JSOW would be better for individual launchers. A single weapon should flatten an entire site. The SDB is more suited to hitting radars from stand-off distance if you can recon them and store as steers in the DTC.
-Rabbit
JSOW would be better for individual launchers. A single weapon should flatten an entire site. The SDB is more suited to hitting radars from stand-off distance if you can recon them and store as steers in the DTC.
-Rabbit
Here is a post I wrote back in 10/17. You can use Virtual Desktop instead of VRToolbox now. Opentrack has also improved. I’m not sure if there are other better tools now. I’m hopeful 4.34 may include options to make VR more viable.
I was just able to finish a campaign mission in my Rift. I took a hit over the last AAA as my GBU-12 was coming off and had to fly home and land on steam gauges at night. Intense!
I installed the most recent Opentrack from Github and used VR Toolbox (available on Steam). This new version of Opentrack doesn’t start the Oculus app when it runs, which makes this all easier. In Opentrack you can configure your tracking volume. It defaults to 30x30x30 cm which isn’t large enough. I increased it to 1x1x1m and that works well. Without using any filters and a 1:1 setup, there is minimal lag between head movement and changing your view. It’s not quite the same as native VR, but it’s very close. VR Toolbox has a “FPS” mode that mirrors the monitor to your headset directly without any 3D effect. You can adjust the screen size (I had to bump it up 2-3 notches from default) and you can get it to fill your view. VR Toolbox had the ability to hook DX9 games to allow them to display at 90Hz, but this is disabled for now, meaning you’re stuck at 60 Hz. I have BMS running at 4K resolution which provides supersampling when it is downscaled to the Rift. VR Toolbox also has FXAA you can enable to smooth the jaggies.
This setup has the advantage of keeping the 2D UI on your monitor, so you can do the mission brief as normal, and then just put on your headset when it’s time to fly. You do need to adjust the FOV once in-pit. If I set it to what seems realistic, the displays are too small to read, so I settled on a slightly zoomed-in view (like you get in DCS) where it’s like your sitting on the edge of the seat rather than leaning back. With this you’ll need some option to zoom in to read the caution panel and to visually ID aircraft. When I use the default Look Closer option in BMS it snaps back to an incorrect FOV. I created a Saitek profile that zooms in by using the mousewheel, but that’s spotty. You can use the Rift’s nosegap to access the keyboard for the coms menu etc.
Overall I think it’s about 70% of the way there. Being able to add 3D would be great, but as you know the compromises right now are too large. I think you’re also a bit less combat-effective due to the lower resolution, but you have much better spatial awareness as everything is anchored 1:1 to your pit (e.g. to look at 5:00 you turn your head exactly that far). This is definitely not a good way to learn BMS - it’s hard to read the labels on the switches & you have to take of your headset to follow the tutorial text. It’s also not a good option unless you have a robust HOTAS, because peeking through the nosegap is a pain. I’ve also relocated my Comms menu to the center of the screen so if you’re using a less-common option you can be reminded of the key combo.
-Rabbit
Look at Snelle’s profile (https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?24506-X55-keyfile-Full-DX-Programmed). He has a registry hack that adds the ministick as two bindable axes without deleting any other axes. Even better, it works in other flight sims, too.
-Rabbit
I’m a physician here in the USA, and I don’t know anything about the medical system in Poland in terms of access or cost. I wouldn’t blow off these symptoms. I strongly recommend you get in to see a doctor or other practitioner as soon as you can. Get your blood pressure checked - your symptoms could be due to either too low or too high a blood pressure - you can live with very high blood pressure for years and not have any symptoms until an episode like this. If you’re having vision changes with high blood pressure, that’s a hypertensive emergency and you need to seek medical care immediately. There are plenty of less severe potential causes (complex migraine, dehydration, orthostatic hypotension, labrynthitis) but you need to rule out the serious ones first.
Also remember: the AGSM is generally augmented by a G-suit
You’ve got to stay healthy! 4.34 is coming in 2-3 weeks…
-Rabbit
If the takeoff time is less than 20 minutes from the current game clock, it won’t let you ramp start. For training, I recommend focusing on what the learning objectives are for each hop, rather than doing every thing every time. This will get you up to speed faster, but mean you spend less time doing bread-and-butter things. On the other hand, maybe this is why my overhead breaks are such a mess…
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I don’t know if the HAD provides accurate enough coordinates to put a diamond on the target - it doesn’t seem like it does which is why you can’t get markpoints or slave the TGP to it. The real JHMCS does allow for integration with air-to-ground targeting (eg indicating where the TGP is looking). This feature isn’t in BMS yet, but I saw it as a possibility for inclusion in 4.34.
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HOBS with the JHMCS works very well and has for some time. If you’re being sneaky, you can press cursor enable to get the seeker head to point where you’re looking with the JHMCS. Alternatively, you can press TMS up to get the radar oval to look there. You release TMS up and it will lock whatever is in the oval. Then check for good tone and good parameters, and pickle. This combination makes the Viper incredibly deadly in a knife fight, as well as allowing you to rapidly engage multiple targets without looking back in the cockpit.
-Rabbit
Try running BMS in Windowed mode. You’ll also want to have Opentrack running prior to launching Virtual Desktop to get the TrackIR headtracking working. You can’t use the Virtual Desktop 90 hz override feature with BMS (that is, you can’t launch BMS from the tab in Virtual Desktop for games). Instead you run Virtual Desktop, and then just use your usual Windows shortcut / .exe to run BMS.
-Rabbit
You’re right. Aircraft (and aircrews) are not vulnerable unless they’re visible in the 3D world, so they can’t be destroyed by hitting hangers / hardened shelters / barracks. Occasionally you will catch aircraft taxiing, which are generally easy kills. You can hit a base’s runways and shut it down for several hours. This is a very good early objective in most campaigns. The AI will start repairing the base with engineers after a few hours. Fortunately the engineers are pretty squishy…
-Rabbit