Elefant1301 Posted January 2, 2016 Posted January 2, 2016 Hi all, In the process of training, I built for myself a mission where I can practice the basic flight maneuvers and AA combat (nothing better than shooting Antonovs like sitting ducks :D). I placed two orbiting An at 25000 ft and after my takeoff, I turned towards the juicy targets. I locked one, waited for the right distance and shot...to kill. The same for the other unfortunate Antonov. I made a quite nice landing, I was quite happy as I begin to feel comfortable with this lovely plane. It was legitimate that I wanted to see that again so I opened the track file and watched it. Everything was ok until I noticed (without changing view nor sim speed) that the target were not locked and the missiles took a completely different path than originally. Even the targets were not at the same place (or it was my plane...?). Did you guys notice the same problem ? I knew when one changes the sim speed it could corrupt the track but this time I just let the replay go without touching anything. Is there a way to fix that ? How do you guys do to record your flights and upload nice videos with internal and external views ??! Thanks for your help,
PiedDroit Posted January 2, 2016 Posted January 2, 2016 (edited) It's a known issue, no fix ATM, only luck. Track do not record what exactly happened, they replay the flight using various input (which is done to save space I suppose), which makes a track also dependent on DCS version. So if anything doesn't happen exactly like in the real flight, the track might get corrupted. Maybe it's a random seed issue, or, if they use a fixed seed, stutter in the simulation would affect the results. Edited January 2, 2016 by PiedDroit typo
Aginor Posted January 2, 2016 Posted January 2, 2016 Yes, this is NOT a bug of the M2000C but it is a basic DCSW bug. There are things that make it happen more quickly: - time warp - long missions and it seems to a lesser degree: - fast maneuvering - using weapons You can avoid the first two but not the second two. So yeah, tracks are pretty useless right now. They only work most of the time when you are flying around doing nothing, or when your missions are short and you don't use time warp. DCSW weapons cheat sheet speed cheat sheet
Para_Bellum Posted January 2, 2016 Posted January 2, 2016 I seriously recommend getting TacView. It's a 3rd party program that records and plays back flight information from several flightsim. I've been using the professional version for some time now and it's an invaluable tool for analyzing missions. There's a free demo available at their website: http://tacview.strasoftware.com/?_ga=1.195989801.405269888.1449910315
Elefant1301 Posted January 2, 2016 Author Posted January 2, 2016 Thanks for your replies, guys. :thumbup: I know Tacview and it is indeed a very nice tool for analysis but I would like to find a solution for editing videos of my flights (where I could switch between internal and external views freely). Is there another way than tracks to do ?
Para_Bellum Posted January 2, 2016 Posted January 2, 2016 Unfortunately the tracks/replay system has been buggy as hell for quite some time now. Sometimes I can play back a track without problems, often the tracks shows some completely whacky stuff. From my experience using time compression often leads to broken tracks.
Nealius Posted January 2, 2016 Posted January 2, 2016 I'm finding the tracks to be buggier with the M2000. In the Su-25 all of my tracks have been spot-on except for when I take damage. However in the M2000 I frequently find myself taxiing off into the grass for no good reason.
Elefant1301 Posted January 2, 2016 Author Posted January 2, 2016 After few attempts, I noticed that the radar didn't work properly during the replays. No lock, not the originally displayed range, etc... All the other stuffs seem to be ok (plane position, attitude, etc...).
PiedDroit Posted January 2, 2016 Posted January 2, 2016 After few attempts, I noticed that the radar didn't work properly during the replays. No lock, not the originally displayed range, etc... All the other stuffs seem to be ok (plane position, attitude, etc...). Radar is currently bugged as it retains the configuration (and damage) from previous flights, this affects replays as well (wrong mode will be selected, etc). You can try restart DCS and then replay the track.
Elefant1301 Posted January 2, 2016 Author Posted January 2, 2016 It worked perfectly, a restart solved the radar problem during the replay, many thanks for your suggestion. Merci ! :thumbup:
Cik Posted January 2, 2016 Posted January 2, 2016 tracks are useless. if you really want to review missions your best option is to just download OBS (free, open source) then just record the entire thing. the video will be much bigger, however it will actually work. the tracks being a few MB means nothing if halfway through you hit a mountain you never hit while flying the mission and everything past that is a "mission failed" screen.
PiedDroit Posted January 2, 2016 Posted January 2, 2016 tracks are useless. if you really want to review missions your best option is to just download OBS (free, open source) then just record the entire thing. the video will be much bigger, however it will actually work. the tracks being a few MB means nothing if halfway through you hit a mountain you never hit while flying the mission and everything past that is a "mission failed" screen. This and TacView :thumbup:
Elefant1301 Posted January 3, 2016 Author Posted January 3, 2016 Don't know OBS, I'll have to dig out. Thanks for the tip. By the way, I can confirm that restarting DCS after each flight solves many problems related to the radar in general and SARH in particular too !
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