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ah, Dave,
you shouldn't have.
but, thanks all the same.

all weather gunsite test results;
gunsite pasted into cfs main texture file.
used a clean combatfs.cfg
tested in free flight and quick combat in stock P-47D

gunsite visible in full screen mode, ie, ALT+ENTER
also visible in window mode maximized and restore down
with the exception when focus is not on the cfs window.
for example, if in window mode, the mouse is clicked
on the desktop or another folder, then,
the gunsite reverts to the original gunsite.
this also occurs in slew mode.

i can see why you like this gunsite.
it's easy on the eyes.

i've been using this one for years.
got it from that raf662 package.
it seemed to do the job.
especially, when dive bombing.
 

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Thank you for the testing and at least I know I wasn't imagining things! :jump:

Any tips on how to use your gunsight for dive bombing?

I use to be good at it in IL-2 but I cannot say I ever had much luck in CFS1.
 
By the way, I did install the Head-2-Head program (it ran smoothly) but I did not notice an improvement.

When I read the additional text file, I immediately checked the COMBATFS.CFG file and noticed the collision seconds still were at 2.

I edited this, as per the Head-2-Head text file, to be a -1, but now I have my doubts?

Should it be a 1 instead of a -1 (per chance the text file is mistaken)?

Thanks for your responses.
 
the -1 change is correct. leave it.

way back when, hubba and i did some extensive
multi-player collision bubble tests.
as i recall, we ended up being able to park wingtip to wingtip.
we didn't use the head to head program,
just the COLLISION_SEC=-1 entry.

my dive bombing days are long gone.
so, i won't pretend to be a competent instructor.
first, i would suggest adding the bombing trainer cross.
open the combatfs.cfg and scroll to the bottom.
add these lines

[CHEATS]
bomb_trainer=1

then, close the cfg and save when prompted.
this will put a cross on the ground where your bombs will hit.
if you want it to disappear, replace the 1 with a 0.

since this is just for practice,
go to settings/realism settings/stores
and check the unlimited ammo box/and OK out.
now go into quick combat with no enemies.
make sure your aircraft has bombs.
go chase that cross around
and practice lining up on a target.
you can always go back and check out the craters.

somewhere in my archives,
there is a Joint Ops bombing practice scenery.
are you interested?
 
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Thank you Smilo, and I will give it a whirl!


Joint-Ops ..... Such a great group of lads!

I did not have the pleasure to meet them until I first started flying IL-2 back in 2005 / 2006 I believe.

The Instructors had great patience and supreme talent, and it was a terrific learning experience.

As for the extra scenery, if I get bored with default, I'll send you a PM and take advantage of the kind offer, Thank you! :mixed-smiley-010:
 
i just noticed that my reply above
said "it" instead of "is"...fixed it.
sorry about that. hope i didn't confuse the issue.

i heartily agree regarding Joint Ops.
a superior group of people there.
did you ever meet Fire_Salamander?
that girl could fly the socks off any pilot i ever saw.
incredible
i have the honor of being in the last class of cfs cadets.
it was back as they were changing over to il2.
hubba, minuteman and i were the last group
to take the advanced fighter school for cfs.
that was a hell of a course.
it wrung us all out real good.
come to think of it, i, actually, shot down the instructor
on the first pass of the final test.
needless to say, it was a lucky shot.
i'd forgotten about that one.

those were the days

as for the scenery and other cfs stuff,
no need to pm, just post here if you want anything.
who knows, someone else might be interested, too.

oh yeah, sorry if i come off a bit pushy.
it isn't everyday we get company around here.
 
oh yeah, sorry if i come off a bit pushy.
it isn't everyday we get company around here.

Don't worry about that Dataman, That is why we luv smilo

I actually "invite myself" to "help" with his projects just to piss him off.

I get a kick out of his bitching at me, I think he feels the same way
Everyone around here is really a great bunch...although most of what
they talk is way way over my head.

Dave
 
Folks,

Firstly, feel free to call me "Data" or "Kris" ....... I messed up when I first registered here and I wanted to use "Data" but for some reason I think it might have been taken.


Secondly, Smilo, if this is what you call "pushy", you need to try harder because that is not the perception you have given me at all! :untroubled:

I seem to recall a pilot with a callsign of "Salamander" in my CFS1 days, but do not believe I had the pleasure of meeting her.

At JO, I remember 50's and Pine very well, amongst other great folks just like those who I have found here!

