Mr_Burns

Second that, not building anymore but great work and thanks for sharing. Keep up the creativity!

I asked it if I could drink the Holy Spirit, after a bit of to and fro I asked if I captured the Holy Spirit in a bag, coul I ransom it to grant 3 wishes from God! Its response cracked me up: God doesn’t grant 3 wishes like a genie, people seek gods Devine intervention (or something) by praying, I suggest instead of trying to capture the Holy Spirit in a bag you pray to god!

I understand now I read this and used it for a bit, i was being vague by saying rewriting missions, what I meant was assuming a dynamic campaign needs some form of AI, maybe simply “you have blocked that route with infantry and tanks, reroute to bridge, oh that been blown, let’s send SU24 to clear that other route” I assumed that the deep pockets of Microsoft google or whoever release a free AI code, could it be better than in house ED and used to speed up the dynamic campaign delivery or other missions with coders focused on “teaching it” and implementing it in DCS. That way, the AI code could be improved out of house letting the team focus on the simulation of mil tactics. On a similar note, I headed a team that used MS Power BI suite to create a complex contractor onboarding system, I am no coder but designed what it needed to do to meet the business unit requirements. The Aussie Microsoft rep was so impressed how we had used their tool we presented it at a BI user meeting and shared it with MS. Of course these AI systems are new to the open market so probably not right now. It reminds me of WOPR, it calculates their response to your response and so on to calculate how to win! Just musing, not asking for it to be done, just thought it might be an interesting topic.

I’ve not used the programs but theoretically could you use chat gpt or other AI to write mission codes? Or maybe one step further, could you integrate it to rewrite mission scripts on the fly for a Dynamic Campaign? ETA: I asked it, it suggested if you had access to its API it possibly could learn, but it wouldn’t know how to code within games.

Got to agree 100x, I dont fly every aircraft, F/A-18 is my go to as I couldnt fathom the A-10C2 Hotas, but a lot of big bombs with little point as the targets are all the same. I still go overkill on bridges or hardened shelters, just because you might need that IRL, but it shouldnt be hard to implement a damage model on a hardened shelter, or a points penalty if you cause too much collateral. Yes I hope the dynamic campaign addresses it, but I tend to think if any improvements in that area were planned, you might the get damage model before the campaign, of course, ED will deploy resources as they think best, but yeah, I hope us ground pounders get some love in the targeting of civil structures.

They are crisp panels agrasy, very nice, are they laser cut?

There used to be a software program that exported them back in the days of Lock On, I am sorry but I have searched and cannot find it or remember its name, definitely exists, stole 2 x 15" monitors from work and had them on each screen! Even had clickable MFS buttons but I dont think they replicate the jet, maybe one for for RWR and another for fuel system/loadout. I had two instances open, one for each monitor. Maybe someone will remember the name.

I take it that there isnt some kind of throttle on the download? I only ever get 6.8MB/s but other platforms such as Steam are much much faster, is a support ticket likely to change that download speed as I get in the mood for DCS and the mood sometimes passes when the update takes an hour!

Wow there are some real negative vibes on this thread. I want multi threading...here is the first iteration.....its only 2 threads....booooo Slowly slowly catchy monkey.

Next level study simmer, respect!

Looks good mate, I always wonder why those Stream Decks are so popular for $200 AUD, when you can build this. Maybe I am missing something, nothing against Stream Decks but they seem really popular and are not cheap, perhaps its the tactile feel?

Yeah, that is awesome, excellent work!

Have you tried running the second monitor off your onboard graphics, being that its not 3D (or some old grpahics card you have lying around?)? Possibly in response to @HawkEXO

Agree with your assessment on throttle, I wonder if the airforces will carry meteor for BVR and AIM-120 for medium range to get that rapid acceleration, that said, they are both apparently Mach 4 but 3.5 is easily rounded up to M4 for sales advertising!

