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[Airbourne]

This is a lovely model but I can't come to terms with the nose gunner blocking the pilot's view. I imagine you can remove him, perhaps by fiddling with one of the TGA files in the cockpit folder but which one? Or is there another way to do it.

[Dreamk]

Change your FOV angle. In some positions of the pilot head/ body, the front turret indeed blocked the frontal view, a plague on all French bombers of the mid thirties.

[Airbourne]

If that was how it was, historically, then I feel better about it. I may not even change the FOV. Thanks for the advice, Dreamk.

[stoney69]

Hope you guys will forgive me on this but I still get a CDT on 30% load of the plane. Funny, it will still fly as an AI plane in my SCW missions where this plane is called for no problem. I'm UP mod pack 5.30 with selector 3.1.1. My last log said this:   

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FM called 'FlightModels/Potez540.fmd:Potez54_FM' is being loaded from File: 'potez54_fm'
FM called 'FlightModels/Hispano-Suiza_12XY:Potez54_FM.emd' is being loaded from File: 'potez54_fm'
FM called 'FlightModels/Hispano-Suiza_12XY:Potez54_FM.emd' is being loaded from File: 'potez54_fm'
Flight Model File FlightModels/Potez540.fmd:Potez54_FM contains no Mach Drag Parameters.
FM called 'FlightModels/Potez540.fmd:Potez54_FM' is being loaded from File: 'potez54_fm'
java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: printCompassHeading
at com.maddox.il2.objects.air.CockpitPotez540.<init>(CockpitPotez540.java:126)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at com.maddox.il2.objects.air.Aircraft.createCockpits(Aircraft.java:3131)
at com.maddox.il2.objects.air.Aircraft.load(Aircraft.java:2491)
at com.maddox.il2.game.Mission.loadAir(Mission.java:1368)
at com.maddox.il2.ai.Wing.load(Wing.java:144)
at com.maddox.il2.game.Mission.loadWings(Mission.java:1111)
at com.maddox.il2.game.Mission._load(Mission.java:487)
at com.maddox.il2.game.Mission.access$000(Mission.java:135)
at com.maddox.il2.game.Mission$BackgroundLoader.run(Mission.java:433)
at com.maddox.rts.BackgroundTask.doRun(BackgroundTask.java:155)
at com.maddox.il2.game.MainWin3D.loopApp(MainWin3D.java:108)
at com.maddox.il2.game.Main.exec(Main.java:449)
at com.maddox.il2.game.GameWin3D.main(GameWin3D.java:235)
Thanks if you can help as I would really like to hand fly this ship.

[Dreamk]

The classic error  :
java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: printCompassHeading
You need to install SAS common utils to update your basic installation to mods standards
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,40490.0.html
 

[stoney69]

Thanks Dreamk, but I do have the Common Utils Version 1.10 installed but issue remains. Is there a more recent Utils?

[Dreamk]

If the common utils are present in your mod folder, but perhaps they are not really loading - try putting a ### before their folder's name. I hope it will help.

[stoney69]

Sorry Dreamk, but do you mean before the utils folder or the 540's folder?

[Dreamk]

before the common utils folder so that it loads first, before the 540 and other mods that were written initially on the basis of the 4.10 java code

[Epervier]

java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: printCompassHeading
   at com.maddox.il2.objects.air.CockpitPotez540.<init>(CockpitPotez540.java:126)

The classic error
...
You need to install SAS common utils to update your basic installation to mods standards

Thanks Dreamk, but I do have the Common Utils Version 1.10 installed but issue remains. Is there a more recent Utils?

I don't have a large memory but it seems to me that this problem can be solved by modifying the Java Class... only!

[Dreamk]

Gabriel, to the best of my understanding the commons utils are supposed to solve the problem for these mods in 4.12 and 4.13, not only for the modder, but also for the player.
BTW VPMedia suggested a couple of weeks ago that adding the latest SAS Engine mod can solve this kind problem (same thing occures with the FW190 & Ta152 pack) - as the source of this error maybe a conflict with classes of early versions of the Engine mod.
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,20351.msg640151.html#msg640151

[stoney69]

Well, I don't know gents. Thanks for trying to help, but nothing seems to work. I suppose that as long as I can use it in missions will have to do.