Modding BS to fly other choppers?

[Stratos]

Anyone tried to fly the other choppers? Even If they use the BS FM and weapons sistems, is useful for screenshot artists and film makers. In Lomac we can use HumanCockpit=yes to fly the other planes.

Really interested to fly the Hind for some pics I have in mind

[Stratos]

No one tried?

[urze]

Why choppers?!

X-wing , Snowspeeder ,ect....:music_whistling:

[Stratos]

Make films is my idea

[mc_smile]

Why haven't you tried yet yourself?) Btw the hind was mentioned in faraway future plans of ED. Maybe one we'll see it as official module...

[Stratos]

Cause I don't have the game?? There are some guys that purchased the game on Russia, other are russians thenselves and bought the game on his shops.

[mc_smile]

I'll try it as soon as i have time and tell you the result. However i doubt it would be any good 'cause of different engine schemes in Mi-24 and Ka-50

[Stratos]

I know the choppers are and fly totally different is a mere sthetical affair. In clean words, need to fly a BS that looks like a Hind

Thank's for your time MC Smile!

Reputation to you

[mc_smile]

You're welcome) Btw i have the same interest in "pretending" a hind for movies

[AlphaOneSix]

I'll try it as soon as i have time and tell you the result. However i doubt it would be any good 'cause of different engine schemes in Mi-24 and Ka-50

 

The engines are just about the only thing that's the same between the two. ;)

[mc_smile]

Ok, i ran into a small trouble. Just changing "HumanCockpit" to yes doesn't work. When i set up Mi-24 in the editor i failed to assign its difficulty to "Player". Btw MEinit.xml has gone in BS or i haven't found it yet. Will try the whole thing tomorrow again

[Stratos]

Looking forward to it

[upyr1]

Anyone tried to fly the other choppers? Even If they use the BS FM and weapons sistems, is useful for screenshot artists and film makers. In Lomac we can use HumanCockpit=yes to fly the other planes.

Really interested to fly the Hind for some pics I have in mind

 

ED will be releasing a kit for add ons so expect some mods soon.

I don't know if the kit is out yet

[mc_smile]

Still nothing good. I tried changing humancockpit parametr, shapes, world id but nothing worked. Too bad that there isn't meinit.xml anymore. It would be much easier with it. I'll keep experimenting

[Stratos]

Have you tried to change the 3d model?

[Boberro]

You have to change HumanCockpit to yes but as is mentioned it doesn't work. I set Mi-24 and there wasn't FM any cabina. To choose from Editor human player as another pilot than only Ka-50 I changed also in me_helicopter.lua:

 

 

function updateSkillsList()

local skills

if isPlayableUnit() then

skills = humanSkills

else

skills = aiSkills

end

aiSkills on HumanSkills and vice-versa. I don't remember it THIS was on 100%.

 

Except seeing aircraft you won't be able to fly this.

[mc_smile]

Have you tried to change the 3d model?

 

I tried to change a referral to the helicopter's shape (same as 3D model) in the .lua file. It didn't work. I'm thinking about changing Ka-50 3D model files with Mi-24 files with renaming them. Quite radical though but still... :)

[Stratos]

Let me know your results please. And thank's for your efforts!

[mc_smile]

You are welcome! Will try this tomorrow. I also would like to thank Boberro for his advice! Will also give it a try. Hope this works

[Stratos]

Bump!

[Temp89]

there are a few refernces to a meinit file but i don't know if they're redundant. strangely enough the A-10 already has humancockpit=yes by default. i bet the Su-25, F15 et al do as well.

 

what about that long string of numbers and letters between {} at the beginning? I found the file listing them for all aircraft and swapped it round but it gave me an error starting up.

[mc_smile]

I'll tell you more - there're 2 more aircrafts that can be unlocked in game - Ka-52 (old FC model) and Harrier which wasn't added yet due to lack of info flight model of vertical take off so it flies like an ordinary jet. Both are AI-controlled.

P.S.: concerning choppers - still nothing good but i'm working on it

[Boberro]

So is it possible to fly Ka-52 with Ka-50 kabina?

[mc_smile]

I doubt it. However haven't tried it myself. Here't the link to the archive with 2 .lua files that add this aircrafts to the game. Credits go to TRENER

[Temp89]

I'll tell you more - there're 2 more aircrafts that can be unlocked in game - Ka-52 (old FC model) and Harrier which wasn't added yet due to lack of info flight model of vertical take off so it flies like an ordinary jet. Both are AI-controlled.

P.S.: concerning choppers - still nothing good but i'm working on it

 

those models are from Eagle's "The Battle Simulator", which had the Ka-50 as its only pilotable chopper along with all the planes you can fly in LOMAC. I always assumed Black Shark was a modified version of that training sim.