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@Slammin: I agree if you mean aircraft commands! But the communication to tower or groundcrew like "request takeoff", "rearm Jdam", "refuel 70%" ...is designated for voice commands.

At least we know the fix now...mine didn't die yet luckily.

There is a tiny software called VRcommander. You can set macros and combinations, so you just say "request takeoff" and it does it for u.

thats bad news

Cool thanx for those pics! The light, textures and shaders look not good at all in those and HDR doesnt seem to have the factors given to really reveal their power. BUT the last couple of screen shots looked so much better that I am pretty sure it s really about the airbase preview here more on a geometry level. And yes the base is very sweet! And talking about the last screen shots, are there texture channels for specular and/or glossiness now? Because it kinda looked like the specular on the flying F15Es were broken up. That would be so sweet for giving different surface attributes to weathered or camouflage paintings. Thanx again for feeding the horde :) great job! This will get the best sim of all times.

On some screenshots like those here: http://www.simhq.com/_air13/air_456a.html ..it looks like the specular on the F15 is interrupted on different paint or as question; Are specular-, normal-, bump maps etc. on objects integrated now? That would be so awesome for skins etc!

You dont need to code at all for 3D modelling! there is a good free 3D software called blender. But I would recommend 3D Studio MAX! Its not free nor easy but not too hard and all plugins and following packages have a good compatibility to this package. BTW its Nr.1 in game modelling and I use it since 15 years for movie vfx. You can enhance the output of you 3D with C++ and internally with max script (very easy language but only for max internal stuff except you wanna play ur game in the 3dmax viewport :) )

Does the A-10 have a datalink like system in real? Because if the DCS a10 will provide something like the BS datalink that would be so awesome and kind of help away over the missing diamonds...maybe