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This shot was taken using recorder. Anyone care to explain how I do formation shots?  ::)

Anyways, Alphasim TU-22M Backfire, at RAF Lyneham. Only 1 shot for now..


Thanks for looking!

Ben

Record a flight using anything accept a helo. Make all throttle and control movement slowly and smoothly. Can't be doing a lot of rapid, banging the stops movements. Use simular aircraft. I.E. don't use a cessna and an F14. Now try flying formation on the recorded flight. You will quickly see where you need change anything. It takes work and practice. Trail formations are the easiest for me.

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Ive tried flying formation and although i can do it, sometimes i 'lose' the plane ive recorded if i overshoot or whatever!! As suggested on here to me in another post, slew mode is your friend!

How ive been doing it:-

Get the plane you want in the position you want by flying it there (or you could slew it there, or use map view), then PAUSE. 'Y' to enter slew mode, un pause, where i make little adjustments to height and attitude and so on. Then i record this for say 30-50 seconds.

Save the recording, out of slew (or stay in slew it doesnt seem to matter) then change aircraft to whatever i want to be in the shot with my first aircraft.

Once thats done, with everything paused, i enter slew mode again. Then i start playback 'playback as ai traffic' or whatever its called, so the original aircraft is on top of my new aircraft. Using slew mode controls i then slowly move my new aircraft away from the recorded aircraft until i get it in a position i like! Then i use walk n follow to move around as i would normally and take the shot.

Its a little tricky, sometimes ive unpaused by mistake (the pause un pause bit is fiddly ive found) and ended up 50 miles away from where i wanted to be! But just play around with it. I did some ground stuff first to get the hang of it.

Hope thats of some help, if a little complicated!

Hey.

thanks for the replies.

I can only seem to record a formation of 2 though. i cant seem to get 3..

you need some tools for recorder to enable you to record many different flights, then use the tool to put them all together, then replay as traffic. Its on the fs recorder web page. But your recorder must be version 1.3 if i recall correctly But thats on the web page as well.

Thank you very much

Is it recorder toolbox?

Thanks

Yep thats the one, Recorder Toolbox. Its pretty self explanatory in how it works, although ive only used it for compiling two or three flights, and i havent used the 'shift track' feature yet.

It saves the compiled file to the desktop, well mine does, and i just pop it in 'my documents' so i can load it into recorder when back in fs9

I cant seem to do it..

What i did was..

recording 3 B-1b Lancers in the same spot, just 1 record after the other..

Then i exited flight sim..added the 3 to the merge. selected all 3 B-1b's, and saved it..

In flight sim, i went to the airport i was at. selected the b-1b, and opened up a flight..i then opened up the flight..no planes were the except for mine..

Any idea what im doing wrong.

Thanks for your help pal.

Ben

er......not sure. Are you doing this on the ground or in the air?

I dont tend to exit the sim, i just use the windows key on my keyboard, but i guess if your going back to the exact same spot then it shouldnt matter.

When you say your recording 3 planes, are you moving them about or are they all on top of one another? Does the 'playback' text appear on the screen when your playing back the flights?

You must be doing somthing correct to be able to compile the files together ! Are you ticking the boxes in recorder tools when loading each individual flight before compiling them?

I cant think of anything else!!

Oh one other thing, i think it has to be played back as 'traffic' rather than replay. I think!