It’s brilliant, Manos. The public will never know how hard you worked on all the details but they will love it!
Posts made by Van
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RE: McDD F-15C/D/E New model for BMS
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RE: Mitsubishi F-1/T-2
@Radium Really love this modeling work, Radium. You have a refined skill.
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RE: BMSConfig: A new config tool
Great work, looking forward to an English version! (Although can probably figure it out in French for now)
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RE: Checklist for Quick reference 4.37
Excellent! Thanks for including the source, too.
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RE: Tacview – Understand what happened during your last flight! (alternative ACMI viewer)
Hi team,
I’ve started to notice a frustrating bug with the chart windows which I use frequently to analyze performance. You can see here that regardless of how I scale the charts, certain fast objects will be cut off on the vertical axis. It attempts to scale to a certain point, but always cuts off around Mach 2 or equivalent airspeeds. This is a new issue that did not occur in previous versions of Tacview.
Thanks for your attention.
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RE: 4.35 U3 Rants, feedback, comments
Big fan of the update. I think AI improvements and improvements to core simulation of basic technologies (missile guidance, radars) capitalize on the things that make BMS better than “that other sim.” That said (purely speculating,) I think some people are less likely to be excited because they’ve caught a sense that a big BMS update is about to drop, namely the terrain engine teases.
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RE: EZBoards - Generate kneeboards (flights, comms, stpts, weather) from briefings
Logic, I’m a fan of this software, especially for how quickly and easily it gets the job done. Thank you for this contribution. The http server is also a brilliant addition and makes my iPad essential again now that touchscreen ICPs have lost their novelty. I have a serious suggestion though, and it’s a pretty big ask: what about making the output configurable? I think your tool would be totally unique and more widely used if it were possible, perhaps via switching to an editable XML or HTML template, to change the data fields and their arrangement. Formatting could still be done in CSS. This would allow squadrons / flight leads to produce kneeboard cards with their preferred info on them, as is done in real life. Maybe in the long run it could even run user-customized local JavaScript to generate custom weapon delivery data, etc.
I hope you agree these would be killer features that would enhance capability without complicating the average user’s experience. Thanks again for your work on this tool, it instantly became my favorite way to reference flight data for MP without the WDP dance.
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RE: 4.35 MFD font impossible to read at 'normal' zoom levels.
Same here. I think I can see from that comparison image that although the mfd font mask is accurate sharp, the font rendering method is aliasing the edges, causing the fonts to look thinner and blurry. No setting I can change appears to affect that blurriness. I was hoping that I had some transparency anti-aliasing enabled somewhere, but I don’t.
Although I’d prefer not to see the blurriness, the tiny size of the bullseye/cursor elevation fonts would be a more critical fix, as the real issue here is trying to read those tiny blurry fonts without zooming in. The larger OSB font is still readable even if it’s not sharp.
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RE: Falcon BMS Alternative Launcher (Easy Setup, Keep Joystick Assignments)
How to transfer config files from 4.34
Guys please be patient, give Chihiro time, he’s not a robot.
If you can’t wait: https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?40666-Getting-HOTAS-working-in-4-35&p=557235&viewfull=1#post557235
Go slowly, read carefully!
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RE: Getting HOTAS working in 4.35
Until Alternative Launcher is updated, you can use this method to update your Alternative Launcher keyfile using your existing 4.34 install. This is dead simple in theory but the instructions are written very explicitly to minimize the chance of you messing up either install directory. If you follow these instructions this is non-permanent and will not affect your ability to use 4.34 normally in the future. Proceed at your own risk:
- Rename your Falcon BMS 4.34/User/Config folder to Config434
- Copy your new, unedited Falcon BMS 4.35/User/Config folder to FalconBMS 4.34/User/ (we will allow the alt launcher to pull from the 4.35 .key file)
- Copy all files whose filename starts with “Setup” from Config434 to your newly copied FalconBMS 4.34/User/Config folder (give alt launcher your original command setup)
- Run the 4.34 Alt Launcher as if you were going to start 4.34. Check your binds. Set up any new binds you might want. Parking Brake and Canopy switches, for example, will need to be rebound. Close the Alternative Launcher.
- Copy the following files to your FalconBMS 4.35/User/Config folder: axismapping.dat, BMS - Full.key, DeviceDefaults.txt, DeviceSorting.txt, joystick.cal. Also copy the “Setup…” files for future Alternative Launcher update
- Open Falcon BMS 4.34/User/Config/Falcon BMS.cfg. Find the lines at the bottom of the file that end in //SETUP OVERRIDE and copy to your Falcon BMS 4.35/User/Config/Falcon BMS.cfg in the same location. (Alternative Launcher sets a custom shift value based on your number of devices, we will copy it and your POV settings)
- Delete the new Falcon BMS 4.34/User/Config folder and replace your original Falcon BMS 4.34/User/Config folder, we are done with it.
- Run Falcon BMS 4.35, go to Setup->Controllers->Advanced and bind your axes. (Note: Make sure you have all controllers plugged in BEFORE starting 4.35 until the Alternative Launcher is updated or you will have to rebind these axes again.)
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RE: F/E/A-18E/F
Radium, any update on this project? It was looking very good. Hoping it’s not abandoned.
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RE: Falcon BMS Alternative Launcher (Easy Setup, Keep Joystick Assignments)
One of my devices has two POV hats. When I recently updated the launcher, one of them no longer works, apparently due to the new added POV lines in my falcon bms config. Can this be changed? The inflexible nature of these forced settings probably works for most people, but those with unique devices are out of luck.