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The patch for DCS stated: New: require engine cold crank before another start after an engine shutdown, otherwise the engine start could fail How does one cold crank the engine? There is a toggle next to the throttle that is labeled COLD with three positions: starter start cold Toggling this switch does not seem to do anything . I tried it in a cold dark JF17 but I dont hear any starter.

There is an interesting feature of the kneeboard where you can bind a keypress or joystick button press to a function that puts a little purple caret on a map in the kneeboard. Since kneeboard images are just png files, how does dcs 'know' where on the map to put the caret? For that matter, how does DCS know that a png file is even a map that it can put a caret on? Why does it not put a caret on every png file in the kneeboard folder?

@speed-of-heat Thank you for your thorough and ceaseless work on making VR run better. Are the recommendations in the first post current?

Interested. Please send info

Is there any way to save progress in a mission and come back to it later?

yeah thank you i found them. I have too many pages. Also, they keep talking about HARS and TISL so even tho this has been updated for the A10_2 they still think they are in version 1. I guess there is no talk about the HMCS

Mission2 startup Radios on (ATIS comes up normally on 270.1) VHF 32.5 contact Biff through F10 menu 'press space bar when you hear biff' He never speaks. Message to push 124.6 on VHF AM appears 'press space bar when you hear biff' He never speaks. volumes all the way up on radios. all radios on. Also, at the outset, Biff says the freqs are in the kneeboard b8ut the only thing there (besides the stuff I put in) are the waypoints for the mission on a bunch of nellis maps.

Unresponsive seems to be a better word. I think I've selected the correct DCS commands for the buttons. For exampole, VHF AM, only increasing the freqs works. Then the 'tens' assignment is missing. The 'ones' button affects the 'tens., the decimal affects the ones, etc. The button assignment for the 'hundreds' for the increase and the decrease are properly set (3009 and 3010) but attempts to decrease the vhf freq fail. I think it may be a different data type that's expected but I do not remember where that stuff is stored. Attached please find the lua script as well as the streamdeck profile. A-10C.streamDeckProfile A-10C_2.lua

So I've been using this great plugin for a while. But today I discovered the lua script for the A10C radios only works for UHF. The VHF AM and VHF AM seem not to be controllable when trying to set frequencies.

@Copprhead so i made an armature. I made a mesh. But the when I went up to the 'object' menu, there was no longer 'object, edit, pose' selections but 'object, edit, sculpt' and some others. I am following the first video you provided and am really new to blender. (like a virgin)

whoa. thanks. I asked for a simple cheeseburger and you gave me a big mac.

Is there a BASIC tutorial of the workflow for making a model and getting it into dcs? I tried edm exporter and it’s. Complaining about ‘armatures’ so you can see my level of knowledge is trivial. When I look into using blender, I am stunned by the ‘richness’ of the interface. is there another ‘simpler’ workflow?

any idea where i can find the pictures?

I have noticed that DCs sometimes restricts whether certain controls can be assigned to specific controllers. You can identify these forbidden assignments in the controls setting dialog because they have a darker blue hue. How can a controller be 'enabled' for binding a function? For example, in cockpit visual recon mode where you also need mouse left clicks and right clicks? I guess the most generic solution would be to allow mouse clicks to be bound to any button.?

is there a way to have different weather in different regions of a map? I'd like to have a cyclone that a flight has to navigate around (if the pilots are situationally aware).

Why is this better than changing the normal to 'toggle on'?

@HemiGuy Thank you for posting this. I was looking at your assignments for the T switches. Did you change these in the virpil software from normal to switch or toggle? For example, in normal mode, the T switches only send a button press in the up position. So how do you get landing gear to go up?

The Virpil cm3 throttle has a multitude of hats. Most of them have unique tactile design to allow you to know which way they are oriented. They have a ‘castle’ or ‘rook’ style top and the 4 cardinal directions in which the finger has to move the hat are obvious. Except one. There is a 4 way hat centered on the rotary encoder on the medial side of the throttle. This hat has a conical shape. Although there are facets on the hat, I often find myself pushing it the wrong way. Part of the problem is that as the throttle is moved through its excursion, the orientation of the hand on the throttle changes so you have to push the finger (usually the thumb) in a slightly different direction to achieve the same direction on the hat. It would be so much easier if the hat had the shape of a cross. Then I would know exactly which way to push the hat simply by feeling for the appropriate arm of the cross. I don’t have a 3d printer nor any experience with 3d cad. Has anyone made a snap on improvement?

@TED please point me to your 6900XT adventure

Is there a simple 'how-to' on this for setting HMCS settings?

In the A10C_][ it is possible to change which symbology is provided by the HMCS and whether it is occluded by the HUD. In which lua file is this information stored? I would like to save a setup so I dont have to spend time at the beginning of each mission click a bunch of virtual buttons.

Attached please find my virpil config. Since I am using a newer firmware, it looks a little different. My maximum step value is 255 but I was using 16. I also had buttons 2 and 3 in the opposite locations to yours. Now reconfigured it works, although not as smoothly as using the flaps lever- I get discrete jumps but useful. I dont know why it was spazzing out before-as if it was registeringthe physical buttons instead of the logical ones.

I have been able to escape vrs in dcs by rolling the cyclic to the left, with a lot less altitude loss than dumping the collective. Even with very little forward velocity. I think this has been described by Vuichard.

@imacken The encoder is about the ONLY button that cannot be an axis. because of the way it works, ( sending two physical button clicks with each click - the order of which determines which logical button is sent to windows) any attempt to create a virtual axis from an encoder creates a ‘schizophrenic’ behavior. You can see this in joy tester when you turn the encoder after assigning it to a virtual axis.it’s tracing is sawtooth. You even alluded to that in your post above. Yeah, zoom needs to be a real axis. Even using the encoder with the longest delay setting, 140 ms, helps but it is still weak and stuttery. I think the firmware needs to be rewritten to allow encoder dials to act like real axes.

@CrashAlotsetting the encoder to delay to 140ms makes the encoder 'more aggressive...essentialy each click of the encoder results in the keypress being held down longer. Of course it would be nice if the encoder could be an axis. And an axis with 'acceleration' like mice....spin it fast-move a lot, spin it slow-get high resolution.