Questions from returning BS1 player.

[azraeldark]

Hello,

 

I played BS1 along time ago and only started playing BS2 for a few days. I have some questions if anyone would care to answer.

 

1. Concerning the cockpit lighting brightness knob. IIRC in BS1 it controls all relevant gauges and panels at the same time. But in BS2 only the Targeting Display panel and the PVI 800 NAV panel have gradual brightness while everything else is fullbright on or off. Is there a way to go back the uniform fine control for all panels and gauges?

 

2. My NVG mode is black and white instead of green and it blurs the heck out of everything at low levels, couple with the fact that most panel/gauge lights are now always full on of off brightness.. things don't feel very good. Anyway to get back to BS1 style NVG?

 

3. The training missions. Why are they non interactive vids now? Surely the old ones are better? The filesize are huge and the audio are out of sync. Are the old training .miz files still compatible? I might dig up my old copy of BS1 for them.

 

4. Did the renderer changed from using DX9? Can't get the game to use a modded dx9 dll like in BS1.

 

5. Model viewer is crashing for me. Does it no longer work?

 

That's it for now. Many thanks.

 

P/S: I might sound over critical of the game but I still love it, the core game is still BS that I knew and loved. Plus the engine is much faster, wingmen aren't as suicidal and custom skins are easier to install (no more messing with .skins files), So I have no real complaints about my re purchase, apart from these few minor things.

[Justo Swank]

Hello,

 

I played BS1 along time ago and only started playing BS2 for a few days. I have some questions if anyone would care to answer.

 

1. Concerning the cockpit lighting brightness knob. IIRC in BS1 it controls all relevant gauges and panels at the same time. But in BS2 only the Targeting Display panel and the PVI 800 NAV panel have gradual brightness while everything else is fullbright on or off. Is there a way to go back the uniform fine control for all panels and gauges?

 

2. My NVG mode is black and white instead of green and it blurs the heck out of everything at low levels, couple with the fact that most panel/gauge lights are now always full on of off brightness.. things don't feel very good. Anyway to get back to BS1 style NVG?

 

3. The training missions. Why are they non interactive vids now? Surely the old ones are better? The filesize are huge and the audio are out of sync. Are the old training .miz files still compatible? I might dig up my old copy of BS1 for them.

 

4. Did the renderer changed from using DX9? Can't get the game to use a modded dx9 dll like in BS1.

 

5. Model viewer is crashing for me. Does it no longer work?

 

That's it for now. Many thanks.

 

P/S: I might sound over critical of the game but I still love it, the core game is still BS that I knew and loved. Plus the engine is much faster, wingmen aren't as suicidal and custom skins are easier to install (no more messing with .skins files), So I have no real complaints about my re purchase, apart from these few minor things.

 

 

2. You can adjust the brightness of the NVG on the console in front of the stick, as well as the brightness of the gauges and so on. It will be blurry with everything on full brightness :P

 

3. The training files are available http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=84612

 

 

There will be someone more adequate to answer your other questions.

[azraeldark]

TY for the training missions.

 

Another issue: Seems the fuel gauge always shows the fuel level at mission start without it's power being on. Power needs to be on for it to update though, but in BS1 it starts at zero until you turn on the fuel level indicator switch.

 

Thanks.

[Yurgon]

1. Concerning the cockpit lighting brightness knob. IIRC in BS1 it controls all relevant gauges and panels at the same time.

 

Have you cross-checked between BS1 and BS2? I'm not aware of any changes in this regard. I started flying Black Shark with 1.0.1c and I don't think this kind of behavior changed ever since (but I'm not sure).

 

Anyways, as Justo Swank said, the Targeting Display Control Panel in front of the cyclic contains individual controls for HMS and Shkval brightness (the Abris contains its own brightness knob). With a bit of fiddling you should be able to tune the settings so that they'll work well at night. :thumbup:

 

3. The training missions. Why are they non interactive vids now?

 

Internal changes in the track format as far as I remember. The tracks would have had to be done all over again.

 

But they weren't interactive anyways. You could sit in the cockpit, watch Wags fly the chopper and then take over later, but it was about as interactive as a video.

 

You can watch an HD version of those original vids courtesy of BBQ, or try actual KA-50 interactive training missions courtesy of BigfootMSR. :thumbup:

 

Another issue: Seems the fuel gauge always shows the fuel level at mission start without it's power being on. Power needs to be on for it to update though, but in BS1 it starts at zero until you turn on the fuel level indicator switch.

 

Known bug in BS2. The BS1 behavior is the correct one as far as I know.

(Wasn't always a bug in BS2, but I don't remember which version introduced it exactly :))