I recon they mean they know what the screens look like and how they work theoretically or realistically, but as there is no Fuel Computer (for example) as such, then you need to find out how to get the correct data to represent the aircraft fuel modeling using DCS code. Although this sounds like reverse engineering, I would have thought it would be built the other way around or it seems a bit hit an miss? ISTR that the very first production aircraft sent to the Luftwaffe was given to the ground crew training team who took it apart and it never flew again, perhaps they sneaked it out piece by piece? Of course, European rivalry stories are not always to be believed so its probably just made up by BAe guys to have a laugh at the Germans without any basis!

Not doubting your expertise but wouldnt it be preferable to have all the engines at a different cycle, that way, you only have to change one engine rather than all 4 or 2 at the same time? I suppose the detail is in the cost modelling, ie. taking an aircraft out to do 2 or 4 engines at the same time is relatively less time off line than bringing it in twice to do smaller amounts of work? Great book, his descriptions of the Flechettes (spelling.) made my toes curl.

No all good mate, I appreciate your support, wouldnt want you to do mine, I will fix it up and share it with the usual thanks for you doing all the hard work and creating and mapping the buttons, I only resized it! Thanks again

First off, thank you for introducing me through your thread, to spacedesk!! Set it up and had you profile on my iPad and got it working. Obviously, your profile is for a monitor so I started hacking it to get the left MFD only on the iPad, cue I didnt realise (my mistake) you have done a tremendous job with helios and combing the gunner (CPG) and Pilot and at the moment, I am only being pilot (learning curve on the -64) so I am there pressing away, its not working and can only see the CPG MFD. Realising the error I activate the pilot panel and was able to use the buttons and the export onto the iPad but I have no idea what I did messing around and DCS just started to project over the top of helios and the MFD export so I ended up with a black screen. Can I get it back, can i heck!! I have deleted everything after 3 hours and will probably try again next weekend. I will try and get two ipads working bust spacedesk claims no, so if that doesnt work I will buy that dual view app you also mentioned on one iPad. Incidentally, and sorry if I am being obvious, I have all my keyboard mapped to the little input computer using the modifier on the hotas, you could reduce the need for the keys as a touch button and make your MFDs bigger, of course that depends if you have a keyboard nearby or care about the displays being bigger! Will report back this week.

Thanks mate, I had a quick look through on my phone just now, if this Covid knocks off tomorrow I will try and follow the thread with an iPad and then 2 with the desktop, been lucky this year with folk leaving work and iPads coming up for cheap so I grabbed 2 just for this!

See people making actual hardware for the MFDs, but I have a few iPads knocking around I would to configure as a Left and Right MFD if you could export the view lua. It was done on the A-10 IIRC, anyone know if anything is happening on the Apache front? I have a few iPad controllers with the software to make panels but it’s the live screen view I would like.

Well sorry to resurrect an old thread but we have no Easy Monitor Config, lost a great opportunity with uMFCD and DCS/ED don’t seem to be interested in a paid DLC for this type of product. Is there any hope on the horizon for something like this I have missed?

Sorry new to this discussion but am having problems with the trim, can you explain though, if you trim the aircraft to hold your desired position, once you reset it, wouldnt you just have to trim it again to get the position you were in? I am suspecting something is wrong with my technique as my cyclic is almost always trimmed forward, which is probably why I cant reduce speed to land. Perhaps some more practice of manually resetting it and see what happens!

Sorry to hijack the thread but my TM Warthog is so heavy and the force needed to move it from centre is annoying me in the Apache, would a simple extension make it better?

Reiser have a number of replica Typhoon displays too, they are not aimed at the civvy market, probably not licensed to sell them to anyone who doesn’t buy the Tiffy. Hotas controls though, as they obviously have aluminium tools, I do wonder why they can’t sell blanks?

Typhoon had what they call get-you-home instruments under a hinged door on the right hand glare shield, in case of failure of the displays or electrical equipment. The aircraft also have a reversionary mode which allows some simple data. Aside from that I hear its all PVI controlled and Hotas. On the tactile though, if you look at the Typhoons left and right side panels the tactile switches all have different shaped switch tops.