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Thanks for the explanation - I understand the dilemma.

Thankyou! Why would they spawn like that? Seems designed to cause trouble.

Spent the evening playing around with Air-2-Air loadouts with no issues; gun worked fine. I then created a new mission with an Air-2-Ground loadout (the very first in the list) and for some reason the gun will not fire - I'm pretty sure I'm not missing anything. I've attached a .trk in case anyone can figure it out. F-4E no guns.trk

It's not flippant. Your idea is for the program to somehow determine what the player is focussing on, and then blur (or erase) those things that happen to be in the way. Even if that was desirable how could it be done?

You're literally repeating the points I made earlier. You are conflating two different things. What a pilot can see versus what a pilot is focussing on. I can hold my hand in front of my face and watch the TV through my fingers. It's not ideal but perfectly do-able. Does that mean if I were to simulate this experience I just erase my hand from existence? I was in a dogfight last night and during that time I was paying ZERO attention to the cockpit, the wings, the clouds. According to your scheme we should therefore not model the cockpit, wings, and clouds! This is madness.

I have a sneaking suspicion one reason we haven't yet seen a Vietnam map is because of the horsepower needed to render all that jungle.

I'm not using VR, and no other cockpit is shimmering like this.

Trying out the Mirage (1440p 2D not VR) and it seems a really interesting plane BUT what is with the shimmering in the cockpit? The main culprit seems to mainly be the dashboard material, but also the bolts, cabling, and information placards all around the cockpit are shimmering like crazy. Is there a fix for this? There's no other cockpit doing this.

Yeah, don't get me wrong - I don't want to defend canopy effects poorly implemented. God knows I've paid my dues in the Anton - I understand the issues.

LC, Slippa No issue with any of those. What a camera records and what a pilot sees is all but identical - if it wasn't we wouldn't use cameras. Those reflections aren't an artifact of GoPro - they're very real.

That doesn't mean the reflections aren't really there; or shouldn't be there. And when you're in a dogfight the same thing happens. When driving/racing in the rain your focus is absolutely not on the rain, spray, wipers etc; you ignore all that. In a sense you don't see it. But just because we're hardwired to ignore all that chaos obstructing our view and focus on our target doesn't mean we should therefore remove those obstructive elements. Look at the distortion at the edges of the canopy here... I think if ED or other devs start incorporating this kind of effect into their modules it'll be a great boost to overall realism (and look good too). But I guarantee within one day there will be mods available to 'fix' it. I want ED to resist the voices who would happily see the removal of every ounce of Perspex from aircraft canopies, and lean on the side of realism, which means of course we might find ourselves occasionally inconvenienced by glare/distortion/reflections.

Currently they start tuned to channel 1. Don't know why.

The locked aircraft is 10km away but the radar scope 'bars' indicate something like 12-13km

Would like the option to have labels available to use in a mission but OFF by default on starting the mission.

You need to move your virtual head forward in the cockpit. Changing FOV won't fix it. First check that 'User Snap-View Saving' is enabled in the Misc. Options. Then turn off any head-tracking to make sure your view is perfectly centred. Now, while holding R_SHIFT and R_CTRL use the the keys * and / on the keypad to move your head back and forth. This should bring more info into view. While you're there try experimenting with R_SHIFT and R_CTRL with Num_8 and Num_2 which will raise or lower your view point. Once you're happy hit R_ALT and Numpad 0 to save the settings.

Not more, but absolutely would love to see them.

Ah, OK - thanks for the info.

I can't get the VSN 104 working either. It used to work fine, a couple of patches ago. I have the OH-6A and UH-60 mods running OK, but the F-104 won't even show in the Mission Editor.

I trust you! I've snuck in an M.

Would be a perfect adversary for the F-4. The Mig-17 and F-100 are on the way so a period-specific Mig-21 makes perfect sense for the emerging Vietnam plane-set.

No biggie, but after changing, say, V-sync or any other asterisk'd option the game asks if you want to restart but it just shuts down; you have to launch DCS again manually.

No. Dynamic reflections are still in their infancy and so the big red ACHTUNG sticker will probably look weird for a while (unless it's removed from the seat, or a virtual pilot is modelled to cover it) But they are on the right track; and they are more realistic than having none at all.

+100 Are Deka open to the idea?

Especially now we are flying in and out of rain regularly.

Look at the real thing. Reflections & distortion everywhere. I'll never understand why people want to fly around as if they're in an open-cockpit.