Where is the carrier?

Regards,

Ray

7 minutes ago, raymar said:

Where is the carrier?

Regards,

Ray

Activities section. It's a landing challenge.

  

2 hours ago, superspud said:

They implied in their dev Q&A that they can set them free in the wider world but the 'time isn't right'. 

They're not set up for launching, there's no catapult functionality attached to the carrier, only the arresting cables.

Also if you spawn the carrier in the world right now the deck isn't solid, so they must be doing some trickery in the challenge itself to make the ship solid.

Edited May 26, 20224 yr by Tuskin38

2 hours ago, superspud said:

The moving carrier is a very strange opportunity to throw away. They implied in their dev Q&A that they can set them free in the wider world but the 'time isn't right'.

Interesting.

A guess: maybe to avoid YT videos showing the carrier and the Super Hornet being used in current real world areas of war? (But such videos would be possible anyway with other addons, so I guess not)

Another guess: to stay only focused on the Top Gun movie themes right now, maybe part of their deal with the movie producers / PR guys?

Another guess: development just not done yet, but were forced to release it now to match the movie release date.

6 minutes ago, MarioDonick said:

Another guess: development just not done yet, but were forced to release it now to match the movie release date

I doubt that's it, they had the DLC ready last fall for the pre-delay November release of the movie.

Edited May 26, 20224 yr by Tuskin38

The only thing stopping moving carriers is making moving objects landable. 

Since that function has masses of other applications I don't get why they can't extend that to developers at least and never do anything further with this carrier. 

Then again the way they've done it here isn't that. The model isn't solid. Something in the landing challenge or plane creates it I think. 

Maybe it's a ton of work they don't want to do, but if FSX could then it can't be that much of a stretch. 

1 hour ago, superspud said:

but if FSX could then it can't be that much of a stretch. 

Could base FSX do solid moving objects, or was that functionality added with Acceleration? IIRC they said MSFS was originally built on base FSX without acceleration, but they seem to be slowly adding in acceleration features. The F-18 has has a tailhook since launch, and SU9 added the launch bar animations.

 

Looking at the sim.cfg file for the MSFS carrier, it has 2 entries not in the FSX Carrier

HasMovingPlatform = 1

and

[Carrier]
carrier = 1

 

The Carrier's tower is also a completely separate sim object that is attached to the deck somehow.

Edited May 26, 20224 yr by Tuskin38

I can't wait to try this.. haha! I always wanted an 'Aroura Spy Plane' since the FS2004 days and this looks similar. I remember flying it in Janes ATF and Fighters Anthology.

9 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

Think it can handle some bush strips?

Actually.. I might need to hop in the SDK and reopen that really loooooooooong runway at Area 51. 😛 

Marketplace has a modern Carrier available as a fixed airport in 8 locations around the world plus one of your choice.  A bit of trickery is included for Catapults and Arrestor cables. No animations included, but, it has a hard deck.  Dirt cheap fun.

Regards,

Ray

13 hours ago, bobcat999 said:

I'm just here for the humour on this thread!..  

I'm just here for the hilarity of some of the comments. 😀

Avsim delivers again. 

Was this tested by "Real World Pilots"?

2 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

Was this tested by "Real World Pilots"?

Real World F18 Pilot: “This thing is junk!”

Asobo: “Real world pilots tested this!”

🤣

Compared to what's been available in DCS for several years, this is... comical.  Really surprised MSFS wouldn't have something a little more complete than this.  I guess it's (rightly) not a priority though; MSFS is primarily (almost entirely) intended as a civilian sim.  Still... geez.  

Someone has slapped the carrier off Guadalupe using the old' 'flat piece of land under the object' trick. So it doesn't move, it's just a static object.

The arrestor cables work, but they don't detach

https://flightsim.to/file/33841/top-gun-carrier

Edited May 26, 20224 yr by Tuskin38

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