HELP ! FUEL GAUGE NOT WORKING

[dapit]

:)

 

hi everybody..

 

I am truly sory if i did not post in the right folder but I was not sure...

 

OKAY ;

 

I have a fully merge install with most of the MUST HAVE PACKS and it generally works fine...

 

2 Problems thow ;

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1) Strangely, when I modify the AH1 skyraider OR the A6A OR A6E *.ini files,

for SF2NA

when the game launches, it removes my : (eg) A6.ini file and replace it by a basic one

so my mod disapears !!

(the cockpit_data_file line goes away and thus the aircraft does not show in the game anymore because no cockpit !)

 

SOLUTION FOR ME ; make the file a READ ONLY, then SF2NA program cannot modify it and the aircraft shoes in the game :)

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2) I WANT TO FLY A6E.. in SF2NA full merged

 

It took me a lot of tweaks to fly the A6 superpack found in the download section...

but now, I have the thing flying with decent cockpit..

I even was able to have radar working !

 

BUT THE DAMNED FUEL NEEDLE JUST DOES NOT MOVE AT ALL !

 

ANY ADVICE ? HELP PLEASE !

8\

 

I have this in the cockpit data file ;

 

[FuelIndicator]

Type=INETERNAL_FUEL_QUANTITY_INDICATOR

NodeName=needle_fuel_quality

MovementType=ROTATION_Z

ValueUnit=LB

Set[01].Position=0.0

Set[01].Value=0.0

Set[02].Position=270.0

Set[02].Value=10000.0

 

I tried to replace the NodeName by almost every thing I could find in other aircrafts... NO JOY

:(

 

I am using everything I could find about the A6 for SF2 in the download section..

but so far ; NO FUEL NEEDLE MOVEMENT !

 

AT THIS POINT, IT BECOMES AN OBSESSION,

which is stupid, because from what I understand,

with no external fuel, the A6 has more than 5 hours fuel autonomy.. !

 

so, basically, I could say, I dont give a sh** about the fuel,

but it feels nice to look at the gauge descending, and pretend I worry about fuel...

 

GRRRRR !

[+RAVEN]

Are you using the A-6a Pit?

Try this:

 

Type=INETERNAL_FUEL_QUANTITY_INDICATOR

NodeName=needle_fuel_quantity

MovementType=ROTATION_Y <------------------------

ValueUnit=LB

Set[01].Position=0.0

Set[01].Value=0.0

Set[02].Position=270.0

Set[02].Value=10000.0

 

[dapit]

:)

thks for so quick a reply !!!

 

I thought of rotation Z/Y as well...

but replacing the Z by Y removes the needle completely...

 

I have made a mix of the old file for sf1 : A6 FOTI cockpit files and the A6E

 

and it works Now :)

 

But after all, thinking about it...

 

I think it might have worked since the beginning !

Maybe I was not patient enough to see the needle going down...

:/

 

I am not sure anymore, because it has been several hours of tweaking those damn files,

 

Anyways, now it works..

 

thks again for suggestion...

Edited December 8, 2012 by dapit

[+SupGen]

 

Look at the same entry Raven showed you...Set[02]Value should be 15770, not the original (from SF1) 10000. You'd have to burn off 5770 pounds of fuel before the needle moved. That would take a lot of patience.