LOL !!!! I sure know about that little problem. You will find the answer here: http://www.glowingheat.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=43
USS Oriskany SCB-27C/125A
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LOL !!!! I sure know about that little problem. You will find the answer here: http://www.glowingheat.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=43
Apparently, I cannot add additional items to accompany the Oriskany i.e. otherwise strange things happen like cargo nets and boxes are hovering in the air yes?
I wanted to add the Patuxent to the Oriskany is there another way to do so without the strange results?
[formation.8]
title=Oriskany
unit.0=USS_Oriskany, 0, 0
unit.1=USNS_PATUXENT_UNREP, 102, -50
unit.2=USS_SSN_775_Virginia_class, -0, 500
unit.3=SH-60_guard, 350, -220
unit.4=SH-60_guard, 150, -80
Butcherbird17
Charter Member 2012
To have the Patuxent sitting at the right height for Oriskany, you would need to adjust the static_cg_height in the cfg file of the Patuxent. But, in doing that she would not sit at the right height for Nimitz. Making a copy of Patuxent folder then renaming it (plus the model file + cfg and the sim cfg) would solve that problem.
Joe
navy81
Charter Member
That works Joe - I adjusted the cg_height to -10, and also created a copy of the Patuxent, and renamed everything LARAMIE, which is a sister ship to the Patuxent.
Here are my ai carrier config settings to get everything reasonably lined up
[formation.17]
title=Oriskany UNREP
unit.0=USS_Oriskany, 0, 0
unit.11=USNS_LARAMIE_UNREP, 95, 150
Deke
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I tried your instructions and did what I thought was everything needed to get the "Laramie" to show up along side the O boat. I get error inserting object message create object failed instead.
I changed the texture.cfg to read:
[fltsim]
fallback.1=..\..\USS_Oriskany\texture <<<< this WAS Nimitz
title=Oriskany UNREP
unit.0=USS_Oriskany, 0, 0
unit.11=USNS_LARAMIE_UNREP, 95, 150 <<<<shouldn't this="" be="" unit="" .2="" vice="" .11?="" i="" think="" that="" is="" why="" was="" having="" issues="" with="" laramie="" not="" showing="" up.
shouldn't this be unit .2 vice unit .11? I think that was giving me problems. </shouldn't></shouldn't>
Butcherbird17
Charter Member 2012
I didn't think of her sister ship so i just renamed it VEH_PATUXENT, but glad it worked. There is still some things that don't line up with Oriskany (fuel and cargo lines and some of the cargo that is on the hanger deck). I'm not sure if you can hex edit the mdl file to adjust those items (I wouldn't know where to look). I also adjusted the acceleration_constants and
deceleration_constants lines in the cfg file to match that of Oriskany, as she was slower and would fall behind.
acceleration_constants = 0.5, 0.4
deceleration_constants = 2.0, 0.5
Joe
deceleration_constants lines in the cfg file to match that of Oriskany, as she was slower and would fall behind.
acceleration_constants = 0.5, 0.4
deceleration_constants = 2.0, 0.5
Joe
navy81
Charter Member
navy81
Charter Member
I didn't think of her sister ship so i just renamed it VEH_PATUXENT, but glad it worked. There is still some things that don't line up with Oriskany (fuel and cargo lines and some of the cargo that is on the hanger deck). I'm not sure if you can hex edit the mdl file to adjust those items (I wouldn't know where to look). I also adjusted the acceleration_constants and
deceleration_constants lines in the cfg file to match that of Oriskany, as she was slower and would fall behind.
acceleration_constants = 0.5, 0.4
deceleration_constants = 2.0, 0.5
Joe
Great point Joe, I didnt factor that in.
Nice catch!
navy81
Charter Member
Fantastic!
Still makes one sweat bringing that beast aboard!
Any luck with the Midway?
V/R, Deke
A-3 was a big honkin' jet to bring aboard any carrier, especially the 27-Charlies. Pretty easy to see why all the flight deck personnel stood way clear of the landing area when "Whale on final!" was announced over the 5MC flight deck PA system.
I was on two different 27'C's back in the day USS Hancock and Bon Homme Richard (Bonnie Dick)
when the Whales launched and landed. The plane had hinges just about every where and would almost fold in half to get into hanger bay. The Vertical tail even folded.
About the only thing I remember the A-3's brought to the table where Zuni Tubes and mail. They would go on a lot of Recons. When I was stationed at NAS Cubi Point (NAS Olangapo),
There were a few black A-3's that were of the clock and dagger persuasion. They took off and landed only at night, like bats would do. Think they did recon over Nam.
File name: USS_CV_41_Midway.zip
Tried to upload here but too big - over 17MB.
Readme says the following but the web site didn't work for me. Was it Lazarus here that may have done the FSX conversion?
This is a Freeware release. Please feel free to use in your campaign or missions. This cannot be used commercially or uploaded to ANY website without consent from The Virtual Navy, James Smith (sjd20@qwest.net) or Bruce Baker (bbtbmb@direcway.com). The authors are not responsible for any problems resulting from the use of this product.
Any questions please send to bbtbmb@direcway.com or visit us at:
www.flightsimdesign.com
Home of the Virtual Navy and The Pearl Harbor Project.
Been keeping tabs on all your config discussions and uploaded videos whilst I work away on the next release in the background. Once I get this finished i've got soooooo many questions to ask all of you on how to do some of the things you've been doing with the model!
meantime i've finished an "interim" pack of flight deck crew. Red, Yellow and green shirts only at this stage as I want to test impact on frame rates.
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These are modified textures from Malte Deja's German airforce ground crew. The models were uploaded to be used with other sceneries so i'm sure it'll be okay for me to use them, though I need to check he is happy with me using these models and textures (and will of course reference him as the source).
Working on new island, flight deck and experimenting with hull textures before i go into test with the next release.
ATB
G
meantime i've finished an "interim" pack of flight deck crew. Red, Yellow and green shirts only at this stage as I want to test impact on frame rates.
View attachment 88759
These are modified textures from Malte Deja's German airforce ground crew. The models were uploaded to be used with other sceneries so i'm sure it'll be okay for me to use them, though I need to check he is happy with me using these models and textures (and will of course reference him as the source).
Working on new island, flight deck and experimenting with hull textures before i go into test with the next release.
ATB
G
Ian Warren
Charter Member
Looking superb Gary , really is coming alive 
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Even on Coral Sea V-3 Div was never real happy when a Whale had to go into the hangar bay. A real challenge to move around, guys crossing the hangar deck used to stop and watch while they were parking one. Don't remember one ever getting crunched, our ABH's were pretty good.
heywooood
Mayor Emeritus of Taco City
A typo as (and you know this) it's Cloak and Dagger. There, that's done.
Thanks for your levity, wit and charm
Really interesting to hear these kind of first hand experiences. Some photos show four or more Whales on an Essex sized carrier. I know hangar chiefs also didn't like the larger Vigilante taking up space on the bigger carriers hangar decks, so a bunch of A-3's in a Essex boat's hangar deck must have hogged lots of available space.