Snacko

This is new... I have not had this problem until a few weeks ago. I'm running the OB 2.8 from June 22. When I am using the mouse to change the angle of the external view, sometimes the view jumps to a totally different angle. After some testing it seems to happen when my mouse cursor moves between the edge of my two monitors. This was when I was running the OB with or without MT. I do not use the 'Constrain Mouse to game screen' option. I have a 5120x1440 game monitor over a 1920x1080 touchscreen monitor. In this video I am moving the mouse kind of fast to try and get it to do the jump. I used ShareX to capture and it put in some black flashes that have nothing to do with this issue. Watch this video to see it happening..

Awesome Thanks for your work!

It was the time of day. My mission was at 06:50am. I changed it to 11:50am and it was a nice color of deep blue with a tint of green. But at 06:50am I would still turn that green down, or make it darker. JMO.. Edit: I also had low (8k feet), scattered 3 clouds, which probably also affected it.

nullI checked photos near Beruit and the med does look a little greenish, but there are also many photos of it as blue. This just looks way too green to me on the Sinai map. Is the color affected by the Time of Day, or Season, or anything else that may cause this intense emerald green??

Yes, thanks I saw that and the Marianas too..

Great! Thanks for the reply. The reason that I posted is that I had not seen this before, so that is strange. But I just noticed that I had 'Debug Mode' set to on! That's why I didn't remember seeing these before. A week ago I was trying to fix my Keyword list and turned it on. Dang it!! LoL

I think these are for the Sinai map, that I have already added to the VA profile. I've updated the VA profile several times, but clicking TEST says nothing changed. And I do have the Config/Auto-Import new Theaters checked.. So, why doesn't this take??

@BIGNEWY Sir, do you know anything about this issue? Has Server.lua been abandoned for using to customize the cockpit views in the Saved Games folder? I remember there was a kind of push to move more modding into the Saved Games folder a while back..

Same here... On my i9 10850k; 4090; 64gb RAM, and installed on M.2 it is very noticeably longer. At least twice as long as before 2.8 I think.. This is from two logs after I renamed my Saved Games DCS OB folder, and cleaned out all mods for the install folder. Then did a slow Repair.. It's spending over 15 secs trying to load a SouthAtlantic.dll? Seems strange that this dll is in a buried 'bin' folder? But maybe that's by design... 2023-06-26 23:55:07.692 INFO Scripting (Main): PLUGINS DONE-------------------------------------------------- 2023-06-26 23:55:20.980 INFO EDCORE (Main): Loaded D:/My Programs/DCS World OpenBeta/CoreMods/tech/SouthAtlanticAssets/bin/SouthAtlantic.dll 2023-06-26 23:45:08.734 INFO Scripting (Main): PLUGINS DONE-------------------------------------------------- 2023-06-26 23:45:21.000 INFO EDCORE (Main): Loaded D:/My Programs/DCS World OpenBeta/CoreMods/tech/SouthAtlanticAssets/bin/SouthAtlantic.dll dcs.log

Yes, my OP was correct. I am talking about the Server.lua in the Saved Games folder that lets you adjust the Cockpits CameraViewAngleLimits & limits_6DOF. And even the Chase View LocalPointview... In the FA-18 I cannot even move my head forward at all with the default limits. I have used the Server.lua for this for years. And the FA-18 used to work fine in there. But it stopped working a few months ago I think... I hope that someone can tell me what I am doing wrong. I've been using 'FA-18C_hornet' as the name since the ac came out. Unless that is wrong now, the server.lua is not being used for these cockpit views anymore... I hope that this will be fixed! Here is my code in the Saved Game\Config\View\server.lua ViewSettings["FA-18C_hornet"] = { Cockpit = { [1] = {-- player slot 1 CameraViewAngleLimits = {80.000000,150.000000}, -- COCKPIT ZOOM LIMITS(keys * - /) (MAX Zoom in, Max Zoom out) CockpitLocalPoint = {3.533,1.156,0.0}, CameraAngleRestriction = {false,90.000000,0.500000}, CameraAngleLimits = {200,-90.000000,90.000000}, -- Maximum head movement angles: left/right, dn/up. Not applicable for Mi8 EyePoint = {0.05000,0.100000,0.000000}, ShoulderSize = 0.25, -- 0.25 Shifts head left/right, when view angle is more than 90 degrees Allow360rotation = false, -- WHERE: x = back to front (aft-forward axis), y = top to bottom (vertical axis), z = side to side limits_6DOF = {x = {-0.13,0.46},y ={-0.3,0.065},z = {-0.18,0.18},roll = 90.000000}, }, .....

