Add New Racks

[Blaze]

Not what you were thinking. Dirty mind! :D

 

I'm trying to add new missile rails and bomb racks to FC2 for a mod, but after looking through the mountains of lua coding in the ADA mod for a reference, I realized just how much there is to it...just to add a new pylon to the sim! :surprise:

 

Adding new entries to the ContainerTable.sht, db_weapons.lua, Names.lua, Racks.lua, Types.lua, WsTypes.lua, making new bundles of weapons+new rack with more entries. It's a ridiculous amount of work, and I've been searching and haven't found a tutorial yet that explains this cut-and-dry how to do it, without having to wade through a sea of original and new code to find what entries I have to add, then try and modify them for my own use.

 

Does anyone know of a tutorial on how to accomplish this, or would care to explain it a little bit? I wish this wasn't so friggen difficult. Would be nice if it could just be like "Add a weapon to that station? Ok, I'll draw "pylon_name" there. Done!"

 

C'est la vie.

 

:helpsmilie:

[Alfa]

Well it is a bit tedious, but once you have tried it a couple of times its not too bad.

 

It sounds like you already know which files you need to modify for the purpose, so a good way to go about it is to pick a particular existing rack/weapon combo and then "trace" it down through the varies files to figure out the relationship between them.

 

Mind you the files you listed are just the ones you need to modifiy to "declare" the new racks and rack/weapon associations - after that you also need to assign them to weapons stations of each aircraft entry you want to make them available for......and perhaps also modify each of the stock payload options accordingly(which is a right pain).

[Blaze]

Yeah, I guess more digging. Just having to edit 6 files (7 with the aircraft's own lua) to add 1 new object is insane to say the least.

[Alfa]

Hehe yeah.

 

Its been a long while since I last did any rack modding, so I am a little rusty, but if you run into a problem, just shoot me a PM and I will try to help you out :) .