BravoYankee4
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I use Ikanus for the F86 with the standard Ikanus pit. I am thinking of getting the Mig 15 this weekend and would appreciate if you would send me your Mig 15 Ikanus even though it is a WIP. It looks good enough to me. Thanks.
There are a few more things I want to add, but then you can get it.
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Just did a test print with ABS - the short conclusion is that I will never try again :music_whistling:
Thanks for the link Lobinjaevel, I will check it out.
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Yeay, I'm in the K8400 club as well now :)
Got a deak I couldn't refuse, buying a already assembled and calibrated unit from a person that moved on to a better machine.
Have just made a few test prints and still learning all the 3D printing mumbo-jumbo magic. But this thing got some potential, if not for simulator it will be used for toy repairs...
By the way, where do you buy your filaments?
I assume that you are using PLA, since I can't really find any examples of good results of ABS print with this machine.
Accidently bought a sample pack with ABS filament, so I will try it and see if it is as bad as everyone claims on Youtube.
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It has a early "kind-of" INS that instead of accelerometers uses indicated airspeed (from the pitot) and the gyrocompass to determine the route traveled over the ground. It has drawbacks so the pilot is required to constantly monitor the system giving it updates of the airplanes known position, inputting the wind speed at height, setting correct altimeter setting etc. There are support-systems like a Doppler-system and a system that determines the planes position by using the radar altimeter and comparing it with a stored height-map. You can input new waypoints at any time using a keypad by the pilots right knee.
Just chiming in... adding or removing waypoints manually in flight will probably be a bit daunting as in a lot of buttons to push entering 6 digits lat/longitude data etc. But doable :)
One little detail that probably was unique for it's time is that the navigation system was interacting with the fuel gauge - so one needle indicating remaining fuel and one indicating needed fuel, for the remaining waypoints and landing.
There is also a special nav mode for landing and all airbases are in the system, and as far as I know there was (mobile) nav aids for temporary road bases that could be used.
There are also previous posts about radar reflectors at known locations for manual updates of the navigation system.
Hopefully this is also included in the simulation since it was a common procedure and a big part of navigating this bird.
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Ian;2798488']Make sure you use the latest version of DCS-BIOS and the Arduino Library (the info in BravoYankee's post has been copied out of an older version of the reference docs). Then you can use an IntegerBuffer like this:
Ah, sorry. I haven't updated the links on my job computer.
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Can't recall if it was M.A.C.H 3 in the arcades or Gunship (tape version) on the Commodore C64.
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If there isn't any HUD only view for your specific module, you can do one by your self.
I recommend that you read through this document:
http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/214771/
It might be a bit overwhelming at first, but you need to do some tests and finally you will understand and then you can pretty much whatever you want to (as long as your hardware has the power).
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Both the RSBN and PRGM channel selectors are rotary encoders.
RSBN ChannelMiG-21Bis/RSBN_CHAN
Input Interface: fixed_step Message: RSBN_CHAN <DEC|INC> Description: switch to previous or next stateDcsBios::RotaryEncoder rsbnChan("RSBN_CHAN", "DEC", "INC", PIN_A, PIN_B);
Input Interface: set_state Message: RSBN_CHAN <new_value> Value Range: 0 ... 99 Description: set position
Output Type: integer Address: 0x2218 Mask: 0x3f80 Shift By: 7 Max. Value: 99 Description: selector positionif (address == 0x2218) {
unsigned int rsbnChanValue = (value & 0x3f80) >> 7;
/* your code here */
}
By the way, we are a lot of Swedes here that has great interest and a lot of knowledge about the Viggen. So I'm sure that the community will assist putting a DCS-Bios profile together and have the functionality verified :)
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Yes, my bad. Of course I should have provided more details.
Ikarus is a simpit software that displays instruments and lamps etc. on a second monitor or second computer, pretty similar to what Helios does.
It is currently still in the Beta phase, but hopefully there will be a final release soon. I’m not associated with the developers, but have contributed to the beta testing.
Ikarus is the successor to the HawgTouch software, but with some additional features. Unlike Helios almost every module has native support and the software is active and developed as we speak.
So my point was that it is possible to have exported instruments and that it is indeed possible to do awesome cockpits with the new features.
As a reference I have attached a picture of a plain cockpit with no frames, background or overlays for your comparison.
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Not claiming to be the new Capt Z, but since there isn't anything out there for the old MIG I started to do my own. Very much work in progress, so no need to state the obvious with more or less rude comments.
The purpose of this post is more a hint of what is possible to do with the Ikarus software as a promotion.
Heinz is doing a great job, and the current beta version is a 0.986.
Perhaps there will be a completed version of this MIG-15 profile and perhaps I will share it then, if it ever gets completed and with a quality good enough.
