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Pre-setting radar range
Mar 2nd, 2011 at 9:01pm
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Good Evening,

I have a simple question that I can't resolve. (The ticket submission is down...)
I am trying to pre-set my radar range to 50 NM. For that, I edited CSWeapons.xml (and also unit.dat for future planes) in the following manner:

<AircraftInfo>
      <!-- aircraft section -->
      <RadarRanges>5,10,25,50,100,200</RadarRanges>
      <!-- available radar ranges in NM, coma separated. -->
      <RadarGunModeRange>50</RadarGunModeRange>
      <!-- default radar range, NM. -->

When I load FSX and my plane, the radar knob hasn't changed and is still showing the original 5 NM...

Also, I don't hear any sound from the radar like:
csweapon_in_range.wav
CSWeapon_srm_hi.wav
CSWeapon_srm_lo.wav

...but that my be related to the general sound issue...

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Johan
  
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Re: Pre-setting radar range
Reply #1 - Mar 18th, 2011 at 6:23pm
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Yes, I've experienced the sound issues as well. I actually can't answer this one.
  
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Reply #2 - Mar 18th, 2011 at 8:01pm
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TurbofanDude wrote on Mar 18th, 2011 at 6:23pm:
Yes, I've experienced the sound issues as well. I actually can't answer this one.



Hey Turbofan,

Thanks for your response! 100 people read my post, you are the first one to respond...with no solution Smiley But thanks anyway. I was hoping that CS would look at a solution though.
Have some good flying.

Johan
  
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Re: Pre-setting radar range
Reply #3 - Mar 19th, 2011 at 12:44am
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I'm still trying to figure out the <RadarGunModeRange>50</RadarGunModeRange>. It seems like the range, for any weapon, never goes beyond about 10 miles, regardless of where I set it.

Captain Sim are still working on the sound problem, so I can't comment on that. I don't have the sound problem.

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Re: Pre-setting radar range
Reply #4 - Mar 19th, 2011 at 3:39am
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Thanks Mark.

This Add-on is still one of the best commercial ones for FSX out there. Congratulations to you guys. I just hope CS will still keep working at resolving issues that could upset customers who can't resolve them on their own (like lots of us).
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Re: Pre-setting radar range
Reply #5 - Nov 27th, 2013 at 10:32am
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Effective Missile Range

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It seems like the range, for any weapon, never goes beyond about 10 miles, regardless of where I set it.


Has anybody figured out how to increase the effective range of BVR missiles ? (like AGM88 or ALARM or Kormoran). I mean beyond 10 miles as mentioned above ? I 'd like to shoot against aircraft or ships BVR, using the F-18 radar to find targets & lock them with cs HUD sensors (but missiles run short out of fuel ).

Most appropriate fields to edit in .xml seem to be :

<Name>AGM-88</Name>
               <Desc>AGM-88 HARM</Desc>
               <HudString>AGM88</HudString>
               <Pix />
               <Container>CS_Weapon_AGM-88</Container>
               <FxWake>csweapon_rocket_wake2</FxWake>
               <Weight>355.0</Weight>
               <TargetWeight>50000</TargetWeight>
               <Lifetime>25.0</Lifetime>
               <CtrLifetime>25.0</CtrLifetime>
               <Efficiency>1.0</Efficiency>
               <RadiusRatio>1.0</RadiusRatio>
               <DragCoeff>0.18</DragCoeff>
               <OpArea>0.015</OpArea>
               <GravCoeff>1.0</GravCoeff>
               <InitSpeed>0</InitSpeed>
               <EngThrust>20000</EngThrust>
               <ThrustDuration>10.0</ThrustDuration>
               <TurnRate>0.2</TurnRate>
               <SteerDelay>1.0</SteerDelay>
               <SeekerAngle>3.1416</SeekerAngle>
               <SelfDestrTime>10.0</SelfDestrTime>

Has anybody done any tests with these parameters ?...
  
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Re: Pre-setting radar range
Reply #6 - Nov 27th, 2013 at 2:37pm
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I messed them a long time ago. From memory:

<Lifetime>25.0</Lifetime> - How long the rocket/missile/bullet lives (displayed on the screen).
<CtrLifetime>25.0</CtrLifetime> - I'm not sure of this one, but I think it refers to how long the radar guidance lasts.
<EngThrust>20000</EngThrust> - Amount of thrust of the rockets/missiles/bullets. Increase or decrease to change the performance.
<ThrustDuration>10.0</ThrustDuration> - Length of time that the rocket engine runs. Increase it and the rocket power lasts longer = further range.
<SelfDestrTime>10.0</SelfDestrTime> - Length of time before the rocket/missile will self destruct. From memory, this is usually the same length of time as the thrust duration.
  
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