Mewle

I mailed Ian today and he is hoping to get a run started but just waiting on material prices and demand to balance out I think

Hah

Yeah that rings true here too!

I just started mine. I have a recalled accelerator pedal from an Aston martin as the main pivot. Its perfect as it has a hall sensor in it already and has nearly perfect range of rotation at the hilt for a collective(at least in arm chair pilot terms). I'm just getting the button box worked out then I'll build a mount for it

A few years ago this sort of talk would get you a funny look or two

It's a close call I think. But you can get so sucked into the journey the destination doesn't really live up to the effort. That's when you scrap it and start again ;)

This!!!! Now... I'm not new to using tools having worked in the automotive industry and building. But, holy mother of school boy errors batman! Most recently I have trapped my thumbs on the outside of the fulcrum of a pair of pliers as they snapped open(trying to pry open a PSU for a router, to use as a button box on the end of my collective....it worked by the way) and I also managed to briefly balance my soldering iron on my right ring finger tip whilst trying to solder said box's internals, with thumbs absolutely pissing blood.

That won't stop people having hopes and making guesses though. 1.2.7 was a great update but the next ones leading up to EDGE integration are so highly anticipated that everyone is chomping through the bit not just at it.

I just started with a basic setup and you're right every last object in the world around you gets evaluated for its usefulness, ergonomics, reliability etc etc. I'm only about six weeks in and I've spent half a hotas warthog on tools and wood and components. If my phone signal is just enough there should be an early photo of my rig attached

I may have said this once or twice, but I am having trouble waiting for this plane :p

Holyshhh and the norm and spec textures aren't in yet?

I'll grab a few screens at the weekend if I can build a few things and will post em

I have this and have flown over a few areas in a mig 29 and it does look amazing. But as blaze said it's empty and would need a good PC to run complicated ai in the way dcs does. You should grab the free demo and have a browse. It's definitely food for thought. Oh and its fully destructible, mapped to a globe, and the water isn't at a constant level on the whole globe

I first noticed this the other day in the first ka50 campaign. Specifically the mission where you have to land on the frigate

You must have a macro for this sentence.

P.S. I am chomping at the bit for this step up

Glad I got to see it. If this ends up being this good on high-mid to high end systems, then I'd say it's the long overdue shot in the arm simulated flight needs. Also if DCS is leading the way then surely the extra influx of funds it will bring should mean good things for us end users. More investment, more staff, faster turn arounds on modules, better multiplayer, maybe? Only brain farting but hey, maybe.

Great news. Can't wait for this one!

Update to above. Got a PS3 eye for £8 all in from CEX, and with face track its much better than the kinect. It'll do either 60 or 120 fps and the system overhead is minute compared to kinect. Also even better results can be had using a three led setup according to the wider web. Which I have just built and will test over the next couple of days :)

I should say this is a common test mission and the fps increase is about 20%, -+5 depending on what's being rendered

Just have to say the 13.9dll fix worked a treat just had a fly around in the mig29s at low setting except 16Q AA and full texture. With tsaa tree and cockpit shadows and all that enabled and got a fairly stable 50-60fps. Will try a heavy mission and tweak up the details to see what I can get without sacrificing to many frames. The extra fps makes landing so much more enjoyable :) A 30 fps landing is a bum twitcher in comparison for my level of proficiency(read extra low) lol

thanks mods for moving this.

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Has Beczl's MIG21Bis been canned? As the title suggests just a question about the Mig21. Is it still on? I tried accessing the relevant 3rd party forum earlier and it said access denied and now it has gone :( Was ready to part with the cash for that bad boy.