YS flight sim

[stealth finger]

Anyone played this.

Its a free flight simulator. Very basic graphics but solid physics and a wide selection on aircraft.


http://homepage3.nifty.com/ysflight/fromauthor/e2009.html

[kozzm0]

Anyone played this.

Its a free flight simulator. Very basic graphics but solid physics and a wide selection on aircraft.


http://homepage3.nifty.com/ysflight/fromauthor/e2009.html

I've played since about 2 years ago. I've hunted down and downloaded just about every free flight sim in existence.

For better aircraft, there's quite a few user-created plane sets, missions and maps. One of them is called Task Force 58, includes about 20 different f-18's and a zillion mig-21's. some others, I can't remember what they're called. I've got 3 versions of su-37, and an f-35 and a yak-38, where the vtol works. There's no ovt on the 37 unfortunately.

YS released a new version this year with vastly improved AI, and better flight recording features.

The best free flight sim I've ever seen is called Targetware. It's not finished, and hardly anyone ever plays online, but it's way realistic. Decent graphics too.

[stealth finger]

you got a link for targetware? (i know i could google it but i'm lazy and need to cook dinner)

[kozzm0]

http://www.targetware.net

you will need Java Runtime enabled to use the installer, since they're a little proprietary about it, it's considered a commercial game in beta, though it's had that status for years

Once you're up to speed, let me know and we'll have a battle in target tobruk "war in the desert" scenario.

[stealth finger]

sounds good

[SgtPappy]

Anyone try Target Tobruk? I might dl it if it's free to play.

[kozzm0]

yes, of course it's free... the other modules are richthofen's skies, war over poland, target rabaul, and the original target korea.

[P-51]

I cant download any of the mods for http://www.targetware.net one.. it downloads it and then says it cant unzip it.. what do i do?

[kozzm0]

I vaguely remember it gave me a big headache at first... you're supposed to make an account (free) and then when you dl the engine, you go to the mod page and it downloads the modules.

That is, dl the engine, make an account, start the engine, type in your name and pass, and then you dl the mods from within the engine.

They do it like that cause they plan to sell it one day, if they ever finish it.

Did you get the right installer, there's windows, mac and linux. The windows installer is a self-extractor I think... I use linux so I'm not sure

[P-51]

I vaguely remember it gave me a big headache at first... you're supposed to make an account (free) and then when you dl the engine, you go to the mod page and it downloads the modules.

That is, dl the engine, make an account, start the engine, type in your name and pass, and then you dl the mods from within the engine.

They do it like that cause they plan to sell it one day, if they ever finish it.

Did you get the right installer, there's windows, mac and linux. The windows installer is a self-extractor I think... I use linux so I'm not sure

I got the right one and in the end I downloaded the korea one manualy. Now to get the flipping thing to work with my thrustmaster...

[kozzm0]

I got the right one and in the end I downloaded the korea one manualy. Now to get the flipping thing to work with my thrustmaster...

Takes a bit of configuring but it's fully mappable. I use my ps3 controller.

Try taking off in a fully-loaded f9

[P-51]

Takes a bit of configuring but it's fully mappable. I use my ps3 controller.

Try taking off in a fully-loaded f9

Ok, the thrustmaster works - but only the buttons.. The rudder, throttle and stick have no input?? (its definately on PC settings)

[kozzm0]

from main menu, /settings/joysticks

it should list every device your pc recognizes.

If you can't get the TM to work, try your console controller

[P-51]

from main menu, /settings/joysticks

it should list every device your pc recognizes.

If you can't get the TM to work, try your console controller

I cant even use the keyboard to control it.. Its getting ever closer to the recycling bin >:|

[kozzm0]

And you picked "start flight" from the left menu when the scenario started, right? Otherwise it would just show a nice rotatable picture of a plane.

Look on the Wiki, I guess... that's where the troubleshooting info is

[P-51]

And you picked "start flight" from the left menu when the scenario started, right? Otherwise it would just show a nice rotatable picture of a plane.

Look on the Wiki, I guess... that's where the troubleshooting info is

Yeah, i hit E the engine starts and that's about it.. I cant do anything else apart from fire weapons (The engine is set at like 50% and rudder seems to be set in prop planes as they just spin round.. [could be torque?] Its like having a jet car with no steering wheel...)

I will, thanks..

[kozzm0]

Yeah, i hit E the engine starts and that's about it.. I cant do anything else apart from fire weapons (The engine is set at like 50% and rudder seems to be set in prop planes as they just spin round.. [could be torque?] Its like having a jet car with no steering wheel...)

I will, thanks..

Oh, I think I get it... you need to either map the throttle to an axis, or unmap it from all axes and then map increase/decrease throttle to the keyboard. There should already be default ones mapped, but if the throttle is mapped to an axis, the axis would override the keys.

You might need to reverse the throttle axis, too. I used the right stick of my sixaxis for throttle, and every time I pushed up, it went to idle speed. Then for a while I had the rudder and throttle on the same axis, but I couldn't figure out why I couldn't maintain altitude without losing control of the plane

[P-51]

Oh, I think I get it... you need to either map the throttle to an axis, or unmap it from all axes and then map increase/decrease throttle to the keyboard. There should already be default ones mapped, but if the throttle is mapped to an axis, the axis would override the keys.

You might need to reverse the throttle axis, too. I used the right stick of my sixaxis for throttle, and every time I pushed up, it went to idle speed. Then for a while I had the rudder and throttle on the same axis, but I couldn't figure out why I couldn't maintain altitude without losing control of the plane

I will try un-mapping everything! Anyone got a mod that i can download as i cant find downloads any apart from Target Rabul and korea... A link or ZIP file would be greatly appreciated.

[kozzm0]

I will try un-mapping everything! Anyone got a mod that i can download as i cant find downloads any apart from Target Rabul and korea... A link or ZIP file would be greatly appreciated.

Go to "play online" from the main menu and there should be an option to login, or it will ask automatically, login with your account name and pass... I just checked, there's about 9 servers going right now, if you pick one that you don't have the mod for, the mod will dl automatically. Besides TR and TK there's ones from Richthofen's Skies and War over Poland. the "download mods" button should also work as long as you're logged in

However Rabaul is probably the finest of them all, it's just not much fun if there's not a lot of players. Too much flak, too far to fly. I use Tobruk for practice cause there's flakless targets and fast planes

[P-51]

Go to "play online" from the main menu and there should be an option to login, or it will ask automatically, login with your account name and pass... I just checked, there's about 9 servers going right now, if you pick one that you don't have the mod for, the mod will dl automatically. Besides TR and TK there's ones from Richthofen's Skies and War over Poland. the "download mods" button should also work as long as you're logged in

However Rabaul is probably the finest of them all, it's just not much fun if there's not a lot of players. Too much flak, too far to fly. I use Tobruk for practice cause there's flakless targets and fast planes

Ok thanks, ill try to get it working first..

[kozzm0]

here is what Target Tobruk "war in the desert" scenario looks like when you get it working:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbmehq_twdemomp4_videogames

I am trying to get my PS Eye to work on my pc to make IL-2 video, so I tested it by recording a video of Targetware from my ps3. If I can fix the damn flicker problem I think it'll work.

This one may play a bit slow though, I didn't compress it and unfortunately You Tube would not accept it since it went over 10 minutes. So I had to use dailymotion... if it plays slow, it might be easier to just rip the video and skip to the combat part

(I just checked and it looks like dailymotion's ads kill the framerate)

[P-51]

Looks good, pitty my PS3 controller dont work eather.. That and on the game (after logging in) It still wont un ZIP the mod.. Tried manually downloading it and Turbok files are incomplete... Damn game....