I have now exhausted the missiles I need for weapons FSX. Can anybody think of anything else that is missing.

Any request may be undertaken.

Pete

I am willing to give it a go.

Watch this space.

Pete

I will add them to the list, but with the constraints of CS weapons all I can do is give them a range of far beyond what the included missiles are set up for. So I guess they will lock on (maybee adjust the lock on ranges dial?) and  fire off into the distance and disappear after the 'lifetime' or selfdestruct time runs out - you may never see it take out a target.
But you will of course get a nice launch and see it disappear off as you would the real thing I guess...........Unless CS give us a nice GPS function to use for targeting in the future!

Watch this space.

Pete

ptds wrote on Oct 29^th, 2011 at 9:54pm:
I guess you carry that one under a B-52? Looks a bit big for an F-16!

As I said before I can only adapt what CS has given us, so it may need some tweaking of the .xml to get it just right after the guys who fly the big B52's have had a go.

Hope to get it complete and have a go myself today. I dont have any big jets myself so will no doubt use the trusty sea Vixen again.......

Pete

While playing around with the speeds, I had some data that gave the cruise speed as 260km/hr, when testing I saw nothing. So I fired some more - Then I went to the outside view and then realised I was flying faster and the missiles were behind me!
Just thought this made a good picture and I would share it - somebody is going to have a bad day!

Pete,

It looks great, can't wait to try it when you put it on line. Is it going to be air-to-air? air-to-ground? or both?
This cruise missile was really missing in the entire range.
Thanks for offering this,

Johan

ptds wrote on Oct 31^st, 2011 at 7:17pm:


Pete,

You are totally right, they are air to ground or air to sea (in the case of warship target). But I guess for FSX it could be made air to air as well, which would be a total overkill and probably inefficient due to the relatively low speed.

Johan

Pete, this is great. I can't wait to test it so I can try to bring a constructive opinion.

Johan

Mark, you are right about the "destructive" nature underlying in my previous quote

Pete is very talented. I am using all of his missiles. We need to buy him a new plane though

Johan

Pete,

Thank you so much!
Here are a few pictures with a launch from a B1-B. To take these, I acquired an airborne target, not too far from the plane. I am not sure how to acquire a ground target several miles away for instance. Maybe Mark knows better, but aren't we limited by the CSW radar range?
I will keep experimenting, it is fun.
Great work,

Johan

Last one.

Johan, Mark,

They look the real deal with the B1-1. 'I think I'm going to need a bigger plane'!.

Thanks for the positive remarks, I was a bit worried by how this one would be received as I know it will need some tweaking by the end user. I am always very aware that some people dont like playing with .xml files and so try to give something that is useable.

In terms of the range I think it is determined by the range setting dial to detect a target and then you only get 'lock on' if it is within the range capability of the weapon. I was certainly getting a lock on of targets that were 60 - 70 miles away. Once fired I could try and chase the missile (I can do that in my little jet!  ) as it is quite slow, but did eventually lose it before it hit the target.

I am glad you are enjoying it anyway. I have been asked to do some more ALCM's, and so I will give them a go now I know you are happy with these ones. Dont forget to publish any tweaks or adjustments you find that improve things.

Pete

Johan,

It's not part of the model. I think it is in the 'effects' file, I did have a look in the effects file last night as I was trying to make the smoke black rather than white. I have not yet mastered the effects file myself just yet so I can offer no more help beyond pointing you there.

The missile is referenced to missile wake 2 or something similar (away from my home PC at the moment, so unsure of exact name, but you will see it in the .xml file). If you have a look in there it may be obvious.

Do let me know if you find it, I will have a look tonight as well just for future reference.

Glad you are still enjoying it.

Pete

Johan,

You can modify the effects files if you know how (not had cause to play in these as yet, I did have a quick play last night to try and change the smoke to black but it didn't work). If you copy csweapon_rocket_wake2 and call it csweapon_rocket_wake3. Then make any changes you want in wake 3, then just change the name in the .xml file to look at wake 3 instead of wake 2, that way you keep wake 2 in tact incase you mess up. If you do achieve what you want in wake 3 then leave it and use it again.

Pete

Pete,

It worked by modifying the "lifetime" variables in the Csweapon_rocket_wake2. You can assign the time length you want. However, it eats up a lot of fps, especially if you shoot several of them at the same time.
Thanks for the hint.

Johan