aircraft placement on airfields

[+daddyairplanes 10,258]

hi all again. im wondering what might have to be changed on airfields for older terrians. specificall i'm looking at EuroWW2 with the static aircraft on the airfields. i played with it sometime ago escortin B-29s across the Channel with Sabres in 1950 but it was interesting to see Hurricanes in the revetments on coming home! im wondering if the is something to edit in the target ini besides removing Hurricanes, Bf110, etc to get random period aircraft to show like in stock. no rush i wont be getting back online before monday. i was thinkin of tinkering with that terrain whil deployed comin the end of the year. nothin but time there! TIA

[Wrench 9,870]

that's an easy one

 

edit the _targets.ini, and remove the parked aircraft slots/statmemnt. Easiest, simplesy way is to just rename to item pointed to.

Thusly: (from Abbeville Fliegerhorst) Note the bold x. This will cause the game engine ™ to skip over that item.

 

Target[094].Type=xBf109E

Target[094].Offset=460,80

Target[094].Heading=270

Target[094].ActiveYear=1940

Target[094].InActiveYear=1947

Target[095].Type=xBf109E

Target[095].Offset=460,130

Target[095].Heading=270

Target[095].ActiveYear=1940

Target[095].InActiveYear=1947

Target[096].Type=xBf109E

Target[096].Offset=460,180

Target[096].Heading=270

Target[096].ActiveYear=1940

Target[096].InActiveYear=1947

Target[097].Type=xBf109E

Target[097].Offset=480,100

Target[097].Heading=270

 

saves a s**tload of time in rebuilding/renumbering target areas.

 

Then, using the latest airfield inis (best to have them IN the terrain folder. seriously. 08 level ones will also work fine.). The game will automanicly generate the parked birds. Sometimes even era and theatre appropriate.

 

Meaning: extract the desert airfiled inis (all 6). You'll have to rename them to match the EAWEuro naming conventions (EuroWW2_Airfield***.ini), and that should take care of it. Unless you want to go through the targets ini and rename all the airfiled pointers to "Desert_airfiled***.ini". Too much work for us old guys.

 

wrench

kevin stein

 

ps: i take it you've deployed again? Be safe out there DA!!!

K

[+Baltika 85]

The old Euro terrain has statics as groundobjects called out by the terrain_TARGETS.INI file. So, first thing is to go through that file removing those entries for each airfield.

 

Next up, Oct 08 patch and later builds have dynamic statics placed on airfields depending on what air unit is stationed on base (for campaign games) and placed according to appropriate timeframe and available planeset for single missions.

 

The latter type of statics are controlled by entries in the airfield.ini file for each type of airfield. The entries you are looking for are:-

 

ParkingChance=90

ParkingMaxSpan=10.0

Parking[01].Heading=135

Parking[01].Offset=-30,730

Parking[02].Heading=135

Parking[02].Offset=-45,730

Parking[03].Heading=135

Parking[03].Offset=-60,730

Parking[04].Heading=-45

Parking[04].Offset=45,-740

Parking[05].Heading=-45

Parking[05].Offset=60,-740

Parking[06].Heading=270

Parking[06].Offset=55,635

Parking[07].Heading=270

Parking[07].Offset=55,820

Parking[08].Heading=90

Parking[08].Offset=-45,-635

Parking[09].Heading=90

Parking[09].Offset=-45,-705

 

Where parking chance is percentage likelihood of getting a static a/c there, Parking max span is max wingspan (in m) of the chosen parked a/c, and the remaining entries fix x, y and heading co-ordinates of wherrer your static will be on the airfield. Remember when placing a/c on your airfiled, you have to set the runway heading to 0 before working out the parking co-ordinates. Or, an easier way to do it, is to use the co-ordinates for statics from the terrain_TARGETS ini and use them in your airfield.ini file for the various Parking offset co-ordinates, that should give you sabres instead of Hurris in your revetments.

 

Hope that helps.

 

Cheers,

 

baltika

 

jeez Wrench, you're quick on the draw

 

You got me

[Wrench 9,870]

[+daddyairplanes 10,258]

ok thanks Kevin. not deployed yet but its coming. gotta have something to do while im gone. ini editing sounds like a good pasttime to me