Hey guys, I DIT IT !

:D

Working mini farp?

Yup !

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Its possible to share this amazing FARP in the future?

I need the Upuaut permission cause I use his model, then yep ;)

Great stuff! This mod is a much-needed addition to DCS chopper ops. THANK YOU!

ok is this sobstituting existing farp or it's an addition?

Can you use it with the AV-8B?

Do you have to be on the pad to rearm and refuel? it would be great to place it beside a road then land the harrier next to it.

Right..... Back to my FARP mods..... I might even add a ramp... :joystick:

 

:D

Can you simply remove the 3D model of the pad and give us an empty SPOT (inivisble), whatever to "act" as a FARP? I mean we could place anything from flags, tires, trucks, smoke zones you name it around a simple invisible area to act as a FARP and get rid of the stupid "pad" to refuel/rearm a helicopter!

That would solve the problem with upuauts model, as well. :D

Can you simply remove the 3D model of the pad and give us an empty SPOT (inivisble), whatever to "act" as a FARP? I mean we could place anything from flags, tires, trucks, smoke zones you name it around a simple invisible area to act as a FARP and get rid of the stupid "pad" to refuel/rearm a helicopter!

 

That would solve the problem with upuauts model, as well. :D

+1

Love it!! Will be ana amazing mod once you release it!

Can you simply remove the 3D model of the pad and give us an empty SPOT (inivisble), whatever to "act" as a FARP? I mean we could place anything from flags, tires, trucks, smoke zones you name it around a simple invisible area to act as a FARP and get rid of the stupid "pad" to refuel/rearm a helicopter!

 

That would solve the problem with upuauts model, as well. :D

+10000

Technicaly you could just replace the 3D Model with a windsock as example, if they havent changed the code there was a line in farp.lua? where you could alter the radius around the farp where you can get fuel/ammo/repair.

Need to look that up when i'm home from work if needed ;)

regards,

RR

Hi guys ;)

So I'm going to post a new clean thread for this mod tonight or tomorrow, obtained the upuaut permission (thank you dude ;) )

To answer your questions, good and bad points are the following :

- The collision model is updated, which means you will have the collision model of the upuaut FARP, so no invisible ground, levitating helicopter or stuff like this.

- Thanks to the previous point, you can put it quite much everywhere without having a levitating FARP, like in mountains, because dimensions are far more little.

- You need to set the aircraft on "take of from ground" and put it right on the FARP icon in the editor, BUT :

- Only skids equipped helicopters will work properly this way. kamov-50, Mi-8, or Harrier, if spawning (and only spawning) on it, will break their gear. You still perfectly can land on it after this.

- You can use it for the Harrier to refuel/rearm like a standard FARP. You simply cannot start the mission on the landing pad. (Well, yes you can, if you repair after spawning)

- If "starting cold", you will spawn following the usual FARP scheme, so in the grass.

- YOU need to be landed on the surface (so the pad) to rearm and refuel. (see next)

- There is a mandatory need for a surface between the helicopter, and the ground. So invisible and entirely transparent FARP isn't possible. If a 3D modeler comes near, I would need, if possible, a transparent surface with a collision model of 10 m/10 for 5 cm width. 5 cm because it too may avoid gear breaking for Kamov, Mi-8 and Harrier. The only mandatory point is to be in contact with the FARP, and not directly with the ground. So replacing the FARP with an UAZ, a windsock, or your grandmother won't work unless you manage to land on it. ;) So Roadrunner, be sure that I tried to do what you want to do... It's just wasting time.

- For 3D modelers again, now you can edit the standard FARP efficiently, making it far better looking etc, and to allow you to keep using the standard spawning scheme. I will give you the tips to make it work in my new thread, it is EXTREMELY SIMPLE. (2 lines of code)

- I cannot create a new FARP, nor can I edit the previous limitations. This mod simply replaces the current one. All the limitations are hard coded in some dll. It would be possible, of course, to crack it and edit it, and I'm not saying that I may not try, but I would not publish it, it would be perfectly illegal. If you want to be able to add FARPs to the game instead of replacing the current one, ask ED for it, but we ask them for 10 years now so well... Worst is that they started the job and never finished it (See Scripts/Database/FARP.lua.)

So to 3D modelers could some motivated among you create :

- A 10*10m invisible square, 5 cm width, with a collision model.

- Perhaps in the future a better looking standard FARP with the same dimensions ? ;) We could also try the integrity check and see if only replacing the LOD while keeping the standard collision model would allow you to connect on a server ?

- And anyway, do the FARP you want to do, even a giant one, and you can start right now, it will be usable ;)

Thank you ;)

Nicolas

... So Roadrunner, be sure that I tried to do what you want to do... It's just wasting time....

Hi mate,

i will check what i did some time ago, and see if it still works, because i was indeed able to refuel ca 500 meters away from the FARP, so it at least WAS possible at SOME point :)

regards,

RR

Update:

I found my forum post from back then, it was in august 2015, so it seems not to be possible anymore :(

but as a reference:

https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2459495&postcount=6

https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2459839&postcount=9

regards,

RR