Is there a way to make bombs detonate when dropped below 500 ft?

[Pietman]

I want to see if there's a way to do low-level bombing in Flying Circus. So far I can't find any setting that will allow bombs to detonate if they are dropped below about 550 feet. In Rise of Flight they would detonate from any altitude. 

[1PL-Husar-1Esk]

set bombs time to 5s

Edited November 27, 2022 by 1PL-Husar-1Esk

[RNAS10_Mitchell]

Anyone know if they intend to revisit bomb timers for a fix? Or if the 5 sec only option is by design?

Edited November 27, 2022 by RNAS10_Mitchell

[Zooropa_Fly]

Yeah blowing yourself up was always great banter.

Bring it back !

[RNAS10_Mitchell]

2 hours ago, Zooropa_Fly said:

Yeah blowing yourself up was always great banter.

Bring it back !

Heheh..yes, 5 sec definitely safer for the bomber,  not necessarily safer for a wing man following close.

[czech693]

I played around with it a few weeks back.  In the main folder in data/(null)/luascripts/worldobjects/explosions/bombs I found a bomb with these parameters, he_317mm_113kg_50kg_ground.txt (or building.txt., object.txt, or water.txt).  I figured that was the 112 lb bomb and that 113kg was not right.  112 lb is close to 50 kg and 317mm is close to the 112 lb bomb diameter.  Anyway, in those files is the line LiveTime=7 (or 6).  I assume that was a fuse activation time.  l tried smaller numbers until I got to 0.01 at which point I was able to get a detonation from about 200 - 300 ft using the default fuse setting (not contact).  I've got a .trk showing it but I don't know how to attach it since I can't seem to copy it from within the sim.