Maulkin

I just downloaded the stand-alone trainer and it is blowing my mind! This is a slick peice of software!

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http://www.youtube.com/user/eagledcs

Put it at 8x anistropic filtering and what a difference with no noticeable fps hit! Thanks!

So there is no setting in a config file somewhere? You see I do not have an entry in the nVidia control panel for either Black Shark or FC2 and yet I am still seeing a considerable difference in appearance, so I am just trying to understand why. But in the meantime I will try as you suggest and see if the textures clear up a bit. :) I find it odd that both BS and FC2 are using the same graphics engine now but look so different.....

The other big difference is the haze. I went through the graphics.cfg files of both BS and FC2 to make sure they had the same values for the above two screenshots. The only values that do not match now are: LandLodDistances { LandDay { L01 = 30000; (2000) L12 = 50000; (4000) } LandNight { L01 = 20000; (16000) L12 = 40000; (30000) FogParam : 10 (6) The value in parenthesis are the values in the BS config.cfg. I didn't change these because I felt they would not have an impact.

I wanted to compare the settings I have for BS and for FC2.0 as they both looked very different, and BS seemed to look better in some ways. So I imported the A-10 quick mission into BS and converted the spawn into a Ka-50 so I could properly compare. See attachments. It apears to me one of the main differences is that the BS shot looks to have a better resolution ground texture or rather it has anistropic filtering. Anyone know how to adjust FC2 to be more like BS?

I have been converting some of the A-10 missions into Black Shark ones. Works seemlessly. I just switch out the A-10 waypoints with Ka-50 ones and then hit fly. :)

That site appears to be missing the download for the Su-25T and the UPT sections...?

Training in FC 2.0? I just bought, downloaded and installed FC2.0 and was going to start running through the training when I saw that the menu was empty. I checked the GUI manual that comes with FC 2.0 and saw in the example there (page 31) that they have all kinds of things there. I go back to my menu ingame and still nothing there but there is a 'Download' button, which is not described in the GUI manual but I click it anyways. Promptly I am set to the FC 2.0 homepage where there are a series of youtube videos linked. This is not what I was expecting! I was expecting what the GUI manual showed me and what Black Shark has, which is an ingame tutorial session which allows me to practice afterwards! Does anyone else have this problem? I did a quick search on this topic but ended with a bunch of stuff that appeared unrelated to this.

Black Shark boring? Hell, I just recently felt I was getting good enough to handle a campian and this is my AA report after the second mission: I was assigned the mission to escort a transport column along a narrow valley. My job was to take over for a couple of Hind's that were already flying cap. As I arrive they do one more pass ahead of the column and then report that they checked the nearby woods and saw nothing. They wish us luck and head home. I fly over the column to get an idea of their composition and then fly a bit ahead down the valley to scout the place out inspecting all the surrounding woodlands then head back to check on them. I do this two more times when on the third time out I notice that there is a small village near the road up ahead. At that point a little voice in my head says "If I were designing a mission like this, that is where I would have the op-for pop out of the buildings and attack...". So I sit there in a hover on the opposite side of the valley facing that town. Sure enough the convoy comes around the bend and gunfire erupts from the neaby houses. Of course I already had all my rockets armed and ready to go so I let loose all over the town and kill all but a few stragglers that I set my wingman onto. Ahh good times. ----------------- Sure I have done some quick missions and blew up stuff for practise and I agree that can get boring after a while, but try one of the campains with icons turned off and I think you will have a different experience.

I suggest for a test you try firing the rounds at a stationary aircraft. I tried that against a Hind that was landed (so was I for that matter) and the AP rounds barely made any affect to the physical appearance and the Hind looked untouched except for a few small holes. Switched to HE and the first shot blew it in half. The only rationale I could come up with is that the AP rounds are passing right through the aircraft.... but I fired at least 100 rounds. I only needed about 5 rounds of HE to completely destroy the Hind.

I have been reading about people having problems buring out the laser rangefinder and that they should turn off the laser as soon as possible to prevent burnout. My question is how do you turn the rangefinder on, and more importantly, off. And how do you know when the laser is burnt out. As it stands I have been doing missions and I have no idea if the rangefinder laser is burnt out or not. I have been simply putting the laser in standby mode (RShift-O) as part of my takeoff procedure. Then when I have a target I uncage the Shkval (O) and then lock the target (ENTER). When I am done I reset the target mode (BACKSPACE) which puts me back into navigation mode and I go on my merry way. So am I not really using the laser rangefinder and I am just getting lucky hits? Or am I not really turning off the laser rangefinder and I am just not noticing that I am burning it out? And if I am burning it out how would I find out?

I use the rudder pedals alot....and short bursts about 1 second in length. I also turn on the Flight Director. Took alot of practise.

Yes there is a heading autopilot which has been the bane of my piloting existence. Look at the panel with the big square blue buttons... its the lower left one. :)

ebgames.com has it but ebgames.ca does not. Go figure....

Actually I came to the same conclusion after training a bit with a squad mate and now I fly almost exclusively with the Flight Director turned on. In fact I used to turn off the FD when I wanted to engage autohover, but then I did a mission that had a high cross wind and turning on the autohover was darn near suicidal, so I just hovered by hand. Sure it was not perfect but I was not about to spin into the ground either. :)

ahh nm Did a google search on the problem and came up empty but then just thought of searching on here and saw this: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=19868&highlight=full+shadows Looks like I am not going to get full shadows. :(

I recently got a new system with a GTX 295 and Vista 64-bit. One of the first things I have done is moved Flaming cliffs over to the new system and turn everything on. I was a bit disappointed to note that when I looked at the external of the aircraft with full shadows, the aircraft was just a dark grey all over and that is it. If I turn off the full shadows then it behaves as you would expect with full planar but I was really hoping with this new system that I would be able to fly with full shadows from now on. Anyone else get this and/or have some suggestions?

I thought the tutorials were quite well done in showing all the capabilities of the aircraft but what I really needed was one more tutorial that kinda tied it all together. For example, how often does the pilot press the trim button during a mission, and when? I understand all the different things about the weapon systems, but what is the most common process to quickly hover and attack an armored target with missles? When are you pressing the trim button through all that? ;)

I assume this mod would be one that would have to be purchased?

When I was waiting for DCS:BS to come out, I would watch, and re-watch the Producer Notes and the SimHQ movies over and over. One thing I noted that I was really excited about was the little details in the airfields such as the taxiway markers. But I have not seen anything like that at any of the airfields so I thought perhaps you had to put them in using the editor, but I could not find the objects there either.... anyone know how they got the details in the airfields like that?

Is the Su-25 (and Su-25T) ready for 6DOF?

Default key: Backspace

Also, the 'Release Weapon' trigger has to be held down for a moment before it fires.