JEFX

First of all, BRAVO!!!! this update is most significant and as a faithful LOMAC-LOCKON-DCS user since the very first days, 2004, I can only applaud to what is happening to our marvelous world of simulation!!!! YOU WANT TO KEEP ALL THOSE KEY BINDINGS AND HOTAS MAPPINGS THAT WERE SO LONG TO MAKE? For those who own DCS (and some modules) under a RELEASE form (the last was 1.2.7.23803) and want to download the new OPEN BETA 1.2.8 with all the new bells etc...) (And do this before playing around with the options and the controls and key mappings in the new 1.2.8, let it virgin before you do this, and use no mods) 1) you should make sure your current DCS is the last version (run the updater) and it should be 1.2.7.23803. 2) download the DCS 1.2.8 Open Beta installer on the DCS website (which will ask you for a destination on your HD that will be DIFFERENT from you current DCS 1.2.7, it is a separate instal. Here again is the link : http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/downloads/world/dcs_world_open_beta/ (and you need to sign unto the DCS web site). 3) once you have downloaded and INSTALLED the 1.2.8 build (open beta) it should have copied a bunch of files from your other 1.2.7 folder and some new files and that makes it a SEPARATE BUILD with its own shorcuts, etc... (DCS WORLD open beta single and multiplayer versions). YOU NEED ALSO TO OPEN THE MODULE MANAGER, SIGN IN AND DOWNLOAD ALL YOUR PAID MODULES, it is very easy and it does propose it to you right when you open it. 4) in order to get your options, key mappings and joystick bindings back, you need to copy them from your old saved games folder... -go to your ...users/username/saved games/DCS/config FOLDER -select : option.lua modifiers.lua (if you have made some) input FOLDER (whole) view FOLDER (whole) 5) copy all of these files directly into users/username/saved games/DCS.openbeta/Config FOLDER 6) launch the game in its new form (1.2.8 or DCS Open Beta) and go to the options. First of all you will notice that your old system options are transfered (screen resolution, HDR settings, etc.) But the most important for most of us is the HOTAS profile (or keyboard mappings) since they take long so make and are independant for each plane... 7) in the Options screen, clic the CONTROLS tab, in the leftmost choice (LAYERS) select the aircraft or vehicle for which you want to retain your old settings (ex.: F-15C OR SU-33). Once it is selected (and you might see a little lag or time to load some info...) just close the whole OPTIONS window by clicking OK at the botton (that will create the new controler files). 8) I am not sure, but I think you have to do it again for every one of your controlled vehicle or aircraft (because it is when you click OK that the files are created) : select another bought airplane or controlled vehicle and click OK, and open again the options window and controls tab, etc... 9) once you are finished, in each specific aircraft FOLDER inside Saved Games/DCS.open beta/Config/Input/ there will be a new file saved with all your old settings with the same name as before but with the suffix .diff.lua (instead of just .lua as before) 10) these are the new files and all should be OK (I am not an expert but it worked very well for me):) hope this will help a few like me who tried to understand how to... JEFX

It is true that Crimea was fun, back in LOMAC's time! But perhaps the situation is a bit too sensitive right now, no? Just a question of timing...

sorry.... This is not a game anymore!!! We should never forget, in the comfort of our HOTASed armchairs, that there is real people involved now, and all this is becoming quite scary. Not a simulator. There is no pain simulator!

Hey Worther I have been hesitating a few hours before answering this but I HAVE to tell you this : no matter what solution you choose (Free headtracking, TIR, etc), head tracking device for views is, for me, THE ONE THING that revolutionned the whole immersion and experience of flight sims!!! I think that it is way more a priority than buying aircrafts! Take the step and go for it, you will never want to go back!!! (a friendly advice) :smilewink:

Hey! Superkungfu Nice to hear from you! I found this : In the OPTIONS of the simulator, if one selects the CONTROLS tab, and then just below, an aircraft (say the new F-15C, and directly on the right of it a category of controls, say ALL, then, at the bottom of the window, there is a new? button labeled HTML which I clicked and ''LO'' in the SAVED GAMES directory, in the right aircraft folder inside of a new INPUTLAYOUTS.TXT folder, here is a KEYBOARD.HTML list of all keyboard commands! Then you can print it. You have to do it one aircraft at a time. Good luck JEFX

Thanks TonyZ I had come to the same conclusion but I found also that there is a conflict between axises... I have to cancel some zoom axis, either TrackIR Z axis, or mouse zoom, etc... JEFX

