gospadin

ok thanks for the info

Is it June 30th yet?

The Mi-8 has 5 sets of bort numbers. Just copy the lines for those that are already disabled in description.lua.

thanks, and bummer.

Glad you got it sorted. I've never been able to get non-default skins for weapons to work in the model viewer, but then again i'm a hack. maybe someone else knows the secret.

It's trickier than it looks, though the 3ds experts probably find it "simple" or "obvious".

A mod will either augment (new liveries) or modify the existing file structure, and as such, the type of mod itself determines how you need to install it. I strongly recommend JSGME to allow you to install and uninstall mods, as well as fixing them after an update.

I'm guessing that the livery search path is loaded after the primary model texture path, so the file PTB-800-PAINT.bmp.dds matches first from Bazar/World/textures/WorldTexturesBMP2.zip. Did you try giving it a different filename, like ptb-800-test.dds ?

first argument is the material name, get it using uboats' app: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=159784 2nd argument is the layer, 0 is the diffuse, 2 is spec, most others aren't used 3rd argument is the name of your file, don't need extension if it's .dds or other supported format 4th argument is true if file is retrieved from primary location, false if retrieved from the same directory as description.lua

I recommend starting with 50% saturation on the cyclic, 70% saturation on the tail rotor, and 100% saturation on the collective, all with 0% curves. As your skills improve, move to 70% saturation on the cyclic and 85% saturation on the tail rotor. The advantage of keeping curves at zero is that when flying with a non-centered cyclic, you don't get asymmetric fore/aft or left/right control inputs based on your stick movement. Curves will have a steeper and shallower side, based on where the stick is currently located.

I agree with Fri13. A nimble helicopter doesn't necessarilly mean that you only move the stick a few mm to achieve a steep turn.

nobody knows?

Enough wind will change Caucasus runway defaults. I believe NTTR is broken, I always get runways that are offset 90 degrees from the wind.

just a guess would be "RELAIS" or "RELAY" to allow the gazelle to forward communications from a ground team back to HQ I haven't come up with an alternative plausible definition.

Brake is much more effective than rudder right now. Also, if you lighten the nosewheel by pulling back on the stick, it helps minimize their ground interaction bug.

If I put a carrier in the middle of the black sea, is it possible to setup TACAN to find it? Or are radio calls the only mechanism for navigation?

Yes, but the pitch inertia on the Huey is huge and has enough mass to be stable. Gazelle really needs it because of how sensitive the controls are.

It's already solved. =P

F-15 has huge problems clean at low altitude if you don't limit your airspeed. You can't get there with wing tanks due to drag, but you can with just 2 missiles or so.

At 0:22 I believe you could have recovered if you'd immediately dropped collective to zero and pulled back on the cyclic. You were in a nose down attitude at 200 kph, but stable. By 0:26 your speed exceeded 300kph and you entered RBS in a dive, which I think is unrecoverable.

hat-based trim works fine magnetic brake/force trim/etc. should be changed so that it ignores input until after the joystick has been centered. This would eliminate the huge pitch oscillations. my observations exactly match dotChuckles' observations

Yea, on the gazelle, trim takes effect immediately, so if you're trimming in a significantly different position from your previous trim setting, you'll get a jump as the trim takes effect and your joystick is still non-centered. All other helos ignore cyclic input after trim until cyclic (joystick) has returned to center. Because of this, the other helos are more-friendly to users using joysticks with centering springs. I'd like to see Polychop fix this, but they may believe it's not a bug. Not sure.

This is definitely needed. If you fly the gazelle for too long, your real-life vision goes blurry for a while. Need an option to turn the continuous shaking off, or really, just nuke it.

Yes. Keep your rate of change on the collective as small as possible, so the governors can keep up without bumping you below the critical ~91% rotor speed.

When you say "trim" do you mean directional trim using the hat, or are you talking about the magnetic brake on the cyclic? (aka "force trim" in the Huey) Did you enable the magnetic brake switch, so that it'll actually hold a position? both of the above work as-expected for me (warthog) --gos