Need Help with technique for adding planes to CFS2

[banderlog999]

I am having dificulty getting imported planes to appear in my flyable or AI list. My usual approach is simply to put the folder for the new plane, including model, texture gauges, (everything) into the planes folder. but they seldom appear or work. Is this the right approach? If not what am I doing wrong and how is this done so the planes will work?

[jimski]

Banderlog,

You might look inside the folders of some successful planes and see what is in there. There should be four folders (model, panel, sound, and texture) and several separate files. Check to see that your added airplanes have the same mixture. Then look inside the sound folder in particular. My experience is that when a plane is a no show in free flight about 90% of the time it's sound has been "aliased" to something that I don't have. For example today I had the experience of adding an ac converted from fs2002 and finding it didn't show because the sound was aliased to a cessna that is in the fs2002 game but not cfs2. The fix is to use notepad to rewrite the sound file to something you have, usually say the zero or the corsair.

Jimski

[banderlog999]

Thanks Jimski -banderlog999

[Hagar]

My usual approach is simply to put the folder for the new plane, including model, texture gauges, (everything) into the planes folder.

Move the gauges into the CFS2\Gauges folder or they won't display. I recommend not overwriting existing files if prompted.

You might find my Aliasing article useful. http://www.simviation.com/lair/aliasing1.htm

[H]

Move the gauges into the CFS2\Gauges folder or they won't display. I recommend not overwriting existing files if prompted.

[color=#003300]Hagar's advice is a necessity; the standard method for CFS1 and CFS2 is to put the individual gauge files straight into the main program Gauge folder.

DON'T DO THE FOLLOWING IF YOU'RE EASILY CONFUSED --
If you're not ambitious enough to search through your already extensive Gauge folder but concerned that gauges accompanying a new aircraft may be different yet named the same as what you've already got:

*1. Make a folder named for the new gauges *(if the download already has them in a 'gauges' folder, just rename that folder -- if you have to make a new folder, place the new gauges in the new folder)

[Pepelyayev]

Check mainly the sound aliase, also without some gauges usually the planes are displayed but with a wrong entry in the sound certainly not. Of course if the plane is configured as AI(option 2) is not displayed in the aircraft menu, but is present in the mission building editor.