawk package for FSX and would like to get some of these ships working as AI. I am wondering if they did something to the models recently to prevent us from using them by themselves.

LouP
 
Funny the only model I could get to work with AI carriers without a CTD was the Coast Guard Cutter. Tried and tried the Xcraft and the others with no success,didn't bother with the Boxer because of the multiple model files.
 
Just spent a good three hours trying with no luck to get the Xcraft to work with AI Carriers, did get it to stop causing a CTD but now I get the message (Object creation failed error inserting object xcraft). I just can't figure this one out.
Keep in mind I have kc 135s,kc 130s,c5s and a flight of a2a b17s working with AI carriers but these Aerosoft critters just won't work for me.
 
I am really sensing that they did something to prevent peeps from doing what we are trying. I have this strange feeling that they will be selling ships soon :ipepsi2: so they pevented us from using the ones we got with the Seahawk package. Just my opinion, though.

LouP
 
I've gotten the German Cutter The Valley Forge and the Coast Guard Cutter to work but the Boxer is definitely a no go unless you can compile it to a .BGL and get a single model out like [SIZE=-1] Mike Barnes said he did with Piglet's MAB and Aerial Carrier, then the XCraft and the Freedom CTD on me for no reason that i can determine.
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I spoke too soon, I thought I had the VF working but i've reinstalled FSX so many times that now it decides to CTD. Stormtrooper, do you know what version you are running? maybe they did something with later patches.
 
I can get all ships except Boxer to work with AICarriers so far...

In the Aerosoft_Ship folder (FSX\SimObjects\Ships) there is a sim.cfg file. In that file the top line is "title=Aerosoft_Ship". It is this title, Aerosoft_Ship, that I put in the AICarriers cfg file.

Now if I want to use Valley Forge I go to the FSX\SimObjects\Ships\Aerosoft_Ship\model folder and edit model.cfg so that it says:

normal=Valley

To use the Xcraft:

normal=xcraft

To use the CG Cutter:

normal=USCG_CUTTER_NETS_DOWN

Always only changing that one model.cfg file while leaving the AICarriers cfg the same. I have not been able to figure out any way to enter the combined Boxer models so that they work, but still trying...... Boxer was what I particularly wanted from this set :rolleyes:
 
That is strange, even with the Boxer I don't crash, I just get part of a ship. Maybe try re-installing the Seahawk and Jayhawk package just to be sure everything is as is should be, then don't edit anything. At this point open your ..\..\Aicarriers\conf.d\cvn_id.cfg and add:

[formation.x] <---- next number in sequence
title=Aerosoft Ships <---- this can be whatever you want. It just sets the text in AICarriers menu in-game.
unit.0=Aerosoft_Ship
Click to expand...

With a default install that should give you Valley Forge as it is the ship set to display by default in the Aerosoft_ship\model\model.cfg file.
 
No luck here either I get "ERROR DISPLAYING OBJECT Aerosoft_ship object insertion failed" No matter how I write the model config file. I am wondering I run FSX gold on wiindows 7 64 bits could that be the issue? All the ships display just fine when inserted with the Shipyards program.
 
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