ShaunX

For anyone interested, I've just tested DCS VR Shaders mod for 2.5.6.50321 (Clear Water, IC Pass) on the latest, Dec 17th 2.5.6.59398 Open Beta. Works perfectly on Caucasus and Syria ! While I'm here, massive thanks to Kegetys and speed-of-heat for this mod, really helps me maintain a solid 45FPS with MP and the IC pass is a real bonus.

Yes, I get that all the time! I have actually stopped using Mavs until they fix the problems, which it looks like they may have done with today's OB update ! https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/news/changelog/ Haven't installed it yet - Waiting to see if there are any issues

This are fantastic, thank you! before this, with the "dot only" setting, in VR with the G2 resolution, I was flying with what looked like enormous pixelated space invaders

I managed to get this working with OVR Drop, but instead of a regular webcam I used my old (and othwise completely unused) Gopro Hero 3, plugged into a usb with a cheap camlink. Works really well as the Gopro has a very wide angle setting so easy to include a keyboard in the view with the camera only a foot above. I'll probably never use it in DCS VR to be honest, but useful when using a virtual desktop in Steam VR. (You an FZ fan from your handle ?)

I fly the Viper with the G2. I see the rings as all purple. I don't find the sweet spot particularly small, though I've never used the Rift. What is your Stream VR SS percentage and cockpit resolution in DCS? I'm on 100% generic and 76% DCS app specific with DCS cockpit res at 1024. Even better at 100% but just a tad too much for my rig.

I believe you can access those settings by running "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\MixedRealityVRDriver\bin\win64\OpenVRSettingsUX.exe" from the desktop

Thanks I’ll give it a try

Thank you for the tip. There isn't an FA-18C section in my version of that file (or indeed an F-16C section). Is that because I've never set any snap views for those aircraft ?. I note there IS an F-15C section and I've definatately set snap views for that.

I did email Hollywood (Viacompro Support Team) and proposed the above mentioned change. His response was that we should be able to achieve this within VA by " in the VAICOM profile edit a TX Press/Release command and add a conditional block that uses the currentmodule.name exposed variable. Inside the conditional block add a Switch Profile command via Other -> VoiceAttack Action -> Switch To Another Profile. Now as soon as you press that TX button in the mission, the profile should instantly change to the one you selected. " I guess it's a reasonable compromise. Whatever code you put in the block is only going to get executed if currentmodule.name differs from the currently loaded aircraft specific profile name. Though if you want code to also run on first load (and the loaded module happens to equal the initial aircraft profile you load) maybe always run it first time and set a flag to prevent it repeating until lchange of module. Either that or add your powers of persuasion to mine in asking Hollywood to consider the change (perhaps if I'd worded it as you suggest "New Module Command" rather than "Select Aircraft Profile." it would have made more sense to him.

Well, after a reboot Steam downloaded an update and now it works ! Started a simple Instant Action mission and I'M IN THE FREEKIN' PLANE! It's absolutely awesome! I had no idea it would be so immersive. I had to quit out after a few minutes to catch my breath! I was able to read all of the dials (except perhaps the FCR cursor digits). I notice that I appeared to be sitting far too low in the seat and too close to the HUD and that my normal zoom in/out binds didn't work. I guess I have so do some reading and config. Many thanks for your help. I'm completely blown away !

Just a thought.. I originally installed Windows WMR and played with that for a while before I knew to install the Steam versions. Should I uninstall Windows WMR ? Could it be conflicting with the Steam version ?

Followed your instructions, but when I run Windows Mixed Reality for Steam VR It just displays Then nothing happens after I plug the headset in until I eventually get and then If I unplug and plug the headset back in after the first message, WMR runs and I'm able to use the headset in the Skyloft, but if I run DCS from the desktop it's still 2D windowed and my system grinds to a halt (I have an i7, RTX 2080 Super and 24GB ram)... and the Steam "Please plug in your VR headset is still there so I guess it;s just gone into regular WMR. Any ideas ?

That's great thank you (I was worried for a moment that I'd spent a lot of money for an unusable headset!)

Thank you. I've never run DCS with Steam and purchased all my modules for the Standalone, will everything still work through Steam ?

