.INI Tweaks and Changes

[Grinseed]

I had a few hours this afternoon to experiment with some cloud patches and turned up this neat tweak.

 

If you have had trouble with fps flying in Overcast or Inclement weather scenarios, like I have, you might like to try the following:

 

Go to the Flight folder and open the EnvrimentSystem Configuration Settings

 

 

Scroll down to the section that has

 

[CloudsBroken]

[CloudsOvercast]

[CloudsInclement]

 

Edit out the data for Overcast and Inclement with // (just the usual precaution)

and replace the data with that from Broken, as shown:

 

[CloudsBroken]

MaxClouds=56

MaxCloudParticles=110

3DCloudMaterial=Cloud3Material

3DCloudHorizontalSize=2000.0

3DCloudVerticalSize=1900.0

3DCloudSizeDeviation=0.6

3DCloudParticleDensity=3.2

ParticleSize=640.0

ParticleSizeDeviation=0.3

MinBaseAltitude=1000.0

MaxBaseAltitude=2400.0

UseBottomRow=TRUE

 

[CloudsOvercast]

MaxClouds=56

MaxCloudParticles=110

3DCloudMaterial=Cloud3Material

3DCloudHorizontalSize=2000.0

3DCloudVerticalSize=1900.0

3DCloudSizeDeviation=0.6

3DCloudParticleDensity=3.2

ParticleSize=640.0

ParticleSizeDeviation=0.3

MinBaseAltitude=1000.0

MaxBaseAltitude=2400.0

UseBottomRow=TRUE

 

//MaxClouds=88

//MaxCloudParticles=92

//3DCloudMaterial=Cloud4Material

//3DCloudHorizontalSize=3800.0

//3DCloudVerticalSize=400.0

//3DCloudSizeDeviation=0.4

//3DCloudParticleDensity=1.2

//ParticleSize=600.0

//ParticleSizeDeviation=0.4

//MinBaseAltitude=1200.0

//MaxBaseAltitude=1600.0

//UseBottomRow=TRUE

 

[CloudsInclement]

MaxClouds=56

MaxCloudParticles=110

3DCloudMaterial=Cloud3Material

3DCloudHorizontalSize=2000.0

3DCloudVerticalSize=1900.0

3DCloudSizeDeviation=0.6

3DCloudParticleDensity=3.2

ParticleSize=640.0

ParticleSizeDeviation=0.3

MinBaseAltitude=1000.0

MaxBaseAltitude=2400.0

UseBottomRow=TRUE

 

//MaxClouds=120

//MaxCloudParticles=100

//3DCloudMaterial=Cloud5Material

//3DCloudHorizontalSize=10800.0

//3DCloudVerticalSize=2500.0

//3DCloudSizeDeviation=0.6

//3DCloudParticleDensity=1.5

//ParticleSize=600.0

//ParticleSizeDeviation=0.4

////MinBaseAltitude=800.0

//MaxBaseAltitude=1600.0

//UseBottomRow=TRUE

 

This should allow you to fly Campaign Missions in Overcast and Inclement conditions, which up to now I have had to pass up due to unplayable fps.

I only came across this an hour ago and haven't had any time to do any serious tweaking but I'm sure fiddling with the relevant numbers might produce differences to distinguish Overcast and Inclement from Broken.

 

Hope this works for you too.

 

Cheers Grinseed

 

ps it just occured to me I might be reinventing the wheel, apologies if this has already been reported elsewhere.

Edited February 19, 2011 by Grinseed

[SpinyNorman]

Is there a tweak to get your wingmen touching down near the edge of the aerodrome, so they don't run over into the trees when they land?

[ataribaby]

Yes this AI landing bugged me too. Just change to this in WWI_AIRFIELD1.INI:

 

[Runway001]

Heading=0

Offset=0,0

Length=480

Width=280

LaunchAll=TRUE

TouchDown=0,-150 <------ here is change!

 

Or here is file for FE2, place to your FE2 Mod folder \Terrains\wwiCambrai\ and \Terrains\wwiVerdun\

 

http://prekladytextu.eu/sf/WWI_AIRFIELD1.ZIP

[SpinyNorman]

Aweome thanks Ataribaby.

[vonOben]

Edits to remove of the aircraft icons on the in-flight map:

 

MISSIONCONTROL.INI
[Map]
FriendlyIcon=
EnemyIcon=

 

 

Edits to remove of the text on the in-flight map:

 

HUDDATA.INI
[MapLabels]
EnableLabels=FALSE
LabelFriendlyAir=FALSE
LabelFriendlyGround=FALSE
LabelEnemyAir=FALSE
LabelEnemyGround=FALSE

[vonOben]

Adding a gun sight:

Edit the aircraft cockpit.ini as follows:

[GunsightFront]
HasGunsight=TRUE
GunsightMilSize=30
GunsightName=Fokker_ironsight.tga
FixedSight=FALSE

[CockpitSeat001]
Gunsight=GunsightFront

There are other ironsight.tga files to chose from, use the one you prefer.

Edited August 14, 2016 by vonOben

[+VonS]

Hello FE2 Flyers,

 

This may be buried deep somewhere in the posts on the CombatAce forums, but I stumbled on these very good settings for the options.ini file in your user folder for FE2 and thought I'd include it here under the stickies for ini tweaks (this works wonders on lower-end and integrated graphics cards...gave me an extra 20fps at least, let alone with the other, earlier recommendations for lower-end cards, to run all settings at no higher than medium from within the in-game menu).

 

Under the GraphicsOptions section of your options.ini file, make sure that the following few settings are set as follows:

 

AntiAliasing=2 (yes this is the best setting, avoid 0, while 4 and 8 are okay for high-end cards)

UseAdvancedShaders=1 (set this to 1 to enable it, it is good for low-end and high-end cards...adds about 10fps)

ForceDX9=FALSE (don't set this to true, I tested and noticed a fps drop of about 10 frames, sometimes more, when it's enabled, better to leave this at false and let DX10 do its wonders)

ForceVSyncOff=TRUE (setting this from false to true added another 10fps approximately to my FE2 install, with no screen tearing showing up, which is very good)

 

Happy flying,

Von S

[vonOben]

UseAdvancedShaders=1 (set this to 1 to enable it, it is good for low-end and high-end cards...adds about 10fps)

ForceDX9=FALSE (don't set this to true, I tested and noticed a fps drop of about 10 frames, sometimes more, when it's enabled, better to leave this at false and let DX10 do its wonders)

 

Hi VonS

 

Those settings depend on which OS you are using IMHO.

Since I'm using Windows XP and DirectX 9 I found these settings work best:

 

UseAdvancedShaders=0

ForceDX9=TRUE

 

Best regards

 

vonOben