RustBelt

Nothing in DCS is a small job unfortunately. It’s more Jenga tower than obelisk.

Yes. That configuration minimizes the effects. Torque = arm x force.

My agenda is I’m tired of hearing the same stuff over, and over, and over. And yes, an issue tracker would solve that. But it’s not as if that fixes anything as evidenced by Leatherneck’s issue tracker of years old Christian Eagle 2 issue tracker.

Ok, let us know when you have that Google Doc done. It will be really helpful.

The light bloom is sadly a DCS thing they added a few months after the Tomcat. They need to find someone to rebuild the lighting system who doesn’t have an astigmatism, or glaucoma.

Best not to worry about it then.

No, I’m not your google.

Think bigger. You have a Gatling cannon slung on the side of the nose of an airframe. When fired a force is placed cantilever onto the mounting brackets which in turn asymmetrically loads the forward fuselage off centerline on all 3 axis. Not a ton, but it causes a vibration in the whole airframe. Basically no part of the cannon is “hard mounted” only part of the airframe. With the Tomcat even exacerbated by the firing barrel being the most outboard creating the most torque moment on the mount and by connection the airframe. The planes stability keeps it effectively in position, but no performance fighter is going to have strongly dampened stabilization so it will wiggle around stability null as the gun fires. It’s part of why the A-10 was built around the Cannon to mitigate as much off centerline moment from its firing. The gun is mounted basically on the “keel” on centerline.

You get that Heatblur is like 10 or so people though right? Them stopping to make an updating issues list eats into their work time? Technically this forum contains all that information. If it was desired, anyone could make a list of all the reported issues and unfinished plans. Just takes firing up a google doc.

Be sure your monitor and dcs are set to Heatblurs Gama benchmark. Which presumably means you need to replicate their office lighting as well? Providing a screen capture would also help.

Except they EXPLICITLY said they ARE NOT fixing it. It is the way they intended it to work. You’re 2 years late on this one. They’ve resolutely refused to do this as it’s not their way.

They have answered in the past. Due to how Digital Lock On Simulator handled audio layers they had to package some weird stuff together. So you either turn it all down, or none of it. Turn it down some and you’ll find you can still hear everything fine. Cockpit is mixed WAY too high with all sliders at 100%

They say no. It and cockpit switches are on the same “channel” so the only way to do it is turn down in cockpit sound in the audio menu. Which you should do anyways because it’s all too damn loud.

1. Not yet. But, real close. They say next big patch or so. So it’s made, just not integrated into the distribution build yet. 2. I wanna say 20% off? But no Idea, haven’t looked in years literally. Check the News posts from Eagle Dynamics. It usually lists the discounts when a sale is going on at the bottom of the news post.

From a use standpoint it “basically is” in that it can point at and fixate on an IR heat source. And that gives you an Azimuth and Heading. It was a much better unit but needed a lot more space and weight than a missile. And of course it also was tied to a display and weapon system etc….

Warnings are intentionally terrible because Heatblur says they’re “supposed” to be like that. radios have their own brightness knobs. So check that, but they should get washed out in direct sunlight. Which in real life is easily solved by cupping your hand over it. Same old fidelity vs utility struggle as ever.

You'll notice too no cataract bloom in the letters of the warning light.

Hmmm, yea, nothing I like more than doing my job AND other peoples job too. The game industry best shape up real soon. They've been playing with fire the last 5 years or so, and they're only making it worse.

Enterprise software sure. Games not so much.

I mean, as a client, the expectation is the thing offered at the price offered has already been planned out to have the things offered at the price because that’s how most products not software work. (When not on Kickstarter) For instance, Garmin didn’t sell G1000’s until they built tested and built again at production scale. Everything they sold the system as worked as advertised out the box. When they came up with new features and tricks they updated the software without it having an effect on any of the previously working parts. And then they developed a new fully upgraded system and sold that. They never sold “Early Access” G1000’s or had version updates that broke things that worked previously, or added features that could work and will work at some later update but don’t use it now even though its there. Software Development has a very “Figure it out as we go, after charging you” feel to it that makes people insecure. Especially in the Game space where devs do just walk away.

Yea I reckon so then. New Missile model vs AIM-54 still waiting on missile api?

Transonic and supersonic flight is all about compressibility.

Remember, when people say “hornet mafia” they literally mean M/D-Boeing shills setting up their retirement employment plans. Boeing gets what Boeing wants. Northrup Grumman was already being put to pasture by the time F-14D came along. They never recovered after the YF-23 lost. They’re a legacy support contractor and missile maker now. And will likely be absorbed by the MI complex big 3 very soon.

It’s fine? Is it still 65 degrees F at 30,000 feet? Did they finally model compressibility factors, or is that still part of the flight model? They ever get the tropopause working? How about inversion layers? Thermals?

Thing is, even the “other missiles. A nozzle area of less than 1 seems like a complete abstraction no matter. Unless it’s yet another dimensionless coefficient thing like we’ve run into before because all the real work is happening on the secret squirrel side of the engine. What units SHOULD Ae have? Even as square Meters those numbers for the sidewinder seem small.