Aircraft models in Multiplayer

[BFMF]

I know that if you're playing multiplayer, and if you don't have the particular aircraft being used by someone else, you will see a default aircraft. Is it possible to set what you want other people to see your aircraft as, if they don't have it?

[BE58D]

Unfortunately, I don't think so... my buddy and I were flying one day and he was in the Cessna 172 and I was flying the Bell 407 (the irony is... he is a real helicopter pilot, and I am a fixed wing pilot, what is up with that?)... anyways, he didn't have the 407 and I showed up as the default 172.

[fisharno]

You know....
It's been a very long time, but I think if you used Squwak Box, it uses something called a "Common Shapes Library". It basiclly displays a basic type Small Plane, Commercial Aircraft, and others.

I'm not at all sure what you need with it, or any of the particulars, but do a search for it.

Maybe you can use it?

[FSTipster]

Fisharno may be referring to something I heard of. Can't remember what it is now, but there is a system somewhere that shares models so the other players can see what plane you're flying whether they have it or not.

The problem with it is that it eats bandwidth apparently.

[ozzy72]

Andrew unless the other guy is flying an aircraft that you have on your system, then he'll probably appear as the plane you are flying (discovered this with Fozzer!)
The system suggested by fisharno will bring your system to a grinding halt, even using broadband!

Ozzy

[BFMF]

Andrew unless the other guy is flying an aircraft that you have on your system, then he'll probably appear as the plane you are flying (discovered this with Fozzer!)

I know, it's just that I heard someone say something about aliasing your aircraft for other people who do not have you aircraft.

[Hagar]

If you all have a fast connection you might like to try the CFG tweak. Open FS2002.CFG & change the values of the following lines to 1.

ALLOW_PLANE_MODEL_SEND=0
ALLOW_PLANE_MODEL_RECEIVE=0
ALLOW_TEXTURE_SEND=0
ALLOW_TEXTURE_RECEIVE=0

I don't play online but they say it causes time lag & other problems. All players would need to do the tweak for it to work.

[BFMF]

I've seen those entries in the fs2002.cfg file, but since I get a slow connection, i'm not gonna do it

[fisharno]

Thanks, guys.

I've read about it, but, I've never used it. I didn't know about the problems it caused, though.

I used to have really good luck when I was in multiplayer in FS2000, but I haven't used multiplayer in FS2K2, so I'm really out of touch.

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