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Yeah, that's what also got me wondering a bit. There was a paint like that on one of Polish MiGs (or several), but it's not very typical.

I use VR for combat sims like DCS, IL-2 or racing simulators (AC, ACC). Trackir for more relaxed stuff like FSX, P3D, ETS2.

The easiest way to tell if asw is off, is to move your head sideways in the cockpit. If the gauges become blurred when you move, then ASW is off. Even if it's off, the fps can remain at 45 if your game can't generate much more, it's just how oculus software works. Try looking up into the empty sky, that should show more fps.

The gunsight and dashboard don't have any geometry at the front, and that creates a lot of weird shadows and light bleed in the cockpit.

IIRC the tutorial asks you to arm the wing bomb stations, but the aircraft carries only a single bomb on the centerline. Anyway, the tutorials and detailed and very nicely made, well done.

Do you plan to fix the cockpit shadows as part of phase 1? The geometry in current DCS versions has to be enclosed to cast shadows properly, and the MiG cockpit has plenty of holes on the outside.

Yes, it's very bad with ASW/Reprojection. https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=275911

They could at least fix the broken shadows in the cockpit, sun shining through the roof and rear wall. Older ED models are still not fully updated to current DCS rendering.

There was always a glass effect, but now it has been dialled to 11.

Apart from multitude other issues reported with the lighting in the latest open beta, the glass effect on the instruments is broken in most of the aircraft. They glass is now either smoked white, or has very strong blue reflections at random angles (not from the sun, the sun is in front of the cockpit).

Looks like a global problem with lighting in the latest DCS, most cockpits have issues.

Not quite true. The game does not simulate the prop spinning at 2000 RPM, at least not the visual part. What you see is a dedicated blurred disc that rotates slowly. It is relatively clear in older DCS WWII aircraft, but the recent ones have this strong painted shadow. It has been deliberately added by 3d aritsts, probably because it looks cool on screenshots. Hey! I spent at least 10 minutest googling through tons of pictures until I found one which at least somewhat resembles the reality. :P The smart photographer used longer exposure than usual, or was just lucky with that shot.

Even with re-projection off, it's simply unrealistic. It's a camera effect, like lens flares, not what the human pilot sees with his own eyes. A spinning propeller should look more like that: https://rwphotos.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/G0000QmYw8ei0GuA/I000047pfBgwiG0E/4 No flickering, just a faint disc, reflecting sun at certain angles.

Yeah, the "half the missile range" notification for the AI is rather nonsensical.

That is not true, according to Tacview the AI starts dropping chaff at 12 nm, which is immediately after launch. It won't be hard to test again at higher altitude and closure speeds to check how it behaves when launched further away. In case of Tomcat it was a launch from above 30 nm. Again, AI chaffing immediately.

Will it have VR friendly propeller, like the Mustang and Dora, or a flickering, unrealistic thing like the Anton & Spitfire? The videos so far show the latter...

I managed to finish the mission without crashes in the latest DCS version. Seems fixed.

In all of the attached tracks, the AI is reacting to missile launches well above 10nm. In TWS!

It happened to me at least several times, that the gun symbology is drawn in the wrong place on the HUD, causing bullets to fly above the target. Unfortunately it seems that during track playback everything looks fine, but I managed to capture the issue on screenshot. Note that on the first screenshot, the funnel is way below the fixed gun cross and the bullets fly where the cross is. The second screenshot shows the correct funnel position after aircraft reload. Same happens to LCOS sight. sightError.trk

Getting PTRK to track a moving target is now very tricky. Is that supposed to be that way?

Well, since according to Nineline, ED is not aware of any problems in this area, here's a little summary of the current state of AI: -AI immediately starts dropping chaff and evasive maneouvers even if attacked BVR with an active missile in TWS (AIM-54, LD-10, AIM-120) -AI knows exactly which of them is being fired upon, even if flying close formation. -It knows immediately if it's attacked with heater or radar missile and starts releasing correct countermeasures in the exact moment the missile leaves the rail. -It immediately reacts even to IR missiles fired from behind Attached are a few tracks that show the issues. F14.trk JF17.trk F18_3.trk

Nowhere near realistic though. If I had seen so intense radiation glow in the middle of the day, I would be seriously concerned about having kids in the future. Or, actually, living longer than a few months. Besides, that's how the cockpit looks on the ramp after almost an hour (with time compression). Doesn't look like it dims at all.

My guess is that it won't change unless we get a new PBR cockpit retexture (like WWII airplanes or F-5 got in the recent years).

All other switches in Hornet's cockpit can be flipped with LMB or RMB. But after LTD/R has been converted to 2-pos, only Left Mouse Button works on it.

It doesn't matter, they got your money. There was a similar thread not so long ago: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=267957