13.01.2009, 15:03
_1SMV_Gitano:
At last!! This is something that an awful lot of players have wanted for a long time.
I just grabbed a map and set the waypoints for in front of a hangar and it started right there.
Something that everyone needs to be aware of: Just like setting aircraft in a field more than 800 meters away from an air base, any more than one plane in a flight will spawn a couple of hundred meters to starboard and about ten meters to the rear of the plane in front. I found this out when I put two planes in a flight. What a hoot! The second plane was parked between two hangars and took off right from there.
The next step for this would be to be able to put waypoints on the ground so the AI guys would taxi over to the end of the runway. Oops! Sorry. There's already a thread for that somewhere around isn't there?
Anyway, great mod and thanks from the bottom of my heart.
edit: Just ran a couple of quick tests. An unfortunate effect is that, on any runway - grass or concrete, single or multiple - the second, third, and fourth aircraft will line up as described above. For airfields like some on the Slovakia map and Canonuk's fine Channel map, this could be used for those 'scramble' take offs. For anything else I think this limits the 'flight' to a single aircraft.
Oh well... When I fly in situations that require more than one plane to take off from a runway I'll just disable this mod.
Great days all.
At last!! This is something that an awful lot of players have wanted for a long time.
I just grabbed a map and set the waypoints for in front of a hangar and it started right there.
Something that everyone needs to be aware of: Just like setting aircraft in a field more than 800 meters away from an air base, any more than one plane in a flight will spawn a couple of hundred meters to starboard and about ten meters to the rear of the plane in front. I found this out when I put two planes in a flight. What a hoot! The second plane was parked between two hangars and took off right from there.
The next step for this would be to be able to put waypoints on the ground so the AI guys would taxi over to the end of the runway. Oops! Sorry. There's already a thread for that somewhere around isn't there?
Anyway, great mod and thanks from the bottom of my heart.
edit: Just ran a couple of quick tests. An unfortunate effect is that, on any runway - grass or concrete, single or multiple - the second, third, and fourth aircraft will line up as described above. For airfields like some on the Slovakia map and Canonuk's fine Channel map, this could be used for those 'scramble' take offs. For anything else I think this limits the 'flight' to a single aircraft.
Oh well... When I fly in situations that require more than one plane to take off from a runway I'll just disable this mod.
Great days all.