Building a WWII plane museum on the ground

[Youtch]

Dear all,

 

I am very recent in this subforum and I have not explored much the creation of mission, beyond retouching some missions captured in SP or missions prepared by others more talented than I am, and applying only minor touches.

 

I was wondering the other day how difficult it would be to make a museum of planes on the ground, putting as many WWII possible plane static on the ground on display, to visit with free view and get hence a better sense of size comparison.

 

Do you know if anyone has ever had a similar idea in the past?

 

Is there is any easy way to put a lot of planes on the ground, immobile but with the same level of details than piloted model and skins as piloted plane?

 

Many thanks in advance,

y.

[Jaegermeister]

That would be pretty easy.
 

You just have to place them on the ground where you like and make them a linked entity. Then make one a player aircraft or vehicle and you can skip from one to the next with the outside view keys.

 

If you get crazy, you could place a hangar or other buildings to put them in so they aren’t out in the elements with open cockpits, lol.

[Youtch]

May i ask why we need to make them linked entity?

[DD_Friar]

So they show in the mission. Remember to make them the same allegiance otherwise rear gunners might start duelling! 

 

[Youtch]

Thanks. I already started playing with it.

 

Any idea on how to get these planes with canopy closed and no pilot/gunners?

[Jaegermeister]

10 minutes ago, Youtch said:

Any idea on how to get these planes with canopy closed and no pilot/gunners?

 

The canopy will be closed if you make them "on runway", but the engine will be running.

As far as no pilot, you can't do that.

[Youtch]

The plane model we see on airfield and that are objective for bombing are made of low res models?

[Youtch]

Museum.zipHere it goes as first attempt.

 

I still need to figure out how to slow donw free camera forward/backward and left/right sides movements.