I have long been a lover of large bomber aircraft for FS-WWI... And now we can add one more to the planeset!



Mossie is to credit for the 3d mesh, though I'm not 100% who did the skin. This is in the process of being imported into OpenPlane and FS-WWI, and will be the first late-war German heavy bomber for FS-WWI. Aladar long ago created his first-ever project for FS-WWI, the AEG G.III. However it was too alpha of a build to be upgraded to more recent standards and thus has never been any FS-WWI Plane Pack... Now, years later Germany gets a late-war heavy.

After a days work I have something workable in game:



Very alpha at the moment, but flyable and put together.

Some cockpit updates. The 3d mesh is by Mossie, I imported and coded.

Ok! Not much more to do... Just need to add a proper bomb load and wing wires.

Rear gunner area


Rear belly gun area!


Front gunner area

Ok, I need a few Beta testers! Who wants to try her out?

Nice lookin plane. I would give her a test flight.

Great! I will package something up and send it your way.

I'll run some tests if I can keep the computer running.

Btw. Have you considered adding the option of a 20mm Becker cannon? Apparently some of the LVG built ones were equipped with these for Austrio-Hungary?

Actually, yes. I have a Becker cannon model by Mossie I want to add to the nose gunner. I will pack this up for you guys.

Turns out, the nose gun mounted Becker was with the model k of the AEG. Thus, I've added it to the rear gunner as was on some AEG G.IVs:

I give you, the Becker cannon: (3d model and texture by Mossie)

Neat. It's bigger than I anticipated. It makes me wonder how easy it was to use on ground targets and whether the Gotha tunnel was modified. In any case, it looks very interesting.

It is rather large, and thus I've made it heavy to move. Here it is on the nose of the AEG G.IVK model:

http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/HW26e.jpg

And here you can see one mounted on the nose and rear gunner station:

http://worldatwar.net/chandelle/v2/v2n1/aeg_g4k.gif

Avimimus and Sport, PMs sent your way with the aircraft and some notes.

I finally had a chance to take it up, it had been a while sence I have flow SDOE. I have run into a controller issue. I am try to use my CH Fighterstick as a free standing stick and cannot seem to be able to control the throttle with my stick wheel or the key board. Also how do you take over the gunner positions?

Thanks

Hello!

Try this:
If you can't get FS-WWI to recognize your joystick in the 1.6.x.x Patch, please do the following:

Open up the keyboard.inp file, located where the 1.6.x.x Patch is installed, in wordpad and find the lines:

inpThrottleAnalog = JoystickSlider1 : 0
;inpThrottleAnalog = JoystickAxisZ : 0

Once you find those, switch around the semicolons so it reads:

;inpThrottleAnalog = JoystickSlider1 : 0
inpThrottleAnalog = JoystickAxisZ : 0

When you have made those changes, save the file. Make sure you do not save the keyboard.inp file as a *.txt file or a word document! Yours may be the other way around; if so do the same only reversed. Also, launch the FSSDOEJoystick.exe program located where the 1.6.x.x Patch is installed. This will help you assign axis of your joystick.

To take over a gunner station, press F7 to cycle and F6 to take over.

Thanks,

My day off is tommorrow, I will give it a shot.