SageOT

Doc, My vSquadron played this for the first time last night. Great work! Question about one of the helos... It would not die... Is that a "normal" glitch? We are going to try more of your missions. Again, we all loved it. Especially the fighters in the group, kept them engag d for the whole session.

Pitbldr, I think I already tried something similar... Played around with it so much I've kind of forgotten what I did and didn't do. :) I'll give it a go. Thanks.

MudRat02, Digging up an old thread here but... I just ran into this problem with Adobe... I spent all day on it with no fix. If you're still around... Where you able to come up with a solution?

Whether people choose to use it or not I'm just excited that can now be done. Hopefully the multi-crew is not proprietary and this will be able to open up the crew slots in the Mi-8 and Huey, and maybe encourage a third party to give us a Hind, Alligator, Cobra or Apache. Plus of course the F15E... S

If you can get the X55 down to $60ish... c'mon for real? Shut up and take my money! Very cool.

Greek, I said "I think" :)

Grunt work I can do. Let me wrap my head around it this weekend and I'll get back to you.

Guys, seriously thanks for the response and advice. I am so late to the game I figured all the old heads would just say use the search ( which I have been :)) or ignore the post. Mr. Burns, all said and done that's probably what I will do because I can afford it right now. However, Extranajero is right, do feel like the BLack Shark is the Black Sheep sometimes. So since the arduinos are so cheap I would like to try to help...

Guy in our squadron is one of your testers I think. Greekbull... He was singing its praises. :) it's new and simple and I sure as f**k could never do something like it so heck yeah I think it's cool. It's beta, like I said I can wait. :)

Hehheh. :) Thanks. Again, cool product can't wait for you to get all the bugs out.

Thanks for the response. I'll just sit back and wait for the fruits of your hard labor. :) For the other part of my question once it is working... When using this what is the resolution supposed to be set to in DCS? Added all together or just one monitor?

Anton, True that. I'm trying to decide what would piss the wife off less... Less money spent, or more time in the basement learning this code stuff. :) Ian, I have most evenings (US EST) fairly free... My plan is to build 4ish things. Thing 1: Adding an old TM F16 stick onto my MSFFB 2 and extending it a bit. Thing 2: Converting an old x45 throttle to USB and then into a collective. Thing 3: Making a Ka-50 panels, just the ones used in flight and fight, not the systems panels. Thinkg 4: Generic switch panels to use for FC3 and Prepar3d (still like to fly my general aviation planes) So while I am working on Thing 1 if you tell me what I need to get to test DCS-BIOS, which adruino board and the like I think I could lend my time to help out. Then maybe the Ka-50 support will be done by the time I really need it. :)

Sgt. Baker, Sorry if this is staring me in the face on your page but... Tried the beta with the Ka-50 support. Black screens.... What should my resolution be set to in DCS if I am running two monitors? Go back to like I just have one, or add them all up like I would do in the old days?

Thanks for the responses guys. I think you cleared something up already... If I want this to be "easier" I can throw some money at this and use a single program (Helios) to configure the simple buttons and configure a Phidget board ($125) to run the LED's in the buttons and any separate LEDs on other panels. If I want to go cheaper but "harder" I can buy a couple of Arduino's and bread boards and try to learn code. Ian, I apologize if I came off at all intelligent on this subject. I was trying to come across as ignorant to the point of mild retardation when it comes to the software side of this thing. :) :) :) I would love to help but I just learned what .lua even was last week. I only mentioned OpenCockpits because some youtubers seem to have used it. I've looked at your website and I think DCS-BIOS is awesome. I believe I could use it thanks to how user friendly you've made it, but I in no way could "create" it. I think what was confusing me was thinking I had to use all of these things, not that I could just pick one and run with it. Thanks again! SageOT (Jason

BLUF: Need some advice on panel building, mostly for Ka-50, but also in general. All, First, thanks to all of the forum users who have posted their information, tutorials, etc. You all are awesome. The problem I am running into is almost to much information. As a person completely knew to this with little background knowledge my brain is starting to melt just a little bit. What I (think) I know: Use the Targeting Mode Control Panel for example - 5 toggle switches - 5 non-latching momentary push buttons - 1 5 position rotary switch For the toggle switches, the rotary switch and the mode reset push button I will wire them all into a BU0836X. Plug this into the computer and either directly assign the toggles in the game or use XPadder or something to assign them keyboard presses, and I'm done.... (Right???) Here's where I'm having my problems understanding. The 4 push buttons with an LED in them that will become the, AA, Moving Target, etc.... They are going to need something different than the Leo right? This is where the Open Cockpits boards and the SIOC stuff come in? Does the actual switch still get wired to the Leo and another wire come from one of these boards to control just the built in LED? I know the answer is out there, I just haven't been able to ask Google or the search function the question in the right way so I thought I'd try human beings. Thanks much, SageOT

Hello Devrim, So I effed up. I got cocky and didn't back up my original textures... I am getting the all black cockpit. I used all your mods for the BS, they are awesome! Any guess what I'm doing wrong? I extracted your download and then copy pasted into the file listed in the readme... Thanks much, RC4 EDIT: Just installed your "gray" SU27 mod. Now I have most of the cockpit back but it is still all black around each set of dials...? What do you think is messed up?