IR MAV - Red smoke marker 'blooms' IR image on DDI

[DUSTY]

Hey, just noticed this in a mission when trying to engage targets with an AGM-65F.

 

 

When a red smoke marker was present in the FOV of the IR Mav cam DDI, it bloomed or washed out the seeker so it was impossible to target anything within the camera FOV.

 

 

As this was just a red smoke marker and not a burning column of smoke, would this not be a bug?

 

 

Cheers.

[Dagger71]

I'm wondering how bad it would be if the color was on other side of the spectrum (blue), but designation smoke is very thick with particles and would most certainly obscure any IR sensor.

[Ramsay]

When a red smoke marker was present in the FOV of the IR Mav cam DDI, it bloomed or washed out the seeker so it was impossible to target anything within the camera FOV.

 

As this was just a red smoke marker and not a burning column of smoke, would this not be a bug?

 

Yes, it's a problem with the FLIR shader, a workaround is to set chimney smoke to 0.

 

It only seems to be an issue for the first one or two missions flown in a DCS session.

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=4082694#post4082694

 

YMMV

[Dagger71]

Yes, it's a problem with the FLIR shader, a workaround is to set chimney smoke to 0.

 

It only seems to be an issue for the first one or two missions flown in a DCS session.

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=4082694#post4082694

 

YMMV

 

 

 

 

Does this apply to targeting smoke? Thought that issue was vehicles on fire.

[rinkerbuck]

I think I'm having the same issue in the Harrier

[Harker]

Does this apply to targeting smoke? Thought that issue was vehicles on fire.

Vehicles on fire plus some smoke marker colors, such as red. Green works fine, for example, no issues.