Hello everyone, I have been away from DCS in the last few weeks and I am back and happy! I am trying to adjust the horizontal view angle for my triplehead2go setup and cannot find the param anymore? Usually it was in the config folder, in the view file (I think view.lua if I remember well) and there was a series of view angles parameters that could be changed per aircraft. I always needed to do it after each update in the main DCS folder view folder, otherwise I have a very narrow FOV in the 3840X1024 setup... and cannot zoom out. Anybody knows where this parmameter has migrated????? disapeared??? thanks JEFX

the new mission selection screens look promising, especially that with all the modules we will get missions and campaign for many different aircraft, thanks. One request : is it possible to add a print function for the briefings of the missions please? times, speeds, headings, weapons, frequencies, maps, etc... It would be so more immersive! thanks

hey guys, no problem! I have been on these forum for close to 10 years now, and there has been so many people helping me and each other, it is the point with such a great forum community! Glad it helped! JEFX

Congrats Glowing A. this is one of your best! Very good movie and it shows the tremendous variety of LOFC3. (one little criticism :at 1:55 it is not LOFC but A-10C...) :smilewink: bravo! JEFX

I am as shocked as all of you... Just read the news... He was such a great man (took the time to answer all our messages with patience and passion). My sympathies to the family and to the flying community! Jean-François

I looked through the keyboard commands but couldnt find it? Is there a command to change the altimeter setting? Viper said today in the Bugs thread that this is RESOLVED: 45 - F15 unable to adjust altimeter pressure setting at all. But I dont know how to adjust it, thanks for the help. JEFX

V.7570 I am very happy because the new version today resolved a couple of things : -no more weird graphical glitches with HDR and FOG on (strange black artefacts blocking the view above a set altitude -the escort action works with human player (not sure it was resolved in this version but I just found it now...) -the sim loads pretty much faster! thanks!

OK, dont know if this is new to the new update today, but ESCORT IS NOW WORKING with me (player)!!!! As Grimes said, it doesnt work if one tries to assign this function on a STP that is not the very first one, but if you assign ESCORT (anyone) on the very furst Waypoint, be it the takeoff waypoint, it works and it is a great great new function! So, with this now, we can take off and head in the direction of our business and have an escort flight of 4 fighters take-off after us and rejoin us and escort us all the way, wow. thanks

Thanks Joey and Crescendo, I will give it a try!

I am curious : what do you mean by PHYSICALLY ADJUSTED YOUR HOTAS TO USE THE AFTERBURNER DETENT??? I have the TMWH and there doesnt seem to be a detent??? thanks

I had the same question too (hey I seem to be following you...) :)

I concur! I was just now seaching this forum to see if anyone else had reported a problem with the F-15C AOA display... I have the same thing : I am used to do a nice approach with a 3 degrees glise lope, nice centered bars on the ADI and an average airspeed of around 150 knots and the AOA indicator on the HUD AND the AOA gauge both display around 10 (not the prescribed 22). At first, I thought I was rusty on fighters (after those years of A-10C..) and I tried to land with a 22 degrees AOA and I crashed short of the runway everytime... NOT POSSIBLE... Can someone from the team confirm this funny behavior as a bug? thanks a lot!

Thanks!

Thanks Viper Following your answer, I just made a quick series of tests and my conclusion is that it happens only when HDR AND FOG are present. See track below. I tried all combinations of FOG, Overcast and HDR and all other combinations seem not to do that. thanks graphic glitch HDR on-FOG on-NO clouds FL350.trk

Hi Viper There is a graphic bug that I have been talking about in other posts but I might as well take the chance here (as you said:-): in F-15 (FC3) there is a strange graphic glitch (white squares, black squares and some people yellow squares). the behavior starts only at a given altitude (when you dive back down it stops0 but the given altitude is not the same everytime... I have experienced it above ANGELS 26 or above ANGELS 6 ... here is a pic It doesnt do it when HDR is turned off. Somebody said somewhere that it might be a DCS bug rather than a FC3 bug but it started only with FC3. thanks (it is very annoying because HDR adds so much to the general up to date of the looks and immersion). JEFX

SOLVED : HDR I do have the same thing but in white... Reading here I tried turning HDR off and it soved the issue (for now, because I would like to go back to HDR when this is solved...)

bump??? I got it again today, anyone else is having this issue?

strange graphical glitch??? how about this? I have the latest version of DCSW and FC3 with windows 7/64. My graphics card is GTX 580 and I just downloaded the latest driver : 306.97 This is what I see when I climb above Angels 25 (or 26 not sure) and I am almost sure it was not like that prior to 1.2.2? when I descend below 25000 feet the artifacts disappear... ?

Sorry but I tried many times last night (with most recent version of DCSW) and follow command didnt seem to work with my player AC...