If I make a recording of an adversary aircraft using FSrecorder, and then play it as traffic so I can hunt it down and kill it, can I also record that and play it back, i.e. record both aircraft? And if I can, is there a way to switch aircraft when I play it back so I can see what the adversary aircraft is seeing? I have this strange desire to see and feel what it's like to get shot down (in FSX, not in real life).
Changing aircraft in a recording
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MarkH
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Yes, you can do all that. You just have to read the manual!
I tried it; recorded flight A of a MiG-23 flying around. Then recorded another, flight B, of a VRS FA-18 with flight A playing as AI. I saw the MiG and tracked it and shot it down (took a long time for it to go down even after a few direct Sidewinder hits). I then replayed flight B with the Hornet as the viewed aircraft. It all worked; I watched the MiG take off while sitting in the Hornet, then the Hornet took off, tracked the MiG and shot it down. Great... until I tried to watch flight B from the MiG. Then it only plays for about 10-15 seconds and eventually CTD. Maybe I'll try it again with different aircraft. Besides, I figured out that even though the Hornet will turn circles around a MiG-23, the MiG is way faster. Oh well, at least I can make up adversary flights and fly against them.
MarkH
Charter Member
I can't explain this specifically, but did you try it more than once? When I make my videos I usually use a lot of replaying, with several aircraft, skipping backwards and forwards in the recording, switching views and so on. I have found that with this kind of fiddling FS-Recorder inevitably crashes FSX after a while. I guess it has some kind of memory-allocation bug.
MarkH
Charter Member
(It occurs to me this could be the FSX uiautomation bug, as manipulating FS-Recorder can involve lots of menu clicks.)
