Helicopter EFM Demo

[Noam Belder]

Any textures coming out ?

[delande]

Great job! I got fun with this mod! It will be cool to have some addition textures to it! :thumbup:

[rato65]

WOW!

This is really a great contribution, thank you VERY much. Already flyable, but also a great template to understand how things work. Really really appreciated!

[rato65]

do you think you can include a draw argument to make the loadout section toggle visible/invisible to allow a civil aircraft? youalready did with the ammo box...

[rato65]

if you need some support for the textures I coud try to help out if you like. however it would need mapping unwrap or material assignment from the original model. did you model in 3D max? which version. I could also do the argument to hide the loadout.

[nibbylot]

I've uploaded a new version to the original post. Most of the changes were moving systems from lua to EFM but I've also decreased the pitch force when at high speed.

 

Changelog:

0.2 16 June 2020

- Added M880 digital clock display

- Removed some unused key commands + fixed missing view commands for joystick

- Moved engine and electric system from lua to EFM to provide better working example

- Reduced pitch back at high speed

- Cleaned up source code and reorganized

- Updated DCS API (wHumanCustomPhysicsAPI) with newest version

 

 

There is someone who is currently in the process of texturing the external but no time frame on when that could be done.

Edited June 16, 2020 by nibbylot

[Grajo]

Hi nibbylot,

 

Thanks for all the hard work so far. Having a Helicopter EFM Open Source is such a great thing! Pretty sure you have many contributors or people that wanna help in this project :]. If any other aid in shading and texturing is necessary, I would be happy to collaborate in case my help is also welcome :].

 

Best

Edited June 17, 2020 by Grajo

[delande]

Hello, nibbylot!

Thanks for your grate job! I found some sadly bug: when Increase N1 RPM to 100% and get above 100%, the N1 RPM return to 60%. With it go down the power of engine.

And some one else: when Increase N1 RPM to 100%, the chopper begin turn on the spot. But the engine control knob stay on start position (by 0).

I'm looking forward next update your great mod!

[1d100]

installation on stable release 2.5.6.49798

 

Hello,

 

 

Thank you for your job.

I put the folder in my saved game/..... like other mod. But it won't appear in the editor.

Is there any problem with the last stable DCS's version?

thank you

1d100

[czesiek77]

Hello there :)

Love your work and and I am very happy that someone is making a mod that can help other people start modding DCS.

 

Have you ever thought about starting community guide for DCS modding? Something similiar that ARMA community has, a wiki where everyone could check different aspects of modding DCS.

If such a thing exists already, sorry for me not knowing about it :)

[joey45]

There was a guide made a few years back.

 

But a wiki would be far more better than guides I think.

[petsild]

Hi,

I'm really glad that the project is in development.

How to create a basic template?

Please add control the RPM on the axis.

 

Thank you for the update of the AH-6J.

[FST_Bearcat]

Thank you for this great mode.

 

The modification make it even more realistic.

 

I will follow your progress

[Rick50]

this is pretty sweet project!

[shu77]

Just took my first Helo flight in this, have to say it was great. couple things I noticed:

I cant get the ground crew to rearm on the instant action missions, is this a limitation of the lack of access to the comms SDK? -Figured out I need to shut down.

Theres no axis for throttle.

If you throttle over 100% it reverts to 50% this can be embarrassing.

 

Having never flown a helo before I couldnt comment too much on the flight model beyond once I got it going forward it was great fun and showed that my collective works nicely so I will be doing some more time in your Littlebird until the Kiowa launches

Edited June 19, 2020 by shu77
Stuff I worked out

[shu77]

So having not flown any of the other DCS Helo modules I would be very interested how this compares to something like the Huey or MI8 from someone thats flown both,

[Egon Vindex]

Cannot get this bird to fly, collective do not lift the choper whereas it moves well in cockpit

 

 

Edit :

Page UP/DOWN to manage RPM

Edited June 19, 2020 by Egon Vindex

[nibbylot]

Thanks for the input guys, here's a patch to fix the throttle bug and adds an axis for the throttle:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1diOAuKyncwGkvqk99rM9qJM-dEqH5MWJ/view?usp=sharing

 

Also note that the throttle is clickable on the collective.

[petsild]

Throttle already can be assigned the axis, it works.thank you.

A little fly in the Littlebird, and I have to commend the flight model on the early version behaves :thumbup: impressively.

 

Vaidug7zwac

Edited June 20, 2020 by petsild

[1d100]

great job!!

 

So nice, a very beautifull chopper!

 

 

I notice when i use machine gun a very effect with the chopper, and the same thing with rocket. I don't now, if it is realistic but very difficult to shot anything.

 

 

thank you again for the job

[shu77]

Throttle already can be assigned the axis, it works.thank you.

A little fly in the Littlebird, and I have to commend the flight model on the early version behaves :thumbup: impressively.

 

Vaidug7zwac

Hey thanks for showing me that this does actually work well if you know what you are doing!

[delande]

nibbylot, thank you for your patch! Now it work very well! I have feeling that the piloting is more obedient ;-)

[mr_mojo97]

Can't contribute anything other than moral support. This is a great mod and thanks fore sharing. The controls are excellent, 100 times better than the gazelle around the centre of the stick - I can actually feel like I can control this. Well done, lad

[MAXsenna]

Tried this now! Thanks, was really cool.

Was a bit unusual without trimming, but worked really well non centered with my MS SW FFB2

 

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[shu77]

I have to say I found I spent my weekend taking this for flights around the maps and spotting all sorts of details I never noticed at 350knots while I practiced my transitions to and from hover and fine detail stuff like trying to 'taxi' to the runway for a departure or threading between smoke stacks. Its really starting to tempt me to just to buy the Huey as a next step while I wait for the Kiowa. ED should seriously consider it as an 'official' free module to get people started on Helicopters. most of my work is in documentation for DCS, but would be quite happy to dive into some code to try and assist if you are looking at progressing the module along.

 

Things I would suggest for the dev list:

Further Engine management.

Refined damage model

Pilot model

Trim/autopilot features.

obviously would be nice if ED would make you official and give you access to the SDK for comms. but this has been the most fun I've had with DCS for a long while.

Some cockpit references that seem to reflect your model

Though I have to say I like this version:

Edited June 22, 2020 by shu77