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Ok who's gonna be a genius today?

Posted: 02 May 2010, 18:19
by John
I've thought about converting CF2 ships to FS2004 (as flyable) for ages and today I finally got around to having a go. Getting it in (HMS Ocean - Not the current one) to FS2004 wasn't that bad. But do you think I can get it to stay on the water? Not a change, does anyone have an idea what I'm doing wrong. Here's a couple of pics including one of the problem :-(

The first two shots are in slew mode, hence no problem ;)


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Kind regards

John

Re: Ok who's gonna be a genius today?

Posted: 02 May 2010, 18:24
by DaveB
Is that what they call an Airship?? *-)

Sadly John, I can add nowt useful. However, there are folk here that can ;)

ATB

DaveB B)smk

Re: Ok who's gonna be a genius today?

Posted: 02 May 2010, 18:26
by John
DaveB wrote:Is that what they call an Airship?? *-)

Sadly John, I can add nowt useful. However, there are folk here that can ;)

ATB

DaveB B)smk
No worries Dave, that's why this is the only site that I've always stayed with, there's always someone that can help out, or at least try ;)

Kind regards as always

JR

Re: Ok who's gonna be a genius today?

Posted: 02 May 2010, 18:35
by DaveG
Are you using the cfg / air files that came from CFS2, or have you substituted them from another FS2004 ship?

Re: Ok who's gonna be a genius today?

Posted: 02 May 2010, 18:38
by John
DaveG wrote:Are you using the cfg / air files that came from CFS2, or have you substituted them from another FS2004 ship?
Hi Dave I used cfg and air files from another ship that had been converted to CFS2

John

PS bear in mind that this is al new to me :dunno:

Re: Ok who's gonna be a genius today?

Posted: 02 May 2010, 18:58
by DaveG
It's probably a contact point issue.
I had a similar problem with an aircraft where it would spring up in the air when loaded. Turned out there was a contact point buried underground.

Re: Ok who's gonna be a genius today?

Posted: 02 May 2010, 19:02
by John
DaveG wrote:It's probably a contact point issue.
I had a similar problem with an aircraft where it would spring up in the air when loaded. Turned out there was a contact point buried underground.
Ok that's a really good start, thanks very much... any idea how I go about fixing that? What am I looking for? Sorry to ask :-(

JR

Re: Ok who's gonna be a genius today?

Posted: 02 May 2010, 19:18
by DaveG
Can you post the [contact_points] section of the aircraft.cfg John? Or tell me where I can download the ship, then I can take a proper look at it :)

Re: Ok who's gonna be a genius today?

Posted: 02 May 2010, 19:44
by John
DaveG wrote:Can you post the [contact_points] section of the aircraft.cfg John? Or tell me where I can download the ship, then I can take a proper look at it :)
Never one to give up and taking clues from what you said I now have a perfectly pilotable HMS Ocean :welldone: :welldone: :welldone:

Many thanks for your help Dave

Kind regards

John

PS Does anyone know of a good source of 1960's to present day RN ships suitable for conversion?

Re: Ok who's gonna be a genius today?

Posted: 02 May 2010, 23:58
by John
I found a few... main WW2, but ok none the less, they'll prove useful for some sceenshots!

Thanks again guys

JR

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