Zabuzard Posted July 14 Posted July 14 The aircraft currently isnt even equipped with the gun camera. The gun camera is installed on the HUD dashboard and takes away roughly a third of the forward visibility. It is supposed to get shipped as soon as the team found time to implement proper video capturing (which is actually quite difficult on the technical side) - see the manual for details. 4
Q3ark Posted July 14 Posted July 14 That’s nuts about the gun camera, forward vis out of the phantom already sucks with the rwr display and the equipment for the pave spike up there. mcdonnell douglas really didn’t care too much about pilot ergonomics when they developed the phantom. 2
Zabuzard Posted July 14 Posted July 14 (edited) Yeah. Its this guy here. They would attach it before each flight (and detach after to get the film to analysis). And before you ask, at least IRL it was "mandatory". They never flew without it (according to our SMEs). (func fact, I've heard stories when they forgot to attach the screws and the entire thing would fall in your face during takeoff - yikes) Edited July 14 by Zabuzard 2
BalkanBattler Posted July 14 Posted July 14 12 hours ago, Zabuzard said: as soon as the team found time to implement proper video capturing (which is actually quite difficult on the technical side) Isn't this a default option shipping with the Grinelli F-100? 1
Zabuzard Posted July 14 Posted July 14 Isn't this a default option shipping with the Grinelli F-100?Yes. I believe I even recognize whose signature this likely is.Ive tried a few approaches and spend about two weeks on it without a lot of progress.Cobra hasnt found much time himself yet to give it a try, he knows more about this than I do.Anyways, just a matter of figuring it out. 1
MAXsenna Posted July 14 Posted July 14 2 hours ago, BalkanBattler said: Isn't this a default option shipping with the Grinelli F-100? Like in the F-5E, Sabre, Hip, MB-339... I guess HB will implement it differently.
Zabuzard Posted July 15 Posted July 15 (edited) 8 hours ago, MAXsenna said: Like in the F-5E, Sabre, Hip, MB-339... I guess HB will implement it differently. Correct me if I am wrong, but these provide an in-game overlay only. And not actual video recording to your disk (which is much more complex to achieve on the technical side). Afaik Grinelli is the first to offer something like that in DCS. These "picture in picture" overlays are directly supported by DCS and relatively easy to achieve from a technical POV (as this is the mechanism used by for example any MFD or even HB UI). For recording proper videos without destroying FPS you likely need to stream the texture straight from the GPU. Any mechanism offered by the DCS API that gives access to the texture data seems to destroy FPS (from my testing). So you have to go around and do some deeper magic. Edited July 15 by Zabuzard 3
MAXsenna Posted July 15 Posted July 15 1 hour ago, Zabuzard said: Correct me if I am wrong, but these provide an in-game overlay only. And not actual video recording to your disk (which is much more complex to achieve on the technical side). Apologies, that's what I meant. Should have been more clear. And I forget that I record the MB-339 myself, as it can be exported like any other radar/MFD. Cheers! 2
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