Hi there,
I love the Macross so much and I had purchased your creation. I love it but I encountered some issues. If you have time, please consider fixing them or tell me how to fix them :
1. ATC reply hot key fails (when pressing 1 or 2, it went to zoom in and zoom out but failed to answer the ATC questions)
2. Landing gear sometimes got permanently stock in down or up position when speed is over 180 around. I think it is not a bug, but is there a way to repair
it ?
Hi,
Just so I can check what version you may have, could you please tell me what date and time you purchased?
Sorry to hear this, I am looking into this now. I have not had any issues with landing gear sticking, but let me double check. I do know of a parameter that effects that, so I will get back to you. As far as the ATC reply buttons. Maybe try key binding them again. If you used my Hot key binding setup, it may have written over some hotkeys you had before. So I would look into remapping them for the ATC. I will be back shortly about the landing gear.
The locking of landing gear is not a feature I coded in. I know how this can be done in the flight_model.cfg parameters.
"gear_locked_above_speed =0" is what I used so that it is not affected by speed.
This may be a conflict with some of your add on aircrafts??? Unfortunately I can not duplicate this, so not sure why you are having an issue. Have not heard this from other users either. See if this problem persists with solo flights, or not using any add on aircraft in the scene. Wish I could offer more suggestions. 😕
Hi Josephm700,
So I unzipped and loaded the latest file everyone should have. I am having no issues that you describe. I can open or close the landing gear on command at any speed. I also Have the ATC dialogue box open and my hotkeys 1-9 work fine and respond to the tower.
So here are my suggestions. Check in your options menu under "Assistance Options". Under Piloting and User Experience, check to make sure that you have assisted landing, takeoff, anti-stall, ATC radio Auto, and any other options that may automatically be trying to assist you in the "OFF" position. These options may be triggering your landing gear or interfering with your ATC commands. Play around with those options, especially the landing, anti-stall and take-off options. That may help in keeping the landing gear totally under your control.
As I also mentioned earlier. See if the key bind mapping was not changed by accident. Just a quick question... Did you create a keyboard filter for my suggested keyboard binding, or did you overwrite the "default" keys? That may have affected it. Either way, check your keyboard binding hot keys. Search "ATC" and you should see the numbers 0-9 assigned, if not, there lies the issue.
Thank you so much for purchasing. Please keep me posted on how these suggestions work for you. I don't see these issues on my end, so I can only assume that there is something conflicting with your options setup.
have a great day,
Bill
Hi Bill,
As an engineer, here I reply item by item.
Answer your questions on my settings :
1. I strictly followed your instruction in mapping RCtril+Numberic keys. For key bindings, there are two slots in the MSFS, if the left slot is empty, I map them on the left slot, if the left slot is occupied, I map them on the right slot. Is it correct ?
2. All my settings are no-assist or hard except for keeping the the ATC log on.
Some more information on the potential bugs :
1. I noticed that only in the Guardian mode, when I type 1 or 2 (not the numberic area, on row 2), it changed to zoom in and zoom out. The issue does not happen when I go back to the Fighter mode.
2. Another thing, When parking on the runway, when I raised the cockpit up or down (RCtril + Num5) in the Guardian mode, sometimes the height is up, but the panel is not up, sometimes both panel and the height are up. Don't know what caused the difference.
Some crazy ideas just for chit chat
1. It is odd when landed with the Guardian or the Battloid modes which the landing gears protruded... I know technically it is difficult to remove them purely for animation, but is it feasible that...
- The actual gears and doors are small objects or thin lines which are not noticeable when animated.
- The fake gears roll and animate in conjunction with the real gear only in the fighter mode; in other modes, they are always retracted.(Use HUD or something to tell the player if the gears are up or down.)
....Just an idea, may be not practical......
2. I tried many times trying to take a picture with the Battloid mode or Guardian mode in the city center but all failed to crash. I know turning off the crash detection can do the trick, but I never do it. I am thinking... (Not demanding, just dreaming....) it comes to handy...
...if the Guardian or Battloid modes are in multi roter drone mode just like the Microsoft stock airplane D77 .....
3. btw, I am a livery maker, my rank in the Flightsim.to is already a "General" for years. I have some plans on making some liveries for my own use, but I found this aircraft is the toughest to map the texture. After one day of hard work, I can map for about 60%.... Could you give me some hints on the texture file mapping ?
Thanks,
Joseph
I have tried to duplicate your problems/issues. I am not seeing any of the issues you are experiencing with the model breaking apart or panels not rising with the rest of the jet. Maybe you can make a video of the problems and send it to me. I only fly solo, so I am not familiar with adding in other aircraft or multiplayer. I know that some planes can have conflicts when flying in multiplayer because they share similar codes when activating controls.
I will look into possibly creating a "hide landing gear" feature which retracts landing gear visually, even though landing gear is still down for contact points on ground.
Thank you Sir, I like it very much.
Yes, I noticed that there is a new button on the middle-right side for switching the head.
Visually, the gears are annoying still, but I know it requires a huge amount of work to hide it.
One more thing, I experienced CTDs especially in the map menu selecting the airport after I added the 14 songs under the Sound folder. Looks like it could cause some memory over flow. The issues are gone after I had removed them. I think I need to expand my RAM (Currently 32GB) or something.
Great to hear that you like it. I am still considering a fix for the landing gear. Will have to create many new controls to close it on demand, so I will keep you posted if I do any updates, but probably will not have time to fix for a couple of weeks.
What are "CTD"s? that you experience with songs loaded?
CTD = crash to desktop. MSFS just suddenly disappeared and back to the desktop automatically.
The firs time it was going well, songs play and the Robotech flied. But after exited the MSFS and restarted the game, I saw the dialogue box of the game was not exit normally choose safe mode or normal mode, I chose the normal mode, and the game CTD in the World map with any aircraft, not necessarily the Robotech.
Since then, 10 out of 10 times CTD happened even after rebooting the PC.
But after the songs had been removed, everything got back to normal and the MSFS never crashed.
In the past I had to clear out some of my community projects. There were conflicts with other 3rd party mods. Even in game my DC design F-14 would not show up in hangar until I eliminated certain 3rd party mods. If you have a lot of 3rd party mods, consider cleaning out the ones you do not use often. It may Help!
Also, I figured out the landing gear. Should have an updated VF1S in a few days for you to download.
If you would like the other Liveries I made, let me know and I can send you an invoice and a download link.
