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Foggy landing, 360 video best viewed on a mobile phone or grab screen to change view :)

Just wanted to share a quick practice model. Still learning how to use 2.82, as it different to 2.78. Complete time lapse of the build here

VF-103 RIO footage from our Wings Over Tbilisi demo

I tried OB 2.5.6 for the second time last night. I let my performance settings carry across to OB from release. I am so used to using previous open betas over release, prior to 2.5.5. I am sorry to say, the current OB is absolutely awful, and from my perspective, has gotten worse. FPS was awful even at the MP selection screen. There was a weird bounding issue after I maximise my screen to prevent the mouse cursor leaving the bounds on my monitor output, the mouse bounds stay at the VR screen size, so I cannot reach the options. VR was showing details such as the little wing streaks on the AV-8B only in one eye on my VR even when close (somewhere approximately between 5 and 25 m virtual separation). Clouds in the distance did the same, and only showed in one eye piece - as id one eye the distance is close enough to show the object, but the other eye being a cm back is not. I was on discord VOIP with at least 16 other people, most of whom also sounded frustrated. I have reverted back to release. If a version like this did make it to release without much improvement, I fear most of my friends and myself would have to give up on DCS.

It seems that model now updates in model viewer if you overwrite the mesh. Previously you had to reload model viewer.

@javitronik, nice work @tobi, this seems to work really well for me, nice job. Here is a model I started on a while back, I thought I would see how well it exports to an EDM using your tool. Also figured out animations. I have a bit more to learn yet for animating individual bones, but I have read your instructions... family are safe and home, but full house means less concentration to figure these things out :)

I have a video diary series on YouTube of my attempts at making a BD-5J flyable from Blender 2.78. I am going to be changing to 2.82, and using this updated tool, as it has features I missed from the 2.78 tool. I have a flyable model that I am nearing completion including clickable cockpit. I have covered everything to get it flyable. It is lot to watch as it is a diary and NOT a tutorial, but you will see every mistake I make and what I did to fix it. This is my first attempt at a model , so be warned I am noob, but I have got really far. I am going to post a new video soon which will show my attempts to get this to export.

Cool, I look forward to seeing your video. Please when you publish it, can you link it in the comments of the video I linked above so I can see your work when it's done?

I recorded most of the ground attack aircraft in DCS performing their bombing runs over Nevada. Everyone is friends with each other, so we have Russian and NATO aircraft sharing the same range :) All is Vanilla except the A-4

Don't know if this helps...

This is exciting. I finally have a reason start learning the 2.8 interface. I see you have bone supported as well, and visibility - I can stop some of my work rounds :) Good job not supporting imports.

I am having same problems. I had not played it for years, and was to part 8 in Deployment. Some of the enemy units are now deep in trees and stuff. I have edited that mission slightly myself. I hope to continue today, and that it does not break integrity checks.

Thanks for that :doh:

Played a mission from Stennis, and my server crashed. I took Stennis out and it worked fine. Have not had a chance to look into logs etc, but I run my server on a hidden install on my wife's PC, and she went nuts at the time the crash happened, all her 20+ browsers windows went white and were frozen plus she lost lives her shitty click bait games lol (these have never caused any issues previoulsy). TF DCS was not in the list of running applications when I told her to go Task manager. I am guessing a memory leak, as DCS completely died?

The Blender IO_EDM was recently hooked and updated on GITHUB... https://github.com/madwax/Blender_ioEDM. I am using it to good effect. I am blogging my experiment to get a working model in DCS using Blender. It is taking much time but I am am getting ok results. Poly count may end up being stupidly high as the tool doesn't support "Complex translation of material layers, including specular, bump maps etc". An example of my model in DCS is here...

How do you link to your server by IP - by IP in URL to host page, or in game? @all, I am guessing I will need to change my server port from 10309 with the VOIP implementation?

You mean replaying the miz file? Trk files play the AI again IIRC, so PVP is best. Some aircraft replay perfectly for me, and some don't. FC3 aircraft, f16, L39c, and AV-8B all seem to work most of the time, landing on a boat is sometimes a problem. F14 and Ka-50 mess up nearly all of the time. A friend of mine claims that the f14 trk works as long as you let the replay of all Jester commands play through, then after that the view can be changed. A2G combat shots work as long as you don't hit a unit of a group, else other units in the group make a random spread, and any subsequent hits will miss as the target may move to a different place each replay, rather than what happened in the mission, and if you use AGM then it might not find lock, and maybe not fire, then your plane is out of balance for the rest of the trk, so it will play out different. A2A combat against AI 1v1 often works, but again ones in a group might be random there after, also the missiles in trk replay can be random, subsequent missiles might not fire.

Hi all, Any movie makers want to join our X51 Harrier display team as camera person? We would help get you started if you had little or no experience. Our squadron has a 6 ship Harrier display team and is also forming a Hornet team too. There are usually 4 virtual airshows a year. Historically we have used camera people from other teams, but they don't have time to learn our routine. We would like someone who would be willing to attend enough of training sessions to learn our routine, and find the best camera angles. Whoever joins will: - need to be able to live stream our routine in at least 1080 to the main display. - need to liaise with staff of the main display to coordinate with the flight timing of start and end of live feed - need to work as camera/sound person - need to be able to resist the temptation of revealing our display - get the opportunity to learn aerobatic form flying with us PM me if you are interested.

Sorry to say but remote admin has stopped working again :( I can connect using DCS to my server from my client machine. The Server list in my ED profile reports my server as running, but when view the server dashboard it reports server not connected. I have made no changes to server nor client other then the update yesterday.

Something has changed. Remote admin works again, and I changed nothing other than update my dedicated server files. Happy days :)

Solved... it was my Steam VR settings. I have tinkered with the settings; turned off motion smoothing, and under developer settings enabled "Enable advanced supersample filtering", and "Do not fade to grid when app hangs". Still not as good, but much clearer, and frame rate is 45-70FPS.