Quality of life problems in VR
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I am a new user of BMS, so my apologies if my questions have already been answered. I have been through videos and all the documentation and cannot figure out the following:
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Is there an ideal solution on how to use the comms menus while in VR without having to use Voice Attack or similar (there are others in the room when I play)? The menu keybinds QWERTY are not able to be altered/bound to my HOTAS and there are too many individual menu entries to bind those.
In DCS I was able to use a keystroke bind on the HOTAS to bring up the comms menu and use the mouse to navigate it from there. -
The kneeboard on the pilot legs are not easily read in VR, even with VR zoom. Are there any plans to decouple them and display them as a larger overlay as DCS does please?
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Put a small cut eraser and adhere it onto a key like Q using double sided tape and you’ll be able to reach for it with ease in VR.
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@Kiwispirits what do you use the knee board for mostly?
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@spotdott said in Quality of life problems in VR:
@Kiwispirits what do you use the knee board for mostly?
All kinds of stuff, checklists, airport charts, Flight briefings, ATC flights comms ladder,…
Pretty much unusable ATM in VR though.
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For #1, you can do much of the same. The radio menus are clickable once you bring them up. Enabled comms will be highlighted if you are on the correct radio channel.
For #2, I dunno your hardware but you can manually force a higher resolution and world size through steam and through the BMS user config options to help with the readability. It’s still not great IMO, but it can certainly be made better by tweaking if your hardware can handle it.
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Voice attack for radios.
Knee boards are easily read least at Pico I don’t use zoom
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@Kiwispirits use joystick gremlin to bind hotas buttons to keyboard inputs for the comms menus.
You could try open kneeboard if the in game ones don’t work for you. But… I’m on a lowly rift s and have no issues with reading the kneeboards - sounds like you need to bump your resolution up. If you’re a quest user, do that in the oculus app (take it off auto and move it all the way right) and also bump up your encode resolution and bit rate.
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@Rainmaker Thanks, will give that a go. I only used OpenXR for DCS so I will have to learn my way around SteamVR
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@spotdott Thanks for the idea. I have a Razer Tartarus gaming keypad which might be an easier solution as there are less incorrect keys to accidentally hit
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@Kiwispirits said in Quality of life problems in VR:
@Rainmaker Thanks, will give that a go. I only used OpenXR for DCS so I will have to learn my way around SteamVR
See one of the threads in the VR forums. The one about the world settings for VR and the pilot legs. It goes into detail about adding the DCS.exe to the steam library, which will give you some options within steam VR to adjust the world settings and resolutions for it.
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@Rainmaker I am guessing the mention of DCS.exe was a mistake? Do you know which is the correct executable to use for the application specific settings within Steam VR please?
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@Kiwispirits said in Quality of life problems in VR:
@Rainmaker I am guessing the mention of DCS.exe was a mistake? Do you know which is the correct executable to use for the application specific settings within Steam VR please?
As for DCS, many of us here have it and mentioning it is not like the DCS forum where your post is IMMEDIATLEY deleted if you utter the horrible letters “BMS”! Just today got an email notification of a question about VRNecksafer on the DCS forum asking about using it in BMS, went to answer it and BAM it was deleted… That’s how insecure their little circus balancing act is. As for your SteamVR question, you use the launcher.exe file IIRC (not at my game computer for a couple weeks, sorry)…
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@Icer Sorry but the removal of that DCS post was something I did, not the moderators. Initially I posted there as it was the only way I could think of to contact the author of the app, but later on I found out how to raise an issue in his Github project which seemed more appropriate.
After doing the DCS post the prospect of how they persecute people for mentioning other sims preyed on my mind so that was another motivation to remove it. -
@Kiwispirits said in Quality of life problems in VR:
@Icer Sorry but the removal of that DCS post was something I did, not the moderators. Initially I posted there as it was the only way I could think of to contact the author of the app, but later on I found out how to raise an issue in his Github project which seemed more appropriate.
After doing the DCS post the prospect of how they persecute people for mentioning other sims preyed on my mind so that was another motivation to remove it.No worries, but be sure that if you didn’t, they would have!
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Sorry for the late reply. Yes, the DCS thing was a total brain fart on my end.
If you haven’t resolved it already, I used the BMS.exe
Falcon BMS 4.37\Bin\x64\Falcon BMS.exe
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@haukka81 is there a profile around for Voice Attack?
For DCS i use VAICOMM pro…but that is a different thing as doesn’t use keybindings -
@Virus I believe there are a few available. One of the most popular with great support is available here:
https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/16233/avcs4-immersive-voice-control-radios-for-voiceattack
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I’m going to start with a button box then move on to
Voice Attack
http://derekspearedesigns.com/button-controllers.html -
I use this. Works like dream
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@foxster said in Quality of life problems in VR:
@Virus I believe there are a few available. One of the most popular with great support is available here:
https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/16233/avcs4-immersive-voice-control-radios-for-voiceattack
You’re way too humble foxster.
@Virus aside from VoiceAttack profiles, there’s also great another great voice control app - FoxVox by foxster himself
https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/21078/foxvox-free-voice-control-software-for-bms?_=1674666678806