record a flight then play back and fly with playback?

[steve2112]

i know i can save the track and play it back which is cool but i'd like to try making a 2 plane airshow, so i'd like to record my flight track then play it back but still be able to fly along with it. is that possible at all?

 

thx

[ggerman]

No...unfortunately not. It's a feature I truly wish they would incorporate, but sadly I don't think it will ever be something they'll consider.

 

One can always hope!

[steve2112]

thanks. i used to fly falconBMS and i wrote a tool that allowed you to fly a circuit automatically from a set of waypoints or stearpoints, including stuff like aileron rolls, etc. then i ran that on my B computer in multiplayer mode and on my A computer i could fly with it. i got it working quite well be had to move onto paying jobs and forgot about it.

 

maybe i'll resurrect it for DCS as i don't bother with falcon anymore

 

i wonder how many people would be interested in that if i made it work?

Edited December 25, 2015 by steve2112

[theGozr]

I remember lockon use to.

[ggerman]

thanks. i used to fly falconBMS and i wrote a tool that allowed you to fly a circuit automatically from a set of waypoints or stearpoints, including stuff like aileron rolls, etc. then i ran that on my B computer in multiplayer mode and on my A computer i could fly with it. i got it working quite well be had to move onto paying jobs and forgot about it.

 

maybe i'll resurrect it for DCS as i don't bother with falcon anymore

 

i wonder how many people would be interested in that if i made it work?

 

I certainly would be interested, though I'd have to set up a server to run it.

 

A tool that I REALLY liked was the FS Recorder module that was developed for FSX. You could record multiple tracks and play back as many as you wanted to build formations - and it even rendered out butter-smooth frame-based video at any resolution you wanted. Only drawback was that it couldn't export the sound for videos. But still... it was one of the best third-party modules Ive ever used. I wish he had continued developing it for P3D compatibility.

 

Now if you could write a module like that - well, you'd be considered a GOD in the DCS community! LOL!

[steve2112]

i don't think DCS provides a programmer API like FSX and falconBMS does which is unfortunate. the other thing i've always dreamed of building is a full motion simulator, but that needs to get real time roll/pitch/yaw etc from the game and again, i don't think DMS supports that

[Yurgon]

Just in case you didn't know about this potential work-around: Since 1.5 OpenBeta, AI flights can be assigned aerobatic maneuvers in the advanced waypoint actions IIRC. It's not what you describe, but maybe it would work for you.

 

I haven't tried it yet and I fear that the AI will be very hard to follow because of the different flight models (simplified AI flight model vs. Advanced/Professional/External Flight Model for the player aircraft, depending on the module), but maybe it's worth a shot. :thumbup:

[Closterman]

FS Recorder like

 

As soon as this feature will be available, I will buy more plane from DCS.. I like to do aerobatic formation flight with FSX but flight model of DCS are a long way better !!! Please DCS, add this feature to your Sim !!!

[Northstar98]

Ahh like FS Recorder? Now that would be a new approach for airshows and practicing formation flying. Since what we can do with AI can be limited in certain situations...

Edited February 19, 2016 by Northstar98

[The Black Swan]

2 plane airshow

 

Have you tried making a mission with 2 planes in it as if it were multiplayer, flying the first plane and then in replay taking control of the other one? :joystick: