October 24, 20223 yr On 10/22/2022 at 3:59 AM, PebbleBeach said: Trioer,You are one of the nicest human beings I've ever met on Avsim. I'm still at this AI thing but I have so many candles burning right now I doubt I'll accomplish it. 10-15 years ago, I was very familiar with all this AI stuff using WOAI and TTools as I had an unlimited time to devote to it. But after having built (2) different simulators, the latter a motion sim, I think my 62 year old brain is fried. Us simmers are a unique crowd. We have to learn html, if we want to document our accomplishments for others to learn on a website, XML, if we want to build gauges, LUA, to make various sound components trigger, etc. etc. I even took up scenery design and offered up to the community close to 10 different airport upgrades. The most demanding for me was C+/EPL to program all the lights, sounds, switches, etc. to integrate with my simulator. 2 college courses at 50 years old and help from Ralph Robinson (EPIC), I finally conquered my dream some 13 years later. Anyway, I spent the last 3-4 days downloading basepacks, repaint textures etc., working off of your very nicely written tutorial. I move the textures to the model file and edit the aircraft.cfg to reflect the texture additions. But then I draw a blank on how to make the flight plan accommodate these additions. My friend, I'm officially throwing in towel and giving up. 😃. My initial intention was only to update the Delta planes. But I feel my brain is toast. I simply wanted to write you and thank you for all the time you spent articulating great responses & posting links to accomplish what you were trying to educate me on. That is a huge amount of your personal time taken away from you to draft these responses. I want you to know I thoroughly appreciate it. Honest to God I do. Thank you Trioer, Michael (Mitch) Mitch, Thank you so much for your kind words. Made my day! I completely understand of the time constraints. I haven't even turned on my rig for 4+ months as I took a second job and if I am not at one job, I'm at the other. I do need to thank you for your contributions to our sim world, your airports are outstanding! I'd say don't give up quite yet. Once you get one installed, you'll see what I am talking about for ease of use. I would stay away from the major airlines, especially Delta, at first. Too many repaints and models needed until you get the hang of it. I would try Porter, Allegiant, maybe Hawaiian, small easy to install plans. Let me know if you need anything. Thanks again!
October 25, 20223 yr Author 15 hours ago, trioer said: Mitch, Thank you so much for your kind words. Made my day! I completely understand of the time constraints. I haven't even turned on my rig for 4+ months as I took a second job and if I am not at one job, I'm at the other. I do need to thank you for your contributions to our sim world, your airports are outstanding! I'd say don't give up quite yet. Once you get one installed, you'll see what I am talking about for ease of use. I would stay away from the major airlines, especially Delta, at first. Too many repaints and models needed until you get the hang of it. I would try Porter, Allegiant, maybe Hawaiian, small easy to install plans. Let me know if you need anything. Thanks again! Trioer, Amazing that you would respond to me on the very day I spent 4 hours re-visiting this thread and re-reading your tutorial. Ironic as heck. Anyway, I jumped back into it yesterday. And this time I heeded your advice and started small. Happy to report I'm making some headway with the Allegiant fileplan. I wish I had time to tell you more but I don't at the moment. Main reason I responded was to tell you we must have crossed brain channels yesterday in that you responded to my post as I was studying your earlier posts. LOL Mitch Edited October 25, 20223 yr by PebbleBeach
October 25, 20223 yr Author Trioer, I'm sorry. Spent 2-3 more hours on this when I got home this evening. Way too many questions. If I devoted my entire time to AI I'm confident I would understand it. But it's difficult when your modeling buildings in FS9 (scenery) and constantly paying attention to everything you have taken notes on. And then trying to tackle a completely different segment of flightsim i.e. A.I. Honestly, I'm really only interested in adding the Delta Airbus A350, and Delta 717-200 to replace the MD-88 & 90 as I believe it has been done in real life. Would you be willing to tackle this for me and I pay you through Venmo etc.? If not I totally understand. Seriously I do. I simply have way too many candles burning right now trying to help fellow cockpit builders etc. with their coding etc. etc. Either way, Trioer your plate is full as well. Maybe when both of us slow down a bit we can tackle this. Mitch
October 26, 20223 yr On 10/25/2022 at 2:53 AM, PebbleBeach said: Trioer, I'm sorry. Spent 2-3 more hours on this when I got home this evening. Way too many questions. If I devoted my entire time to AI I'm confident I would understand it. But it's difficult when your modeling buildings in FS9 (scenery) and constantly paying attention to everything you have taken notes on. And then trying to tackle a completely different segment of flightsim i.e. A.I. Honestly, I'm really only interested in adding the Delta Airbus A350, and Delta 717-200 to replace the MD-88 & 90 as I believe it has been done in real life. Would you be willing to tackle this for me and I pay you through Venmo etc.? If not I totally understand. Seriously I do. I simply have way too many candles burning right now trying to help fellow cockpit builders etc. with their coding etc. etc. Either way, Trioer your plate is full as well. Maybe when both of us slow down a bit we can tackle this. Mitch Mitch, I totally understand the frustration. I would be absolutely willing to help you on this any way that I can, just need to find some time. Saturday mornings and/or Monday nights are usually my free days (ah, the life of being a bartender as a 2nd job). Let me see when I can free up some time. I think I have a couple of ideas of how to do this, maybe PM would be best, but let me get back to you here in a day or two if that works for you?
October 27, 20223 yr Author 17 hours ago, trioer said: Mitch, I totally understand the frustration. I would be absolutely willing to help you on this any way that I can, just need to find some time. Saturday mornings and/or Monday nights are usually my free days (ah, the life of being a bartender as a 2nd job). Let me see when I can free up some time. I think I have a couple of ideas of how to do this, maybe PM would be best, but let me get back to you here in a day or two if that works for you? Absolutely......... At your discretion. Mitch
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