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Simply amazing. A big surround screen and some projectors would make it even more awesome :)
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Thought I would share this here, the between 6:45-14:30 the main design is discussed and the first prototype is shown.
At 13:45 you can also see the launch of a RB05 missile and how the pilot moves the right hand from the control stick to the missile controls.
You can also clearly see the flare in the back of the missile that was used by the pilot to guide the missile towards the target.
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Another comment, doesn't it take a huge fps loss to have three viewports for the spanned screen instead of one (that is wider)?
Perhaps it has to be like this in order to use the warp software...? If so, ignore my comment.
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This would be a great theater; I was involved in Allied Force back in the day. There are so many things that could be done with scenarios, including operating in bad weather with a high hard deck, playing "what if" with the ROE and allowing aircraft to fly low, or even historical "what ifs" involving larger scale factional fighting.
Allied force is also the first time that the F-14Bs acted as FAC(A)/SCAR to Hornets and Warthogs (VF-41 as documented in Black Aces High); I shouldn't have to spell out the multiplayer potential this has! :joystick:
I was on the ground with a blue helmet some years before that (94/95), and then we occasionally had some american F-16’s in the air, supposedly to act as CAS. For that we had a Danish (Nato) FAC in the battalion.
Once when we tried to get support we realized that the UN administration wasn’t really up to the task of a prompt chain of command.
It was a long chain of approval that ultimately had to go all the way to New York, so you could imagine that if we ever got a “GO” a couple of hours later the situation had changed anyway and the F-16’s back at their base a long time ago. After that we made sure to have the Danish Leopards nearby and they came to some good use now and then
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And if there would be an F-117 module as well, I would get the CA module and play Zoltan Dani :music_whistling:
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This reminds me about us looting a scrapped MIG-21 at the Tuzla (Bosnia) airbase back in the mid nineties. The ejection seat made a great contribution to our camp interiors :)
Additional to the real life scenarios there is one "what if scenario" that I would build in the ME, is to have Viggens supporting Swedish UN troops. That is one thing that we on the ground would have appreciated very much. Not that unrealistic eihter, since we did just that during the Kongo crisis.
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No i think actually Mig-21-93,21-2000, Lancer C !!! :gun_smilie:
I just salivated myself
Well, I interpreted this as there are new visual features developed for the Viggen or Tomcat, that can be re-used in order to update the current visual effects on the MIG.
And since there has been hints about new visual features for the Viggen I still consider my theory valid. Like in a new CRT renderer/shader for the radar scope or the HUD.
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We are also working on backporting various other visual features developed for future modules to the MiG-21bis. These will be migrated as time allows!
Perhaps something related to the Viggen CI & SI visuals? :)
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Ian;2770775']Guys, a recent DCS update might have broken most of the controls in the Huey and the A-10C, and possibly in the Ka-50 as well due to changing device IDs.
I cannot verify this right now, as I don't have access to my DCS computer, but I know it happened with the Huey, and Warhog just told me that most of the A-10C stuff doesn't work for him anymore.
I'll look into this when I get back to my apartment. If it is what I think it is, fixing it will be relatively easy, if somewhat tedious.
Why did they do that?:chair:
Anyway, thanks for trying to fix it. I'll see if I can get my MIG panels connected again and see if they messed that up as well.
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That's no relic, my A-10 Tank killer Amiga game is :)
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G'day
Im new to this forum, and should really be introducing myself rather than begging for help, but I have not been able to get DCS BIOS to work and I would really appropriate some help. (I hope this is the right place to ask)
The story so far... I have downloaded the DCS BIOS and installed/ set it up as per the instructions. The Arduino side of things appears to be working fine in that I can upload a sketch to the board, but it is not communicating with the sim.
The problem I think is that I am not getting any Bios output from A10C. I have used both the connect to serial program and the direct Control Reference. From the comments I have found on this forum I have even checked that no antivirus software is stopping it from working. I have even tried previous versions of DCS BIOS, but still nothing works.
What am I doing wrong?
Can anyone help me?
My prime suspect would be the export.lua file.
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As long as they are presented to Windows as a standard joystick it should work exactly as any other joystick. I.e. no problem using it in DCS.
You could do the same with some buttons and a cheap Arduino board.
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From what I read (ages ago in a flight magazine, would scan it if I could find it) they were cleared for wartime usage, but their mounted lifespan was so short that they didn't carry them on normal peacetime flights.
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That is one of the really cool things with a simulator, that you could try those "what if" scenarios.
By the way, it isn't that long ago a little Swedish submarine scared the shits out of some carrier strike group commanders outside the San Diego coast.
It would be fun trying to sneak in flying really low with a couple of Viggens as well :)
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We will probably not see anything about this bird until DCSW 2.5 is released.