Primary/ seconadary guns, or gun groups

[Capitaine Vengeur 263]

I really enjoy most of the WW2 warbirds that can be found here or in Wings over Russia/ Africa. But I have a problem with the gunnery. I'd like to have a trigger devoted to each group of weapons (the way it is in IL-2 1946 for instance), rather than to have to cycle through several weapons configurations to find the most efficient one in the midst of a harsh dogfight. The solution, of course, is to replace in the plane's data file GunGroups with Primary/ Secondary Gun specifications, and to adapt the commands configuration. Just the way it's done in the example below for a BF 109 E.

 

 

[LeftNoseMG]

SystemType=FIXED_GUN

GunTypeName=7.9MM_MG17

GunGroup=1

InputName=FIRE_PRIMARY_GUN

MuzzlePosition=-0.1677,2.8028,0.1200

MaxAmmo=1000

EjectShells=FALSE

 

[RightNoseMG]

SystemType=FIXED_GUN

GunTypeName=7.9MM_MG17

GunGroup=1

InputName=FIRE_PRIMARY_GUN

MuzzlePosition=0.1677,2.8028,0.1200

MaxAmmo=1000

EjectShells=FALSE

 

[LeftWingCannon]

SystemType=FIXED_GUN

GunTypeName=20MM_MGFF

GunGroup=2

InputName=FIRE_PRIMARY_GUN ---> InputName=FIRE_SECONDARY_GUN

MuzzlePosition=-2.1301,2.4904,-0.5971

AimAngles=0.4068,0.0,0.1140

MaxAmmo=60

EjectShells=TRUE

EjectPosition=-2.13,1.197,-0.69

EjectVelocity= 0.0,0.0,-2.0

 

[RightWingCannon]

SystemType=FIXED_GUN

GunTypeName=20MM_MGFF

GunGroup=2

InputName=FIRE_PRIMARY_GUN ---> InputName=FIRE_SECONDARY_GUN

MuzzlePosition=2.1301,2.4904,-0.5971

AimAngles=-0.4068,0.0,0.1140

MaxAmmo=60

EjectShells=TRUE

EjectPosition=2.13,1.197,-0.69

EjectVelocity= 0.0,0.0,-2.0

 

 

Nonetheless, I have observed that on such modified planes, the AI-controlled planes seem to only use their primary guns. With the example above, I've never seen such a modified AI-controlled BF 109 E, either friendly or enemy, use its 20mm guns. Same thing for other planes I've tried to modify. So, is there a way to have the AI-controlled planes use their secondary weapons on given or any circumstances? Perhaps by adding or modifying a line of code in the AIData block? (still the example of a BF 109 E)

 

 

[AIData]

AileronDeltaRoll=1.3

AileronRollRate=-1.0

ElevatorDeltaPitch=1.0

ElevatorPitchRate=-0.1

ThrottleDeltaSpeed=0.10

ThrottleVelocity=-0.03

DeltaSpeedForAfterburner=50

DeltaSpeedForAirbrakes=-50

MaxPitchForAltitude=15.0

MinPitchForAltitude=-10.0

PitchForThrottle=0.005

PitchForAltitude=0.01

PitchForVerticalVelocity=-0.01

RollForHeading=20.0

RollForHeadingRate=-0.6

MinRollHeading=15.0

MaxRollForHeading=45.0

PitchForRoll=0.20

FormationSpeedForPosition=0.8

FormationSpeedForRate=0.45

GunnerFireChance=80 ---> ?

GunnerFireTime=2.5

GunnerAimOffset=0.0050

 

 

Thank you for helping.

 

 

 

 

 

[+Gepard 10,251]

I tested it. Seems to be thats there is no way to make the AI using both gungroups.