Mission Editor (Onboard / Comm)

[Lange_666]

Mission editor

When selecting an airplane you also get these settings:

Onboard

Comm

 

What are these values standing for?

Ex: For Onboard, i get a value "10", For Comm (communications?) i get various values.

[CrashEd]

Yes, I'd noticed this. In the shooting gallery mission I get: 251

 

Would be interested to know what it means.

[Lange_666]

I recon that COMM is the frequency to set so you can talk to every aircraft on your side (although i you program an enemy in the mission enditor, this value stays the same).

But this leaves a lot to be desired. Quite a few mission don't have any info on this in their briefings, so what do you do then if you want comms to work? On which frequency should the radio's be tuned to?

 

No clue what the ONBOARD value means though...

[Frogfoot1606687865]

Hmm, I can see the COMM field, but I don't get an ONBOARD field. I do have a field called BORT# though.

Tom

[CrashEd]

Hmm, I can see the COMM field, but I don't get an ONBOARD field. I do have a field called BORT# though.

Tom

 

Ditto.

[Lange_666]

Well, i do have ONBOARD...

 

[Frogfoot1606687865]

Very strange.

 

EDIT: I noticed you have 'Take off from Parking', but I have Take off from Ramp' as an option.

Maybe there are two different builds out there?

Edited October 23, 2010 by Frogfoot

[Lange_666]

I just checked, 64-bit and 32-bit don't differ so that can't be it, both show me ONBOARD and Takeoff from parking.

I also found that the ONBOARD/BORT# value is mostly 10 but can change to a bigger value if you select another plane.

[VTJS17_Fire]

The onboard number is your tailnumber. Type 68 and you have a number with 68 on your tail. ;)

 

 

kind regards,

Fire

[Frogfoot1606687865]

The onboard number is your tailnumber. Type 68 and you have a number with 68 on your tail. ;)

 

That makes sense. However it dosent explain why some installations show ONBOARD and some show BORT #.

 

Cheers

Tom

[Lange_666]

And why some have Takeoff from Parking and other have Takeoff from Ramp. Might be 2 different versions of the mission editor...?

 

Or maybe it's this:

 

I installed the 64-bit version first and then only later the 32-bit version files on top of it (after i found out here in the forums that TrackIR didn't work in the 64-bit version).

[Frogfoot1606687865]

32 and 64 bit versions installed at the same time here

[Eclipse]

Resurrecting this thread - what is the comm field for? Is that the frequency that will communicate with this aircraft? I have the P-51D module. Would I be correct that setting this value the same across all aircraft of one side, then setting a radio channel to this value, would allow anyone on that channel to communicate with each other?