Carlos73

Some of you might have noticed, that if Black shark is installed under program files-folder, screenshots and tacview tracks don't seem to work, if running the game as a normal user. Files don't appear to screenshots-folder and tracks to temp folder. Vista has a feature, something known as virtual store. Software thinks it is writing to program files, but vista places the files somewhere else. Examples: Look for your screenshots in C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\Ka-50\ScreenShots And your tacview tracks in C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\Ka-50\Temp

The real reason... I found the reason to be scene settings. Scenes must be on high for the mission to work as planned. Diamonds were not visible on my setting. :beer:

Now try loading the mission, switch to a2g, see any diamonds?

problem with mission 5 I tried mission 5 with a friend yesterday and I think mission 5, rail depot is broken. You cannot pass the mission. 4 target buildings are not in the mission file. Convoy was there. There should be target diamonds for building targets, there aren't. I checked the mission with mission editor, couldn't find the target buildings from there either. Or am I wrong?

How to install Vista Here's great installation instructions for Vista. :lol: http://www.riemurasia.net/jylppy/displayimage.php?pos=-17897

Really... There are other games, than Lock on? :shocking: Currently, the other game is NWN2. Dangerous waters and space rangers2 are also installed, haven't been playing those too much lately.

hog campaign? Took me 2 evenings to practice and get aerial refueling done. Damn it was hard to get right. Ironhands tutorial was most helpful. How about SU-25 campaign? You seem to have already made several for A-10. :)

1st mission >Before you taxi out to the runway, what hazard has the Ukrainian ground >crew thoughtlessly left for you? Post your answer on the forum please. Umm. There was a truck parked right behind the F15 in the first mission. Correct answer?

Nightmare Planes had advertisements painted on their wings. Land to reload weapons and refuel, wingads would change. During the refueling you would have to watch tvadvertisements from MFD. Asking taxi clearance from tower would start with a radioad. During missions, pause and commercials. Black shark video, the one where the pilot lady smokes, would be advertising the brand of the cigarette in the end. Wouldn't that be great. Hell no, I say.

How about tacview? You cant save progress to mission files. But try this. Use tacview. Install and open the produced logfile in lockon/temp folder. You can see what was destroyed, who did what to whom etc. Get tacview from http://lomac.strasoftware.com/lomac-acmi-en.php

imho I think missions start from parking space, engines stopped. Running starts are for practising bombing runs, air combat etc. Missions should start as real as it gets. And end to the same place. Getting a heavily loaded plane airborne and back down in one piece is a challenge in itself, especially true for su25t and su25. If it starts to feel too easy, add some crosswind, fog, night, zero visibility... ;) And most important thing. Change the default weather and time of the mission. Summer 12.00 +20 no wind gets boring pretty quick. And leave a password in the campaign docs, it's nice to turn tables and play the same campaign from the other side of the table. Or edit the campaign to multiplayer.

Some thoughts Umm.. I'd say, that you should make a common profile, which fits all planes and controls are in the same place, no matter what you fly with. Controlling the plane should really be in the hand, not in the head. There's plenty of stuff for you to memorize with X45's 3 modes doubled with pinkie switch. Multiplying that with a different profile for each plane...I'd find that pretty impossible. :huh: But if real stick imitation is what you want, go for it. Someone else maybe has info.

El cheapo version of trackclip :) Get rid of trackir cap el cheapo style. Requires just doublesided tape.

I fiddled with sst programming software... Okay, I got it working like I wanted. Not yet really sure if I like what I got though. This is something I wanted: Left toe is airbrake, right lifts airbrake. Any toepedal pressed to bottom is wheelbrake. When you check the sst programming software: This is weird, when pedals are pressed, left goes up from 0%. Right pedal goes down from 100%. Right is inverted compared to left. Left toe=bands Left toe 75-100% wheelbrakes w Left toe 35-75% nothing Left toe 15-35% airbrake out shift+b left toe 0-15% nothing Right toe=bands Right toe=85-100% nothing Right toe=65-85% airbrake in ctrl+b Right toe=25-65% nothing Right toe=0-25% wheelbrakes w The right toe empty gap 25-65% was necessary, because the plane dropped ammo for some reason, I guess the movements were too fast or drivers are crap, anyway the pedals sent ctrl+w keycommands which drops payload. Weird, but when setup like this it seems to work.

I bought myself new Saiter pro flight rudder pedals. I figured out, how to use my new rudder pedals as a rudder. That was the easy part. The question is, does anyone have toebrakes configured for wheelbrake and/or airbrake? How was it done? Is it even possible? And now that my Saitek X45 throttle rudder is left unused, what have you figured out for that and again, how was it done?