@Dee-Jay: Much appreciated. I am very sure others feel the same about the F/A-18.
Posts made by GateV
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RE: 4.34 - F/A-18 missing needles in all analog gauges
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RE: 4.34 - F/A-18 missing needles in all analog gauges
@Stalker1stVFW: I am not quite sure what your point is since it is strange to assume I needed to be told the origins of this game (I bought the original game in 1998 ). Coming from 4.33, BMS has improved and increased their support of naval operations and their manual states that the F/A-18D is the “backbone” of these naval operations. Do you think bug-reporting for the F/A-18 is not wanted? If so maybe that opinion is not what drives their developments, since I seem to have had success reporting wrong HSI course deviation needle logic two years ago and and it is fixed now in 4.34.
Unlike DCS:
- BMS 4.34 is a free sim (to owners of F4) of the F/A-18
- has a dynamic campaign engine which makes single player worthwhile
- the F/A-18 has an air-to-ground mapping radar (ED might not ever add this to their DCS F18 )
- a much more varied range of weaponry
- tons of other reasons.
So, I am not going to take you up on your suggestion and will continue to hope BMS will improve the F/A-18 even further.
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RE: 4.34 - F/A-18 missing needles in all analog gauges
The strange thing is:
I reinstalled 4.33 U5 in parallel – and the needles show!.
But for the guy in the video in post #3, he has the same problem with his 4.33 version that I have NOW with 4.34 and do not have with either 4.33 U1 or U5. This suggests that it does have to do with the graphics settings somehow?
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RE: 4.34 - F/A-18 missing needles in all analog gauges
Strange; there are videos - even recent ones - where people do not have that problem. I wonder if it is a Nvidia problem or a problem of the driver settings.
Can somebody share if they get steam gauge needles in BMS 4.34 in the F-18 cockpit correctly?
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RE: 4.34 - F/A-18 missing needles in all analog gauges
Thanks for your helpful reply. I can confirm that this bug hasn’t been fixed yet. It is clear that a texture, material assignment or something like this is missing in the cockpit, so you see the bare needle “volume” once it is illuminated.
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RE: 4.34 - F/A-18 missing needles in all analog gauges
Can anyone confirm, or is this just on my setup?
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4.34 - F/A-18 missing needles in all analog gauges
Really excited about BMS 4.34. Performed a fresh install after removal of 4.33.
The analog gauges seem to miss the needle texture in the F/A-18 cockpit. All I get is a semitransparent bar of green zeros where the needle should be. If somebody knows how to quickly fix this (e.g. by having the missing texture), could they please send it.
EDIT: The ILS needles are completely missing in the Standby Attitude Indicator, there is not even the green faint glitchy needle outline. Despite ILS needles centered on the HUD, the attitude indicator is completely empty. This already worked in 4.33
EDIT2: The centerline needle on the compass (right hand side) is also missing
This problem I ran into on all different graphics settings and resolutions.
Reproduce: start the TE Carrier Take off mission and look at the analog gauges in the 3d cockpit -
Tornado ILS On/Off knob
How do I turn on the ILS in the Tornado (e.g. IDS GE)? In recent BMS versions the ILS has to be turned on by a knob, and there is a knob in the Tornado cockpit in the comm audio panel, but it is not clickable. Is there another clickable spot or switch in the Tornado cockpit to would turn on the ILS?
Thanks for any help.
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Feasibility DIY cockpit bugfixing
Hi,
my question is whether or not it is feasible to attempt to fix bugs in some of the addon cockpit gauges myself. I found and posted bug reports for the ILS and TACAN needles in HSI (or ADI) of the F-18 and the AV-8B (
https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?31919-Bug-TACAN-NAV-deviation-bar-wrong-in-F-18-MPCD and https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?31916-Bug-ILS-Needles-wrong-in-F-18-MPCD-and-ADI)Is the transformation from the original Falcon HSI ILS needle LOD variables to the mod cockpits something that is easily accessible to editing or is this hardcoded in the executable? If repairing a gauge is something that is at least technically possible, would somebody kindly point me in the right direction?
Thanks, GateV
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Bug: TACAN/NAV deviation bar wrong in F-18 and AV-8B cockpits (possible more)
Another bug regarding the F-18 MPCD (see my bug report on the ILS needles https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?31916-Bug-ILS-Needles-wrong-in-F-18-MPCD-and-ADI&p=446161&viewfull=1#post446161). It seems that for some reason needles in this instrument are mirrored or rotated from where they should be. When I fly directly (straight) towards a TACAN station at a magnetic heading of e.g. 214 and select a course of higher than 214, say 230, the deviation bar should be on the LEFT of the course arrow (since I need to fly to the left to intercept that course line). In version 4.33.3 of the F-18 it is on the right however and moves to the left when a course of less than 214 is chosen. I only tested this for the TACAN mode, but I am sure it is also broken for the NAV mode to waypoints. Could somebody check please?
EDIT: the same bug occurs also in at least the AV-8B; other custom cockpits might have the same issue. Since the ILS bars in the F-18 in the same instrument are also bugged, could it be that a certain LOD transformation matrix has a sign flipped?
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Bug: ILS Needles wrong in F-18 MPCD and ADI
Hi BMS team,
First off, thanks for your great work on the F-18! The following bug occurs in BMS 4.33.3.
In the F-18, while the ILS needles on the HUD are displayed correctly, the other 2 sets of ILS needles, the one on the mock-up F-18 MPCD (bottom center display for TCN) and the one in the analog ADI gauge are currently messed up. That is, on the latter two the needles appear to be rotated clockwise by 90 degrees from the true ILS needle picture. Therefore, the localizer bar (the vertical ILS line on the HUD) is the horizontal ILS needle on MPCD and ADI and when this vertical needle moves from left to right on the HUD, the corresponding MPCD and ADI ILS needles move from top to bottom. That is gonna cause a lot of pilots to miss their precious carrier should their HUD fail !!
-GateV