Don't load TGP with AGM-65s
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I don’t really takeoff without a TGP anymore. Really useful piece of equipment. Especially firing mavs.
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I love this little additon to my Vipers shape - has a huge effect on the operationality of the aircraft
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Taking off without a TGP just feels wrong….like leaving the house without your wallet
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Yeah, I do, but… I’m used to doing things the old way, none of that Mav alignment rubbish! Someday I’ll overcome my laziness and properly learn how to align them… but until then the TGP is, like in other aspects of my life, just dead wight under my belly, if you know what I mean.
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with the new terrain and clouds its almost impossible to ID a target like an ammo dump without TGP from high altitude while going low attracts a lot of AAA, and I like the fact that it is difficult and the same old terrain we have seen for years is gone forcing me to improve my skills. Thank you BMS team.
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Yeah, I do, but… I’m used to doing things the old way, none of that Mav alignment rubbish! Someday I’ll overcome my laziness and properly learn how to align them… but until then the TGP is, like in other aspects of my life, just dead wight under my belly, if you know what I mean.
Literal dead weight, seeing as now BMS models both the increased weight and drag that it causes.
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Literal dead weight, seeing as now BMS models both the increased weight and drag that it causes.
…and probably as it should have been in the first place. I bet Sniper is heavier. But maybe slicker?..dunno.
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Just throwing it out there but I’ve been flying the Hornet on BMS and found that you actually have to add the AN/ASQ-228 FLIR pod to the Hornet in the loading screen just to have TGP in the Hornet……I just didn’t know if anyone else knew.
Plus on BMS it goes on the left cheek station just like in real life…whoever reads this just don’t think I have Carlton’s smerk on my face
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…and probably as it should have been in the first place. I bet Sniper is heavier. But maybe slicker?..dunno.
Dunno about BMS, but on the real jet sniper is MUCH slicker. Both lantern pods is more than 50 DI.
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Dunno about BMS, but on the real jet sniper is MUCH slicker. Both lantern pods is more than 50 DI.
I know that some pods also have NAV FLIR (or that functionality) built into them…I forget if Sniper does or not. But I wouldn’t be surprised.
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I was under the impression Sniper does not do nav FLIR. Ive not looked into it though.
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It is the cutting edge, so I wouldn’t be shocked. Big pod though…but that comes with the physics.
I wish BMS did a better job of simulating EO sensors…and I’m not talking about graphics…I mean their actual behavior due to the RW physics.
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What behavior exactly are we complaining about here? Temperature deltas for IR sensors? Or something else?
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Yes. In BMS presently the IR sensors appear to behave more like TV/video based sensors…they use image contrast, but they don’t really see/model thermal contrast in their virtual image - like the heat from a tank’s exhaust, or a ship’s wake, forex - and include that in how they behave.
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Would be quite the performance hit to add those kind of effects. Would definitely be neat to see folks trying to ID hot tanks against a similarly hot background though [emoji14]
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…now you’re getting the picture…!
Really, I think all you’d need do is change some of the math…and you can dial back the MFD display resolutions some, FWIW…real aircraft displays are nowhere near gamer resolutions. I’d certainly be satisfied with lower, more realistic MFD resolutions if I could get a closer to real sim in trade.
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Pretty sure by default the MFD resolutions are only 256 pixels. FWIW, the higher resolution is needed to avoid artifacting when viewing on different sized displays.
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Yes, but I read about folks running DVI and HDMI to cockpit 600 x 800 LCD displays vice simple VGA and saying they get “better”…when they don’t really need to be doing that, IMO. And I have to hope that if I don’t do that I can also free up processing resources for the sim. I hope…
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Well, put another way, the base resolution is 256 pixels (you can double it in the config files) but the resolution its mapped onto is independent of that.
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Still going to go VGA and call it good in my own build…and even go so far as to cover my LCDs with a plate of anti-glare plexi. I’ve already got all of that fitted up, I just need to make the mounting plates for behind the bezels. I still need a small drill press…