Allow AJ(S) to fire weapons without radar lock

NikolaiVChr / flightgear-saab-ja-37-viggen

Saab 37 Viggen for Flightgear flight simulator

http://wiki.flightgear.org/Saab_37_Viggen

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Closed colingeniet closed 3 years ago

colingeniet commented 4 years ago

I need to check but it did not seem to work from my quick tests. If so it should not be too hard since the JA already has that feature.

NikolaiVChr commented 4 years ago

Check out line 925 in displayTI.nas, it changes from radar guided lock to fixed lock in middle of hud.

colingeniet commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the pointer, I will check that.

colingeniet commented 4 years ago

I think I have the IR seeker behaviour reasonably right: it works in boresight mode, and can be uncaged after launch with a button (shift-E).

Now, I would like to do the same with the remaining AJS weapons, namely Rb04, Rb15 and Rb75. I am considering the following:

make the Rb04 and Rb15 use lock-on after launch, which is closer to their real behaviour (of course they would also need a more advanced navigation system to be realistic)
as a temporary solution, make the Rb75 behave in the same way as IR seekers.

colingeniet commented 4 years ago

Oh, I forgot the M90. I have absolutely no idea what to do with that one. It will probably need to wait for a serious AJS radar/navigation rework...

colingeniet commented 4 years ago

Rb 04 and Rb 15 done (they fly straight ahead and look for target).

colingeniet commented 3 years ago

This is becoming a blocking issue for the AJS HUD rework.

[x] M90: The easiest thing I can think of is to make it lock after launch. This is throwing realism out of the window, but is easy to understand and to implement, and works the same way as the Rb 04 and Rb 15, so I think it is a good solution until navigation systems and CI are advanced enough to set a target waypoint.
[x] Rb 75: Make a HUD marker for the seeker position. Seeker can be moved with radar cursor controls (this is accurate), and 'clicking' locks on a target.

colingeniet commented 3 years ago

Fixed in barnch hud-rework.