In IL-2, many of the planes, campaigns, etc were quite easy to install, and I knew how to undo the changes if I wanted to go back.
With CFS1, things are a little trickier for me so I lean toward leaving things as original as possible.
Although I am slow to change, when I do, watch out, and I will start bugging you for things! :redfire:



No Dice / Dave,

I am sure Smilo enjoys your help, and the fact that he might get pissed off seals the deal!

There are a couple of more questions I wanted to post, but rather than start a new thread, I'll ask them here.


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1) Does anyone know how to save the screen setup if not playing in full screen mode?

When I play using a window, each time I start the game (after it has been closed), the window returns to a default smaller size. I need to then tweak it again (making it larger) and it seems silly to me to have to do this each time. I would play full-screen, but even with the right screen resolution, the imagery seems stretched and out of proper proportion.

2) Is there a way for me to once again enjoy online flying with the kind folks in this Forum?

I remember there was the "Zone" back in the day, but I do not think it is still around. I would like the chance to see, once I am a little bit less rusty with my flight skills, to be able to fly with others, but I will say that I probably won't be tweaking the game too much in the beginning, so it would need to be on a level where I may not have to make too many downloads and changes.

Back in the day, I flew CFS1 with the RAF213 Hornets and later the 79vRAF (where I am still a member on their Roster as "Inactive" as I have not flown any game online for a few years now)
 
hello Kris

1) Does anyone know how to save the screen setup if not playing in full screen mode?

When I play using a window, each time I start the game (after it has been closed), the window returns to a default smaller size. I need to then tweak it again (making it larger) and it seems silly to me to have to do this each time. I would play full-screen, but even with the right screen resolution, the imagery seems stretched and out of proper proportion.


if you grab a corner in small sized window
and stretch or move it around the screen,
whatever size or position you put it will remain
after you exit the flight or the game and restart.
the caveat is, if you go into max window or full screen,
whatever you did with the small window
will revert to the default small window.

as for the stretched or out of proportion issue,
as far as i know, it's actually a monitor problem
caused by the "new" wide screen monitors.
this is especially evident when viewing gauges.

so far, i have only found two solutions;
-go into the panel.cfg for each aircraft
and rework the dimensions of each gauge
-or learn to live with the distortions.
when i built the ar196, i included two panels.
one for standard old monitors
and one for wide screens.

2) Is there a way for me to once again enjoy online flying with the kind folks in this Forum?

up until this year, the AAC flew every Sunday,
but, sadly, the boys decided to go with il2
and the group discontinued meeting.
it's my understanding that there were some connectivity problems,
especially with those joining from Europe.
also, there was always a problem with low turn outs,
but, i believe those that showed had fun.

personally, i phased out a few years ago.
mainly, i found that my AAC duties were interfering
with my duties on the home front,
but, i kept a machine running teamspeak server 24\7
up until around the first of the year
when she finally gave up the ghost.

i still maintain the AAC forum and oddly enough,
it still gets about 20+ views a day
and there is an occasional new member,
but, there are seldom any new posts.
it's kinda like this place,
lots of views with very few participants.

anyway, i'm not sure if the 45th is still flying cfs.
other than that, i don't know of any active pilots.
who knows, maybe with some effort
one might be able to find someone to fly.

back in the day, hubba and i would get together
and fly what he called, "lazy flying"
which was, mainly, just flying around and\or testing.
combat flight simulator with out the combat.
'twas kinda fun, really

mind if i ask, where in the world are you located?
 
So many subjects and an actual active thread here! How amazing!

First of all, *my* opinion is hardly important, but Smilo's Arado 196 floatplane is certainly a first rate aircraft. It is amazing how much he put into his first CFS aircraft. Many veteran model builders never got even close to where Smilo got on his first try.

Regarding the collision bubble "fix", it can be set for the entire CFS installation in the Combatfs.CFG file OR it can be set for individual aircraft. I choose to set it for each aircraft I build. The setting happens to be in the MDL file and varies a bit depending on whether it is the CFS stock format or the AF99 format. Since the stuff I build is using AF99, that is what I am most familiar with. If you are comfortable with a Hex Editor, I can post instructions.

The default value in a AF99 fighter sized aircraft is "5". I think it works out to a collision if anything comes within a 10 meter radius of the CoG of the model. I typically reset my fighter sized aircraft to a "2" which works out to a 5 meter radius. For a large twin, I typically set this to a 3 for a 7 meter radius. This is from my notes in testing a few years back. I have two CFS installations connected via NULL Modem over serial ports and can see what the other guy would see, so I landed both aircraft in multiplayer and taxied them closer and closer to each other until they exploded.

I picked these numbers to use because my belief is that most head-on passes are with wings more or less aligned, so the vertical separation is most important. Also, even if the wing tips make contact, there is a fairly good chance that the collision will not prove fatal to an aircraft. This is my opinion, adjust if you believe differently.

