Hueyman

Hello fellow skinners ! I'd like to request these two liveries to be made please : From companies HeviLift and HeliNiuGini Not looking for extreme accuracy cause lack of good reference but just having these two civilian liveries for heavy lifting sling load ! Would be cool ! And a nice video : Many thanks in advance

Kind of !! I'm getting there ! Tweaked the values for hours ( still cannot get the logic behind it, not just an X:Y:Z strangely, moving one parameter moves everything .. I flew like this for three hours yesterday and it greatly helps to get the mirror ref. techniques ! To place and pull straight rope !! Amazing ahah Now my biggest concern is : - Many thing are not drawn/rendered in the current DCS mirror feature, for obvious performance optimization ... if anyone knows a way to " unlock " it for render everything, that would be great ( yeah I know, perf impact but that's not an issue in this case as I need the buildings, objects and especially the SLING ROPE itself to be displayed as part of the training ) - Adding other sets of mirrors, a biger one in the line of sight of the Pilot, in front and above the main panel to keep good positional awareness ... As always, any help welcome ! It seems to be an obscure subject .. Cheers, Valentin

Still investigating.. Some nice people helped me in the Discord and succeed to import an extra mirror layout in the Mi-8. The way to orient it and so the reflective angle is still unknown to date, if anyone knows or have some tips, please share :thumbup:

Curious not to have any feedback on this Some people in the Discord investigated a bit and could import extra mirrors in the Mi-8, but unable to change reflecting angle for now...

Thanks Grajo, it worked ! But I confirm Ben, unable to have these ..

Yeah, I wish XP had this too !! Nothing done yet, several things on the work, modders are helping and maybe we'll get something " official " one day, waiting for some feedback, will let know here if it gets confirmed !

Thanks bro ! Yeah I checked, but will double check ! I understood more about the texture names in the .lua but not really about the modification in the software of the texture itself. Maybe it's more artistic/photoshop related than DCS code handling ? But yeah I'd be happy to get your files to start from :) Thanks ! If I remember correcntly, the AI Mi-8, or at least the old AI ( between the time we got the Belsimtek AI very detailed 3D model and the Belsimtek Mi-8 module was out ), the Mi-8 got a nicely blurred rotor texture, much better than the definitive version IMHO

Hi Grajo, Memphis Belle ( fav plane, nice username ! ) I'd like to customize rotor discs ( both main and tail rotor ) to look more like what I can see or with a slow shutter camera ( wide blurred main blades and almost disc TR ) Do you know which files and how to reach that effect ? Is Photoshop allowing to widen such textures or it would need to be made from scratch ? Thanks ! :) Hueyman

Hi Grajo, Thanks for your help. I confirm that's what I did, without any result so far PS : I add that I had to create the MODS and TECH subfolder, nothing by default

Cool but that's not the point. We'd like to practice using mirrrors for real world training and precise positioning ;)

Working on it, hope it will work ! If it will, I'd like to develop various type of mirrors, with different shape and position, to accomodate for short, medium and long line .. Stay tuned ! https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=281201

I had to create Mods and Tech subfolder in saved games, there was nothing before. Wherever I put the mods, still got nothing in game :(

Getting my way to it, now need to know how to make this as a weapon to choose in the loadout menu, and make the mirror surface work ! Any help much appreciated

Following my thread ( https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=281201 ) I think the best solution would be to build an objects, used as a weapon ( to mount it on the UH-1 in the ME weapon loadout menu ) and have the mirror bitmap/texture on it. I'm just totally ignorant regarding the way to do it, never modded anything for DCS.. Thanks for your help !

I tried it, created a MODS folder in D:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\Mods, selected and installed it thru OvGME, it says succeed... still nothing in the Cargos in ME

Do anybody know how to use the Mirror bitmap in Blender for DCS ? Would like to do it with the new Blender EDM exporter, is it just a glossy material or something else ? Thanks

I'll give it a try thanks. Can someone post a screen of the Flexcam external object mounted on the Huey please ? If I understood correctly it's selectable in the ME weapon loadout ? I'd like to design a steerable mirror kit, does anybody of you know how to this, in the same way as what I expect the flexcam kit to be ? Thanks a lot ( goal https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=281201 )

Hi, Do you know if we can use the weapon feature to add " objects " to an airframe, that you can potentially control ( steerable mirrorrs, SAR searchlight etc ) Goal : https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=281201 Thanks

Hello, Could please someone could explain in detail and step by stem how to install these mods from scratch ? I tried both manually and with MODMAN ( JSGME for some reason I cannot find to download anywhere ) and while MODMAN confirm installation, I have nothing in the game. Also the folder structure in SavedGames is slightly different. Thank you very much, Hueyman

It's not X-Plane, it's VRM Switzerland, a Swiss company who had developped a fully accurate H125 and HESLO engine, in the Aerofly FS2 simulator, but only works with the full platform ... https://vrm-switzerland.ch/flight-training-solutions/#features I tried to know to get the stand alone software but no luck ... The thing is, with current DCS we're very close to reaching that level ! If we can design and add mirrors to both helos, that would be a great step forward and training tool

Question for the modder ( concerning : https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=4426023#post4426023 ) How did you integrate the Skyhawk mirrors in the cockpit ? Is it a special material in Blender or another feature ? Thanks

I think I could try to do it myself actually, I model in Blender and texture in SP but unsure if I can alter an official module by adding this. Maybe as a weapon in the weapon loadout configuration in the ME or something similar ? Basically it would just be an object with a mirror on it and the support if that mirror would need to be steerable like a searchlight. I think Upuaut made a TV Cineflex camera for the Huey a while ago I've heard, it may be a direction ?

Hi petsild, thanks for the link ! But the real goal of the mirrors is to work muscle memory with REVERSED actions ( mirror nature ) and keep looking outside ahead, to maintain precise spatial reference so important for precise hovering, something much different thab just looking top down ( vertical reference ) Cheers

Hello guys ! For real training purpose, I would like to know if it would be possible to design and add custom mirrors device to current helicopters ( UH-1 and Mi-8 ) with using DCS great mirrors feature and allowing for customization of size, location and especially tilt and azimuth setting ( binded to a hat switch for instance ). I’m not sure if it’s possible to alter an official module but as I saw in the mod section, some material are re-used ( i.e UH-1 rotor blades and some parts on the Bell 47 ), I guess it shouldn’t be too hard to add this. Looking forward to your input, Hueyman

Look at that Hind teased in Syria map ! Hope the Mi-8 will get that visual lift treatment, the rotorhead is the same !