Editing Weapons

[sebihepp]

Hi everyone,

 

before you are killing me: I don't want to cheat.

I only want to play around a little bit in singleplayer and try some

modifications on the weapons.

 

I found the weapon data in "config/weapons/missiles_data.lua".

The biggest part of the structure is self explanatory. For example

M for Mass and H_Max and H_Min for Max and Min Altitude.

 

I only want to know, if it is possible to let the missiles fly an ballistic

trajectory? I mean, if they are fired horizontally, then they fly higher

and sailing the rest of the distance. Like the AGM-88C, for example.

Wich Values have to been set for this feature?

 

And this are the fields I don't understand:

- Escort - Okay, I know what this is. 0 means "Fire and Forget",

but the other values???

- Cx_pill

- Head_form

- h_min_t

- all Fi_ fields

-OmViz_max

 

Best Regards

Sebihepp

[sobek]

Here comes the kicker: they do already fly ballistic.

 

mission accomplished ;)

[sebihepp]

Really?

Damn, I didn't seen it. =)

 

Thanks

Sebihepp

[VS461]

Hi,

 

well, evything flies ballistic trajectory somehow. Except some missiles with long burning engine or jet (tipically cruise missiles, ramjet stuff etc.), every missile flies ballistic after burnout, although they are steered.

 

But, if you're talking about Vikhrs, they are beam riders, they must fly within the launcher's laser beam which is straight to the aimed target. They cannot fly that pop-up-and-sail trajectory like Hellfires which are semi-active. I don't know whether Ka-50's targeting system is able to control semi-active laser-guided stuff (control GBU-12-like bombs, Hellfires, Kh-25s) or not.

 

If so, it could be possible to integrate them into Ka-50's arsenal IRL, as well as hack .lua and other stuff in DCS. But... why the hell? This is a real combat simulation. It would be like you want to fly at 500 knots level with Ka-50.

 

Once I tweaked Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon weapon files with the built-in Igor editor, and it was funny to shoot an M16A2 at 6000 rounds per minute, from a 30000-shot mag. It was funny... first. After some single-player massacres, it became boring and I reset to defaults.

 

Cheers!