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I use the RDR ALTM for toggle zoom on throttle and CMS center press (btn 19) 3x with modifier on stick for ejection. Works great.

enable microphone monitoring/listening on windows sound panel?

I also use joy 4 as a modifier, however strongly recommend setting a toggle switch from the throttle as zoom. Works well by not having to keep pressing a button when doing ground runs.

This topic took a very very weird turn. Gotta love internet forums and people. Miles is developing what may turn out to be an awesome little gadget, something all VR users are interested. He is the only one I know to have such solution now. Thick8 only commented that he was developing something similar, and gave a few tips. All grown ups understood his sarcasm when he asked for a discount. That’s al? Now can we move on and return to the productive discussion?

I am one customer that enjoy the study/simulation aspect more than the entertaining and still decently faithful of flaming cliff style. Yet, I would enjoy a lot of airplanes impossible to have if I demand full fidelity. Since my goal is to have fun, I would love designers to have the freedom to publish a Rafale, Mirage 2000-5, Eurofighter, etc all perhaps simplified. Also, most people are turned away from DCS because of its steep learning curve and the study sim aspect. My point is that I see a place for “less pure” aircraft and mods.

+1 for vietnam. Korea if we get some more nukes:thumbup:

Since the goal is to use the switches by feel, without looking, I suggest maybe addin a little dot or a dash to distinguish them better. This is fairly simple, cheap and quick to implement. I noticed the center switch is already lower than the others, but check out a solution such as these stickers as they could help when under the hmd: http://www.keybodo.com/tactile-stickers.html

If VR zoom was removed it would render dcs useless for me too. Cockpit labels are unreadable and spotting ground/air units, sometimes even airports is impossible. Dont like it, dont use it. I wish VR displays were cheaper and with better resolution, also gpus were more powerful and cheaper, but we are very far from that. Also, most ground attack airplanes that I know the pilots have binos to assist.

That’s why I said I would love to see someone do a user mod to add these things. Perhaps that way it wouldn’t harm the official purpose/time line aspect or consume “official” resources. I don’t know the technical aspects/difficulties involved in modeling and adding weapons. I figure it must be difficult since there isnt a lot of customized weapons, except for simpler .lua mods.

I would love to have a better aa and an exocet though, and fail to understand how steering fidelity a bit but incresing usefulness and fun factor would be a bad thing. Plus you may choose not to use it if you want to be a purist. We already have an option for an english cockpit, that probably never existed. Yet no one complains. Perhaps someone with abilities can create a mod?

+1 for a modern nuke with decent effects. I too don’t understand why this conversation turned into an ethical discussion, its a freaking war game. A nuke would be fun and add a very distinct aspect to missions. I alsways do intercept missions where a rogue country or pilot attempts to strike an airbase with a nuke, but the mig 21 bomb sucks bigtime.

Funny, for me the night mode on the panels make them even brighter. Its unusable for me. Like suggested, adjusting brightness and contrast, plus gain and level are the way to go.

The TWCS is far from the “best”, but it is very interesting with plenty of features and a very low cost. I recommend you get some Nyogel 767A to grease up the shaft and either attach the base with screws to a surface or glue at least 500g of weight, as it can move due to its plastic construction. Im on my 2nd now, and I have a warthog as my primary, and after discovering the miracles of Nyogel it is very good. I use the twcs with Elite Dangerous.

Well, with your first one serving as a baseline I managed to add others, including military as well. Not sure what was wrong with mine. I guess Ill never know lol. Would you by any chance have the documentation, since the link no longer works? I wanted to tune other details like ATC messages in corner, map visibility, etc. Again, thanks!

Awesome, thanks! :thumbup: This one works right out of the box. I can`t see where I screwed up though. The only difference that I see is you used "RAT-Yak40" and I used "RAT_YAK" on group name/lua. But it shouldn`t matter. For now Ill just use your .lua as a reference, until I figure better how this works.

True love exists! Congratz, that is one heck of a gift.

This is still happening, but limited to the Mirage only. When game loads all commands are disabled F2, F10, radios, Esc, etc.. until I press my UI escape shortcut, open key binds menu and close. Annoying and still trying to figure out why.

The basic instructions on first post are (hopefully), not my problem. I followed exactly that and, like I said, I can spawn the first group of aircraft/helo/c130/a320/b737 etc, but not the second or third etc. So, nothing wrong with triggers or the individual lines on lua I guess. Edit: Can you post a simple mission like the one you mentioned now? The ones from the main post link doesnt open on my dcs version.

I do, and that mod works perfectly on its own. I fail to see why it is necessary, since the RAT lua script only call for that name inside “”. So it could be a C-130 plane called “RAT_B737” and it should work, right? I mean, I am not even gettint that. If I simply copy and paste the aircraft, and copy/paste the two yak lines, call the second yak2 and RAT_YAK2, it still wont work. Im pretty sure Im doing something stupid, but cant see where. Edit: I have civil aircraft mod installed on my savegames, not on my c:\. Again, all the civil mod planes and liveries work normally.

Trying RAT for the first time. 1) Can`t access the documentation, the page is offline for me. 2) Sample .MIZ files don`t seem to work on open-beta (2.5.3.22176). 3) Need some help understanding how this works. The first group called YAK works, the others don`t. I am naming the groups exactly like the names in "". local yak=RAT:New("RAT_YAK") yak:Spawn(2) local b727=RAT:New("RAT_B727") b727:Spawn(3) local b737=RAT:New("RAT_B737") b737:Spawn(3) local b747=RAT:New("RAT_B747") b747skins:Spawn(3) local b757=RAT:New("RAT_B757") b757skins:Spawn(3) local a380=RAT:New("RAT_A380") a380:Spawn(3) local cessna=RAT:New("RAT_Cessna") cessna:Spawn(3)

1) Performance, 2) AI, 3) ATC, 4) Weather, 5) More AI vehicles and buildings.

Well put, a Hilux with an 50 cal on the back is wanted as well. But I still need a limo for the rogue splurging terrorist leaving the hotel in Dubai or at the strip in Vegas :megalol:

Mission three is the one to escape the mortars? Just start batt, apu, engine, line up and takeoff right after the f18 on the runway, not a second after. Dont try to get things setup, align ins etc. Just takeoff. It took me 3 attempts and the successful one missiles were hitting the runway underneath me, pretty cool ID4 style. Short, but sweet. Mission 4 is the real bitch for me. If too annoyed, just skip it by editing your logbook.lua.

While things are slowly improving in some fronts, the vehicles available are still a limiting factor for content creators. The addition of military stuff like the SA-2 and Rapier with the land rovers is welcome. But can we get a few more regular civilian vehicles? The few we have are Russian relics, some look very ugly (e.g.: the yellow and the blue buses). I would love to have some nicer looking cars, jeeps, suvs, trucks, and a limousine. I am tired of hunting the pesky terrorist on a UAZ-469 :music_whistling:

Pardon my ignorance. What do you mean by gate? The pointer on the screen or the physical switch on the throttle?