Super Squeek Tweek: A-37B Improvements

[Wrench 9,475]

By Jug:

 

Three changes to the A-Teams sweet A-37B

 

1) Get rid of the dude in the right seat. All you see is his fat face looking right and visibility is poor in that direction with him there. Most Super Squeek missions were solo anyway.

2) Add a landing light. Helps out on night landings a bunch.

3) Re-activate the canopy animation. It is hot in Vietnam!

 

Information below will accomplish these:

 

To get rid of the CoPilot in the A-37B

 

Go into the A-37B_COCKPIT.INI file and look for the following lines:

 

Instrument[xxx]=

 

Add a new line in that area, next in number sequence:

 

Instrument[xxx]=Move1 (or something similiar in name)

 

Then, add these lines to the bottom of that same file:

[Move1]

Type=AIRSPEED_INDICATOR

NodeName=Body

MovementType=POSITION_Z

Set[01].Position=-100

Set[01].Value=0.0

Set[02].Position=-99

Set[02].Value=1.0

 

Save and close this file

 

Open the A-37B_Data.Ini and go about half way down in the crew section. Rem out as follows:

//[CoPilot]

//SystemType=PILOT_COCKPIT

//PilotModelName=PilotA37

//SeatID=2

//Position=0.2724,0.7922,0.7755

--some data snipped for brevity---

 

Rem means add two '/' (slash) marks in front of the line telling the program to ignore this line.

 

Save this file.

 

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If you want to add a landing light then add the following line to the "Nose" section of the A-37B_data.ini file:

 

SystemName[xxx]=landinglight

 

Where XXX as the next number in the SystemName list in the "Nose" section.

 

Then add the following to the end of the lighting section:

[landinglight]

SystemType=LIGHT

Color=0.88,0.88,0.88

Brightness=0.07

Position=0.00,3.68,0.00

LightSrcOffset=2.6046,49.0560,3.50

LightSrcRange=150

LightRange=45.0

CanFlash=FALSE

LightNodeName=LandingLight

IsLandingLight=TRUE

If it doesn't look quite right, move it around using the following as a guide:

 

Position=(right/left of centerline),(fwd/aft from acft center),(above/below acft center)

 

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If you want the canopy to open on the ground and close during takeoff roll, then overwrite the rem'd "Canopy" section of the A-37B_data.ini file with the following:

 

[Canopy]

SystemType=HIGHLIFT_DEVICE

DeploymentMethod=AUTOMATIC_SPEED

Setting[1].Angle=30.0

Setting[1].DeployValue=10.0

Setting[1].RetractValue=5.0

MaxDeflection=30.0

MinDeflection=0.0

ControlRate=0.3

SystemType=ANIMATION

InputName=ANIMATION_5

AnimationTime=3.0

AnimationID=5

 

Jug