doveman

Yeah, that might be a good idea to try and ensure some consistency in the finished product, which could in turn lead to new customers who see it at their friend's house or in photos online and are suitably impressed and it shouldn't add much to the cost and very little extra shipping costs as they're small and lightweight items. Another option might be to just recommend certain LEDs but add some boxes/dividers to the back of the panels to create light isolation zones to prevent spillover but that would obviously increase bulk and shipping costs. If spillover can be adequately controlled without this, then great but if not the customer, who may find it quite hard to construct something suitable themselves, might prefer if you could supply it. Whilst it's obviously up to you, I would suggest making it clear that you're not going to spend hours helping people work out how to put the electronics together and programming boards if they've only bought panels from you, otherwise you could quickly find you're overwhelmed and unable to run the business efficiently and make the panels. Providing helpful information for download is one thing but providing tech support on an individual basis is quite another matter and should really be reserved for those who've bought finished products, or at least complete kits, from you. Whilst it's great to want to support the community and provide good customer service, I've seen too many viable businesses fail because they overstretched themselves and were unrealistic about what they could actually do whilst still remaining profitable.

I'm certainly interested in just panels as well, perhaps with empty PCBs. I can buy and wire up the components myself (although would certainly appreciate parts lists and suggested suppliers with the panels) but have no facility to design and make the panels or PCBs.

Seeing as the serials get e-mailed out in clear text anyway (unless they've stopped doing that since I bought my last module), I don't think just encrypting visits/logins to the website is going to provide any real security. It would be good if they dealt with both issues though. EDIT: Co-incidence probably but I've just been notified that someone on China Mobile has attempted to hack into my forum account!

Here you go: https://github.com/ptrbrtz/razor-9dof-ahrs/wiki/Tutorial

I saw a github with something similar to EDtracker that uses a more expensive Razer chip/module and does 9DOF just like LED tracking. That sounds ideal as there's no issues with lighting, IR filters or losing track of the LEDs if you turn your head too far. If I recall it was about $50-60 to build.

Great idea there. I imagine you could quite easily make it hinged to fold back under the desk when you're not flying and need to sit nearer to the desk to work, to avoid hitting your chair/junk on it [emoji37] Probably a pair of strong magnets on the base and under the desk would hold it in place, otherwise a clip shouldn't be to hard to fashion.

So you're saying before clicking trim, we need to first move the stick at least 21% to push past the AFCS authority? That sounds quite hard to do in practice without an indicator to show when you've done so and makes me wonder how those Russians manage to fly whilst rapidly clicking trim, when they're clearly not moving the cyclic much between clicks. I've also previously been advised that I should trim often when banking, i.e. after every 5 degrees, rather than banking 20 degrees and then trimming, which your advice seems to contradict, so I'm not sure what's correct.

I think Edtracker can only do 2DOF due to the limitations of the sensor used.

I'd love to be able to map my stick/throttle/pedals axis and FFB settings (swap axis, etc) once for all aircraft. It's quite tedious doing that separately for every plane and every so often the mappings get reset and I have to re-do them all.

Ah, OK. I was presuming you were using a PTT key with voice attack. I have enough trouble getting voice recognition to work when it's only listening when I hold a key, so didn't think it'd be usable if it was constantly listening!

I believe you can use autohotkey to mute the volume whilst you're holding your voice attack listen key. It's a bit complex though, so maybe someone knows of an easier way to do that.

There's a specific FFB button when you're in the control mapping screen that opens a popup and it's in there you need to reverse the settings. I know because I ran into the same issue as you when I first started using my FFB2 :)

Looks fantastic but won't it be a problem if you need to change an LED having to peel back the vinyl wrap? I'd be worried it would pull the entire wiring and LED array up with it.

Nvidia's own figures show around 50% fps drop on the 980 going from 3.5 to 4GB, with the 970 only being around 3% worse. So it seems neither is suitable if you actually need 4GB and maybe Nvidia should just release cheaper versions with only 3.5GB on them.

From the figures Nvidia put out it seems the 980's FPS decreases significantly when using 4GB instead of 3.5GB, just a few % less than the 970, so I'd be wary of either if you think you might actually need 4GB.

I found the comparing my Thrustmaster HOTAS X and xbox360 controllers. The stick on the latter just seemed much more sensitive, allowing me to easily make small adjustments. The HOTAS X is only about £25 quid though.

Thanks. I was getting bored of the SU-25T, so it will be nice to have something to practice with the F15-C. :thumbup:

OK, thanks.

Before I install this, I seem to have an old mod which puts files in Bazar\temp textures like farp_2048.bmp.dds Should I delete that mod?

Amazing, thanks for this Capt Zeen. :thumbup: I didn't think this could be done for the SU-25T (or any FC aircraft) and had resigned myself to only being able to export the Shvkal to my secondary touchscreen. This made learning with the SU-25T (which my group are starting with) not half as much fun as it will be now.

Interesting link, Mustang, thanks. It doesn't seem such a great advance compared to my 6950 (unlocked to 6970) which I've had for a few years now, except for Pixel Rate (139%) which it suggests only matters if you like running with high levels of AA. I was sure my 6950 was rather long in the tooth by now, so I'm a bit underwhelmed at the prospect of a 27% greater memory bandwidth and 29% greater texel rate. If I was without a card and looking to buy one, I'd certainly be considering the 970 as it's a good price but I'm somewhat hesitant to change for less than substantial gains, particularly considering that AMD has better overall picture quality (unless that's changed) and there's bound to be some issues with Nvidia (as there were with my current card) that only become apparent once I start using the card. I know AMD doesn't work very well with DCS at present due to DX9 but it should be much better with the DX11 EDGE, so I might not have any reason to upgrade after that's released, at least not with my current monitor setup.

Thanks. Devrim's mods are indeed excellent and I've been using his other cockpit mods for some time, so happy to have this as well :thumbup:

Did Belsimtek release an official version yet or should we still use this?

That's cool. My group are going to be learning the ropes with the SU-25T for some time, so there's probably not much else we need anyway and once we get competent with that and feel ready to move on, the BVR range will be a great next step. :thumbup:

I don't think you can merge two folders into one using mklink. Normal usage is to have files in one location and then use mklink to create a new folder, which is actually just a link to the first. So if you wanted to create a link folder "Aircraft" that points to "Aircrafts" then "Aircraft" would have to not exist first, as otherwise mklink can't create it and will throw up an error. You could create a link folder "Aircrafts" which is a link (and thus identical) to "Aircraft" but as DCS won't be looking at "Aircrafts", there's no point installing any mods in there. It might work if you rename "Aircraft" to "Aircrafts" and then create "Aircraft" as a link to "Aircrafts", as then any modification mods to "Aircrafts" will be mirrored in "Aircraft" (as it's just a link to "Aircrafts"). I've found that DCS doesn't like links/junctions though and errors out when trying to update if you use them.