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It doesnt cause a crash on loading but it doesnt show anything like the volume or density of the smoke mod pre-2.7. In fact I'd question if MP one is working at all - it doesnt really seem any different to me.

Lol - thought this was a late april fools joke!

Phew..................so...any update on the release date yet?

Thanks for the reply, its frustrating as all the other important rotary knobs are mappable (CW/CCW) and mapped to my rotary encoders, I understand Heatblur were asked to implement this in September 2018 so maybe one christmas in the distant future my dream will become a reality.

AJS37: Is it possible, via editing the controls lua files, to add a binding the devs did not build in? Im wanting to use a rotary encoder on my custom button box to map to the bomb separation dial in the Viggen. (Weapon interval selector mode knob - Siktningvaljare) At the moment it only responds to mouse clicks and there is no description for it in the settings/controls.

Never going to get the chance to fly a Viggen IRL so I cant possibly judge

Would prefer Caucasus to be a little better, not Gulf or Syria being a bit worse!

OK cool, post is dated Oct 2018, thats 2.5 yrs and no progress. I delved into some threads on the DIY cockpit subforum, there's posts about breaking into (editing)the lua files to add differnt keybindings and controller actions for stuff currently not mapped, I wondered if there was any experience to draw on here for that? I'll have to revisit some old posts from last year to investigate further.

I'm setting up a custom button box with rotary encoders to control the dials in the Viggen, I can map the Master mode, the ternav data select knob and the weapons select knob but not the dial next to weapons select that controls the spacing for bomb releases. Is any mapping available for that? I cant find any ref to it in the controls options?

I know, I'm grateful for the input - what really threw me is the ease at which it worked on Gulf and Syria map even when taking off straight over water, which made no sense to me - why should it work fine out of Khasab where the runway is only a short distance from the water, and yet not work when taking off from Batumi over water. Then retesting way inland on Caucasus map around Kobuleti I could not get a 5 on the TerNav, 3 was the best I could get, yet on similar terrain in the Gulf I got a 5 straight away after takeoff. There is definitely some difference between maps in the way the TerNav picks up the data.

So ..more testing in SP and online server, seems caucasus is not at fault, just need an amount of 'rich terrain' to get the ternav to pick it up - towns, rivers, hills. It seems to take longer on Caucasus map to reach the '5' than it did on the Gulf map or Syria but once I get '5' - sometimes taking a longer route to target then the Bk-90's hit the target marker.

I have another thread runnig under BK-90 now available, done a lot more SP testing and I only ever seem to get the drift on nav and BK-90 target area when Im flying in the Caucasus map. It works fine in Gulf & Syria, ternav reads 50, in Caucasus it gets to 10 or 20. Was this ever solved for you? I've got same issue.

The more testing I do, the more I get the feeling its still the old Caucasus terrain bug. I set up another short SP mission on syria map, got 5 on the ternav straight after takeoff, did not set QFE accurately or set heading accurately, still got 4 BK90's bang on target. Same procecdure as gulf and Caucasus. Same person taking off. Every time in Caucasus I get the drift. No time in Gulf or Syria do I get the drift.

Flying out of Krasnador way inland, about 30km - target also drifted almost half a mile to the left of the F10 marker. Flying straight out of Khasab on the Gulf map, straight over the sea towards Qeshm Island the BK90 hit exactly on target, no drift. Is the black sea strangely magnetic? If ternav doesnt work over black sea water it certainly doesnt stop it in the gulf map!

So I ran a few more tests - mini SP missions from differnt airbases in Caucases map, same issues, takeoff hot from runway, BK90 explodes 3-500yds left or right of target mark. Doesnt happen in the gulf. ternav got up to 3 when taking off from Krasnador but out of Batumi it stays at 1 or 2. Very strange.

Im taking off from Batumi heading west over the sea then turning northeast, staying at about 450m alt. Ternav never gets abouove 10 or 20. When I fly north out of khasab with all those mountains around the airport it goes to 50 straight after takeoff. Does anyone ever need to set or check magnetic declination? Is that an influence at all? How about cold start vs hot on parking vs hot on runway? Would that have any influence?

Thanks for your comprehensive answer. However, this is strange as other threads have posted about TerNav issues on the Caucasus map, and a potential bug from a caucasus update (which seems like years ago now...). So I did some more testing on the Gulf map using exact same procedure. I leave wind off as I dont need to introduce another variable at this stage. It seems I get no problem setting up the BK90's to hit a ground target via F10 map marker in the Gulf, when I do same process in Caucases they miss by a few hundred yards and the CK37 last 2 digits only ever get to 10 or 20. In the gulf it goes to 50 straight away?

Is this still a Caucasus map bug? I get no problem setting up the BK90's to hit a ground target via F10 map marker in the Gulf, when I do same process in Caucases they miss by a few hundred yards and the CK37 last 2 digits only ever get to 10 or 20. In the gulf it goes to 50 straight away?

only about 3 kts wind. Not familiar yet with ternav or fixing on a std waypoint, i was using a grim reapers video to get a quik and simple way of using the clusters standoff via f10 map marker. If you have any pointers to the processes you mention above, I'd be most grateful.

Can anyone help - what am I doing wrong? Load up the BK90's, set a target on the F10 map and import wp's into data cartridge, release cue about 7-8km out, at 450m alt, doing mach 0.85, but each time the bombs detonate a few hundred metres right of the target location? I tried realigning compass with runway, I set QFE according to target alt and the equation, I even checked magnetic variation was corrent for the map. Am I missing something?

Really awesome! I got a full farp from a 3-crate Herc drop, I can use CTLD to load troops but the farp isnt supplied with fuel or ammo

Stand-alone

What is the minimum distance from origin where your crates can be unloaded & unpacked, or troops dropped?

i did a repair and restart, it was definitely fubar on mine, the R&R fixed it so I see radar tracks again on missions and the tutorials, and can lock up as intended, using the tms-up.

im just running back over the aim-120 tutorial but i cannot for the life of me get tms-up (or right) or anything else to lock on to the radar targets