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  • Birthday 05/14/1998

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    Embedded software, classical music, piano, politics, apologetics

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  1. Yes, the weapons boycotts of the 80s made airframes almost more valuable than gold. They couldn't afford to lose any. The South Africans developed their own short range IR missile to replace the unobtainable Magics. I don't know if they were used at all though.
  2. That's a South African Mirage F1 AZ with an Angolan defector's MiG 17. You can see it's an AZ from the small extra chin air intake and the offset pitot tube to the bottom of the center of the nose.
  3. I would like to see AZ and CZ versions with an Angola 1980 map. For those who do not know, the Z variants were South African export versions, and they saw extensive combat in the conflict on Angola's southern border. The AZs did low level supersonic ingress strike missions and the CZs did escort for the AZs and other planes, like recon Canberra bombers. Their main adversary was the MiG 21 flown by Cuban pilots, although they probably also went up against MiG 17 and MiG 19s.
  4. Agreed about room for improvement. However, I really don't have the budget for that. I just wanted a solution other than "throw a coffin full of money at it". And I got a few tips about things to try about which I didn't know before. I'll look at the prices of VR headsets as they continue to fall due to the magic of supply and demand and mass production.
  5. Yes, I am aware. Maybe my use of the term "zoom" was wrong. Forget about that specific word. What my issue is, is that I can't see the ground at a decent size while also seeing all my important instruments. I asked for a feature where you can basically move around your head to make close items (~1 m distance) larger while not changing pan speed and zoom for objects further away as dramatically. I got my answer that it is already possible via head movement controls, of which I didn't know. Agreed. I think I phrased my suggestion badly. I would be happy with 2 independent control options, 1 for changing FOV and the other for changing eye position in cockpit. It seems like they are already implemented, as zoom (mouse wheel by default) for #1 and head movement controls for #2. This is exactly my setup as well. Logitech X3D Pro stick and nothing else.
  6. @Abburo my issue isn't so much realism as it is that I lose context if my cockpit zoom and outside zoom is connected to each other. I want to be able to focus in on my TV monitor without having super slow panning speeds or I want to be able to zoom in on terrain without it automatically making my cockpit unreadably small. I'll try that once my update is installed.
  7. I mean, I get the limitations. That's why I think the best solution would be to split zoom and head from instruments distance. But I'd be happy to compromise for the sake of performance to simply drop dynamic zoom controls and only enable moving the head around. Having to zoom in to see targets on the ground and then losing all my cockpit items from the fov is what my issue is. I understand that. I found what filled up my drive and am installing 2.7 now. Even if I couldn't get it, I wanted to voice my concern.
  8. Disclaimer: I am running DCS2.5 because I don't have space on the computer for the update to 2.7 currently. I also don't have any paid addons. This is with the Su25T that is included. If zoom is increased, both cockpit objects and terrain is enlarged. When zoom is decreased, both is getting smaller. This is not realistic, because I can't just lean closer in a real airplane to have 2x magnification of the ground 1 km away. It is also very difficult to keep eyes on target and keep flying straight if you have to decrease zoom of the outside if you want to see all your instruments at once. I'd suggest you fix outside zoom at some level, or decouple it from cockpit zoom. I have no idea how easy it will be though. I fully understand there are projects with higher priority. But I think this should definitely become something on your todo list.
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