How to use the COM‘s in VR?! 😳
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You can’t mouse click the menu items?
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I was not able to the few times I tried it. Perhaps another config menu option?
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@Rainmaker use Voiceattack. It will be more i.mersive anyway.
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@TheSilkMan I have voice programs if I want to use them. I was merely responding to Max’s question in case there was a some mixup on whether it was ever implemented as a possible option that may/may not have made the release version.
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I stand corrected though. I was playing with it again, and did see clickable options this time. Must have been doing something wrong the first time around.
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@Rainmaker Only radio menu options highlighted with blue can be clicked/used. Whether they are available depends on your “position and status around the airfield”. Perhaps this is what you experienced.
See Docs\00 BMS Manuals\BMS-Comms-Nav-Book page 12.
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You gotta learn where the keys are on the keyboard, combine that with using the mouse and you’ll be fine. The rest you bind on HOTAS and learn by muscle memory.
If not, fumble around until you get it.
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@Rainmaker can you confirm you are not using
g_nVRRepeaterMode
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@b0bl00i must easier to just use our voices, like a real pilot would
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@chihirobelmo No, I wasn’t. But…all is good. Initially I had just tried it while I was busy just trying a bunch of things, and was doing something wrong at the time or just not paying enough attention. It’s been fine when I was doing things properly on my end.
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The way I’ve done coms in DCS is binding left and right mouse keys to my controllers. That way once I call up whatever menu I need I can then point at it with my head and left or right click. Is there a way to bind the mouse buttons in BMS to a controller? DCS has what’s called the UI layer where that stuff is done but I’ve not seen the option in the keystrokes in BMS. I am using the regular launcher, not the alternative one. I asked this question on the WinWing thread with no solution yet. Figured I’d ask here since it sort of relates… Thanks
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@Wicked not yet. I believe this functionality is being considered for future updates. I use DCS in this way and it’s great for the cockpit in general as well as radios. But as mentioned above, for BMS, by far the best thing is voiceattack + AVCS (go to veterans gaming, downloads, you’ll find it). Talking to ATC or wingmen just feels so right.
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@NoPro I don’t know how much resources voice software uses, my workaround is to just put a sticker with a small bump on the W and R Keys. This makes finding them much easier in VR. I did the same to N, as well .
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@spotdott not much, I haven’t ever seen a performance hit with Voice Attack or even the last program I used before it for almost a decade. These have been effective and mature technologies since the early 2000s. The added immersion alone makes it worth it, but it can be faster and less distracting than picking through a menu.
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@Wicked To expand on what folks said above regarding VoiceAttack, it is a very lightweight utility program and barely uses any resources sitting in the background just doing its thang. It’s also fairly easy to set up conditional rebinds like you asked about, like making a joystick button act like a mouse click while a certain process/game is active, or whenever a certain VoiceAttack profile is loaded, or both. The GUI makes it easy, with plenty of options for most anything we’d want to do.
Beyond that, AutoHotKey is capable of such rebinds, too.
(a link to my profiles for VA is veterans-gaming.com/avcs)