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you might find this thread/mod interesting, covers the same subject https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=159795&highlight=warhead

Thanks again Grimes for taking the time to respond...looks like it's time for some out the box thinking!

Hi, I have a few LUA sound questions which I haven;t found the answers to, maybe somoen can shed some light? for 'outSoundForGroup' to work I understand the audio file needs to be included in the .miz file, how do you go about including audio in a miz file? and also then I can only use he script in that .miz (or copies of it)? Also is there a way to play sound for a unit rather than group? and finally any way to control the volume? thanks!

Apologies if this is already covered, but did we lose 'tents and towers' and the M45/M16 half track ? the link in OP gives me a 404 error and I don;t see them in the drop box list of files

I've taken to loading the control panel screenshots from the manual into the kneeboard, any confusion and a quick scan through the pages usually helps

I seem to be having a similar experience in latest Beta, tried magics without radar today for first time (against L-39) I think since last update and I get no tone and no lock...unless I'm forgetting something, but does seem like there is that much to forget??? Slave to radar still works fine Tried the same thing in Alpha and it seems to get an IR lock with no radar as expected

thanks! that works perfectly for me

Not sure where to post this, but think it would be great to have the Weapon Selection: AA Gun/PCA/Magic 3 selector mapped to a way switch on my HOTAS, like on the MC2000 throttle, anyone else think it should be added to the 3 pos switch abstraction section of the control mappings?

yep

you could save the track and then record the play back not in VR mode, that might give you what you're looking for?

was the tone like the one you get when you tune a radio to an invalid frequency ?

Any nearer to getting bombers to keep formation when under attack?

Can anyone comment on why for me kneeboard settings is greyed out? Also I seem to be able to follow the process of creating a custom kneeboard, can see the files in the kneeboard folder of the aircraft, but when I fly I can only see the default kneeboard pages...

Came across this recently... http://www.digitaltrends.com/pc-accessory-reviews/myo-gesture-control-armband-review/ https://www.myo.com/connect I'm just waiting on my rift getting delivered, so won;t look to add any further complications for a while, but wondered if anyone had had any experience with this hardware? Looks like it could be ideal for VR/flight sims as there's nothing to hold, no buttons to press... any thoughts?

Is it possible to watch a flight track with the rift, after the flight? If so can you look around, independent of your view during the flight itself. Rift is on it's way...just wondering stuff to fill the time ;)

now I'm getting somewhere...Grimes thanks again for taking the time to get back to me

I think I worked this out, but just to check, and in case the explanation is useful to anyone else getting started... getPosition() returns a table of three rows, row 'p' holds the x/y/z coordinates, so if we want height above sea level we are referencing row p of the table, and value y of the vector, hence the .p.y getVelocity however is a straight forward vector, no table, so if we want the y velocity it's just getVelocity.y Correct? thanks again

thanks for taking the time to reply, that's really helped. One question...so getposition returns a vector with 3 values; x, y, z. So getPosition().p.y is the y is height above sea level, but why the .p, is the fact it's .p significant in any other way than that's just always the syntax, for instance velocity would be getVelocity().p. which ever axis ? or is the .p some kind of switch

Hi , putting pride to one side...I have what is a very fundamental question with regard to DCS LUA...I cannot work out how to access attributes of the active player...would someone be able to give me an example of setting a local variable as the player aircraft altitude? Have been at this a couple of days, and although I've learned a lot from the great info and examples on the forum I seem to have a block over some basic principles here! thanks

Thanks Whisper, now all working as expected...

I'm trying to output some data as a txt file to then read into Voice attack, as I'm not over experienced with LUA I'm trying to make sure each step of my plan is doable before jumping in, but am stuck with the export piece. Everything I've learned so far has come form some very helpful posts in this forum, but it seems what others report 'works fine' I still get an error, so maybe a basic misunderstanding on my part I'm saving the code below as a .lua file and then using 'do script file' to trigger the script somedata = "Interesting information" local exportFile = io.open("G:\LUA\file.txt", "w") exportFile:write(somedata) exportFile:close() However I get an error message (attached) I;m running DCS 1.5 as admin, and have created the file in the location referenced in the script Any ideas/comments/suggestions gratefully received! thanks

sounds like I have no excuses then! :) Thanks for all the helpful info

Thanks both for your feedback! I'm happy with that, I'll start weaning myself of the CDU in anticipation ;) But another question...how about ILS, TCN, or tuning radios? I got used to TrackIR and a certain amount of wobble, and I'm in no way expecting a seamless experience just want to have some confidence that I won;t lose anything major (or at least no surprises) in making the switch before I spend the money.

Can anyone comment on inputting coordinate entries in the CDU whilst using he Oculus Rift, is it a comfortable experience, with mouse control, head movement etc? I currently use an ipad app for CDU and it's really opened up that aspect of system management for me, am worried if I switched to VR and so lose the ipad interface I might lose that also...any thoughts? thanks

there's a fix for the same issue with beta which might apply to the Alpha also, this fix is at the beginning of the VAICOM 2.0 thread, except change to the relevant 'Alpha' location - not tried it myself " In the mean time if you're on 1.5ob you can try this. With a text editor (notepad or Notepad++) edit the file called 'VAICOM_fetch_data.cmd' in VAICOM\Tools folder and change this line 'COPY /Y %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS\tempMission.miz TEMP\tempMission.zip' into: COPY /Y "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS.openbeta\tempMission.miz" TEMP\tempMission.zip "