Lightning Canopy

[spart]

Just downloaded column5's Lightning, very nice plane, but I cannot find how to close the canopy. Mine and all the AI canopies are open. I've tried every key combination that I can think of but no luck. Any ideas?

[macelena]

Enter .data ini, look for some CANOPY ANIMATION entry and delete it. suggest using a safe copy

[Jug]

Enter .data ini, look for some CANOPY ANIMATION entry and delete it. suggest using a safe copy

If I may add something. ........ Look in the .data.ini under [fuselage] section, and there will be a "SystemName[XXX]=" reference to CANOPY. Remove that or put "//" in front of the line and renumber the SystemName[XXX] items. Then look for the [CANOPY] section and either delete it or put "//" in front of each line. By putting the "//" in front of the affected lines you "remark" out the line following the "//". The computer as it reads throuh the .INI file comes to that line and ignores the instructions on that particular line. Advantage by leaving the code in the .INI and remarking the code for those lines is that when some bright guy here on CA finds a fix, you don't have to scrounge around to find the code necessary to get a working canopy again.

[The_Editor]

Try this:

 

Put this at the bottom of the PILOT section:

 

CanopyAnimationID=3

 

Then replace the default canopy section with this.

 

[Canopy]

SystemType=ANIMATION

InputName=ANIMATION_1

DeploymentMethod=MANUAL

AnimationTime=6.0

AnimationID=3

 

Then set your control in the options menu to whatever the first animation is. See if that works.

 

Thanks to WombRaider for that info.

Edited October 31, 2008 by The_Editor