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AI Carriers .NET
Tregarth:
Can someone please help me with adding aicarriers to AICarriers.NET?
I have the file aicarriers.cfg to which I have added the carriers I want i.e. SBD's USS Enterprise and Flying Stations' HMS Ark Royal.
As you can see I have removed the Nimitz from the aicarriers.cfg file. I have the carriers I want in the .cfg file list but if you look at the Shift + J screen grabs (L1 - L3) I still have a fleet of Nimitzes but no Enterprises. I thought I had a handle on AIC but clearly I do not. Once I have modified the .cfg file I have closed the PC and re-started it and FSX but this makes no difference.
I cannot understand why I am plagued with Nimitzes but don't have any Enterprises, how can I add them, please?
Any guidance will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Tregarth
PhantomTweak:
I am far from being an expert at this bit of software, but when I looked at the file aicarriers_cfg.txt you provided, under the L2 picture, I noticed you didn't have a [formation.0] entry. Yours started with [formation.1]. I may well be wrong, but I think that you need to start it out with [formation.0] for the program to read the entries subsequent to that. This may be your problem.
Also, you don't need to replace the entries in the aicarriers.cfg . Just create a totally new .cfg file with then entries you want, and place in the conf.d folder, contained within the AICarriers folder, thus: ...\Aicarriers\conf.d\newconfig.cfg
It will read those ALSO. If you DL a new carrier or carrier set, like the Ark Royal, just for example, put it's .cfg file into the conf.d folder and it will read fine. Nimitz, Ark Royal, Enterprise, whatever. IIRC, most of them come with a AICarriers config file.
If you want to use it, add it to the conf.d folder. If you want to have it available, but not in use at that time, just make a new folder under the conf.d folder and place them there. Like ...\Aicarriers\conf.d\NEWCONFIGS .That way, if you decide that this time you want them included, just move a copy into the conf.d folder, if not, take it out of the conf.d folder.
I have found that if I'm not careful, I wind up with 100 different formations available. Can get to be a long process when I hit SHFT+J looking for the one I want to use :)
Hope this helps a little bit.
Pat☺
Tregarth:
Thank you very much for your help.
What I had not realised was that AIC reads the files (carrier formations) in conf.d no matter what the file is called. Thus I had a file in conf.d labelled XX_CVN_68_69 which was being read, hence all the "unwanted" carriers showed when I pressed Shift + J. I thought the XX_ would hide it, it doesn't. Your comment about making a new file named newconfig.cfg and storing it in the conf.d folder was the clue.
Previously I had thought that the AICarriers.cfg file in the main AICarriers folder (AICarriers/AIcarriers.cfg) was the "controlling" file which is wrong, not sure what the AICarriers.cfg file does, maybe a "hangover" from the Java days? But what is odd is that if you remove Aicarriers.cfg the program won't work.
Formation.0 does seem to be necessary. In case anyone else is struggling I attach some images which shows the file and the result which may help.
Thanks again,
Tregarth
PhantomTweak:
Glad I could help out, and that you got what you wanted/needed to get done.:D
I've found that the easiest way to "get rid" of unwanted carrier formation sets is to just move them someplace. ANYplace, other than the conf.d folder. I made a folder inside the conf.d folder, I named mine BAXX. Then, any sets, or .cfg files, I don't want to show up when I hit SHFT+J I just move into my BAXX folder. But you can do it any way, as long as they are NOT in the root folder or the conf.d folder. You can even delete them if you like. I do like to make sure I have a copy someplace, so I can use them later if I so choose.
Yes, you DO need the AICarriers.cfg file for the program to work, but as far as I know, and I may well be wrong on this, the only entry you absolutely need in it is the [base] section. After that, you can only have .cfg files in the conf.d folder, and they will be read, whatever their name, as long as they are .cfg files. I think if you rename them to get rid of the .cfg suffix they won't be read either. Like Newcarriers.gfc, or Newcarriers.BAK, vs Newcarriers.cfg. I just move them though. Quicker and easier for me.
Anyway, I'm glad you're up and running :) Have fun with it!
Pat☺
Tregarth:
Thank you for the advice.
I was slowly working out how to add/delete formations as required and you have given me some good help. I had not thought of playing tunes with the extensions; instead, like you I will have a second folder which I will use to store unwanted formations.
Best regards,
Tregarth
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