Besides the manual, what have you guys printed for DCS?

[LC34]

Title asks it all.

 

Ive done a few maps and my hotas setup to have handy when I cant keep myself on one aircraft for long enough to be second nature to me.

 

How about everyone else.

[Emmy]

I've done a few JStick diagrams as well.

 

Biggest print jobs:

Combined Arms Manual

Every Briefing Document and Chart for the A-10C Red Flag campaign.

[LC34]

lol the red flag briefings......great but yes, printer hog. But so worth the ink.

[Emmy]

lol the red flag briefings......great but yes, printer hog. But so worth the ink.

 

Well, I figure I'll fly that Camp on more than one future occasion so I file the paperwork away for another go at some point.

[Charly_Owl]

I haven't dared to press the "Print" button yet... http://www.mudspike.com/chucks-guides/

[mstauning]

Well have done:

All PDFs from all addons Ive have... Incl campains, Chucks Guides, some maps in A3 format, Airport diagrams, Checklists and a few more... Total is 6 A4 binders and a shelf with A3 maps ! Ive think there is around 350 pages dobbelsided in each binder.

[LC34]

Id like to do a big wall map of the areas we have to fly in, but I cant figure out how to print it off the way I want. I have no problem with taping them together, did anyone one print them off as a wall map and tape like I'm attempting to do? If so, which settings do you usually have to mess with to get it to print on several pages?

[Fri13]

Title asks it all.

 

Ive done a few maps and my hotas setup to have handy when I cant keep myself on one aircraft for long enough to be second nature to me.

 

How about everyone else.

 

I use to think about making HOTAS map, but it is just far more easier to go in settings and press your HOTAS and see what function you had binded. It refresh nicely all as you same time spend time for a muscle memory part instead just staring a paper, and you can do that in VR too!

 

The map part is that I wanted to have a airfield data, beacons etc radio frequencies that was nice to read.

 

But actual kneepad is something fancy and I like use for a drawing option there so you can doodle something to map like general RWR angles, times and fuel amounts etc. So laminated A4 size board next to you was easy and nice but not possible to use in VR. So....

then there is always a mods like https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/369734/

 

But doodling virtually something to it is not just possible so nicely as you don't have ruler or such easy way just to use marker.

But you don't need to make prints and laminate them etc.

[Fri13]

Id like to do a big wall map of the areas we have to fly in, but I cant figure out how to print it off the way I want. I have no problem with taping them together, did anyone one print them off as a wall map and tape like I'm attempting to do? If so, which settings do you usually have to mess with to get it to print on several pages?

 

You need to use either an application that does the printing from PDF as is, or then use a image editor to slice the map to wanted paper sizes and then print them.

 

To give some guides:

https://rasterbator.net/

 

You will get a big wall done with multiple pages, but check first how to get the bleed (paper edges) to be non-existing so you don't need to cut any paper afterwards (if your printer allows to print to the edge) and then you just have a big puzzle in your hands :D

[BitMaster]

I misused a real big HP printer 9050DN to print all available manuals like 2 years ago. THOUSANDS of pages.

 

What a mistake ! I needed help to carry it to my car, many boxes, actually very unhandy to use and eventually they all ended in the paper waste bin.

 

If there were real books to buy, I'd may get one or the other, for men's best place to study :D

 

...and I must admit; I havent read a single manual. The only pages I read were certain topics and schemes, like RWR.

 

I really mis the books as in old days. I would have read them all, many times over by now.

 

PDF on an iPad is not my style, I sometimes do it but I prefer a real book, like in B O O K.

 

 

Times change and I guess we have to get over it, those days with printed manuals are gone.

Edited January 31, 2018 by BitMaster