9.JG27 DavidRed Posted May 31, 2013 Posted May 31, 2013 hello guys! i would líke to know whether its possible to get access to the mission planner during an online mission. i created one, and would like to have the option to choose skins before entering a plane...is this possible? or are only the skins available for clients which were selected during mission building?
159th_Falcon Posted May 31, 2013 Posted May 31, 2013 Only the once selected during mission building. Can be a good thing depending on your point of view. Everyone having the same skin is good for visual identification Not being able to change skins may mean you may never get to see your favorite one outside of single player. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] The keeper of all mathematical knowledge and the oracle of flight modeling.:)
chromium Posted May 31, 2013 Posted May 31, 2013 That could be an impressive upgrade, not also for skinning purposes but also for planning reason. Obviously it should be an option that the mission designer can allow/not allow players to get into mission planner :). Maybe... in a future... Author of DSMC, mod to enable scenario persistency and save updated miz file Stable version & site: https://dsmcfordcs.wordpress.com/ Openbeta: https://github.com/Chromium18/DSMC The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously.
9.JG27 DavidRed Posted May 31, 2013 Author Posted May 31, 2013 (edited) yes i see both the advantages and disadvantages of not beeing able to change skins....im ok with it not beeing possible right now... but what if i use custom made skins in a mp mission?will a client who joins a plane with such a skin see it, even if he doesnt have the skin?will he see other planes with those skins? @chromium...yes the general possibility to go into the mission planner while already in a mission has its potential... im thinking of drawing routes into the map and planning your flight path with simple implemented drawing tools....just like it is possible in cliffs of dover, where you can open the map during flight, and draw waypoints into it while flying...then you have tools to meassure the angles and distances, which are then shown in the map as well...pretty neat feature. Edited May 31, 2013 by 9./JG27 DavidRed
chromium Posted May 31, 2013 Posted May 31, 2013 im thinking of drawing routes into the map and planning your flight path with simple implemented drawing tools....just like it is possible in cliffs of dover, where you can open the map during flight, and draw waypoints into it while flying... I believe that this could be much more difficult, cause of the avionics systems that rely on data from the .miz files, such TAD and ABRIS. If I modify in the planning screens, the changes are reflected in the avionics data. Instead, a "on the fly" modification should not be reflected in the avionics. Also, inside the ABRIS and CDU/TAD programs you effectively can change flight plan and data in real time in a much more deeply way than in ME interface... it's simply time consuming, but I believe that this could be part of the simulation :), as the "planning" screen could reflect the ability of pre-program a data-cartrige. This is the reason cause I prefer to have an optional access to the planning screen, if the mission designer that create the mission would allow me to do that :). Obviously another optimal solution is to have the ability to export any flight plans in some kind of data-cartrige format, that should be loadable from cockpit or briefing screen... But I believe I want too much :D Author of DSMC, mod to enable scenario persistency and save updated miz file Stable version & site: https://dsmcfordcs.wordpress.com/ Openbeta: https://github.com/Chromium18/DSMC The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously.
9.JG27 DavidRed Posted May 31, 2013 Author Posted May 31, 2013 yeah you are right in regards of the avionics.... but i dont mean changing the actual flight plans the plane has saved in its avionics system...im more thinking about the planes which dont have any avionics, like the p51...and hopefully many more planes to come. there a pilot relies either on landmarks, or on a physical map...changing waypoints is more meant as drawing a point with a pen on the paper map...
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