Military Ships & Ports

[Woogey]

Hello friends, has there been any discussion here of military shipping? I am looking to build up Coronado in San Diego, and also Norfolk in Virginia. The piers/docks are horrible, and there are more than enough Ai ships to populate the docks and set a really nice atmosphere for us Fly Navy guys. Has anyone started on these two ports? Does any one here have experience programing Ship traffic? -Woog

[Victory103]

Woog,
There was a recently release 180+ AI ship package for FSX. Not sure how much mil was included, I decided I didn't need to wait longer than I do now for FSX to load and my 20,000+ models.

[Woogey]

Hey Chris, how do you load that many Ai? My FSX warns me when I have 1000 or more AI requests, and asks me to turn the Ai count down. I am looking to add to, or remake John Stinstrom's version of NAS North Island, by updating the hangars, an adding the full Coronado Naval Base. I have already updated the AFCAD, and added S-3, H-60 Ai, and Static CH-46's. I also retextured the VIKING hangar. I think I will swap out most of the Hangars with Jim Dhaenens hangars. They show in P3d2.5, and they cast shadows. Some of John's do not cast shadows.

For Coronado NS, I have Ticonderoga, Spruance, OHP, Tarawa, Wasp, both LCS, X-Craft, and the Hospital ships in static form for population of the piers. Some are Aerosoft objects, so they will only show if you own the Seahawk/Jayhawk X. I still need to build some docks and learn S-Builder X I'm order to finish this project. -Woog

[Victory103]

As a VRS user, I only get that "1000 or more simconnect requests" if Tacpack is running. The count I got was from FSInn when the program initially starts as I connect to VATSIM. There are lower poly models out for FS9. I have the Seahawk/Jayhawk package and the Boxer is great to look at, but big hits on framerates.

[Ripcord]

Now this is a project I can get excited about.

I am able to program ship traffic, to follow KMZ files that you make in google earth. I can show you. It is a bit hard to make them follow in formation if they are going any distance at all, but it is not that hard to do.

Maybe some photoreal coverage to assist?

[dworjan]

Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. I haven't really been active with FS in a while, but I'd still help if there is anything I can do. If you need any information on any of the Navy bases I can definitely help with that.

Chris