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[Aioros]

This is first a question and second a request:

How hard would be to implement the ROF setting available for ships also for the Artillery objects (especially AAA) to simulate short burst of fire like those shown in the next videos?:





Thanks.

[max_thehitman]

All that shooting and all they killed was a pidgeon  Crazy guys

[Aioros]

 ...Well at least they are training or are trained unlike these hopeless pieces of S#&t (sorry but I hate anything related with terrorists):



My point is it would be great to control the rate of fire to avoid the fps hit associated to objects or vehicles like the whirbelwind.

[Koty]

yeah, something like with ships... 

[Plowshare]

This can be done permanently in the technics.ini file. Here's a couple examples:

[Flak30_20mm]
Description  German machine gun Flak 30, 20mm
Icon         antiaircraft

DelayAfterShoot         2.2
ChainfireTime           5.2

[Flak18_88mm]
Description  German antiaircraft gun Flak 18, 88mm

DelayAfterShoot         3.0
ChainfireTime             0

DelayAfterShoot is the amount of time in seconds before the next number of rounds are fired.

ChainfireTime is the amount of time in seconds the gun fires rounds - 0=1shot

If you add the line
FireFastTargets           0
the gun(s) will not shoot at planes.

Bob

edit:
You can also fool around with this line:
FastTargetsAngleError   X.X (where X = digit)

I tested this with the Russian Maxime 7.62 machinegun and there was a very noticeable difference between 2.0 (default) and 15.0.

Testing shows that you must beware that some of these changes will affect any tracks that have been made prior to the changes made.

All of the testing above was done flying my trusty F4U-1A Corsair at as fast a speed as I could get out of her!

B.

[Aioros]

Many thanks for your answer Plowshare. so far I have edited the technics.ini file only to modify the "FireFastTargets" setting, so the knowledge about the "DelayAfterShoot", "ChainfireTime " is more than welcome.

I tested this with the Russian Maxime 7.62 machinegun and there was a very noticeable difference between 2.0 (default) and 15.0.

Testing shows that you must beware that some of these changes will affect any tracks that have been made prior to the changes made.

The maxime is precisely one of those machine guns whose tracers look great, but are too unrealistic (in my opinion) due to the exagerated rate of fire, is almost overwhelming, not even all the piss on the world would be able to refrigerate that barrel in real life  .

So speaking from ignorance, I assume that it's difficult to modify the full mission builder to give it an option to alter those values directly in it, without altering the technics.ini?

The question would be...Does the ROF setting for ships alter the technics.ini in any way, or what value does it change, to change the behaviour of the guns from the FMB?

I just ask these questions out of curiosity, It's good to have a guided visit through the internals of the simulator.

Thanks again for your detailed answer Plowshare.

[Koty]

Code: [Select]

[ZU_23_2]
Description  Russian antiaircraft gun ZU-23-2, (2x 23mm, year 1960)
Icon         antiaircraft

// Models
MeshSummer         3do/Artillery/Russia1956/ZU_23_2/Live.him
MeshDesert         3do/Artillery/Russia1956/ZU_23_2_desert/Live.him
MeshSummerDamage   3do/Artillery/Russia1956/ZU_23_2/Dead.sim
MeshDesertDamage   3do/Artillery/Russia1956/ZU_23_2_desert/Dead.sim

// Panzer
PanzerType       Artillery
PanzerSubtype       2
PanzerBodyFront  0.006

// Weapon
Gun                  MachineGun2A14_23_x2
AttackMaxDistance    3000.0
AttackMaxRadius      3000.0
AttackMaxHeight      2800.0
HeadYawHalfRange      180.0
GunMinPitch            -5.0
GunStdPitch            25.0
GunMaxPitch           +85.0
HeadMaxYawSpeed        19.6
GunMaxPitchSpeed       15.0
ChainfireTime           4.0
DelayAfterShoot         2.0
FastTargetsAngleError   1.0
FireFastTargets           1

So, change it to something like:

ChainfireTime           0.5
DelayAfterShoot         2.0
FastTargetsAngleError   4.0

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