@rocaf2003 Your English is far better than my version of your first language, whatever it is, so no forgiveness needed👍

@c-los I’ve never done it, so I don’t know how it’s done, but I know you can add Steam to Lutris.

Other option can be installing protontrinks, which is winetricks for steam-proton games. There you can see your games installed with proton, select them and run winetricks for them. You can also do other actions on that prefix.

Edit: there is another option. You can point the Lutris wine prefix to the Falcon4’s proton one. Maybe you also need to select the Flacon4 folder? Not fully sure about this.

@qawa Daco’s F-15 is a very good book from a modeling perspective! Lot of details!

@Arty Yeah,I remember the name is F16 50th anniversaty

@VIPER-0 - actually, I still know of people that use FAF professionally, for the reasons I point out - matters of what you are wanting to do with the tool, and which tool is best suited.

And I keep all of my BMS installations on hand for the same reasons…the 4.35 release still being my favorite.

@SoBad
My thoughts are similar. I have never been a fan of the “catch back up” portion. In addition, I seldom use exterior views because of the sound adjustment needed when returning to the cockpit. However, the urge for a fly-by arises periodically. I activate it via VoiceAttack.

My VA is programmed to toggle the fly-by view, pause six seconds, then toggle the 3 key to return to the 3D cockpit. Thus, no more “catch back up” portion. Like you I wish the fly-by portion could be extended a bit.

GC

@Quasi_Stellar what a wonderful skin Quasi_Stellar!! 🙂 🙂

@Tumbler31 aaaaaaaaaa okkkkk thanks a lot!!

@Dee-Jay Hmmm I can’t rule that out completely, there was some low level zooming about, but I think it’s unlikely with a centerline tank and with not really going for it, just doing approaches mostly.

It’s ACMI on every time now, though, so we’ll see 😄

@Amadeus75 Many thanks!

@CriticalMass Thank you sir - this is great for now. I think if I decide the benefits will be great enough I’ll run BMS F4 radar on a laptop to have proper troop location available to me while in flight.

I don’t see why you can’t copy, share and paste the relevant section.

And I’m sure it’s not beyond the realms of possibility for someone to create a batch file or app to help.

I’m not a BMS developer, but have recently been in touch with @Tomcattwo, @Boxer, @Micro_440th and @Mav-jp about implementing voice synthesis. Additionally, to further improve the AI voices, it might be an option to have them go through the same sound processing that’s done to voice chat at the moment. But that is lower priority.

After discussing it with @Boxer, we split the project into phases:

Generate convincing new frags using text-to-speech (TTS). This way we could expand the possibilities of AI communication without any new recordings or code changes. If step 1 results in a usable voice model, I could use it to evaluate the computation needed for realtime TTS. Hopefully, this will give us enough information to determine how TTS might affect the sim and rendering processing. If performance is affected too much, realtime TTS might not be a good fit for BMS. Somewhere parallel to all this, we might still consider trying to route the AI voices through the signal processing in IVC.

I’m lucky enough to have access to a GPU cluster at my work. Unfortunately, the GPUs aren’t always available because researchers tend to use them for actual science. 😉 But in between their work I’ve been training a multispeaker voice model based on the existing BMS frags. I think the result can still be improved, but I’ll try to share some progress soon. The good news is that if it works, it will immediately work for every existing voice in BMS.

Fun little game to play. See how fast you can boresight the Mavs, and then get back to NAV and your flight plan.

@jayb once speed is under control, say down to about 60knots then roll to the end and vacate at the end of the runway. If you know you have traffic behind you on landing, trying to vacate at an earlier turn off is always risky.

A message from the tower when you get final clearance to land like “caution, landing traffic behind you, please roll to the end” would probably help maybe?

@fegeleinn said in Laptop advice:

@VIPER-0 my gpu died so running the game on my igpu. Ryzen 5 2500 and 16gb ram. game runs 30+ fps except first day of the campaign.

Well, first of all, keep in mind and remember that this mod is not endorsed by the FALCON BMS development group and in my personal opinion, although I am the creator, I DISAPPROVE its use since it destroys all the decades-long work of the entire development team and everything. the contribution of the community. This mod was created with the sole purpose that the boys of our combat wing would not be left out of the enjoyment of this wonderful, unique and most complete dynamic battlefield simulator where there is an F-16 and we can pilot it. So having said that, please, if you have any questions, you can contact me at any time, but not the community or the developers. this work that is going to be shared with you so that you can get some extra fps.

The mod is composed of several levels of visual quality degradation, both polygons (CPU) and textures (RAM), depending on where you are lacking hardware and the depth how you are going to apply it.

We have pilots in the wing who have computers (if you can call it a PC) with very low performance, having about 12 fps in flight without enemy aircraft and empty terrain. Applying the mod at its maximum de-gradation results in 25-30 fps on our server with some human pilots.

I hope our work can help you.

more information in the PM

@airtex2019 VR isn’t an issue unless you have a WMR headset, which means Reverb pretty much. Certainly no performance change between 10 and 11 with my oculus headsets, and no issues with my Pico on 11.

@jayb Nice workaround, thanks again!

@Atlas 🤣

Personally, I would love to lock up a large seabird and get some TGP footage that can get released to news outlets that assume my surprise is that I’m tracking a UFO when in fact, I’m surprised that I was able to lock and track a large seabird on a perpendicular vector which makes it appear to be moving at ridiculous speed (even though it is not) due to a parallax effect.