#3335885 - 07/06/11 11:22 AM
Re: @ Ming , runways.
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Without the manual of course Ajay disclaimer We're in the deep end, I've played with it for a bit and found one interesting thing. I set a two-flight waypoint down somewhere near the airfield, checked it with that marvellous PlayMission feature and found that the FMB had set the eight planes down parked-up inside (tidily) the revetements... just the one wp I'd set down with the parked-up parameter... so the FMB is doing stuff to help us out, to quickly build missions. But while we don't know how it works this feature is working against us, we're ending up with unexpected behaviour. We'll have to work hard I'm afraid. No change there then and I hate it when things just work don't you? So anti-climactical lol But on the other hand when we know how everything works, these mysterious functions may be very useful No I haven't figured it out yet sorry mate but working on it. Someone must know how the FMB works. We may need to take hostages Busy trying to get the HSFX 5.0.1 installer to work under Win7 x64 so I can join my comrades in (Il-2) SEOW but that's another hair-tearing storyThe Airfield Points seem to be to tell the AI aircraft where to taxi, but there seems no rhyme nor reason to their (fixed points, greyed-out) setup on the map. There should be a Point Zero at least surely within the points-groups... that may be a clue When one drops an Airfield on to the map, there's a point that then becomes active on the Radius, our attention is being drawn to this for some reason. Not sure what that's all about but I bet it's to make life easier for the FMB user. Oh the irony Ming
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#3336586 - 07/07/11 11:21 AM
Re: @ Ming , runways.
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Can you text-post a demo mission of what you have so far please Ajay?
choose a runway
More like build a runway, a flight taking off from a runway or field
Looks as if the devs are using the same tools that we are Doc, but then hitting a 'permanent' switch that greys-out their objects. Check the cobwebs, they're 'Airfield Points' linked to 'Airfield' objects
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#3337191 - 07/08/11 01:09 AM
Re: @ Ming , runways.
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It seems on some runways you cant Doc,well you probably can but we just do not know how On Lympne (i think) i can take off from one end but cannot get the hurri to take off from the other.Even placing a runway over the existing runway and then moving the 0 (locator of some sort) to where i want my takeoff point seems to do nil.Whereas in il2 whichever end you dragged the takeoff point too you then started your takeoff run from the other end.So it was easy to work with.Not so here so far.The thing that really can be annoying is through subsequent patches they change coding and routines and make a lot of earlier stuff you have done irrelevant and it needs reworking to work in with the latest patch changes. So at this point its sorta not worth laying all of your objects , vehicles etc until you definitely now all of the options the plane has for take off points.Then place everything else accordingly. But in saying that i suppose as long as you keep everything out of the way of the hardcoded points you will be ok. I doubt we will get a really good FMB guide until everyone has nutted it out and as usual the community will make one over time.
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#3337351 - 07/08/11 06:12 AM
Re: @ Ming , runways.
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On Lympne (i think) i can take off from one end but cannot get the hurri to take off from the other. Have you tried changing wind direction as the post Ming quoted suggested ? Michael
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#3338848 - 07/10/11 11:51 AM
Re: @ Ming , runways.
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No Biggin Hill shots I'm afraid for reference, but lots of good stuff at the IWM Photo Archive
There's an interesting archive of aerial shots of every airfield in the Airfields of the United Kingdom 1941 Survey, bar Biggin Hill of course...
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#3339029 - 07/10/11 07:02 PM
Re: @ Ming , runways.
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Here are a couple of aerial pics of Biggin. They are from 'Biggin on the Bump' by Brian Ogley. ISBN 1-872337-05-8. There are some wartime b+w shots in the book of Biggin but nothing very useful. Right click on the pics and save as etc for full size. Biggin Hill Summer 1988 Biggin Hill Summer 1940 RedToo.
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#3339082 - 07/10/11 08:44 PM
Re: @ Ming , runways.
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Some more Biggin shots. Looks like the painting above used the Lufthansa shot for reference. Biggin Hill 2011 Biggin Hill pre war. Taken from a lufthansa airliner. Biggin hill 2008 Google Maps. RedToo.
My 'Waiting for Clod' thread: http://tinyurl.com/bqxc9eeAlways take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.Elie Wiesel. Romanian born Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, Holocaust survivor. 1928 - 2016. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C.S. Lewis, 1898 - 1963.
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Exodus
by RedOneAlpha. 04/18/24 05:46 PM
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