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[mace]

I hope you are all well.

Mainly for AI-controlled planes but also suitable for player-controlled aircraft.

As with any ‘one size fits all’ work in progress there are bound to be issues, so Logfiles please.

Installation instructions for BAT 4.1.1 or 4.12 with ModAct5.3 can be found in a .pdf guide.

Three sample missions included.

An aerial message .psd template and 'Creating an Aerial Message' instructions also included.

cheers mace




210205 Download [2.5mb]
https://www.mediafire.com/file/04vb4e9y9fpmorm/Target-Message_210205.7z/file

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Change Log
210205 +loadouts now in native format for BAT compatibility (cod Target_Message -718220718)
+further refinement of Target-Message coding and sample missions revised for BAT compatibility

201003 +further refined coding to improve player aircraft’s ability to retain towed objects
+more .mis advice for mission makers added and updated some sample missions

200131 +initial release


[larschance]

Thanks Mace. Von and I may add it to our Schneider Trophy Race if appropriate. It could be put to good use in several scenarios, especially for the TGA era.

[Vampire_pilot]

Many thanks Mace, and just in time

One small remark if you allow: You use tabs to space your ini entries. That is absolutely not advisable. It can lead to messed up ini files. Please only use spaces as only a space is a valid separation marker.  (I noticed this in other entries of yours before but always forgot to mention)

[vonofterdingen]

Congratulations and thanks to you Mace for this wonderful mod. I just started using it in BAT 3.8.3 today.  It is easy to use and looks great in game. As larschance said, we are using it now in our  Schneider Trophy wip project.

And Vampire thanks for this timely inclusion in BAT.

[mace]

larschance, SAS~vampire_pilot & vonofterdingen, thank you for the positive feedback and kind words, very much appreciated.

Great to see the mod is now incorporated into BAT 3.8.3

cheers mace

[UberDemon]

mace,

I love these innovations and I was playing with it last night.  From your quote below from (https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,63273.msg698194.html#msg698194):

I have tweaked the target banner's flight model so any AI controlled plane (from Avro 504 to F-16) can tow a message banner (or target) without any modification.

That is pretty clear.  I am curious if you have a complete list of what you mentioned on your PDF, namely concerning:

[%u2026] a limited number of player-controlled planes (such as the stock P-51, F6F, Mosquito & YP-80).

Do you have a complete list of the player planes which can be used to tow your message-banners?  I assume that the full list which was associated with the 3.8.3 patch is included (https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,63457.msg698817.html#msg698817), but I did not see those four planes you mentioned above, and I never knew that they were tugs of any kind.

Since I am working on an update to my mission generator, and it includes lots of composite flight options, I would like to have it as complete as possible.

Thanks again for this super cool addition.  I enjoyed the included missions you provided to guide mission builders.

I do have a question though, whenever I try to play the P-51 or YP-80 missions where I take off, the banners are not attached and they simply fall down and explode.  I noticed a lot of issues with the tugs and gliders on the latest BAT update (especially if you are flying in the tug), just wondering if you experienced that when you updated it.

[mace]

UberDemon thank you for the kind comments and questions about this WIP.

Your ongoing work on your excellent UQMG is very much appreciated by the community.

Apologies for the tardy reply but I only saw your post to this thread yesterday.

Installed the sample missions from https://www.mediafire.com/file/3tjqte42ykhhvh7/Target-Message_200331.7z/file download (post#1) into BAT 3.8.3 ([Folder Pathway] BAT - Missions - Single (World At War) - US - Target-Message) yesterday and both the P51 and YP-80 player missions were OK with no loss of banner.




I use 4.12m with Modact5.3 as my development game engine and apart from the known player glider tugs (C-47, Li-2, Bf-110C4, He-111Z, etc) I could only find the P-51, F6F, Mosquito & YP-80 could easily act as player glider tugs. Mod was intended for AI aircraft and the vast majority of IL2 aircraft will tow these targets and aerial messages. Because of the outstanding number of superb planes in BAT, I did not attempt to check which aircraft were player glider tug compatible.

cheers mace

[mace]

UberDemon, I have further refined this mod's coding to improve player aircraft’s ability to retain towed objects (see updated download in Reply#1).

I have tested 30+ IL2 aircraft and to date found no issues with any player or AI aircraft as long as the mission makers guidelines are followed.

cheers mace

[UberDemon]

Rock on!

Thank you, this is very nice!