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USS Nimitz released

Tregarth said:
One question, please I have downloaded your Carrier Tracks - into which folder do I copy them?
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1. I put them in their own folder and added that folder to the scenery library:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Addon Scenery\Nimitz carrier traffic\scenery

2. This will work too, and you don't have to add anything to the scenery library:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Addon Scenery\scenery

But it's less organized than #1. Also, with #1, you can turn the tracks off by unchecking them in the scenery library.
 
Yes, I have just caught up with you. US Naval Station Patuxent is the home of the US Navy Test Pilot School. I couldn't work out what USNS meant - I am more familiar with NAS. Since this is an airfield am I right to put it into <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.1 (Win32)"><style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> </style> C\Prog Files\MS Games\MS FSX\SimObjects\Boats. Similarly, should the Plane Guard also be in \Boats? If not where should they be?


I would like to send you a PM, how can I do this, please?



Thank you,


Tregarth
 
<meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.1 (Win32)"><style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> </style> Can someone please tell me how to find the AI carriers pages as per the images in Post 600? I have installed AI Carriers into C\Prog Files\AIcarriers and copied CVN_68.. .cfg file into the conf.d folder. I have then started FSX gone to aicarriers.exe in Explorer and clicked it but nothing shows. If I look in the FSX menu bar I don't see an entry for AI Carriers.

I can find the Nimitz in San Diego so it seems I have everything else right but not the AI Carrier bit. I am trying to produce a simple set of instructions for Newbies (like me) so they can install this incredible ship in one easy go so any help on the AI bit would be appreciated.


Thank you,


Tregarth
 
Tregarth said:
Yes, I have just caught up with you. US Naval Station Patuxent is the home of the US Navy Test Pilot School.
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NATC Patuxent River was my first active duty station 73-76, and was assigned to the USNTPS. Great place! I am hoping someone will eventually recreate Pax River for FSX.........................
 
Tregarth said:
<META name=GENERATOR content="OpenOffice.org 3.1 (Win32)"><STYLE type=text/css> <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> </STYLE> Can someone please tell me how to find the AI carriers pages as per the images in Post 600? I have installed AI Carriers into C\Prog Files\AIcarriers and copied CVN_68.. .cfg file into the conf.d folder. I have then started FSX gone to aicarriers.exe in Explorer and clicked it but nothing shows. If I look in the FSX menu bar I don't see an entry for AI Carriers.Tregarth
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http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?t=25715&highlight=nimitz+2 Post #95
I assume you are aware you are posting in an earlier Nimitz thread and that a newer release of the Nimitz freeware project is available and a thread about it is also available at the link written in this post.

No need to click on aicarriers.exe. Go to the menu bar ---press alt---go yo addons, click on it and a drop down menu appears. Use link to see the windows that open.

Hoping this helps.
 
Tregarth said:
<META name=GENERATOR content="OpenOffice.org 3.1 (Win32)"><STYLE type=text/css> <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> </STYLE> Can someone please tell me how to find the AI carriers pages as per the images in Post 600? I have installed AI Carriers into C\Prog Files\AIcarriers and copied CVN_68.. .cfg file into the conf.d folder. I have then started FSX gone to aicarriers.exe in Explorer and clicked it but nothing shows. If I look in the FSX menu bar I don't see an entry for AI Carriers.

I can find the Nimitz in San Diego so it seems I have everything else right but not the AI Carrier bit. I am trying to produce a simple set of instructions for Newbies (like me) so they can install this incredible ship in one easy go so any help on the AI bit would be appreciated.


Thank you,



Tregarth
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After I installed mine and added the cvn file I was good to go. It just showed up in the tope menu without haveing to go back into Aicarriers.
hope this helps.

Jim
 
Dear Limjack,

Thanks for your reply, a very clever montage of various screens. I have exactly the same file configurations as you show but still have no AI Ships in Add-ons. I suspect the problem comes from the fact I am using Win 7, probably MS are using a different file name somewhere. The trouble is I don't know where to look or what to change.

Thanks again,

Tregarth
 
AI Ships should work in Win 7, I've installed it on a friends PC without any problems, or even doing anything clever. Might be worth removing everything you've done and starting again from fresh in case something's gone wrong?
 
Dear Limjack and SkippyBing,

Thanks for your help, I have uninstalled AICarriers and downloaded a fresh copy. I still can't unzip direct to C\Prog Files (something about "Permissions") so I have unzipped to desk top and copied into C\Prog Files\AICarriers. I have also copied CVN_68 cfg into conf.d

My address bars and directories look identical to Limjack's but when I load FSX and look at Add Ons all I see is FSUIPC

I just can't understand it - whatever is wrong it is going to be something stupid - the clever bit is finding out what.

Thank you,

Tregarth
 
Tregarth said:
Dear Limjack and SkippyBing,

Thanks for your help, I have uninstalled AICarriers and downloaded a fresh copy. I still can't unzip direct to C\Prog Files (something about "Permissions") so I have unzipped to desk top and copied into C\Prog Files\AICarriers. I have also copied CVN_68 cfg into conf.d

My address bars and directories look identical to Limjack's but when I load FSX and look at Add Ons all I see is FSUIPC

I just can't understand it - whatever is wrong it is going to be something stupid - the clever bit is finding out what.

Thank you,

Tregarth
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It sounds as though you do not have a correct entry in the EXE.xml file.
That would be the case if you moved the AI Carriers folder
manually.

Look in the folder that contains your FSX.cfg file and find the
file "EXE.XML".

You can open/edit it with a text editor.
It should contain an entry for AI Carriers with the correct path
to the AI Carriers fiolder.

