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[vonstroheim]

Grazie mille Dino !

Grumman E2 Hawkeye "Marine Nationale" near Uturoa NTTR, French Polynesia (FSJ)...

 

[vonstroheim]

Second batch released: Lockheed Martin F35A,B,C, Eurofighter Typhoon. Thank you Dino!

F35A RNLAF in NL2000's Woensdrecht Air Base EHWO, Netherlands

 

[William Njurmi]

Any tips to get the no-TacPac warning away from load manager in Eurofighter? It hides buttons behind it.

 

[vonstroheim]

Without VRS|TacPack (payware), this fancy load manager won't work (even after removing the yellow bitmap warning).

You can play with the default load manager, for example I added 731 lbs at station 3 and 9 to get fuel tanks on the F35A (check inside aircraft.cfg for more instructions):

It's the same logic for the Eurofighter...

Nice fictional US repaint by Rick...

 

[mrogers]

Thank you very much Dino, for this generous gift!

 

[William Njurmi]

Without VRS|TacPack (payware), this fancy load manager won't work (even after removing the yellow bitmap warning).

You can play with the default load manager, for example I added 731 lbs at station 3 and 9 to get fuel tanks on the F35A (check inside aircraft.cfg for more instructions):

It's the same logic for the Eurofighter...

Nice fictional US repaint by Rick...

Ok, thanks for info.

 

[Essex]

Without VRS|TacPack (payware), this fancy load manager won't work (even after removing the yellow bitmap warning).

You can play with the default load manager, for example I added 731 lbs at station 3 and 9 to get fuel tanks on the F35A (check inside aircraft.cfg for more instructions):

I haven't checked yet, but it maybe possible to modify the v2.41 Non-TacPack Weapons Configurator.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php/101527-Addon-for-Dino-s-F-35-V2-41-zip

 

[PhantomP]

Thank you Dino for being so generous these aircraft are truly awesome and,I am having a great time flying them.Good luck with all your future endeavors.

 

[paul day]

This is what it says in the readme
- DONOT attempt to use this addon in V3.* of the F-35 package (at present: payware), because it won't work as intended.

Regards Paul Day.

 

[Essex]

Version 3.65 - 17/11/2019
- Added CEX navaids compatibility

Previously I managed to get this working in FSX, there is a bug however.

Navaids.xml
(L:CEX_ICLS_glideslope,degrees) (>L:VRSTP_ILS_LOC, degrees)
needs to be changed to
(L:CEX_ICLS_lineup,degrees) (>L:VRSTP_ILS_LOC, degrees)

Presumably some of the other later fixes could be implemented in FSX also.

 

[Essex]

This is what it says in the readme - DONOT attempt to use this addon in V3.* of the F-35 package (at present: payware), because it won't work as intended.

You are correct. Rob explained, "From an XML gauge, it's not possible to directly set things like fuel and payload weights. Tom Aguilo made a great addon module (XMLTools) which provides this feature; using the SimConnect interface to FSX. However, the result of setting weights this way doesn't give true "integer" values; which are tested for in the visual models (to display the weapons) and several gauges. So I included patched versions of these files, which solves this problem." It's a bit tricky to do, but I've redone Rob's MDL mods to the F35A external model. I've attached a JojoDiff patch file for anyone to test this. https://sourceforge.net/projects/jojodiff/ rename f35a.mdl to F35Atacpack.MDL place f35a.txt and JDiff.exe in the same folder and run from a command prompt, jdiff -u F35Atacpack.MDL f35a.txt f35a.mdl It seems to work okay for me, I'll probably experiment with the Typhoon next.

 

[Essex]

I've had a rethink.
Instead of using 'near' use 'int'
So, a Hex edit of the MDL files is still required, but simple;
replace all
', pounds)'
with
',lbs) int'
(the same number of characters)

Then because 'int' rounds down, add a tenth of a pound to all the weights.
Using notepad edit F35NonTacPackConfig.xml, replace all
' } (>C:SIMVARSAYLOAD STATION WEIGHT:'
with
'.1 } (>C:SIMVARSAYLOAD STATION WEIGHT:'

 

[Essex]

I've had a rethink.
Instead of using 'near' use 'int'
So, a Hex edit of the MDL files is still required, but simple;
replace all
', pounds)'
with
',lbs) int'
(the same number of characters)

Then because 'int' rounds down, add a tenth of a pound to all the weights.
Using notepad edit F35NonTacPackConfig.xml, replace all
' } (>C:SIMVARSAYLOAD STATION WEIGHT:'
with
'.1 } (>C:SIMVARSAYLOAD STATION WEIGHT:'

Also for the 'Aayload Station Weight:' entries in FUEL.xml and SMS.xml
replace
', pounds)'
with
', pounds) near'

I've started modifying the typhoon, EFAConfig.xml needs to have it's <Script> sections changed
e.g.

<Script>
(AAYLOAD STATION WEIGHT:14,pounds) near 188 ==
if{ 0 } els{ 188.1 } (>C:SIMVARSAYLOAD STATION WEIGHT:14,pounds)
</Script>

Don't forget the .1 on each weight.
The required weights are listed in Aircraft.cfg.