Adding Hardened Hangars to Airfields?

[Mistermann]

Okay, I have searched for this answer and can't find it, so I am starting a new thread.  @Rudel_chw I am tagging you because these are the kind of things you appear to have a command over.

On the Afghanistan map.  Kandahar airbase.  If I put a hornet down at spot U04, it starts under a hardened canopy.

 

I'd like to place some hardened canopy assets elsewhere on the airfield if possible.  I found the hardened NATO Canopy in the "VPC asset pack" by voc and virpil.  I know this is ancient and unsupported.

If I drop this asset on the airfield, it won't let me start a Jet underneath it.  If I assign a jet spot V04 (below), DCS won't spawn there.  Instead, DCS spawns the jet elsewhere, not Underneath the Canopy where I want it.  Doesn't really matter where the Canopy is - I've fiddled with the placement.  If DCS sees an asset over the parking spot, it considers it occupied (makes sense).

My question is:

Are there any Hardened bunkers I can place in a mission that allow me to put client jets underneath?  Doesn't have to be VPC.

Thanks!

[razo+r]

31 minutes ago, Mistermann said:

Okay, I have searched for this answer and can't find it, so I am starting a new thread.  @Rudel_chw I am tagging you because these are the kind of things you appear to have a command over.

On the Afghanistan map.  Kandahar airbase.  If I put a hornet down at spot U04, it starts under a hardened canopy.

 

I'd like to place some hardened canopy assets elsewhere on the airfield if possible.  I found the hardened NATO Canopy in the "VPC asset pack" by voc and virpil.  I know this is ancient and unsupported.

If I drop this asset on the airfield, it won't let me start a Jet underneath it.  If I assign a jet spot V04 (below), DCS won't spawn there.  Instead, DCS spawns the jet elsewhere, not Underneath the Canopy where I want it.  Doesn't really matter where the Canopy is - I've fiddled with the placement.  If DCS sees an asset over the parking spot, it considers it occupied (makes sense).

My question is:

Are there any Hardened bunkers I can place in a mission that allow me to put client jets underneath?  Doesn't have to be VPC.

Thanks!

No, if you place an object on a spawning spot, it gets blocked.

But if you change the aircraft to "start from ground" (provided it's no AI aircraft, it has to be "client" or "player"), then it will work.

Edited Monday at 01:48 PM by razo+r

[Mistermann]

Start from ground ... Wouldn't have guessed that one.  Thanks!   I'll give it a shot.

[Rudel_chw]

1 hour ago, Mistermann said:

@Rudel_chw I am tagging you because these are the kind of things you appear to have a command over.

 

@razo+r is correct, if you place the aircraft as "start from ground" rather than "start at ramp", then it can spawn inside a VPC Canopy, like this:

 

 

If you want the interior lights of the canopy to work, then it must be placed as a ground unit of type "fortification", instead of a simple Static Object:

 

 

[Mistermann]

Thanks @Rudel_chw!  Answered my follow-up question before I knew I had it!!  

[Mistermann]

Hummmm ... I must have something wrong as my images don't come close to yours, @Rudel_chw.  Maybe I need to redownload the mod?  I've tried positioning the Hornet directly under the light source, but my cockpit is pitch black (unlike your image).

Thoughts?

Not the end of the world - I can use the flashlight to get the jet started and illuminated.  Just seems odd to be bathed in light but the Jet is dark inside.

Edited Monday at 02:51 PM by Mistermann

[Rudel_chw]

10 minutes ago, Mistermann said:

Hummmm ... I must have something wrong as my images don't come close to yours, @Rudel_chw.  Maybe I need to redownload the mod?  I've tried positioning the Hornet directly under the light source, but my cockpit is pitch black (unlike your image).

 

Its correct, the VPC object light normally does not illuminate the cockpit interior ... on my case I placed the Canopy on the CW Germany Map, where the built-in light of the ramp does illuminate the cockpit for some reason.