RustBelt

Oh cripes, has lighting gotten worse again? I haven’t done any night in well over a year.

It really seems more like a “Lets see if we can” not “This is our legit A plan”

Always has been. The bloom scourge has been there since 2.5.

Except it also leaves them trapped. I can’t imagine any captan or admiral willingly putting their carrier both in a one way in or out fjord, Or as evidenced in those pictures. Within visual line of sight of ground attack. I suspect this doctrine was for cool propaganda pictures. Not good carrier protection.

You guys know most carriers are a couple hundred miles of shore for combat ops right? Cat, tank, work, tank, trap.

It’s because DCS does them as an “animation” strip tied to the airplane model not an image on the livery. So if the number is slanted that needs a different shaped object on the physical 3D model that is “animated” to a given position. It doesn’t just semi-bake a decal layer on the texture like one would think you would. Works for russian bort numbers that are all fixed block fonts. And dull ass airforce sencils. Less so with stylish Navy art.

And in DCS the Archers actually fire and work. As opposed to real life where their coolant was huffed by the ground crew a month prior.

I think 51% of the voters already signed up for us.

To say nothing of the feeling of your head and butt trying to occupy the same space in the seat pan.

But Karon, why shouldn’t we expect late 60’s and early 70’s computer systems to work as perfectly as our 2024 cell phones? You act like a Phoenix doesn’t have the computing power to run pacman. Oh yea, it DOESN’T. An Arduino would run circles around it. Why should we expect it to work like janky early computers, it’s running on the fastest computer I could afford, so it should be that good /s

No, you just can’t use the extra lazy function AND there’s an evident work around. Go practice your CCIP and CCRP with the TCS and manual bombing with the tables. I bet they’re rusty as hell.

It may be an adverse separation issue nose armed with the fins in. The manual is specific about how it’s rigged, so for the F-5 it probably is the only way, dud or low drag. No slick snakeye.

Because the super carrier is ED. Why do the Hornet and Vipers position lights work while the tomcats are dim? Search the tomcat subforum. It was specifically addressed that there was lighting work that wasn’t going to be temporarily fixed due to “imminent” big changes in DCS (Vulkan). Easily 2-3 years ago back when Vulkan was planned for “end of the year”.

Because they’re still using the crappy cataracts view light source filter kludges from 2.5 to deal with lights at distances. Remember that whole mess?

I use Magnetic Absolute encoders for HDG, CRS, OBS. (Basically compass stuff.) The incrementing ones are either too slow or skip too many spaces per increment. Absolutes pump out a 0v at 000, around to 5v at 359. So one full turn is 360 degrees, or you can gear it to 180 a full rotation. Probably math a magic it too if you spend a whole $4 more dollars to put an intermediate Pi Pico between the encoders and your MMJoy2 or DCSbios arduino. (They’re still stuck with Megas isn’t it?) Basically it’s a Hall effect sensor in a potentiometer shaped case with a transducer output. Pricier at $35/per but 100% how they work in the cockpit. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06X42RB5D/?coliid=I4NMFOICK6APG&colid=2Z693F6I90C69&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_ys_dp_it Pot for fixed arc, Absolute Encoder for round and round forever. Interval encoders only for stepping interfaces like the NS-430 knobs. Don’t get me started for 3 and 5 turn Pots for stuff like the Altimeter Baro setting. I need professional help.

That’s because the Su has magic computers that keep you from ripping the wings off, while the Tomcat uses the Pilot’s skill to not rip the wings off. A significantly newer aircraft will in fact be better, that’s how arms races work.

The lights/LoD are all still part of the “waiting for Vulkan” issue. They don’t want to put in work that’s supposed to be undone with the “soon” switch to Vulkan. And by this point it probably will be left until the A-6 or Navy Phantom at the earliest.

So you have Double inverted your pitch axis. Negative times a negative equals? Try NOT inverting the FFB on X (Pitch) just because the input is backwards doesn’t mean the FFB direction is. Also to eliminate other ambiguity. Verify The Up direction on your trim hat is bound to Nose (Pitch) trim DOWN.

What about the 54C’s aren’t those internally cooled?

Fired up the old Athlon XP with 98SE and seems like no dice. It will do on the fly deadzone, but it doesn’t change the setting in firmware. One other longshot is to actually change the rotational position (clock) of the motor gear to “fresh” teeth where the stick centers. Since the position feedback is in the gimbal not the motor, it doesn’t effect function, but may help reduce backlash. I’m not going to try it personally because by that point I should be working on my VP force build not digging into my old stick.

It’s probably a manifold cluster of things. It seems like every third party has different tricks they have to learn to overcome the DCS scenery system. Seems like they have to build what they want, then work backward to find all the inefficiencies and sneaky invisible performance eaters. I suspect there is little in the way of proofing tools provided for them to catch stuff before it’s out in the world.

Think of it more like a neck activated joystick for looking around.

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Certain conflicts are de-focused on for.......ЯeasoИs....See the empty peninsula in the caucuses for example.

Rivet counters aren’t really “customers” so much as a side effect.