=BURNING SKIES= WWII Server

[Little_D]

Little D, I did some test and found clouds over 2 density causes 20 to 25 fps lose for my VR setup which is unflyable. At 20 fps you see 4 aircraft real close together when you should only see 1 lol. Don't get me wrong I'm a big fan of weather it's just impossible to dogfight at those low fps.

 

Hi showtime,

 

thx for the answer and your testing, you are right 20 - 25 fps is way to mutch. Hopefully DCS will find a solution, because nothing is nicer than have from time to time bad weather to deal with.

 

regards

 

Little_D

[eekz]

March season has ended. Check news at web page

[OnlyforDCS]

March season has ended. Check news at web page

 

Eekz is there a way to enable your server side labels mod to work in singleplayer? Guess what Im asking is for a link to the mod, so I can mod my own games, or missions.

 

Any help is much appreciated.

[FLANKERATOR]

SA Points from March Round on Burning Skies:

http://sa-sim.com/burning-skies-public-server-march-2017-results/

 

Congratulations to ACG_Coopes, SF_Kaspu and Tecnam for best A2A performance, to Saburo for best A2G performance and to everyone who scored ranking points!

 

The show is still on with April Round now underway. Have fun everyone!

Edited April 5, 2017 by FLANKERATOR

[Tomsk]

Eekz is there a way to enable your server side labels mod to work in singleplayer? Guess what Im asking is for a link to the mod, so I can mod my own games, or missions.

 

Any help is much appreciated.

 

+1 I'd really like it for offline/coop play as well.

[eekz]

Rename any track file from the server to .zip file and take labels.lua from Config/View folder. Feel free to use it in your Saved Games/DCS/Config/View folder for all your single player missions.

 

Seems I need add this question to FAQ on web page :)

 

PS: by the way I reposted FLANKERATOR's post in news section on web page. Feel free to look through the news article.

Edited April 7, 2017 by eekz

[OnlyforDCS]

Rename any track file from the server to .zip file and take labels.lua from Config/View folder. Feel free to use it in your Saved Games/DCS folder for all your single player missions.

 

Seems I need add this question to FAQ on web page :)

 

PS: by the way I reposted FLANKERATOR's post in news section on web page. Feel free to look through the news article.

 

Thankl you Eekz! Much appreciated! :)

 

On a side note, had my first maneuver kill in the 109 yesterday on your server. Tangled with a Spit near the coast and I messed up my yoyo's so he got on my tail. We were already quite low but I decided to take him for a dive, and he followed. Pulled up hard (but not too hard) just above the water. Checked my six, and saw a huge splash in the water behind me :)

 

Moral of the story: Never follow a 109 in a steep inverted dive :)

Edited April 7, 2017 by OnlyforDCS

[LeCuvier]

Eekz is there a way to enable your server side labels mod to work in singleplayer? Guess what Im asking is for a link to the mod, so I can mod my own games, or missions.

 

Any help is much appreciated.

First of all, you need to enable labels under Options / Game Play.

This will by default give you more than just the dot. To change the label format you have to modify the file "labels.lua" under "C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\Config\View". Use the free Notepad++ for that!

Note: the modified file should be saved under your "saved games" folder structure: "C:\Users\<YOUR PROFILE>\Saved Games\DCS\Config\View".

The file includes a lot of information on how to modify the labels format depending on distance.

For air targets the default data is this:

AirFormat = {
--[distance]        = {format , alignment,color_blending_k,opacity,shift_pixels_x,shift_in_pixels_y}
[10]    = {""            ,"LeftBottom",1        , 1      },
[5000]    = {"}%N%n%D%n%P","LeftBottom",0.75    , 0.7 },
[10000]    = {"}%N%n%D"    ,"LeftBottom",0.75    , 0.5 },
[20000]    = {"]%n%D"        ,"LeftBottom",0.25    , 0.25},
[30000]    = {"'"            ,"LeftBottom",0        , 0.1 },
}

The following reduced code will give you just the dot beginning at 8km distance, and the dot will disappear at 1km distance.:

AirFormat = {
--[distance]        = {format , alignment,color_blending_k,opacity,shift_pixels_x,shift_in_pixels_y}
[1000] = {},
[8000] = "}",
}

The color of the dot is determined by these lines at the end of the file:

ColorAliesSide = {255, 0, 0}
ColorEnemiesSide = {0, 0, 255}

Note: the above gives me blue dots for allies and red dots for enemies.

