F10 map we can draw over it.

Agree, a feature like in arma would be so amazing!

Agree, a feature like in arma would be so amazing!

Although even in that it can't be displayed on a secondary monitor, so you have to open it on your main screen and lose any view or awareness of the 3D world. It's not just DCS that fails to take advantage of our hardware.

This, in a proper multiplayer briefing environment with the ability to show slides/pictures of targets and approaches would be awesome.

This, in a proper multiplayer briefing environment with the ability to show slides/pictures of targets and approaches would be awesome.

Yes, for briefing purposes rather than in-mission an interactive map, etc would be fantastic.

I agree. Fantastic idea!!!!

http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/ru/files/1554631/

My map f10, beta version, may be interest.

Glad to see my small request so well received by the community. Hope ED can consider giving it a go, I think is a small request that can add a lot of value to the sim.

Fingers crossed and thanks a lot.

An online mission briefing integrated in the sim would be nice.

We could draw on the map, and everyone can get it on the Kneeboard.

During the mission we could draw on the Kneeboard.

Cool idea! :)

I would love to see the planned waypoints on the map, it would be great for low level navigation.

A bump, so other users can discover this and express their opinion, and ED may take a good look.

nice one meet, I dlike to see that in ED

+1

Something I have presented too, some time ago.

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=149893

Good Idea. I would like ED should look at this feature

+1

Another BUMP for ED, hope they can look at this feature, does not sound truly complicated to add and will bring lot of value to the sim, for example, in the new campaign museum relic, we can see this:

Is great, but what If we can see that black line in F10 screen? Wouldn't be great? knowing where the mission borders are, where are the frontlines... How many missions we will be able to design using own drawn frontlines, marking targets of interest, marking known AAA concentrations...

ED please, give it a go!

A good think would be If ED can give us the option to deselect ED borders and city names so we can draw our own ones.

Three years later and still no drawing F10 map. Really seems very easy to add, give us a tool so we can use the mouse to draw over the map, both during mission editor and while flying the mission itself. Will add a lot of value!!

VERY GOOD IDEA + 2 :beer:

+1

Make the map printable!

I want a hard copy.

+1000

Great idea!

+1

It'll be a very useful tool for MP coordination and cooperation.

Make the map printable!

I want a hard copy.

 

 

+1000

Great idea!

I recommend that ED should do offer a PDF of the map that anyone can then print in their wanted service.

And then to get some money, offer a printed maps for sale. I purchased suchs for a ARMA 3, a package that has few postcards and then a A1 size maps nicely folded from the all five official maps for it.

It is so far more nicer to have a paper map, because you can take it to somewhere else to plan your mission. Be it outside on the balcony at the morning, map open on the table and sipping drink while making the idea of the story, units locations etc.

And what is the best, is that you can go to your friends place and do it together. No need to sit front of the computer while to do it.

I can order a 160cm wide and as long I want print with four colors cheaply, I have this idea that I will make a few prints of DCS maps that would be about 120 x 150 cm and then laminated with a very thin plastic so they can be folded nicely.

This then allows me to use a non-permanent pen to make the planning and layouts anywhere and then just transfer them to DCS.

Same idea to make a A3 size prints in 100 or so in linedraws, that it is easy to scribble on them.

+1

It'll be a very useful tool for MP coordination and cooperation.

These maps in the DCS itself should be realistic manner. Meaning, you will see them only in the debriefing and in command centers or when you are refueling and rearming in the FOB etc.

That way you get the possibly latest information there, and then you can copy it to your kneeboard with own markings. You can't share any drawings etc in flight to anyone.

So helicopter pilots can example land next to a MBT platoon and get their platoon leader to show them the plan of ground troops.

A ground troops updates the info when they meet etc.

This would be why the GPS and all the other datalinks etc are important and valuable as you get away these "meet here" and "tell it over radio" etc.

These maps in the DCS itself should be realistic manner. Meaning, you will see them only in the debriefing and in command centers or when you are refueling and rearming in the FOB etc.

 

That way you get the possibly latest information there, and then you can copy it to your kneeboard with own markings. You can't share any drawings etc in flight to anyone.

 

So helicopter pilots can example land next to a MBT platoon and get their platoon leader to show them the plan of ground troops.

 

A ground troops updates the info when they meet etc.

 

This would be why the GPS and all the other datalinks etc are important and valuable as you get away these "meet here" and "tell it over radio" etc.

Yes and no.

While keeping it realistic does have its value, just like all the other game feature like Labels and some easy mode settings, they are there to compensate some limitation imposed by the simulation environment or simply the hardware. Label vs spotting issue in VR, for example.

You can consider this requested feature as a compensation to the reality that in a lot of MP servers,

1) very few people talks...

2) no briefing or any planning...

ED can always add a tick box in mission option, allowing mission designer / server admins to enable or disable this feature.

As much as this would be a good feature, people would just draw d!cks all over the map