Trailboss wrote on Dec 5^th, 2011 at 2:15am:

Has anyone successfully installed CS Weapons on the Iris A-10 Warthog?  I did the standard installation but the weapons panel did not appear.  I made modifications to the panel files that I did for other 3rd party installations and that worked successfully, but those changes did not work for the A-10.  I would appreciate detailed instructions if anyone has done the changes.

One thing that you need to know about the Iris A-10 Warthog is that the panel.cfg in all except the CLEAN model (IRIS A-10A Warthog - CL) have their panels aliased to the CLEAN model. Like so:

[fltsim]
alias=\IRIS A-10A Warthog - CL\Panel

So here is what I did to get it working in them all.

(1) I used the Weapon Loader to add Weapon to the IRIS A-10A Warthog - CL model. It must be that one because it is the model that has the gauges for all of the IRIS A-10 Warthogs!
(2) I copied the panel.csweapon and the CSWeapon.xml in the IRIS A-10A Warthog - CL folder and pasted it into the IRIS A10 Warthog  - CAS folder.
(3) Then I edited the panel.cfg IRIS A-10A Warthog - CL\panel.csweapon folder:


The gauge lines in the panel.csweapon panel.cfg need to be changed from this:
gauge00=..\panel\A10-HUD!A10-HUD,            6,6,500,500
to this:
gauge00=..\..\IRIS A-10A Warthog - CL\panel\A10-HUD!A10-HUD,            6,6,500,500

The way I did it was using notepad and CTRL+H (replace).

Find what: =..\panel\
Replace with:=..\..\IRIS A-10A Warthog - CL\panel\

I do not recommend you select the replace all button just in case it changes one that doesn't need doing. Fortunately, there are not a lot to go through. I counted only 38 lines.

Save your modified panel.cfg.


(4) Open the aircraft.cfg and change all the lines that look like this: panel= and replace it with panel=csweapon - BACKUP the aircraft.cfg files BEFORE you modify them!


Now go and test it by starting FSX, select the A-10A Thunderbolt II CLOSE AIR SUPPORT - ED #649 IRIS Test and Evaluation Squadron, Edwards AFB, CA (it should be the first of the A-10 Warthogs).


(5) If it is working, copy the panel.csweapon and CSWeapon.xml and paste them in the remain IRIS A-10 model folders and edit the Aircraft.cfg for the other models and you can then use Cs Weapon for FSX in all the A-10 models.

One other nice thing is that when you use the Weapon Loader and select the other A-10 Warthogs, Loader will tell you that it is installed on them all. :)

And if doing all of that is sounds too hard, I'll zip it up and upload it to the Weapon for FSX mods! I might do that anyway.

Hope this helps.

Mark

Edit. I've attached a pic to show it works. I'm using the A-10A Thunderbolt II CLOSE AIR SUPPORT - ED #649 IRIS Test and Evaluation Squadron, Edwards AFB, CA ;)

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