A very bad learning tool.....

[KG26_Alpha]

The simmers will "out sim" themselves and we will be left with the gamers still having fun gaming.

I can do both quite well but I fly CooPs mostly in "non serious mode" we all have fun on TS and lots of friendly banter is thrown around.

Take your game how you like it, that's why the different settings are there.

But......

If you are a stats monger and hunt single handedly with no wingman on a df server then your gaming the game no matter how you dress it up.

IMHO

[sniperton]

Alpha, is there a way to make icon settings (as described in #33) default? I mean an auto-loading script instead of typing every time in console. Thanks

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by sniperton

Alpha, is there a way to make icon settings (as described in #33) default? I mean an auto-loading script instead of typing every time in console. Thanks

Are you running a dedicated server ?

If you are IL2 SC or FBDj can set the icons for the dedicated server.

If you are launching the standard client IL2 1946 v4.12.2 there's a icon set up in the gui
Setup>misc>Icons>

Or you can use the RCU file in the root directory and load preset icon ranges for different mission types.
You will have to enter them manually.


EG:

@a ddot dot DEFAULT

@a t1 mp_dotrange FRIENDLY DOT 15 COLOR 0.75 TYPE 0.5 ID 0.5 NAME 1.5
@a t2 mp_dotrange FOE DOT 15 COLOR 0.75 TYPE 1.0 ID 0.5 NAME 0.50


@a fdot dot FRIENDLY DOT 15 TYPE 2 COLOR 1.5 NAME 1.5 RANGE 0.5 ID 0.01
@a edot dot FOE DOT 15 TYPE 0.31 COLOR 0.31 RANGE 0.31 ID 0.2

@a 11 mp_dotrange FOE DOT 14 TYPE 2.0 COLOR 0.001 NAME 0.1 ID 0.001 RANGE 0.001
@a 22 mp_dotrange FRIENDLY DOT 14 TYPE 2.0 COLOR 0.001 NAME 5.0 ID 0.001 RANGE 0.001


@a i1 mp_dotrange FRIENDLY DOT 25.0 COLOR 0.1 RANGE 0.1 TYPE 1.0 ID 0.1 NAME 0.1 ALTICON
2.5 ALTSYMBOL + ALTCOLOR 3

@a i2 mp_dotrange FOE DOT 25.0 COLOR 0.1 RANGE 0.1 TYPE 1.0 ID 0.1 NAME 0.1 ALTICON
2.5 ALTSYMBOL + ALTCOLOR 3


For automatically setting the icons:

First you create a new file in your IL2 directory called icons.rcu
(create it in notepad and ensure it doesn't end up with a .txt suffix)
and enter your mp_dotrange commands inside.
Here is an example:

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">mp_dotrange FRIENDLY DOT 15.000 COLOR 0.005 RANGE 0.005 TYPE 6.000 ID 0.005 NAME 0.005
mp_dotrange FOE DOT 15.000 COLOR 0.500 RANGE 0.005 TYPE 6.000 ID 0.005 NAME 0.005
timeout 60000 file icons.rcu</pre>

The last line makes the file reload roughly every 60 seconds.

Then you add this line to the end of your rcu file:

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">@file icons.rcu</pre>

So now every time you start a mission your preferred icon settings are applied automatically.

[sniperton]

Thanks, Alpha, much appreciated, but I'd like to set it for offline training. Is it doable?

Edit: Found the answer here (a very informative thread): http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3496755/2