So I guess the 3 colors are defined as BGR (and not RGB as is usually the case).

Edited April 7, 2017 by LeCuvier

[OnlyforDCS]

Thanks LeCuvier but I'm quite happy with how Eeekz labels mod works, so I will be using his labels.lua file :)

[Brigg]

any further thought about a ping limiter eekz as there was some in the 400 range today, and once again it was like playing on an etcha sketch

[Mr_sukebe]

My thanks for creation of the server.

 

Hoping that someone can help a complete multi-player noob.

On connection, my Spit was setup in training configuration, so I had no working guns. Was happy to just ensure I could take off and land, which was cool, but it would be nice to have the option to shoot things.

I did check that I had unlimited weapons and fuel disabled, so that's not the issue.

 

Any thoughts? Is there a brief manual about using the server?

My thanks in advance.

Edited April 11, 2017 by Mr_sukebe

[dannyq8]

Odd, I don't think there is a training configuration on this server.

 

Did you take the safety catch off?

[razo+r]

My thanks for creation of the server.

 

Hoping that someone can help a complete multi-player noob.

On connection, my Spit was setup in training configuration, so I had no working guns. Was happy to just ensure I could take off and land, which was cool, but it would be nice to have the option to shoot things.

I did check that I had unlimited weapons and fuel disabled, so that's not the issue.

 

Any thoughts? Is there a brief manual about using the server?

My thanks in advance.

 

safety pin out? lshift + spacebar

[Mr_sukebe]

I'll move my query out to the general multiplayer forum as my issues are not just in BS server.

Edited April 11, 2017 by Mr_sukebe

[Brigg]

server down

[eekz]

Hi all!

 

Just a quick status update.

 

Real life takes more time for me recently so I'm sorry to be posting less on the forum. Server is running as usual and monthly seasons activity in coop with sa-sims is ongoing.

 

Behind the scene we are working on some stats improvements and I hope that we'll manage to prepare something interesting up to Normandy release.

 

I'm reading your posts, so feel free to drop a note if you have any concerns.

 

See you @Burning Skies :)

[=Pedro=]

Any chance for other mission or you are focusing on Normandy now ?

[coopes]

Can we turn random engine failiures off?

[Brigg]

yeah can you please confirm if this is enabled eekz. thx

[SeaW0lf]

I've never been able to use labels on the server. I have labels enable under Options / Game Play. Is it not available on the server or do I need to do something? When I say lables, it means info about the planes on screen and that sticker over the plane.

 

I would rather not use it (never really liked it), but this is almost a necessity in DCS for now. But I don't mind if labels are not available. I just don't want to be at a disadvantage right off the bat otherwise.

 

Thanks a lot for the server by the way. It is good fun.

[OnlyforDCS]

I've never been able to use labels on the server. I have labels enable under Options / Game Play. Is it not available on the server or do I need to do something? When I say lables, it means info about the planes on screen and that sticker over the plane.

 

I would rather not use it (never really liked it), but this is almost a necessity in DCS for now. But I don't mind if labels are not available. I just don't want to be at a disadvantage right off the bat otherwise.

 

Thanks a lot for the server by the way. It is good fun.

 

The server uses a label MOD. This means you won't get to see the standard labels, instead you will get a little dark dot up to 8 miles out I believe. It only makes it a little bit easier to spot planes, it definitely doesn't work like the usual labels.

[SeaW0lf]

The server uses a label MOD. This means you won't get to see the standard labels, instead you will get a little dark dot up to 8 miles out I believe. It only makes it a little bit easier to spot planes, it definitely doesn't work like the usual labels.

 

THanks, and do I have to install this mod or it is included when the mission loads?

[razo+r]

THanks, and do I have to install this mod or it is included when the mission loads?

 

turn labels on in your settings and then everything should be ok and labels should be on when you are in the server

[SeaW0lf]

turn labels on in your settings and then everything should be ok and labels should be on when you are in the server

 

Cool, thanks :thumbup:

[Brigg]

server is down