KJakker Posted April 24, 2011 Posted April 24, 2011 I have an issue that has been nagging me for awhile and I was just reminded of it a little while ago while playing a mission. A number of times I have been in a situation where I have an enemy aircraft in a perfect firing solution, my radar locked on with the targets wing tips touching the edges of the gun sight. However when I pull the trigger the stream of shells from my cannon, instead of passing through the center of my sight and the target in it, it passes to the side of the my piper. As such I find myself having to fire longer burst and drag my sight across the target instead of holding a lead pursuit or 6'oclock level position to get hits. This is only on some aircraft and I have not done an analysis of which aircraft specifically seem to be having this issue (I think that all stock aircraft issue free) but it is something that has felt off to me at times. If there is and issue could this be the result of some aircraft have problems with the ranging calculations or alignment of their gun sights relative to the line of fire of the aircraft's gun? Alternately could SF2 gun sights being 2D and not actually focused to infinity like on a real aircraft be distorting the sight picture? Or could it be a different reason all together? If it is an alignment/ranging issue what INI entry's would I need to change to adjust it? It is possible it is nothing but I thought it can't hurt to ask. Quote
+MigBuster Posted April 24, 2011 Posted April 24, 2011 I believe you can adjust some parameters to get what you want...eventually: jet_cockpit.ini [GunsightFront] HasGunsight=TRUE GunsightMilSize=50 GunsightName=F-16A_sight.tga AGGunsightName=F-16A_AGsight.tga GunsightRollTabsName=F-16A_rolltabs.tga GunsightRangeBarName=F-16A_rangebar.tga RangeBarOrientation=6TO12 RangeBarHasGunRange=TRUE RangeBarUseWeaponRange=FALSE RangeBarMax=6096.0 RangeBarMin=914.4 RangeBarMaxGun=2032.1 RangeBarMinGun=304.8 LeadComputing=TRUE MinLeadRange=300 MaxLeadRange=1300 DefaultLeadRange=500 MaxDepression=245 DefaultDepression=50 jet.ini [FlightControl] ....... GunBoresightAngle=0 RocketBoresightAngle=-3.0 Quote
+dtmdragon Posted April 24, 2011 Posted April 24, 2011 (edited) and in the avionics.ini: [HUD] HUDMaterial=HUDMaterial HUDColor=0.18,1.0,0.48,0.80 BoresightOffset=0.0,0.0 ViewportTopLeft=-0.125,-0.125 ViewportBottomRight=0.125,0.28 RocketBoresightAngle=-3.0 GunBoresightAngle=-2.0 <----------------------------------------------------------------------- This needs to be the same figure in the above post and the following section from the data.ini: [internalGun] SystemType=FIXED_GUN GunTypeName=20MM_M61A1 InputName=FIRE_PRIMARY_GUN MuzzlePosition=0.0,10.20,-1.15 LightPosition=0.0,10.30,-1.15 AimAngles=0.0,-2.0,0.0 <---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MaxAmmo=639 AmmoWeightFull=169.2 AmmoWeightFired=76.7 EjectShells=FALSE Edited April 24, 2011 by dtmdragon Quote
KJakker Posted April 24, 2011 Author Posted April 24, 2011 (edited) MigBuster and dtmdragon, I think I know what has been happening now. The aircraft I was flying today was missing the AimAngles=, AmmoWeightFull=, AmmoWeightFired=, data points in the data.ini. I will have to take a look at some of the others aircraft I have downloaded and compare and contrast their data and gun performance with that information in mind. Thank you for your help. Edited April 24, 2011 by KJakker Quote
+dtmdragon Posted April 25, 2011 Posted April 25, 2011 (edited) Personally I find the best trouble shooting method for 3rd party mods is to extract all the .ini files from one of the stock third wire aircraft that best matches its era and role. Then you can compare similar sections of data from the ini files side by side. That way you will see what figures need to match in different ini files (avionics, data etc) from the same aircraft and if any information/figures are missing from the 3rdparty/mod ini file. Failing that it's straight to the combat ace forums! lol [quote name='KJakker' timestamp='1303677436' post='493589'] MigBuster and dtmdragon, I think I know what has been happening now. The aircraft I was flying today was missing the AimAngles=, AmmoWeightFull=, AmmoWeightFired=, data points in the data.ini. I will have to take a look at some of the others aircraft I have downloaded and compare and contrast their data and gun performance with that information in mind. Thank you for your help. Edited April 25, 2011 by dtmdragon Quote
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