New member need help!

[james007]

Maybe some of our Forum members can help this CFS2 member at Netwings Forum to be a designer for the community.

I just think any one who is willing to spend time in improving our experience though this program should be help.

1.http://forums.netwings.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1953

James007

[Bombardier101]

Ok very soon I will post my looooonnnggg reply!

[james007]

Bombardier that was a Great post on the Netwing web. I hope you do not mind if I use your post in the Future for a list on ways to understand and to help developers improve and increased the development of this program.

BY THE WAY I ALSO CONSIDER YOU A FRIEND.

James007

[james007]

Bombardiers guide and tips on how to become a developer with CFS2.

Here it is:

Part One

Welcome to the CFS2 development world!

This post is very long so I've divided it into multiple posts  

A friend posted in the Simviation Forums that a new member in Netwings needs help. So I came here and you want to get CFS2 modding eh?

Well, read on.....

I'm a member of the Wires Wings and Canvas design group and another design group (which currently is making the Nachtj

[james007]

                             Part Two

Slightly more complicated stuff: Campaigns, repaints, air files.

A campaign is a bunch of missions and a .cmg file. The .cmg file contains code that strings the missions together into a campaign. To understand and write the code, you should get Cody Coyote's Campaign Tutorial. It's very good  You can get it at http://www.simviation.com/cfs2utilities1.htm.

Repaints are basicly modified versions of the textures of an aircraft. In a part of the Simviation Forums you can ask people about where to get tutorials for repainting aircraft. That part of the Simviation Forums is at http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/y...cgi?board=repnt.

Air files have the suffix .air and contain the flight dynamics data, engine data, landing gear data, flaps data, avionics data and more. You can get a simple air file editor called AirEd at http://www.simviation.com/cfs2utilities1.htm.

Quite complex stuff  : 3D visual models, carrier decks, buildings & macros and FX files.

3D visual models take lots of work and in my opinion are h-a-r-d  . But if you want to give it a shot some aircraft creating stuff can be found at http://www.simviation.com/fsdesign_aircraft1.htm. G-Max models can be converted to CFS2 models with some utility, but I don't know where to get it  . Btw, visual models are the shape of the plane that you see in the box that shows an interactive 3D veiw in the Select Aircraft box in CFS2. The paint job comes from files in the textures folder of the aircraft and the name of the files is dictated by the part in the model file that says what the bitmap filenames are and which part they're over yadda yadda yadda  .

A carrier deck is the part of the ship.cfg file that states where all the points are in the deck so CFS2 mission builder will enable you to put a take off waypoint on the ship with the ship.cfg file that has the carrier deck section. I don't know how to make these and no tutorials are on the internet  .

I think some people might use G-max or something to create models for destroyable CFS2 objects but for FS-type 3D objects (still can be used in CFS2 usually) you can use simpler things. DDay v1.0 can be used for CFS1 (and probably CFS2 because I think I've used something made with DDay 1 and it worked in CFS2  ) and it can be found at http://www.simviation.com/cfs1utilitites2.htm. There might be other utilities on the internet so just Google it!
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Aka Bombardier(101)

CFS2 Addons by me & team members:

Schleswig WW2 Base Scenery and fix:
http://www.simviation.com/cfs2scenery16.htm
IJN Bomber Force Campaign:
http://www.simviation.com/cfs2missions22.htm
Nachtjager Campaign WORKING ON!  

[james007]

                             Part Three

Effects (.FX) files eh? Well all I can do is change how long the effect goes before it dies but you might want to e-mail two of the most memorable CFS2 effects & mods designers. Giovanni "Nanni" Cignoni and Nibbio, two Italian fellows can be e-mailed at the following adresses: Nibbio's is jobim@tiscalinet.it and Nanni's is gcignoni@tiscalinet.it.

Martin Wright has made some great tools, a lot for CFS2!

His website: http://www.mnwright.btinternet.co.uk/

Simviation Designing Utilities Library:
http://www.simviation.com/fsdutilsdesn.htm

Aircraft Design : http://www.simviation.com/fsdesign_aircraft1.htm
Panel Design : http://www.simviation.com/fsdesign_panels1.htm
Scenery Design : http://www.simviation.com/fsdesign_scenery1.htm
Already-built 3D objects : http://www.simviation.com/fsdesign_macros1.htm
All kinds of good tutorials : http://www.simviation.com/fsdutilsdesntute1.htm
Designing real-world rsrce : http://www.simviation.com/designresources.htm
Adopt an unfinished design: http://www.simviation.com/adoptfsc.htm
Repaint Kits : http://www.simviation.com/fs_paintkits1.htm

Simviation CFS1/2/3 Addons http://www.simviation.com/fsdcfs%5B1%5D.htm

Simviation CFS2 Forums: http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/y....cgi?board=cfs2

Lots of CFS2 addons here at Netwings as well!  

Well, I think that's pretty good info to get you started, I guess now you'll have to look up some Help files and do some experimenting, eh?

If you ever get right into CFS2 development and want to join a design team please PM me, we still need more developers  



I hope this all helps and good luck with your CFS2 modding!



Gute Jagd,
Nachtj

[Bombardier101]

Bombardier that was a Great post on the Netwing web. I hope you do not mind if I use your post in the Future for a list on ways to understand and to help developers improve and increased the development of this program.

Thanks That's fine if you want to post that.

I consider you a friend too!

Happy flying,



Bombardier