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How stupid... I did not turn on HNS and add GPS to it ...that fixed it. Thank you.

Situation: I am heading north towards Gaudata where there is a fortification to be destroyed. I placed WPT3 directly on the target. The HUD however shows me headed east. You can see WPT3 is selected in the flight plan and correctly shows up in the HUD, 'A03' bottom right. The diamond is directly ahead of me in the HUD. The HSD howver shows my flight plan rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise. It is showing north to my left and depicts me heading east. It even has the Moskva directly ahead of me. Indeed, the Moskva is directly ahead of me and I AM going north. The F10 map shows the Moskva and Gaudata north of me. Watching the F10 map I am inching north even tho the HUD says I'm going east. I fire off an AKG but it starts heading west. Maybe it thinks north is to my left just like the HSD. I watch the missile to be sure it is nowhere near land and it does indeed crash into the sea where the F10 map says it is. Mission file attached. Maybe I set up the mission wrong in the editor? Trk file is corrupt-it missed the plane startup so the jet just sits on the ramp the whole time. Radar shows the Moskva ahead of me - the F10 map says the cruiser is north of me, the HSD says the cruiser is east of me. JF17-802AKG..miz

thank you so much for making these tutorials. I am struggling with the one for the 802AK (antiship mission). The narration stops at the point where it asks you to set the radar range to 80 nm. I have tried many ways to get around that block but cannot. Help? Also prior to that when the radar is first introduced, the narration asks you to set the correct radar mode but does not specify. If you set any mode other than SEA2, the narration stalls. Selecting SEA2 however right off the bat allows the mission to proceed to where it stalls at the radar range selection. If I choose to proceed with the mission, (active pause off) I can see the boat on the radar. I designate the boat with T5. Launching the AK gives some interesting results depending on where you are when you launch. Sometimes it will fly in a circle. Sometimes it will fly towards the land, terrain hugging a bit but ultimately crashing into a mountain. Even when launched directly at the target, the missile cruises right past the northern most boat (the Molinya) and crashes into the sea. Can you help me get this working? Or is it a problem with the 802AK?

if you have multiple screens and click on a screen that is not dcs, all inputs will be missed. For example, if you are watching YouTube videos on another monitor while flying, you might have forgotten to click back in the dcs window after clicking on a YouTube button.

is there a guide somewhare that shows me how to customize my bombs for an A10? D:\DCS World OpenBeta\Bazar\World\Shapes just has .edm files and json files. Do I edit the edm?

thank you! I have a 10inch (1920 x 1080)monitor positioned below my main monitor on windows desktop and they are both left aligned. The settings that work well are LEFT_MFCD = { x = 20; y = 1600 + 200; width = 830; height = 830; } RIGHT_MFCD = { x = 1080; y = 1600 + 200; width = 830; height = 830; } JF17_LEFT_MFCD = { x = 20; y = 1600 + 200; width = 830; height = 1106; } JF17_RIGHT_MFCD = { x = 1080; y = 1600 + 200; width = 830; height = 1106; } . With the exception of the fact that cougars are square, I can at least see most of the MFCDs now.

A genuine question. Do they tend to fail? I did lock up the target with 'TDC depress' but there was no visual indication in the MFCD of lock so perhaps I failed at that.

I followed the mission to the letter. The 802 just flies right past the target. Is this a bug or a feature?

The F18, A10 and F16 have square MFCDs, with and aspect ratio of 1:1. The JF17 however has portrat sized MFCDs with an aspect of 4:3. I can successfully export the MFCDs to either aircraft by editing the lua file in D:\DCS World OpenBeta\Config\MonitorSetup. But then I have to edit that file EVERY time I want to fly the JF17. Is there a way for the proper lua monitor file to be selected automatically?

need keybind to activate HMCS on A10C II

Everything is fine when I run DCS on 1 screen. I have a second screen to which I am exporting the MFCDs for an A10. I have edited the lua file and the MFCDs appear fine (although a bit too dark) The font on the MFCDs is a little more jagged than when I run the standard monitor config. But everything else in DCS also has messed up fonts when the MFCDs are exported - the settings screen, the mission editor, etc. Does anyone know why DCS is doing this? I tried it with MFCDs at 500 x 500. Then I tried changing the MFCDs to various other sizes, but no improvement. My current 2 monitor config is attached below. Camera+2MFCDs.lua

I can successfully assing MFCDs to another monitor but DCS blanks out the whole monitor. I only want to use part of that monitor for dcs and use the remainder for other tasks. Possible?

I'd like to change it to 'dumas...'

can the cdu be exported as well from within DCS or would you recommend helios?

Thank you for your reply. I found this video which was noob friendly for me. I hope it helps others too.

Thank you for a clear write up. I did read however that many people are having an issue with their exported displays being too dark. How did you get around that issue? Also, I dont understand why people use Helios. Does it do something else?

use 'the way'.

I am referring to the buttons in the cockpit which have animated behavior when you clcik on them. These must exist in separate states (up, down, depressed, default) no?

Where in the folder structure are the icons for the various cockpit buttons lept? For example I looked in here: D:\DCS World OpenBeta\Mods\aircraft\A-10C_2\Cockpit\Shape and found a file named A-10C-2020-CPT.EDM This file begins with the data: model::RootNode model::Property<unsigned int> BLENDING DEPTH_BIAS VERTEX_FORMAT TEXTURE_COORDINATES_CHANNELS MATERIAL_NAME def_material NAME a10c_cpt_front_cover SHADOWS TEXTURES a10c_cpt_fn_20_front_cover_diffuse a10c_cpt_fn_20_front_cover_normal UNIFORMS model::Property<float> specPower specFactor reflectionBlurring reflectionValue diffuseValue model::Property<osg::Vec2f> diffuseShift normalMapValue ANIMATED_UNIFORMS self_illum_material a10c_cpt_dash_front_emissive a10c_cpt_fn_20_dash_front_diffuse a10c_cpt_fn_20_dash_front_normal multiplyDiffuse model::Property<osg::Vec3f> selfIlluminationColor phosphor model::AnimatedProperty<float> selfIlluminationValue additive_self_illum_material a10c_cpt_dash_front_Emissive_905 a10c_cpt_fn_20_emissive a10c_cpt_fn_20_emissive_roughmet specMapValue a10c_cpt_dash_right_emissive a10c_cpt_fn_20_dash_right_diffuse a10c_cpt_fn_20_dash_right_normal a10c_cpt_dash_left_emissive I thought that plane specific images would be kept in one of the folders for the the specific aircraft but I cannot seem to find it.

I cannot find Mixed Reality > Startup and Desktop

I see the DCS modules are on sale here but not steam. Is that intentional?

I have two displays, one above the other. In DCS options, I see many screen config options for other configs-three screens, 1 screen an two MFCDs, etc. But there is no option for two vertically stacked screens. Is this possible?

When DCS starts and you jump into a plane, you are presented with the view the pilot would see sitting in the cockpit. In the A10C 1/2 there is a view option that eliminates the cockpit and just puts up the two MFCDs in the bottom corners of the screen. Is there a way to make those MFCDs smaller?

@jonny415 I use the xl and even that is too small to reproduce the DDIs (or MFCDs) properly

thank you for the icons. The reason I use different profiles is that I want to be able to access any 'screen' (matrix of buttons) from from any other screen. That way I have a 'home' screen for flying with buttons for autopilot, weapons, and buttons to take me to a 'start up screen', left MFCD, right MFCD, CDU numbers, CDU letters- eaazch of those pages with its own buttons. If I used pages, I'd forever be 'paging' through screens to get to the one I need.