Custom Airfield in OE plus extras

[Diamax]

Hello guys!

I was trying to figure out those entry points and spawn points, in order to make my own airfields. Well never really figured them out.

Well as I couldn't get these figured no matter how many times I tried, and after reading everything that there is on the subject in these forums, and after even posting about them a while back, I came up with the idea of making my custom airfield by placing one of those three "Bomb Ent" structures under my custom airfield. When I am building it in OE, and just align my runways with the ones from the default large, medium, or small structures that I would use. I've done a test and it looks like it works. Now the actuall issue here is... how wold I go about placing those planes around, I want to place some planes around the runways, to make it look nicer. I tried to do that in TE, but over there the planes always get placed under ground for some strange reason, and no matter what I do I cannot make them stay right on the grass, they are always more or less sinked into the ground/grass it just looks bad, they don't level up with the ground itself.

Is there a way to get those planes to show up in OE "Shapes" list and place them there in my custom Airfield?

Thank you!

[Diamax]

It would be really nice to have them, the planes, placed in my Airfield, when I build it in OE, because I wouldn't have to worry about adding them one by one in TE (if I could level them properly) every time I make a terrain, I would just add my Airfield with everything included into it (built in).

[Bogie603rd]

I was thinking about the same thing yesterday. Not sure how to do it, I know you can do it. Might want to ask Blauk or NHawk.

[BlauK]

You can make an object group of all your custom airbase objects (including entpnts placed in TE) in the TE.
Currently it does not seem possible to build entpnts into a base in OE.

[Diamax]

It would have been nice to be able to make it in OE, well I'll look into how can be made in TE, experiment with it.

Thank you Blauk!

[Bogie603rd]

Hey Blauk, when you make the object group. Does that export the object from the TE to the OE directory? Cause I wanna try to place some planes along the runways / hangars for strafing purposes.

[NHawk]

Originally posted by Diablomax
... how wold I go about placing those planes around, I want to place some planes around the runways, to make it look nicer. I tried to do that in TE, but over there the planes always get placed under ground for some strange reason, and no matter what I do I cannot make them stay right on the grass, they are always more or less sinked into the ground/grass it just looks bad, they don't level up with the ground itself......

Remember a plane's Y position is determined by the center point of the plane. For example, use a B17g, UN-check "Set to terrain altitude" and make the Y axis about 10 feet above your base altitude. The front wheels should be sitting on the ground now.

And I'm not sure on this, but I think most planes are drawn as they would look in level flight so it looks odd having the tail off of the ground when the plane is just sitting there. I don't work with the OE, but I think you can rotate along any axis to correct this. You can't in the TE.

[Diamax]

Hello NHawk!

Very nice tip, it worked exactly like you said. Now, I should tilt somehow the plane so the tail stays on the ground, but don't know how. I couldn't say how would I get that plane, or any other plane for that matter to show up in OE.
Anyway that is one step forward.

Thank you NHawk!

[Diamax]

A value of 9.75 on the y axis seems to put the plane (B17G) exactly on the ground/runway... just being picky

[Bogie603rd]

Thanks for letting us know:aok

[Diamax]

What is the name of the Jeep, in the selection list in TE, to add it to my terrain?
I already renamed shipfilter, so I can see everything.

Thank you!