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Another thread on the subject.

I noticed my 500lbs being a bit beefier too. GBU-38 (Mk-82 JDAM).

Source: Source is some random Tik Tok video. I don't have an acc on that platform. Source: https://www.gettyimages.in/detail/video/the-flight-of-a-military-aircraft-view-from-the-cockpit-stock-footage/828145932

Truth be told, the mirrors are part of the charm of being in the F-14 pilot seat. A good chunk of it while seeing a lot from the rear, the pilot and the wing sweeping and its position. Useful also in some cases that I spotted missile smoke or a bogey fuselage going pass by. I can't stand looking at the flat texture with the mirrors off or missing them entirely for how used to I am to them in all aircraft that has them. The implementation just need a better type of projection. Also to simulate convex mirrors some aircraft have on the cockpit like the Mirage 2000s and others. ...in DCS they are all flat like a camera feed on a flat screen.

I do imagine it every time when I play flight sims, for better or for worse . It is undeniable this is the way to go. The consistent and actual real noise/clutter it makes on the ground paired with being in a DCS cockpit would output crazy amounts of immersion. Helis would be totally more intense.

I think they (tech and results) are amazing as well. Have you seen Death Stranding 2 terrain geometry? Check this one out at 2:28 onwards. Massive amount of detail with fair optimization.

bruh....

That's what I was hoping for when I purchased Iraq to form the trio: Syria, Iraq, Persian Gulf. It would make for very interesting missions.

Pretty!!! This can be classified as photogrammetry, I think. It would need more than a few images to generate the mesh and that requires licensing from major companies such as google which have a lot of aerial photographs or devs getting the images themselves which might be (very) expensive. On some of these images above, the magic mostly comes from the sat image resolution rather than mesh. DCS is close on that front but I'd wish there would be a better way to optimize on storage level as newer maps has been turning out to be massive in size. I strongly believe so too. MSFS already gave the first taste on consumer level in flight sims and google maps/earth already have it in full display. About the actual technique called 'point clouds', I don't have knowledge about it, so that's why I called it photogrammetry. The last two images are gorgeous as well as the grey cliff (3rd from top to bottom) with many rocks and bits making through the 3d mesh. Lovely!

You read the whole thing wrong if you think anyone here is against new areas to be added. I'm wishing every year to be a new expansion and/or overhaul to Persian Gulf. There is nothing mid boggling here.

Exploring that kind of unit variation and tactical play over front composition would breathe a huge fresh air into DCS as a whole.

Read to the comment I replied to previously. That's why I mentioned it.

I agree, but look at the map presented. Iran is 2x bigger than Iraq. The product name would need to change if the whole of Iran would be featured as the discussion is about. Nothing to do with adding a few more Iranian bases. Btw, it is already a multi country map. Idk where you got the idea that I'm talking about making as limited to one country as possible map.

So it wouldn't be 'Iraq' anymore on the product name. Makes more sense to expand and revamp Persian Gulf map, but as said: ED has no plans to do so yet. Iraq map is already pushing a lot and yet to come the southern portion. I'm pretty sure the product wouldn't cost the same by including the mass of Iran in it.

That or "Early As + B updated cockpit + new fx like vapor over wings and afterburner" sssssssss ahh.....hard to chose. oh man, imagine if it is the new effects and the early As + B cockpit. 2025 the year of the Tomcat.

Just checked. DCS is working fine again without the error on boot while auto login is active. Likely without the Authorization Expired error as well after a while in game. Edit: soon I'll fly again and update this post if the Authorization Expired error doesn't appear in a full dcs session of mine. Edit 2: The error "login expired" and the "Error 502" has not appeared ever since.

This is beyond my knowledge, but through several times before resetting the log in through login out I had a 100% rate of receiving the error. Upon logging out and back in, the error went away and I could finish 2 missions later. Their side or not, DCS came back working again.

The problem disappeared after a log out and log in refresh. No need to ditch the launcher from my end.

...but...but those cool clips, tho. I understand the preference, but the quick graphics setting changes without booting up DCS has been handy in a little while.

This fixed my issue. No more 502... so far.

I never had such issues ever in DCS since its debut early 2010s. I just got booted out of a mission 5 to 10 minutes in after receiving the failed authorization data error code: 502 on DCS boot. Possible fix: From the launcher, log out and log back in using your password. No error message on DCS launch.

It is a 'trees' issue, that's maybe why. Iraq has the same issue with shadows on 'default'. Something on the implementation of shadowmaps in DCS seems a bit funky. Not a fan.

Star Trek Type 9 Shuttlecraft. Even the numbers line up

opposite here. Shadows to 'flat' maybe? Because the DCS shadowmaps are horrid in performance and the forest cast a lot of them.