Creating Phantom Control Tracks

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Creating Phantom Control Tracks

Post by Redeye » Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:09 pm

Here is a step-by-step procedure of how to use Phantom Control

How to produce a phantom track:
  1. On your flying machine
  2. Record a track with your aircraft in PLAYER mode. Name it "Full Show" or "Rolls and Loops", whatever... and save. Then close LockOn.
  3. Transfer the track to your server machine, which has phantom installed on it (Phantom Control installs with LoMan). Also, transfer the .mis file you used while recording the track.

    On your server machine
  4. Open Phantom Control and turn Trace ON. Everything else OFF. Close Phantom Control.
  5. Re-open LockOn and play the track. Don't change views and be sure not to use any input device, just let it play! Phantom will trace it. Then close LockOn.
  6. Re-open Phantom and hit the CONVERT button. This will bring up a save box. Rename the track Full Show.phtrk, then hit save. It will take a few seconds and have a .phtrk extension. The new Full Show.phtrk will be located in the TEMP folder of your LockOn install.
At this point you have recorded a track, transferred the track and mission file to your server machine and had Phantom Control trace/copy it.

Your server machine should have the following three files

.mis - the mission you first used to record your track with.
.trk - the recorded track of your flight.
.phtrk - the traced phantom track of your flight.


To play a phantom track on the server:
  1. Open Phantom Control and select a Phantom traced track (.phtrk). The one you recorded. Then hit USE.
  2. Turn Phantom ON and everything else OFF.
  3. Close Phantom Control.
  4. Open LockOn, create a Multiplayer session and select the same mission that you first recorded your track with! This is very important as to place the phantom aircraft in the same exact spot as when you first recorded it.
  5. Let Clients join the session, Hit FLY on the server and follow the Phantom Boss.

It's all about the flying!!!


Download Phantom Control here!

Requires Loman 2.1 + Patch to install.


Note: See readme for detailed step-by-step instructions.
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