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Landable Surface For FS2004

Alan McGaughey

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Hi All,

I have almost completed several Royal Navy ships with FSDS2 as scenery objects and altertative AI ships, I'd like the scenery versions to have landable decks but I'm a bit stuck... :scratchch

I have used 11 sided polys for the decks, created the landable surface scasm code for the said polys at a precise 'even' number of metres in altitude as the help files state, but I cannot get it to work in FS2004, aircraft sink through the deck after just a couple of seconds. :confused:

I've tried having the 'Deck.bgl' in the same folder as the 'Ship.bgl' and also in a 'higher' folder but to no avail and I've tried adjusting all the parameters I can think of that might be the problem, ie; the altitudes in the 'deck.bgl' and the scenery file header altitude in FSDS, moving the axis to zero altitude and centered on the part, but still no joy, I'm at my wits end now :banghead:

do any of you guys know what the problem is, or what I'm missing ? :wizard: Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers All...
 
English Ship

Very interesting indeed

Could you please list your ship

Would be very interested in using them in Combat flight simulator

cheers
 
Hi Perisher,

The ships are :

HMS Albion / HMS Bulwark - Assault ships
HMS Ocean - Helecopter Carrier
HMS Cardiff - Destroyer Type 42
HMS Manchester - Destroyer Type 42-D2
HMS Vanguard/Victorious/Vigilant/Vengeance - Nuclear Submarines

Some have already been requested for other projects but I hope to be modelling more ships in time. These ships were all built at my local shipyard but I will be producing others, I'd like to do some older ships, namely WW2 stuff, been thinking about doing the German battleship 'Bismark' and HMS 'Hood' to get things going, atleast I won't need the landable decks for these :banghead:

I don't have any experience of CFS so I'm not sure if these ships are any use to you, they don't explode or anything and I have no idea how to make them do stuff like that, but if you're interested, drop me an e-mail so I have your address and I'll keep you informed of developments.

Cheers
 
Hi Alan,

Alan McGaughey said:
I have almost completed several Royal Navy ships with FSDS2 as scenery objects and altertative AI ships, I'd like the scenery versions to have landable decks but I'm a bit stuck... :scratchch
Click to expand...

Maybe you could do a search on the AvSim scenery design forum? This problem has been discussed there a lot. Since I use the new GMax gamepack myself, I use the Fs2004 style platforms for this. So I can't really remember the old techniques exactly.
 
Thanks Arno,

I'll try that as a last hope, but to be honest, it's time I got my head around Gmax, everyone else seems to have moved on so I've exported them into Gmax and all I need to do now is figure out how it all works, it's not as 'Flightsim-based' as FSDS but I can certainly see why it's the choice of professionals.
 
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