jib

I have Improved the Profile now by moving more common tasks off the left bumper because it was messing up the view setting and its easier to change radar modes, and put the fire and weapons release on the trigers. This is more of a single player profile with lots of view change options, than a Simulation mode profile.

I have notice that you can't fire the gunpods and internal cannon at the same time like you could in lockon 1.12. Is it a bug or a more realistic feature?

For flying with the xbox controller I find the right stick is OK for the rudder and use a modifier to use it for looking around, I have had to set a strong s curve and a 10 size deadzone on all the stick axis because they kind of suck. I would set the triggers or I guess bumper buttons to fire (setting bumper means you lose a possible modifier button) because you don't have to let go of the sticks when you are on an attack run. When I am Playing Blackshark I use the Xbox contoler for just for targeting if I go into auto hover mode because even touching the stick position slightly to use the pov hat messes up the hover. I can quickly rain down destruction from a stable platform when doing it like this. I have a force feedback joystick, force feedback pedals and Trackir 4 for normal flight, it is just my friends that are cheap skates. It has taken a lot of thought and trial and error to come up with a adequate solution because the controllers are really inadequate for a flight Sim.

I am Trying to get a couple of my friends to fly online with me, they are good gamers with high end pcs but "don't do flight Sims" so haven't got any flight joysticks or Trackir but what they have got is Wireless Xbox controller adapters. So I have saved them the effort and made them some profiles to use with it. I am pleased with the way it has gone and I can fly quite well and make kills with this set up with almost no use of the keyboard at all. The two bumper buttons and the start and back buttons are modifiers which allows for a great deal of combinations (you just have to remember them) that's why I made these help full key cards I have only done the SU-25T and the F-15C but the rest should be easy now I have worked out the "formula". I wish they was an easy way to use the triggers for firing the cannons and releasing weapons, a lot of the keyboard emulators I have downloaded are rubbish, don't work at all or have viruses in. Anyone know of a good, free easy to use system to convert the trigger axis to key presses? Edit: I figured out how to use a little program call JoytoKey http://www.brothersoft.com/joytokey-download-106303.html seems like the just the job I might reconfigure the profile a bit now. and the F-15C I don't seem to be able to upload the profiles here even after renaming them .txt so i will try and find somewhere else to host them if anyone wants them F-15c Xbox controler Final.txt final Su-25T Xbox controler.txt

Yeah I miss the autopilot when I go from flying the su-25T to the older version, the autopilot means I can go and make a cup of tea on a long flight to the action zone! no such luck in the standard Su-25 but it is somehow endearing to fly, probably because it takes alot more skill to get kills in than the Su-25T. Rasputin mention trimming but the trim in flaming cliffs 2 doesn't seem to do anything for me, I am using a force feedback joystick and I know blackshark handles trimming differently when you are using a force feedback I wondered if there was a difference in flaming cliffs now. I don't seem to have to trim at all when launching heavy missiles like I did in flaming cliffs 1.12.

Sweet! can't wait to test out the possibilities here, I might even be up for helping out with changing the 3D settings. I would love to make new cockpits, for the harrier for instance but I think that is just pipe dreams.

The only time anything appears on the Su-25 hud is a targeting reticle while dive bombing etc, it did unnerve me when I first started flying the su-25, its because I'm from the PlayStation generation, I don't like flying with steam gauges!

Yeah I was thinking it could be in the compatibility patch, the file size is quite big 151Mb (21Mb for model and 130Mb for the 4 textures). we shall see!

I was playing Blackshark after playing Flaming cliffs 2 the SU-25 looked horrid to me. So I copied the Flaming cliffs 2 model over The great new SU-25 model I would make a Modman Package but im not sure how, and don't know how legal it would be to give away EDs model. but ifyou own Flaming cliffs 2.0 it is easy just copy all the Su-25 files. from: \LockOn Flaming Cliffs 2\Bazar\World\Shapes to \Ka-50\Bazar\World\Shapes Copy the texture files Su-25_common_textures.cdds Su-25_Georgian_Skins.cdds Su-25_Russian_Skins.cdds Su-25_Ukrainian_Skins.cdds \LockOn Flaming Cliffs 2\Bazar\World to \Ka-50\Bazar\World and I think you need the Su-25.lua file from \LockOn Flaming Cliffs 2\Scripts\Database to \Ka-50\Scripts\Database you then have to add the textures to graphics.lua by adding these lines in the TextureCollections segment TextureCollections { common = ".\\Bazar\\World\\Su-25_common_textures.cdds"; common = ".\\Bazar\\World\\Su-25_Russian_Skins.cdds"; common = ".\\Bazar\\World\\Su-25_Ukrainian_Skins.cdds"; common = ".\\Bazar\\World\\Su-25_Georgian_Skins.cdds"; } or else the plane will look like this:

