Seaplane base

[Wilches]

Has anyone here managed to create a functional naval base for seaplanes on Wrench's Solomons map?

Cheers!

[Wrench]

IIRC, I turned them off, as due to stupidity of the Game Engine (tm) thinking that all airfields are ALL airfields. Even those made of water.

I DO remember they did work, but the game kept putting land birds there, too. You can try and reactive them, by uncommenting out the statements ---

Quote

[TargetArea038]
Name=Shortland Island Seaplane Base
Position=428437,495477
Radius=3000
ActiveYear=0
Location=4
Alignment=ENEMY
//AirfieldDataFile=airfield_SLB kurz.ini
//NumSquadrons=1
Target[001].Type=IJNTender
Target[001].Offset=-531,756
Target[001].Heading=225

If you do, let me know what happens! There should be just the 2, Shortland Island and Reketta Bay

[Gepard]

If i would create such a base i would use an "invicible" runway. Like it was done in First Eagles. Then i would set the runwaylenght to TargetType=LARGE_RUNWAY and all other airfields on medium or small.  Seaplanes must have  MinBaseSize=Large, so that onlyseaplanes can use the seabases.

Only my 2 cents ....

[Wrench]

that's a real good idea!!! As we only have a few floatplanes and flying boats -- that should work!!

[Wilches]

I´m lost on this topic. Nothing works. Tried all the tricks. 

[Gepard]

46 minutes ago, Wilches said:

I´m lost on this topic. Nothing works. Tried all the tricks. 

What exactly has you done?

 

[Wilches]

First, I drop the entries that Wrench post. Later I create an invisible "water airstrip", place it on map, raised the collision points of the plane (A6M2N) but the plane always explode when started. 

[Gepard]

Try following:

enter this lines on the bottom of the _types.ini of the terrain:

[TargetType044]                                  <<<<<<<<<<<<< replace 044 with your correct sequence number.
Name=Airfield
FullName=Airfield
ModelName=
TargetType=LARGE_RUNWAY
ActiveYear=0
TargetValue=1000
UseGroundObject=FALSE
DamagePoint=140.0
ArmorValue=0.0
ArmorType=0
RepairRate=10.0
StartDetectChance=100
StartIdentifiedChance=50
IncreaseDetectChanceKey=10
MaxVisibleDist=8000.0
ZBufferOffset=6.000000
FlatObject=TRUE
DamagedModel=
DestroyedEffect=
DestroyedModel=
SecondaryChance=0

Save the file

Open the _targets.ini of the terrain. Look for the seabase

And use following lines:

[TargetArea038]
Name=Shortland Island Seaplane Base
Position=428437,495477
Radius=3000
ActiveYear=0
Location=4
Alignment=ENEMY
AirfieldDataFile=airfield_SLB kurz.ini
NumSquadrons=1
Target[001].Type=Airfield
Target[001].Offset=0,0
Target[001].Heading=225
 

Save the file.

Then check, whether the airplane is set to

MinBaseSize=Large

 

Give it a try.

[Wilches]

I will. Thanks a lot Sir!!!!