Regarding Dive Bombing: Stock CFS aircraft are totally unsuited to this. Most folks building add-on aircraft and tuning AIR files also don't get the numbers right in my opinion. The problem is that Flap and Landing Gear drag is way too high when they are extended. That means that ANY aircraft can hold speed down in the controllable range even in a vertical dive. In fact, they can go slower in a vertical dive than a purpose built dive bomber such as the Stuka or Dauntless and they don't have structural limits to worry about as the real aircraft would.

I HAVE built a SBD-3 Dauntless model and what I believe to be a pretty good flight model for it that seems to meet the documented performance if you want an aircraft that pretty much dives as it should. The visual model isn't quite finished yet (I lost interest) but it is quite useable for practice. I verified that the diving speeds were as documented and that there was what I believe to be appropriate controllability, but haven't developed a good enough procedure for "operations". Just keep in mind that in a multiplayer battle, any of the stock aircraft and most add-ons can intercept you because they have even better control than you if they just drop their landing gear OR flaps.

Take Care.
- Ivan.
 
Smilo, I am located in Texas.

Thank you Ivan for your response! The foks here have been taking great care of me



P.S. Smilo, when I arrange the screen, and exit flight, and start it again, the window remains unchanged.
If I exit the game and try again, I have to go back and re-size it.
Are we maybe missing something?
 
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So many subjects and an actual active thread here! How amazing!

funny, i was thinking the same thing.
i don't rally see this happening in the other forums.
or for that matter, this one in the old days.
make a slight step off topic
and someone might jump all over you just for fun.

Ivan, your 196 comments are most gracious and appreciated.
but, let's leave it at that.
i can already feel my head swelling.
all i have to do is look at my body of work
and i instantly come down to earth.
one stinking aircraft over a year in the making....WOW!!!
and it wasn't even my idea. it was Dave's.
honestly, i had never heard of the thing.

wondering if the Dauntless3_2012022 beta
is the one you are referring to.
sorry to hear you are bored with it.
she is soooo close.
i have no doubt that she would be
gratefully accepted and appreciated by the community.
 
I have tried this trick from someone who told it to me in CFS 2, but it does not work:

Location=0,0,1024,768
Maximized=0

When I check the combatfs.cfg file after the game is launched (without having saved the settings), the Location values have been updated to the small screen, not the changed screen.

Is there another line of code I need to tweak to get it to stick?

My apologies for all the trouble.
 
I have tried this trick from someone who told it to me in CFS 2, but it does not work:

Location=0,0,1024,768
Maximized=0

i just tested this.
apparently, the location= entry refers to the upper left location and size
of the reduced window when the game is closed.
modifying it has no effect on the window
the next time the game is started.

When I check the combatfs.cfg file after the game is launched (without having saved the settings), the Location values have been updated to the small screen, not the changed screen.

again,looking at it while the game is running
only tells you where the reduced window
was when the last session was closed.

Is there another line of code I need to tweak to get it to stick?

i don't think so.
but, i've been wrong before.

just for the heck of it, start the game,
go into free flight and fly now.
the reduced window should come up.
first, click and drag the window up and over
to the upper left corner of the screen.
next, place the mouse cursor at the lower right corner.
there should be an arrow with two heads pointing at a 45* angle.
left click and drag the corner to the right, enlarging the window.
close the flight...ALT, F, E
start the flight again.
the reduced window should be where you left it. yes?
now, exit the game.....ALT, F, X
have a look at the location= entry
it should show the upper left location where you put it
and overall size of the window upon game exit.
remember...
the location and size that you've done will be negated
if you go into maximized window or full screen mode.

please let us know how it turns out.

My apologies for all the trouble.

stop that. you have nothing to apologize for.
this is no trouble.
 
Everything happened just as you described, until I re-opened the game and the windows reverted back to the original small size.

The location was set properly in the combatfs.cfg file at position that I left it in when closing the game, but when I opened the game back up, it was at its default location:

[LANGUAGE]
DLL=english.fll
[MAIN]
ShowLogo=0
NoWarnNot256=1
HideMenuNormal=0
HideMenuFullscreen=1
Location=396,183,1044,717

I am unsure why it is being altered?

Thank you for your help and for your understanding.

Do you need the rest of the file?
 
thanks Dave...couldn't, or wouldn't, have done it without ya.

BUT,
Plus you have to luv that panel.
which one?
 
Mine of course, the optional one ..... The Best one...........

Did you say A-20 ???

Luv ya dude,

Dave
 
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