Gun Jam Posted March 11, 2023 Posted March 11, 2023 Hello Most of the time Jester does a pretty good job of running the Tpod. However there are moments when I need to move it manually. I am using VR. Direct head control works but is very very slow and difficult to see while trying to turn your head to the direction you want it to move. Is there a key bind so I can just use a hat switch? Is there a way to adjust the pan speed??? Is there a way to tell jester to zoom in or out for us that i can bind to a key? Thanks!
draconus Posted March 11, 2023 Posted March 11, 2023 9 hours ago, Gun Jam said: Direct head control works but is very very slow... It is only for fine tuning and correction before final designation. Use Qeyeball or Qhud to start at your area of interest, then head control for precision. Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX4070S Quest 3 T16000M VPC CDT-VMAX TFRP FC3 F-14A/B F-15E CA SC NTTR PG Syria
Gun Jam Posted March 11, 2023 Author Posted March 11, 2023 The scenario is. I have a last known location of a target. The target is moving E on a main road. All I have to do is move the pod from the Steer point E along the very obvious road for perhaps a mile or two or maybe only fractions of a mile I dont know. I also appear to be incapable of doing this effectively. Its zoomed in too much or not enough depending on the range. The pod is covering maybe 40 to 80 feet a sec. I have 1000s of feet to cover. Snowplow is too coarse and causes me to fly a direction I dont want to. Thanks
draconus Posted March 11, 2023 Posted March 11, 2023 29 minutes ago, Gun Jam said: The target is moving E on a main road. Can't Jester find it for you? Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX4070S Quest 3 T16000M VPC CDT-VMAX TFRP FC3 F-14A/B F-15E CA SC NTTR PG Syria
Callsign JoNay Posted March 11, 2023 Posted March 11, 2023 11 hours ago, Gun Jam said: Hello Most of the time Jester does a pretty good job of running the Tpod. However there are moments when I need to move it manually. I am using VR. Direct head control works but is very very slow and difficult to see while trying to turn your head to the direction you want it to move. Is there a key bind so I can just use a hat switch? Is there a way to adjust the pan speed??? Is there a way to tell jester to zoom in or out for us that i can bind to a key? Thanks! I don't think there is any bind or axis that it can be mapped to. I agree, it would be nice. I'm not a fan of the Jester LANTIRN implementation decisions. I have a spare TDC on my throttle quadrant doing nothing, which could be used for things like this.
Gun Jam Posted March 11, 2023 Author Posted March 11, 2023 Usually he does quite well but I this case the "Area" is not a patch of ground but a very specific strip that is only in one direction and can be quite long. His search pattern tends to be around an area like a box. In this case he was searching a box pattern around the marker which means half his scan is useless and the other half isn't far enough away.
Gun Jam Posted March 11, 2023 Author Posted March 11, 2023 Humm that's a bummer. Draconus offered some possible alternatives that would probably work okay in other situations. But the situation I provided should be the bare minimum of what a Tpod is capable of doing and by doing I mean "effectively" and by that I mean I had a 30 second window to find the tank column on the road it was unobstructed and it should have taken 15 seconds to scan and find the target and enter point track. None of that was possible the pod was zoomed in as tight as possible and was moving too slow to cover the required ground. Even a solution to ONE of those issues would have possibly made the pod marginally effective and allowed to get what I needed. People said I was a jackass for requesting adjustable mirrors and only an idiot would want that... Well here's to hoping! Thanks -Gun
Despayre Posted March 11, 2023 Posted March 11, 2023 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Gun Jam said: People said I was a jackass for requesting adjustable mirrors and only an idiot would want that... Well here's to hoping! Don't worry. If you're forced to give up your jackass title, there's a few others on the forum that are still actively competing for that prize. Edited March 11, 2023 by Despayre I'm not updating this anymore. It's safe to assume I have all the stuff, and the stuff for the stuff too.
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