August 6 2011 Development Update

[CrisGer]

I am new here but am very interested in this update you describe esp >...the German Trains..

I am a long time modder and researcher of Train sims and esp German trains and would be very interested to see these and happy to help with any additional information or resources you may need....thanks so much for taking the time for this. If you are placing the models into France as I suspect you are, much of the equipment was French, and that is a particular area of interest and again expertise of mine if I can help ..and I have contacts in the French train sim world and we may indeed be able to get you permission to convert existing train models from 3D formats used in MS Train sim. Just wanted to offer aide on this little corner of things, I am still just new here and learning the ropes but would be happy to help if i can.









L'Etoile De Gray - a great MSTS route from France in 1938 some of the common French equipment...

[ATAG_MajorBorris]

Those trains are wicked cool! Every little bit they add is just another brush stroke to what is already a very diverse landscape. Having simers like ChrisGer is only going make it better!

[Mysticpuma]

Originally Posted by CrisGer

L'Etoile De Gray - a great MSTS route from France in 1938 some of the common French equipment...

BUT I WANT TO STRAFE THEM NOW!!!!!!! Cross your fingers, we may get some trains to shoot up one day...hopefully with the P-47 and P-51 add-on

Cheers, MP

[furbs]

Mystic, did a train hurt you as a kid?

[Plt Off JRB Meaker]

Beautiful trains ChrisGer wow!!

[Baron]

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

Are you kidding?! I'm dying to see the steam clouds when you hit it. I've always loved the footage I saw as a kid of USAF strafing trains in WWII, nothing quite as spectacular as that! (Well, maybe the strafing of Japanese merchant ships, those boilers went up with a HUGE cloud!)

U know u can do that now, right?


And it does look cool.

[Blackdog_kt]

QMB
-->Axis attack mission (the one that starts you a few miles off manston)
-->select 110
-->fly on original heading until you see Manston airbase, then make a bit of a left turn to skirt the airfield boundaries, you'll see some vehicles
-->keep going a bit more, you'll see a railway line among two tree lines
-->train!

Have fun

I wonder when we get these things fixed:

- a decent system for looking through German gunsights. The current mechanism is neither realistic (it really is not, so please don't mention that one just has to move a little bit right as supposedly the pilots did - which they did not) nor helpful (please don't mention that with mouse one can recentre. This definitely does NOT work for TrackIR users). Has to be replaced. Preferably including that what Lixma has pointed out a couple of weeks ago that is including some mechanism to simulate real binocular view as close as possible.

- correct flight models with historic performance for ALL aircraft

- the tracers of gunners have still an off-set of several meters to its aircraft.

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by 41Sqn_Stormcrow

- a decent system for looking through German gunsights. The current mechanism is neither realistic (it really is not, so please don't mention that one just has to move a little bit right as supposedly the pilots did - which they did not) nor helpful (please don't mention that with mouse one can recentre. This definitely does NOT work for TrackIR users). Has to be replaced. Preferably including that what Lixma has pointed out a couple of weeks ago that is including some mechanism to simulate real binocular view as close as possible.

If you have trackIR it's the easiest thing of all to keep it centered: lean left, hit your center trackIR key, return to your normal position and voila, you're looking through the sights in wide view without the movement restrictions.

I do the same thing with freetrack and it works fine, i also did this a lot with trackIR whenever i would change phase of flight: i would center lower than normal so that when sitting correctly on the chair i would be able to see above the nose for take-off/landing without straining myself, similarly i would also lean to one side and hit center so that when i returned to my original position my virtual viewpoint would be off the side for taxiing without me having to keep leaning.

I'm not saying it shouldn't be adjusted, but workarounds exist that make it a not so critical fix compared to others, especially for people with head tracking equipment.

I'd rather prefer they fix the JU88's gyrocompass, along with the top turrets and bomb release controls on the Blenheim and Br.20, because they are strictly gameplay bugs with no workarounds that prevent certain aircraft from fulfilling their intended role. Any 109 pilot can use a work-around to look through the sights and dogfight (people do it daily on multiplayer servers), but using the bombers is hampered in more ways than one.

[Richie]

Originally Posted by 41Sqn_Stormcrow

I wonder when we get these things fixed:

- a decent system for looking through German gunsights. The current mechanism is neither realistic (it really is not, so please don't mention that one just has to move a little bit right as supposedly the pilots did - which they did not) nor helpful (please don't mention that with mouse one can recentre. This definitely does NOT work for TrackIR users). Has to be replaced. Preferably including that what Lixma has pointed out a couple of weeks ago that is including some mechanism to simulate real binocular view as close as possible.

- correct flight models with historic performance for ALL aircraft

- the tracers of gunners have still an off-set of several meters to its aircraft.

I have the real thing right hear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swnzBslfRWM