I'm on a very wide screen, and have to customize my views on almost every aircraft. For a few months, maybe longer, the views defined for each aircraft in server.lua don't get used anymore. We have to now put these changes in the game folder for each aircraft's views.lua... With every patch my changes get overwritten. So, now I'm thinking I need to make view.lua mods for each aircraft in the install folders/mods folder. This is so annoying when it was so easy and working fine in the past.. I thought maybe I could make a 'mods/aircrafts' folder in my Saved Games for the aircraft and put the views.lua there, but alas, that also does not work. Can this be fixed? Thanks, Snacko

Yea, sorry you didn't get a reply sooner. For a while there seems to be a problem where putting your views in Saved Games.. Server.lua does not work. I have to edit the install folder /mods/aircraft/xxxx/view.lua..

Yes, I clicked finish and updated the keywords. It seems to be working now. It needs more testing, but probably more practice on my part will go a long way.. Thanks, again all!! I love this community!!

What is the status of this now? I was testing the FA-18 in OB with no MT and the server.lua in Saved Games still does not work. Has anyone posted this in the bugs forum?

Yes, thanks for the info guys.. I've been testing out several things the past few weeks, and must have gotten confused. Just gave it a try with the voice commands. The kneeboard opens and closes fine. But VA does not understand any of the other commands. It's like it's just goes stupid when it comes to KB commands.

The Vaicom Kneeboard shows, but I cannot click on any of the top tabs. I can click on the bottom/right page buttons, but they are all blank. And I can click on the bottom left buttons and it shows the airport maps. I have Vaicom running and there are no errors. And I'm running the OB (no MT) in 2D... I could click on the top tabs about a week or so ago.. Also, I bought the Sinai map a few days ago. Could that be an issue? I updated my keywords after installing the Sinai map, and they all match the DB when I test it. What else should I try?

Flying the F18.. I have been able to test and adjust the vibration strength for all of the effects on the F/A-18, except for the following: Failure and Damage - tested by allowing myself to be shot up in a dogfight. Also set to 100 with 0 vibrations. High Speed Shudders - tested at 100 flying 600-700kts with 0 vibration AFAICT.. Seat Ejection - tested at 100 on the ground, and in the air, with 0 vibration. Wheel Blocking/Skidding - tested by moving fast and holding the brakes and turning left/right... Spinning around on the runway and ground. I get no Vibration for these 4 effects, even with their strength set to 100. Can anyone confirm this, or are these working for you??

Thanks! My brain isn't working too good today..

When I press the LCtrl + F1, F2, F3 key combos, the view changes while I am trying to adjust the OpenXT Toolkit settings. Why doesn't the OpenXR VR Menu block the keystrokes that it uses when the menu is open? Should I just remove my keyboard assignments for these key combos?

