Alot of people wonder how to turn things on or off
How to reduce or increase the seen Icon Range.
How to drop ack lethality and other things. So here is a complete rundown of all of the terrain settings.
NOTE: This is a work in progress and I will be going over EVERYTHING in the terrain settings.
First Need To Know
1 Sector = 25 Kilometers Respectively
A Plane flying 250 True - Indicated Speed is not effected - will transverse this sector in 2.5 Minutes
Fuel Burns - in Main Arenas It is set to 2.0 meaning twice the amount of fuel consumed.
in Training Arena This is set to 1.0 so you can take 50% less fuel and have the same time in air.
*Note: Fuel adds weight to aircraft so in the TA it is actually lighter at 25% than at 50% but you get double the amount of time in that weight class.
For this Terrain we will use BUZZSAW, Since there seems to be a lot of hatred for it.
Quick Settings
Offline Drones
Settings for these are found in Options > Arena Setup > Offline Drones
The Checkboxes Turn them off or on
The Dropdowns allow you to select Plane type or Vehicle
We will discuss things that you can change while In the Terrain First. These are CM Tools
CM Tools - What Campaign Managers Use, CM is an Acronym for Campaign Manager
Under Offline Mode - go to Options > Arena Settings > CM Tools
First Thing is First, Lets Make a New Arena Table
Click On Arena Tables and in the left column, select Add New.
Now lets give it a name.
BuzzsawC - For Custom
Now We are done with CM Tools For Now, Unless you want to Enable / Disable Weapons for Aircraft or add an MOTD
So lets look at that MOTD.
MOTD Settings
You must first Create a Text File in C:>HitechCreations>Aces High III> motd
name this file buzzC1
Enter your text, and then save.
Next in the MOTD Settings under CM Tools enter the filename exactly as it appears
*Note It is Case Sensitive and must have the extension .txt with it.
To Test the MOTD, go to the Main Clipboard Page and Click O'Club then Arena Message
Now Lets take a look back in the Options Under Fields
You can select the Field you want and change the country, or give the Orginal Country back to whatever you want.
You can also disable a Plane for that field.
Object Settings
Hardness and Downtimes can be set here for objects.
If you have custom objects then they may not be in here unless you have added them in the terrain.
Explanation of Hardness
If a 1000lb bomb were to hit a target with 1 on the hardness, that would mean that 1 1000lb bomb would have to hit directly in it
a hardness of .75 would allow for splash damage
Example Hangers have a Hardness of 2.7813 to allow for splash damage from bombs and rockets. It would take 3 Rockets and 2 1000lb bombs to destroy a hanger.
The Destroy Objects settings is great for mapping different guns, Town Objects and AAA objects for CV and BB Gunnery with the 8 inch to tell you where you have hit in relation to other buildings objects etc.
Radars and Altitudes
Unit of Measure - Feet
1 Mile = 5280 Feet
Default Setting 12 Miles - or 63360feet
Radar Alt - Altitude in Feet of which to show an ICON
Will Continue This Later
