WW2 BAD-T III - BDAc AI Dogfight Tournament

[tetryds]

Made a Do-335 like airplane, but it doesn't perform too well.

Not ugly enough either.

Back to the drawing board.

[Van Disaster]

9 hours ago, tetryds said:

Made a Do-335 like airplane, but it doesn't perform too well.

Not ugly enough either.

Back to the drawing board.

Ditto, other than being a very accurate first-pass gun platform...

Spoiler

 

 

[RedPandaz]

Can I join?

[tetryds]

 

Can I join?

No.

Edited October 4, 2017 by tetryds
Of course you can ;D

[Guest]

Will the first dogfight be on Saturday?

[SuicidalInsanity]

Ideally.

That said, with the deadline for submissions approaching (get them in before Saturday), how many people are still working on entries/plan to enter? I'd like to get a quick estimate so I can know if I should make some Bot craft to round out the tournament roster/perhaps push the deadline back a week (to the 13th).

[Van Disaster]

I'll enter something even if it's not great.

[tetryds]

@SuicidalInsanity can you extend it over the weekend?

That is the only time I have to actually play stuff properly.

[aleksey444]

I'll try to enter.  I'm building a plane now, but it's not going very well.

If you push the deadline, I'll have more time to work on it.  But don't do it just for me.

 

I also have a few questions.

 

1) Where exactly do I place the AABulletDefs.cfg file?

 

2) Battles seem to stop on their own.  Or, one plane fights, and the other one just tries to circle the KSC, or to gain altitude.

I installed all the required mods by hand.  Only a few (like Kerbal Engineer, MechJeb, Editor Extensions) I installed thru ckan.

Does anyone else have this kind of problem?  How do I fix it?  Or, at least, how do I diagnose it?

 

Thanks.

[Van Disaster]

6 hours ago, aleksey444 said:

1) Where exactly do I place the AABulletDefs.cfg file?

 

2) Battles seem to stop on their own.  Or, one plane fights, and the other one just tries to circle the KSC, or to gain altitude.

I installed all the required mods by hand.  Only a few (like Kerbal Engineer, MechJeb, Editor Extensions) I installed thru ckan.

Does anyone else have this kind of problem?  How do I fix it?  Or, at least, how do I diagnose it?

 

Thanks.

1) Just throw it in the AA directory, as long as it's somewhere in GameData it'll work though.

2) Yes, that happens.
* make sure the craft visible range is high enough would be the first thing - if they can't see a target they can't fight
* Try switching which craft you're viewing, this seems to reset it's pilot somehow.

[SuicidalInsanity]

Sounds like people could use more time. Deadline for submissions will be extended to October 14th.

[tetryds]

We should use this opportunity to promote this tournament more, it seems like we won't have more than 8 participants this time if we don't.

Edited October 5, 2017 by tetryds

[Van Disaster]

5 hours ago, tetryds said:

We should use this opportunity to promote this tournament more, it seems like we won't have more than 8 participants this time if we don't.

Can we give Ferram a champion's handicap of say, 50% of wing removed, perhaps?

[DoctorDavinci]

8 hours ago, SuicidalInsanity said:

Sounds like people could use more time. Deadline for submissions will be extended to October 14th.

Gives me a bit more time to finish adding camo patterns to DCK

I have a light and a heavy but haven't decided on which to enter ... RL gets in the way of fun on ocassion 

[keptin]

Submitted!

[Guest]

6 hours ago, keptin said:

Submitted!

strangely similar to the one i entered... dont have any pics though.

[tetryds]

I hope the mods and everything else are ok with the new release, KSP just updated to 1.3.1 on my steam without notice.

Damn it steam I said I WANT TO HANDLE MY UPDATES MANUALLY, which part of it didn't you understand, uh?

*Had to revert it manually through the "beta versions" settings.

Edited October 6, 2017 by tetryds

[Guest]

1 minute ago, tetryds said:

I hope the mods and everything else are ok with the new release, KSP just updated to 1.3.1 on my steam without notice.

Damn it steam I said I WANT TO HANDLE MY UPDATES MANUALLY, which part of it didn't you understand, uh?

Another reason not to use steam...

[tetryds]

2 minutes ago, dundun92 said:

Another reason not to use steam...

I do it so that my subscribers freak out, it's been more than a year since I last posted a video (or played at all), and my channel is dedicated to KSP.

Edited October 6, 2017 by tetryds

[keptin]

In case anyone else is running into the bug where your plane just disengages from combat and flies away, I added this to a module manager config.

*Edit* You can download the .cfg here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2LnpIwDhmD-RXVqZGFWQ1BmY3c

 

@PART[AIantenna]
{
    %MODULE[ModuleWingCommander]
    {
        %name = ModuleWingCommander
    }
}

Edited October 7, 2017 by keptin

[keptin]

1 hour ago, dundun92 said:

strangely similar to the one i entered... dont have any pics though.

@dundun92 I'll link you mine, if you link me yours.

[Van Disaster]

1 hour ago, tetryds said:

I hope the mods and everything else are ok with the new release, KSP just updated to 1.3.1 on my steam without notice.

Damn it steam I said I WANT TO HANDLE MY UPDATES MANUALLY, which part of it didn't you understand, uh?

*Had to revert it manually through the "beta versions" settings.

You haven't been able to do that in windows steam for years, unfortunately. Will make an investigatory install ( tomorrow ).

[tetryds]

Procedural wings reports that it's not compatible.

So I recommend everyone to make a backup save of their 1.3 versions for this tournament.

[SuicidalInsanity]

And that's why none of my copies of KSP are in a folder named "Kerbal Space Program", so the steam auto-updater can't break them suddenly without warning.

[aleksey444]

2 hours ago, keptin said:

In case anyone else is running into the bug where your plane just disengages from combat and flies away, I added this to a module manager config.

 

@PART[AIantenna]
{
    %MODULE[ModuleWingCommander]
    {
        %name = ModuleWingCommander
    }
}

 

I have this problem!

Which file do I add this to?  And where?