EasternEagle Posted February 19 Posted February 19 I know a lot of you aren't in the Discord so I just wanted to share the following message from one of the Dev's. "Yes I definitely agree. We do apologise for the silence on our part, but there is no reason to be anxious. We have just been extremely busy with MSFS 2024 these last few months, so work on the A-7 has slowed (but is still progressing!). That being said, if things go to plan then we should see a fairly massive amount of progress on the A-7 in ~Q2/Q3. We will explain this in more detail once we have finalised these plans." - Alex So its still being worked on no stress here gentleman 11 4 Modules : F-4E • JF-17 • F16 • F18 • F14 • F15E • M-2000C • Mirage F1 • A10CII • Black Shark 3 • Huey • FC4 • K-4 • Mi-8MTV2 • Mi-24P • Apache • Viggen • Spitfire • P-51 • CH-47F • Kiowa • Terrains: Afghan • Syria • PG • Sinai • Normandy 2.0 • South Atlantic • The Channel • Normandy 1944 • Nevada • Super Carrier • Iraq • System: I7-13700KF • 64GB DDR5-5600 • MSI RTX 4080 Ventus 3X OC • Peripherals: WinWing Orion 2 HOTAS MAX • WinWing Skywalker Pedals • Oculus Quest 3 •
EasternEagle Posted February 21 Author Posted February 21 Second message from different dev: Hey guys! I apologize for the lack of updates, I know everyone's been really eager to hear some news and we've had my head in the sand alittle bit. Sorry about that! The module is still very much in active development; we have just been quiet as far as news and updates to try and reduce our workload alittle bit, but we can see that's getting abit frustrating and we need to do better with our communication. Right now our time is split roughly 50/50 between DCS & MSFS; as you might have guessed already we rely on our MSFS work to continue funding development of the A7 and so it does require us to split our time between the 2 sims, at least at this stage. After our upcoming release for MSFS 2024, we will then be pivoting to place the full team back onto the A7 to significantly speed up the development process. Currently I am continuing to put alot of hours into the A-7 codebase & have begun collaborating with ED to work on the Terrain Following & Terrain Avoidance radar modes. The last few weeks have been spent doing some optimizations, refactoring & cleanup and improving the robustness of the code base. Not the most exciting thing, but essential for a smooth & bug-free module! More significantly I spent some time developing a new Lookup-Table system, which powers a vast amount of aircraft systems and flight model data underneath the hood. By breaking away from the traditional index-based iterative search methods (eg the CPU must search through all 50 data points in a 50-point table to find the correct value) we've been able to develop a mathematical index system that is able to calculate and find the correct data point in a single call. I'll explain this in more detail in our first mini-update in a few weeks. *TLDR: The heaviest parts of our codebase have been optimized to run significantly faster!* With all that said, I'll be doing my best to post some sort of monthly mini-update here in our discord server to keep you all in the loop with how the module is progressing, and hopefully help ease some of the frustration of waiting. I'll also be doing one of my detailed dev reports, but not for another few months when we have some breathing room. I hope you can understand and as always thank you so much for continuing to support us! All of your messages, activity, requests for news and just general love for the A7 absolutely does not go unnoticed - it's a constant reminder of just how passionate the DCS & A7 community is, and it gives us the motivation & reassurance to see this project through to the end, even when it seems difficult. So thank you all, truly - Dan 9 Modules : F-4E • JF-17 • F16 • F18 • F14 • F15E • M-2000C • Mirage F1 • A10CII • Black Shark 3 • Huey • FC4 • K-4 • Mi-8MTV2 • Mi-24P • Apache • Viggen • Spitfire • P-51 • CH-47F • Kiowa • Terrains: Afghan • Syria • PG • Sinai • Normandy 2.0 • South Atlantic • The Channel • Normandy 1944 • Nevada • Super Carrier • Iraq • System: I7-13700KF • 64GB DDR5-5600 • MSI RTX 4080 Ventus 3X OC • Peripherals: WinWing Orion 2 HOTAS MAX • WinWing Skywalker Pedals • Oculus Quest 3 •
Solution MAXsenna Posted February 21 Solution Posted February 21 https://forum.dcs.world/topic/369577-official-news-updates/Sent from my SM-A536B using Tapatalk
EasternEagle Posted February 21 Author Posted February 21 1 hour ago, MAXsenna said: https://forum.dcs.world/topic/369577-official-news-updates/ Sent from my SM-A536B using Tapatalk Did you try to post this as like a gotcha, they posted that after I did so idk what youre trying to tell me here. 1 Modules : F-4E • JF-17 • F16 • F18 • F14 • F15E • M-2000C • Mirage F1 • A10CII • Black Shark 3 • Huey • FC4 • K-4 • Mi-8MTV2 • Mi-24P • Apache • Viggen • Spitfire • P-51 • CH-47F • Kiowa • Terrains: Afghan • Syria • PG • Sinai • Normandy 2.0 • South Atlantic • The Channel • Normandy 1944 • Nevada • Super Carrier • Iraq • System: I7-13700KF • 64GB DDR5-5600 • MSI RTX 4080 Ventus 3X OC • Peripherals: WinWing Orion 2 HOTAS MAX • WinWing Skywalker Pedals • Oculus Quest 3 •
MAXsenna Posted February 21 Posted February 21 Did you try to post this as like a gotcha, they posted that after I did so idk what youre trying to tell me here.Not at all. Yeah, I saw you posted first, not trying tell you nothing. Now, they made an official post, which it linked here. I'll be happy to remove my post if it triggers you. Seems you read way to much into it. Sent from my SM-A536B using Tapatalk 1 1
EasternEagle Posted February 21 Author Posted February 21 Just now, MAXsenna said: Not at all. Yeah, I saw you posted first, not trying tell you nothing. Now, they made an official post, which it linked here. I'll be happy to remove my post if it triggers you. Seems you read way to much into it. Sent from my SM-A536B using Tapatalk Not at all, just confused me a little lol. I guess your post is the official solution since it links to their official post now 1 Modules : F-4E • JF-17 • F16 • F18 • F14 • F15E • M-2000C • Mirage F1 • A10CII • Black Shark 3 • Huey • FC4 • K-4 • Mi-8MTV2 • Mi-24P • Apache • Viggen • Spitfire • P-51 • CH-47F • Kiowa • Terrains: Afghan • Syria • PG • Sinai • Normandy 2.0 • South Atlantic • The Channel • Normandy 1944 • Nevada • Super Carrier • Iraq • System: I7-13700KF • 64GB DDR5-5600 • MSI RTX 4080 Ventus 3X OC • Peripherals: WinWing Orion 2 HOTAS MAX • WinWing Skywalker Pedals • Oculus Quest 3 •
MAXsenna Posted February 21 Posted February 21 Not at all, just confused me a little lol. I guess your post is the official solution since it links to their official post now All good then. Thanks! Sent from my SM-A536B using Tapatalk
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