FSCAI Video Tutorial

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FSCAI Video Tutorial Oct 2, 2019 8:05:45 GMT -5

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PART 1

PART 2

PART 3

VIDEO TUTORIAL covers following topics :

FSCAI : Flight Simulator Combat Artificial Intelligence

1. INSTALLATION

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2. Basic Functions in Free Flight :

a.) Instant 1 vs 1 dogfight

b.) Wingmen : Up to 3 AIs following user (4 ship Flight)

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3. Going Deeper : Simulation of Military scenarios / Operations

a.) Teams Assignment (for AIs & User)

a1.) atc_model= ( from Aircraft.cfg - [General] sector )
a2.) Closest Airport assignment
a3.) By Simobject Title name

b.) Some method for placing Simobjects in Free Flight

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4. Weapons for User

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5. Configuring FSCAI files for my own simulations

Last Edit: Oct 2, 2019 8:10:19 GMT -5 by xpel

My Military Flight Videos :

FSCAI justifies the presence of Warbirds in FS !... Simple as that. Gives'em back their lost identity : To fly as Warbirds in a Military Operations Simulated environment and do happily what they know & do best... Chris,

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FSCAI Video Tutorial Oct 2, 2019 23:04:40 GMT -5

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Post by Dutch Owen on Oct 2, 2019 23:04:40 GMT -5

Great tutorials! Thanks! This should help some folks get started.

Eventually we'll have nice UI dialogs for the teams, etc, once we're sure what the ultimate format of the team file will be.

And of course a visual mission builder. Lots more to do on FSCAI.

Dutch

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FSCAI Video Tutorial Oct 2, 2019 23:53:14 GMT -5

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Post by xpel on Oct 2, 2019 23:53:14 GMT -5

And of course a visual mission builder. Lots more to do on FSCAI.

As a visual mission builder for Free Flight, for the current time being, I highly
recommend CCP (Carrier & Convoy planner), as the best & most efficient method of choice
to design AI Traffic for complex & extended Military Operations scenarios.

Link for Download, here
Direct CCP Download Link, here

A. Provided you have an Internet connection, you can design in CCP real world (co-ordinates) map, combined AI Traffic
consisted of :

- AI Aircrafts (including formations of up to 4 ships)
- AI boats
- AI Vehicles
- Static SimObjects (targets, AAA defences)

And all the above AIs, have predefined time schedules to start following their Waypoint routes.
So, users can design extended in time operations, lasting for hours...

B. Another critical advantage of using CCP is, that you can save all the traffic you have designed for a scenario
or Operations (meaning extended in time scenarios), in a CCP.mission file.
Thus you can share your work with other users of CCP, providing this mission file.

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I've reinstalled CCP yesterday to see how this works combined with FSCAI. Result is really amazing !...
So immersive to fly with AIs over photoreal, that as soon as they detected hostile AIs, engaged in dogfight...

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The only "flaw" is that after the END of the action, AIs won't resume to fly in their Wpts. And I believe this is a general
behavior of AIs, even they fly in FSX AI Traffic plans I mean. But I don't consider it major problem...

Last Edit: Oct 2, 2019 23:56:03 GMT -5 by xpel

My Military Flight Videos :

FSCAI justifies the presence of Warbirds in FS !... Simple as that. Gives'em back their lost identity : To fly as Warbirds in a Military Operations Simulated environment and do happily what they know & do best... Chris,

hajolippke Captain Posts: 359	FSCAI Video Tutorial Oct 4, 2019 14:59:16 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by hajolippke on Oct 4, 2019 14:59:16 GMT -5 In your second video I can see red tracers when the P51 shoots its guns - where does that effect come from? HAJO

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FSCAI Video Tutorial Oct 4, 2019 21:54:10 GMT -5

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Post by xpel on Oct 4, 2019 21:54:10 GMT -5

For the "gun" AI weapon you use, to make it fire simobjects as bullets (that may have an attached tracer effect), you edit
the weapon via FSCAI's weapon database, giving the simobject Title you want to be used as bullets (as also the name of
sound .wav file you want to hear when you're firing the gun - sound file must be in FSCAI/Sound folder) :

Info about this is in this post fscaptain.proboards.com/thread/3959/general-adding-weapons-vehicles-database
and I quote from there :

SimObject Title is the name of an actual object in the game that will be spawned to visually represent a round from the weapon. Be cautious in the use of this field! Every spawned object costs time and too many can make your sim stutter or even crash. When too many effects are onscreen odd graphic effects sometimes happen. As designers we want to keep performance up so don't put a title on a weapon unless you really need to. A title of "*" means the weapon shoots "invisible bullets" and this is good - no objects are spawned, the program instead calculates the probability of hit or miss based on many factors and inflicts damage based on the results but the amount of time for these calculations is a tiny fraction of the performance hit of having an object flying through the air - because for the sim, every object even tiny nearly invisible ones is an airplane and is treated like an AI airplane piloted by a pilot.

If you provide a title to a non-Flak gun then the "Burst" number of tracers will be released each shot. When this happens the program doesn't use its hit probability calculations at all, instead it tracks the tracer and if it hits damage is done (based on Potency) and if it misses, it misses. The "Accuracy" number in this case is used to introduce aiming errors. This is why sometimes "accuracy" is a very rough guide.

My Military Flight Videos :

FSCAI justifies the presence of Warbirds in FS !... Simple as that. Gives'em back their lost identity : To fly as Warbirds in a Military Operations Simulated environment and do happily what they know & do best... Chris,

hajolippke Captain Posts: 359	FSCAI Video Tutorial Oct 5, 2019 3:41:46 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by hajolippke on Oct 5, 2019 3:41:46 GMT -5 Thank you! HAJO

hemme Trainee Posts: 14	FSCAI Video Tutorial Apr 4, 2020 19:53:39 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by hemme on Apr 4, 2020 19:53:39 GMT -5 Just curious, how difficult would it be to add a "resume to waypoint" function to each AI for after they have completed an engagement?

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FSCAI Video Tutorial Apr 4, 2020 21:39:07 GMT -5

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Apr 4, 2020 19:53:39 GMT -5 hemme said:

Just curious, how difficult would it be to add a "resume to waypoint" function to each AI for after they have completed an engagement?

There is logic to handle the situation when an engagement breaks off. If the AI aircraft involved is on a mission he will resume flight to the current mission waypoint. If he's on a flightplan he will resume flight to the destination. it's quite difficult to realistically get an AI flight plan to resume at a waypoint because the whole plan has to be dropped in order for FSCAI to take control of the AI aircraft. That's just how the sim AI system works.

Dutch

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Post by xpel on Oct 4, 2019 21:54:10 GMT -5

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Post by Dutch Owen on Apr 4, 2020 21:39:07 GMT -5