I received my Face Tracking Trackhat v2 a few days ago and right off the bat I had problems getting it to work. Mainly due to a lack of a decent manual. So, I'm sharing things as I learn them here. And if anyone else has any Tips or Tricks to get it working, and fine tuning it, please, please post here too.. My first problem was getting it to simply track my face.. It says it works with glasses, but I saw no videos or posts that showed it working for them. The camera preview was almost black, and later turned light, then black again... And the tracking was all jittery and shaky, as you can see here. CAMERA SETTINGS & LIGHTING: First, follow the very limited instructions on the website and paper that comes with the V2. Placing it so it can see your face as close to straight on as you can get it will help a lot. If it is shaky, and has a very black background, go to the Options/Tracker tab and set the 'Exposure Preset' near the bottom to 'Custom'. There should be a 'Camera Settings' button below that now. If not, try restarting the app. If it shows up, you then have settings to adjust the camera. I didn't know about this in the beginning, and my camera was glitching from very black for 20 minutes, then, with me moving it around on the monitor, and it finally going to a good bright background that should work. Arg! then very black again. I may have a loose wire?? I don't know... So, I was glad that I found the Camera Settings. I didn't change any settings.. Just clicking on the 'Camera' tab in that window I think fixed it? I think that also getting the camera lighting correct, helps a lot with the jittery/shaky stuff.. You don't need to worry about back lighting in your room. You can adjust the settings to work in most types of lighting I think. MAPPING THE 6DOF: Next I setup the curve Mappings. I 'Disabled' all axis except the one I was working on. You do this in the Options/Output tab. Change the 'Source' to Disabled. You can adjust the graph 'Scales' to more zoomed in or out using the drop downs at the top. Check out a pic here! Then you can set the Motion Smoothing on the Options/Filter tab to your liking. This all of the info that could have saved me hours and hours in the beginning... If it's all documented somewhere, please let me know. Hope it helps!! I still need a lot of tweaking, but I think the basic bugs are out of it. You can see a same here. SMOOTHING SLIDERS: I'll just add an extra note about this smoothing of the OpenTrack(FreeTrack) drivers. Here is what the link says: FREETRACK PROTOCOL SETTINGS: When you click on the button to the right of the 'Output' (freetrack) drop down, on the main window will pop up called Freetrack Protocol Settings. Of course I messed with this when I was trying to get things working. The 'Select Interface' drop down let's you pick the protocols. I had selected 'Use Freetrack, Disable TrackIR'. Then I spent hours the next day trying to figure out why it would not work at all in DCS!! After I later changed it back to 'Use Both', it started working again. And before, there was no TrackIR device in the DCS Settings. But now there was. So, apparently Trackhat v2 - FreeTrack needs the TrackIR protocol to work in DCS, and probably other games. So, lesson learned.. If a game uses TrackIR now, then you probably need Trackhat to use that Protocol. I wish there was a manual for this thing.. I'm getting the feeling that all along I should have been looking for a 'Freetrack' manual? That would have helped on some of the bits.. Again, if you have any tips or tricks, I would love to hear them.

Maybe it's not the lack of scratches then.. When I sit the cockpit in DCS it just looks mostly like there is nothing there. I do see very light reflections of the cockpit, but nothing like in real life (as in this video). I suppose live animated cockpit reflections in the F-16 would be a project all in itself. I don't know of any other aircraft that has them animated more that just moving a static around for the cockpit reflections. And since the F-16 has such a unique view, it just stands out more..

If there is a wish list for the Replay, I would also add a 'Play All' option, like the old IL2 1946 has so you can just play one track after another.

Thanks for the reply Thompson.. Yes, I did the Finish step, but it only loaded those few commands. When I clicked Test, it said it matched the DB. But as you could see, that command count said 0.. Anyhow, my install was over 2 years old, and even though I had installed the new Community files, it still only had a few commands. But I did a Reset of just the Keywords on the last Tab, and that seems to have fixed it. I then had well over 900 keywords, and the DB said it matched..

Noob to the F16... Searched for this, but didn't find anything. The cockpit 'glass' seems just way too perfect. I can barely see hairline scratches when looking at the sun. Is there a canopy mod that enhances the scratches a bit?

Mine doesn't say 'License', it says 'serial number'. You already have a serial number for this product Anyway, I'll spend the $10.