Received my G2 this morning (Having ordered it on 30th June!) My first time with a VR Headset. Just spent the last couple of hours wandering arond a virtual skyloft. Very impressive visually and audibly but I have no clue whatsoever how to launch DCS with it ? Can anyone advise please as I'm obviously desperate to try it ? I'm running standalone DCS Thanks

Thanks mate. I'll drop him an email and make a case for it.

Do you know if Hollywood is amenable to small change requests ? .. From the VA manual chapter on plugin support there's an "Exists" test and an "Execute" function usable from a plugin.. " Exists(string CommandPhrase) – This Boolean function returns true if a command is available to the active profile with the spoken phrase specified in CommandPhrase. Execute (string CommandPhrase, optional Boolean WaitForReturn, optional Boolean AsSubcommand, optional Action<Guid?> CompletedAction, optional PassedText, optional PassedIntegers, optional PassedDecimals, optional PassedBooleans, optional PassedDates) - This method will execute a VoiceAttack command in the active profile by the spoken phrase indicated in CommandPhrase with the given example.. if (vaProxy.Command.Exists(“fire weapons”)) { vaProxy.Command.Execute(“fire weapons”); } " So I think we may just need a single statement in VIACOM, something like.. On load/change of module if (vaProxy.Command.Exists(“Select Aircraft Profile”)) { vaProxy.Command.Execute(“Select Aircraft Profile”); } Where "Select Aircraft Profile" is the name of your VA command which interrogates Active Module Name and switches the top level aircraft specific profile if necessary. You'd need a copy of it in each aircraft specific profile to ensure it's always found by the above "Exists" test. No impact to other users as it would only execute if the user has created the "Select Aircraft Profile" command in VA. Pretty sure that would give us a solid way to automatically switch aircraft specific profiles in VA on load/change of module though I may be oversimplifying the VIACOM side change required, only Hollywood would know ;)​

Here's a thought: What if, instead of your aircraft specific profiles being daisy chained from aircraft specific copies of the VIACOM profile, it was t'other way around ? So top level profile is either DCS Hornet or DCS Viper and each of those has the common VIACOM profile daisy chained from it. That way, you'd only need a single version of the VIACOM profile, and would only need to update that single version's AI commands if anything was changed in VIACOM. May be a non-starter if it's a requirement that the VIACOM profile is top level.

Sure could, I was just curious to see if there was a way to automate it with the exposed variable. For that matter, it guess it would only take a few seconds to manually swap the daisy chained profile for the correct one for the aircraft.

That's an idea now. Ok, so I'm guessing you're using the Other|VoiceAttack Action|Switch to AnotherProfile command in a conditional statement interrogating the currentmodule.name variable. But I don't get what triggers that command to execute ?

I have to say that I am thoroughly enjoying using VIACOM with VA. Bought the promotion bundle pro licences and installed everything and working perfectly. I particularly like the excellent Kneeboard and the background chatter adds nicely to the realism. I have successfully daisy-chained my generic DCS commands profile from the VIACOM one and also added a F-16C specific profile, which I use to send keyboard sequences to operate those 2 and 3 way Warthog switches which DCS doesn't support. I note that VIACOM implements a number of exposed variables, one of which is Active Module Name. Is there a way to use that variable to automatically select a profile to be daisy-chained ? So that I could have an aircraft specific daisy-chained profile loaded dependent on active aircraft module ?

Have you tried LCtrl + LAlt + c ? That should open the VIACOM window, then click the about tab

That's correct, yes. WHENEVER you press the "Finish" button" the entire set of AI Communications keywords defined in VIACOM is copied to your clipboard, so you must clear the entire AI Communications keywords list in VA before pasting in the copied list. So this replaces the entire AI Communications list in VA, adding any new keywords that might have been added in VIACOM (either manually yourself or through the addition of a new plugin feature like the Kneeboard or AIRIO).

That's correct, yes. WHENEVER you press the "Finish" button" the entire set of AI Communications keywords defined in VIACOM is copied to your clipboard, so you must clear the entire AI Communications keywords list in VA before pasting in the copied list. So this replaces the entire AI Communications list in VA, adding any new keywords that might have been added in VIACOM (either manually yourself or through the addition of a new plugin feature like the Kneeboard or AIRIO).

That is a good idea, thank you. This means I no longer need the SRS option "Radio switch works as PTT" set and only need a single SRS PTT button, so it's freed up a button on the hat I can use for another VIACOM TX. Nice one.