Mig 3, 20mm ShVAK

[taffy2jeffmorgan]

Hi All, I know that some Soviet fighters lack tracer rounds, I'm flying a Mig 3 campaign, the 12.7 nose mounted and underwing pods have a tracer round but not the 20mm ShVAK this I suppose is an historical fact, but I was wondering if there is a mod that can provide this.

 

Cheers

[Stonehouse]

15 hours ago, taffy2jeffmorgan said:

Hi All, I know that some Soviet fighters lack tracer rounds, I'm flying a Mig 3 campaign, the 12.7 nose mounted and underwing pods have a tracer round but not the 20mm ShVAK this I suppose is an historical fact, but I was wondering if there is a mod that can provide this.

 

Cheers

There may be another way to approach it and hopefully someone will know and post but off the top of my head I think you would have to mod the plane file..........problem with that is I believe modding a flyable plane file stops it being usable in game - anti cheating measure I assume. Kraut1 demonstrated recently that modding a plane file for an AI only aircraft does work but pretty sure it does not for a human flyable one.

 

Line below marked is the one that stops tracers. Russian text for GunAmmunition=4 translates to "100 armor-piercing and 50 high-explosive fragmentation shells 20x99 (for the ShVAK cannon)" and "without tracers" for the marked line.

 

Might be able to mod the ammo definition but not sure if you can achieve the result you are looking for, and it would be universal if you did and likely every round fired.  

 

[taffy2jeffmorgan]

Thanks Stonehouse, I shall have give it some thought before I start altering files !

[rieper_420]

Hi all,

Whenever I changed anything in a plane file, I got black screen => crash to desktop when trying to fly that modded plane.

Maybe somebody had a different experience.

Happy testing!
Be sure to keep some backup files haha.

 

Best Regards

Tobias Rieper

[kraut1]

On 1/5/2024 at 12:46 PM, rieper_420 said:

Hi all,

Whenever I changed anything in a plane file, I got black screen => crash to desktop when trying to fly that modded plane.

Maybe somebody had a different experience.

Happy testing!
Be sure to keep some backup files haha.

 

Best Regards

Tobias Rieper

if you change the plane file the modded plane will be an only AI plane. What you can try for flyable planes is modding the ammunition or maybe the weapons. 

As far as,I know (have currently only mobile phone) the selection of tracer / not tracer is only defined in the planes file.

Added later: I checked the ballistics and the weapon file: from my point of view and knowledge it is not possible to activate tracer as requested for a flyable plane, only possible for 100% AI usage.

Edited January 6, 2024 by kraut1