Removing Wing pylons From F/A-18C Lot 20?

[IvanK]

Seen a few images of clean FA18s (Blue Angels) in the screenshots forum. How do you go about removing the under wing pylons ?

[Bloodhound57]

You cannot do it at the moment. It will come later.

[iKyrThraad993i]

I saw some of the pictures by Blaze in the picture thread above they removed the pylons.

 

How are they doing this?

[SkateZilla]

It's possible already, but it wont remove the drag or weight.

[SkateZilla]

Add:

custom_args = 
{
[309] = 1.0,
[310] = 1.0,
[311] = 1.0,
[312] = 1.0,
[313] = 1.0,
[314] = 1.0,
[315] = 1.0,
}

 

To Line 257 of the Blue Angels Jet Team Description.lua

 

However this method is purely cosmetic. You'll have weapons floating on invisible pylons, and the weight/drag will still be present.

Edited June 2, 2018 by SkateZilla

[iKyrThraad993i]

Add:

custom_args = 
{
[309] = 1.0,
[310] = 1.0,
[311] = 1.0,
[312] = 1.0,
[313] = 1.0,
[314] = 1.0,
[315] = 1.0,
}

 

To Line 257 of the Blue Angels Jet Team Description.lua

 

However this method is purely cosmetic. You'll have weapons floating on invisible pylons, and the weight/drag will still be present.

 

 

Thanks Skate for the Clarification

[mltskyhawk]

You are a legend Skatezilla, next, centerline smoke please :)

[Tailhook]

However this method is purely cosmetic. You'll have weapons floating on invisible pylons, and the weight/drag will still be present.

 

Upon reading this I certainly disagreed. However, after loading up the collision model it's clear the visibility arguments for the pylons on the collision model are not animated the same as the base. I don't know why that wasn't originally configured the same time it was done for the base model. So you are correct, the drag from the pylons still do currently affect the "clean" jet.

Edited June 3, 2018 by Tailhook

[SkateZilla]

You are a legend Skatezilla, next, centerline smoke please :)

 

They dont have centerline smoke, its a oil line that extends over the left engine exhaust.

[fogster]

Is line 257 blank?

 

I have this on line 257:

 

{"pilot_F18_helmet", 2 ,"pilot_F18_helmet_roughmet",true};

[mltskyhawk]

I noticed the pylons become visible at a certain zoom (zoomed out), anyone experiencing the same?

[SkateZilla]

I noticed the pylons become visible at a certain zoom (zoomed out), anyone experiencing the same?

 

Lower LODs prolly dont have the visibility argument.

[Vitormouraa]

Lower LODs prolly dont have the visibility argument.

 

So how is ED going to fix that once this option to remove pylons are implemented officially? I guess the most obvious answer is adding the necessary arguments?

[mltskyhawk]

Lower LODs prolly dont have the visibility argument.

 

would there be an argument also for the lower lod's?

[Yanks_83]

SkateZilla your code doesn't work anymore?

[SkateZilla]

So how is ED going to fix that once this option to remove pylons are implemented officially? I guess the most obvious answer is adding the necessary arguments?

 

When Implemented Officially the Lower LODs would be updated, as well as the Primary.

 

would there be an argument also for the lower lod's?

 

No.

 

SkateZilla your code doesn't work anymore?

 

After an Update, You must restore the code to the Livery File.

[mltskyhawk]

What do you mean by restoring code to livery file?

[Nealius]

Livery file gets overwritten during updates, meaning the code we entered to "remove" the pylons gets deleted.

[archer86]

They'll add it to payload option but also we need same option for Su-27

[joey45]

ED will probably implement it in their next update.

[SkateZilla]

https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3524220&postcount=60

[archer86]

https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3524220&postcount=60

 

is this special for hornet or general?

[Kazius]

is this special for hornet or general?

 

+1