A few Flamming Cliffs 2.0 Screenshots. (Pic 1) Love the new cluster bomb physics (Pic 2)But would not recommend them in a dive attack because you can catch up with them! (Pic 3) nothing better than seeing a shot up enemy helicopter from your 6dof cockpit! (Pic 4) The Damage model is as good as every for su25t (Pic 5) the ground vehicles are soooo much more detailed (If you haven't played Blackshark you are in for a treat) (Pic 6) HE FELL OVER! (Pic 7) Missiles, close shave, I thought stingers had proximity fuses? (Pic 9) Missiles (Pic 9) More Missiles (Pic 10) Rockets! (Pic 11) Can't wait for Apache one day (Pic 12) wow lots of buttons (Pic 13) Hell Fires are going to rule!

I have spent the last two hours finding out that the HUD targeting diamonds act strange in flamming cliffs 2.0. First off you need to have a wing-man for them to show up at all (if you can fix this tell me how!) if you have a wingman, targets like enemy ground vehicles will automatically be diamonded (when the wing-man sees them?) even if no attack points are set. If you want buildings to show up you will select buildings and place the attack radius around them . tanks will still show up if the wing-man sees them the diamond pop up at about 8 miles from target this is my experience in flaming cliffs 2.0 (I'm not sure if it is different in the original) if anyone else has a different one it would be good to see that to.

I to have found I am much better at killing targets with ungiuded rockets. for me the fps seems hold steady when you fire rockets unlike it did in the original FC which I think helps out alot.

Macca you took the words right out of my mouth (or fingers) Long live Flight Simulators!

old thread I know, but if anyone with vista or windows 7 is looking for answer try right click and run as administrator on both (or just lockon?)it has just taken me a very frustrating hour and a half of reinstalls to work that out!

I was seeing how quickly I could get a mission complete on the standard instant action mission. The best I have managed so far is 2.36 I was wondering if anyone wanted to try and beat it. Rules. 1. Must be on full realism (No labels, real flight model) 2. You can use your wing man 3. Must use an unedited Instant action mission file 4. Must have the 1.0.1 patch (to ensure level playing field) 5. The complete time is the time the last mission critical vehicle is killed in the debriefing screen (this is the easiest way I can think to do it because it takes 10 seconds for mission complete message to show, just quit after mission complete and take the last vehicle kill time.) 6. post a track and a screen shot of your time You won't win anything but bragging rights and having a good time playing DCS Black Shark! note the fuel truck at 2.46 is not mission critical and a received a mission complete before it died. best instant action.trk

So Lucky Then I was Very Lucky

Great news! this has been buging me for a while and i couldn't be bothered to rebind all the keys that use right ctrl and alt. it is not like Ed not to answer peoples questions maybe they are real busy with the black shark patch!

I get this error msg when i click save as quick mission could not find a part of the path 'C:\Program Files\lock oc - flaming cliffs\lockon.bat\Missions\quick start\a-10a.mis' this obviously isnt a valid file path because lockon.bat isnt a directory and cant have anything below it. is this a known bug and is it this that is stopping my pilot from being saved? thanks jib

I can't seem to select a Pilot. The only avalible one in the drop down is Pilot1, I tried creating a Pilot1 in the game but it still doesnt save it to RaMGen after the mission, does it need to be installed in a specific directory? any help would be great, I love this dynamic campaign!

Sorry I cant find were this is uploaded, could you post a link please.

This Hind took damage but still made its self useful by parking as a road block the stupid AI tanks in this game could do with upgrade

My AI co-pilot trying to make little black sharks The result

Yeah i got it working with windowed mode but my fps took a big hit and it is annoying with trackIR moving every time you look right, so i found it best to increase my screen res (updating my video drivers and setting priority to high or realtime gave me a 10-15 fps increase) and just use my trackIR to zoom in to the abris and skhval)

Let me get this straight Do multi monitors work under vista because there is no Switch To Horizontal span with Nvidia drivers?

I just tried to fix it agian and found out that my F7 key seems to be broken! I rebound it to F4 and it works fine. that has been frustrating me for an hour and a half. at least I have found out now