Here is my file.
Code: 
<simbase.document type="Launch" version="1,0">
    <descr>Launch</descr>
    <filename>EXE.XML</filename>
    <disabled>True</disabled>
    <launch.manualload>False</launch.manualload>
    <launch.addon><disabled>True</disabled>
    <manualload>False</manualload>
    <name>AICarriers</name>
    
K:\FSX Tools\AI carriers\aicarriers.exe</launch.addon>
    <commandline>-nogui</commandline>
    </simbase.document><launch.addon><commandline></commandline>
    </launch.addon>
The line to inspect is the "Path" statement. This must contain YOUR path to
the aicarriers.exe file.

EDIT: CRAP....this forum software sux! Even though I enclosed my XML file in "CODE"
tags the formatting of the file contents was stripped!
Just compare the keywords of your file against the above list.

EDIT 2: Screw it! Here's a JPG of the EXE.XML file!
exe-xml.jpg

Paul
 
Check points on what I did. You probably did the install correct of ships but just in case here is what I did. Yes, another montage...lol.

Jim
 
Hi,

Is it possible to convert this ship into a pilotable "plane"? It would make at least my simming experience better.
 
Tregarth said:
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I just can't understand it - whatever is wrong it is going to be something stupid - the clever bit is finding out what.

Thank you,

Tregarth
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I tried to reply to your private message but I am unable to
as it says you have that feature blocked, or some such.

In any case, here is what I wrote:
You should have appended the code for the
aicarriers entry to the existing entry.

The existing code there is for your Saitek product.

I believe you should have TWO entries that begin with "Descr" and ends with "/Launch.Addon".

Take your ORIGINAL EXE.XML file and copy
the text, including the "Descr" down to and including
the "/Launch.Addon".
Now, paste that code into the file BELOW the "/Launch.Addon" line and just
above the last line, "/SimBase.Document".

Now, go back and edit the newly added text to
reflect the aicarriers data in the "Name" and "Path" lines.
Also make the necessary True/False
changes to that section as indicated in my EXE.XML jpg.

Save the new file as "EXE.XML" and see if that works.

Refer to the JPG I posted in the forum thread
that shows the exact format for the
aicarriers section of the entry.
I still can't get the forum software to display
the tags properly :( There is some configuration
flag that needs to be set somewhere but
I don't know where the heck iti is.

Anyhow, your new EXE.XML file should be twice as long as your old one, between the
first line"SimBase......" and "/SimBase....."
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You can contact me at:

pstrogen, the "at" symbol, cris dot com

EDIT: NOTE that the code I posted in the JPG above was my DISABLE AICarriers version
of the EXE.XML! I keep two versions, one to enable and one to disable that addon.
I mistakenly posted the disable version.

Paul
 
<center>FSX - FSX Panels </center> <center>FSX Aircraft Carrier Panel
</center> <center>[SIZE=-1] [ Download | View ] [/SIZE]</center>
Name: nimiz-pnl.zip Size: 1,384,137 Date: 02-05-2010
[SIZE=-1]
nimiz-pnl.gif
FSX Aircraft Carrier Panel. A photorealistical panel for the FSX Acceleration aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and USS Eisenhower from Javier Fernandez (requires USS_NIMITZ_IKE_VERSION2.ZIP). Note: these carriers work also with FSX SP2. Included are additional camera views for the aircraft.cfg. Bitmaps and configuration for the additional views by Erwin Welker.

[/SIZE]<center>FSX - FSX Panels </center> <center>FSX Navy Supply Ship Panel
</center> <center>[SIZE=-1] [ Download | View ] [/SIZE]</center>
Name: vdeck-patuxent.zip Size: 1,365,464 Date: 02-05-2010
[SIZE=-1]
vdeck-patuxent.gif
FSX Navy Supply Ship Panel. A photorealistical panel for the FSX Acceleration US Navy supply ship USNS Patuxent from Javier Fernandez (requires USS_NIMITZ_IKE_VERSION2.ZIP). Note: this ship works also in FSX SP2. Included are additional camera views for the aircraft.cfg, which allows to have a realistic view from the bridge, where you can see the supply masts in front of the bridge windows. Bitmaps and configuration for the additional views by Erwin Welker.
[/SIZE]
 
What Panel?

DSWO:
I downloaded the bridge panel and it says to make a copy of the panel and replace it with the one in the download. I don't have a piloted Nimitz now, so where do I find what I need to use the new panel?
 
chicken2690 said:
I downloaded the bridge panel and it says to make a copy of the panel and replace it with the one in the download. I don't have a piloted Nimitz now, so where do I find what I need to use the new panel?
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I haven't actually tried this so I don't know. Maybe this:

<center>FSX - FSX Other Aircraft </center> <center>FSX Nimitz Carrier
</center> <center>[SIZE=-1] [ Download | View ] [/SIZE]</center>
Name: cvn68_pilotable.zip Size: 4,738,591 Date: 07-11-2009 Downloads: 1,253
[SIZE=-1]
cvn68_pilotable.gif
FSX Nimitz Carrier. An update to Javier Fernandez' aircraft carrier to make it pilotable. Requirs USS_NIMITZ_IKE.ZIP. Upgrade by Bruce Fitzgerald.[/SIZE]
 
Thanks DSWO. The panel from Bruce is the same one he used in his Fletcher destroyer and worked fine with the carrier. The mod by Welker gives a photorealistic layout and changes the camera views somewhat to include people in them. I liked the Fletcher panel better but did keep the improved camera views. I saved a "flight" for the pilotible carrier in the water just north of Key West and am always ready to head out into the Gulf or Caribbean.
 
1) Is it possible to add the Meatball into the pilotable version?
2) I managed to get her pilotable. I can see the the diffrerent camera angles. How to install the 2d panel?
 
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