Hello everyone!
After tidying more about aircraft designation system and seeing how aircraft list keep growing exponentially through each year, this made me think of this idea of new aircraft list system for BAT. I will explain each systems in steps by steps.
I can see two different methods of doing this theoretically
Filtered by Nation / Military branch Method #1
What if the molders could add new codes based on already existing list of nations. This system would allow you to filter the aircraft list, based on what nations / military branch you select. From nation drop menu, if you select USN as an example, it would only display aircraft flown by USN. And in air.I I, if you add this new codes [NATION=(nation / military name)] And end each code with [Nation=End].
[NATION=USAAF]
P-40
P-47
Etc
[NATION=END]
[NATION=USN]
F4F-3
F6F-3
F4U-1
Etc…
[NATION=END]
With this system, it would make it easier to select aircraft.
Filtered by Nation / Military branch Method #2[/ b]
What makes this method different from Method #1 is adding new codes so the game can read a new file known as Aircraft_Nation.ini so it tells IL-2 1946 which nation each aircraft is being operated by. In Aircraft_nation.ini you would see the list:
F4F-3. air.f4f-3. [Nation=USN, FFA]
PBY-5. Air.pby5. [Nation=USAAF,USN,FAA, etc…]
With this system being created, you would tie it to already existing nation and aircraft list, if you select “USAAF”, then it would only display aircraft based on what nation is selected.
Aircraft designation system / alternative names[/ b]
This, in my opinion, will not only make it much easier to have the accurate aircraft names, this also allow us to have an alternative names for aircraft, tied to the nations.
That way we can use the same aircraft codes from planes_propperities_ru, lets’ say F4F-3 as an example (based on what is already listed in plane_properities_ru). If we add new file that game can read: planes_name.ini file:
F4F-3 [USN] F4F-4 Wildcat,1944
F4F-3 [FAA] Martlet IV,1944
When you select USN, it would display F4F in aircraft drop list. However, if you select FAA, then it would show up as Martlet IV instead of F4F.
This will save us A LOT of space for aircraft naming when looking at aircraft list. That way we don’t have combination of many names for one plane.
Cheers
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Topic: Aircraft Selection overhaul suggestions - New aircraft list system (Read 271 times)
