DarkAngel

27 minutes ago, hawes said:

I'd recommend the U-HID boards as these can be programmed to act as a keyboard. The Leo Bodnar boards are good, but are recognised by Windows as Joysticks.  Steel Beasts will only allow one Joystick to be used (unless you use third party software which looks like a pain in the arse to set up) 

 

Similar switches used in the RealGear RACEpro Button Box can be sourced on eBay for a few dollars each. 

 

You can print your own box if you have access to a 3D printer. If you don't have the tools to design your own box, email AFV Sim and we'll send you a few ready made designs. If you want to design your own box, send us a sketch with a few dimensions and we'll design one for you.

Leo Bodnar boards would be good if Esim supported them as they have the ability to handle Rotary encoders for traverse wheels. From what I've read the U-Hid claims to do rotary encoders but don't implement them well.

Plus using a U-hid you can have up to 32 buttons

2 hours ago, Panzer_Leader said:

@hoggydog how did the button box go? I've been looking at similar, commercially-available button boxes but I'd be keen to hear your experience, and whether it adds value to the Steel Beasts or not, before pressing the button, so to speak.

 

This is the one I'm thinking about:

 

 (https://www.ricmotech.com/RealGear_RACEpro_H22_Button_Box_p/rgr-rpbp-h22.htm)

For that price you could build several. Start with a Leo bodnar or U-Hid board and an RS or Wiltronics catalogue Nothing in that box there is worth US$230

You may be in luck. Jaxa covers this area. Not sure if there may be some skew or inaccuracies to it though. The smaller Yellow square is 20x20km. The larger is 30x30km I think this may be better as there is some background scenery and plenty of buffer zone for missions.

47 minutes ago, RedWardancer said:

Figures.  20km x 20km then.  But if the height data won't do, I'll find another equivalent locale.

 

need to find some lat/long coordinates for me before i can tell you. If the lat >60 forget it... unless you want to buy data. The WorldDEM would only be $10k+

probably not easy. The available height data only goes to +/- 60 Degrees latitude. Plus the minimum sized SB map is 12km. Even then you want to keep the action away from the map edge so you probably want another couple of kms buffer all the way around.

Ukraine was added for the 4.1x release. Including vehicle textures and uniform.

So a heads up for those of us in Southern Hemisphere the US clocks change this coming Sunday. This means from NEXT WEEK TGIF will be an hour earlier.

sure it's not in their minimum range?

I just tend to use the preset groups and give them a group route... No good for AI i know

Zero (Bond villain) made a scenario sized area for one of his scenarios. Apart from that no... it is a work in progress. I have a very basic terrain with roads and some features but data is thin on the ground for buildings.

I think you'll find also that wolfsburg is in the map download

It stopped because of the ! in the name. It should be a low res data map so only 800mb

Did you check each side for duplicate IDs?

Seems to be everything.

Yep confirmed. It seems as though the saved state of the mission, during planning phase, reflects the conditions of the initial mission start.

thanks

Here is fine.. Thanks

Will investigate. Thanks.

Any chance of getting the initial mission and the save in progress please.

Will investigate. Thanks

M60 is huge (and slow as a pigeon out of molasses). What you will probably find is that you can't see them because you are up so high and the trees block your view. They, however, can probably  see your running gear under the trees.

Will investigate. Thanks!

it has to be \actors\textures\woodland  not \actors\texture\woodland as you have there. Refer to the bekibekibekistan map as it uses custom textures.

As Gibbo says if you jump in and tell people you are a noob you will get taken under someones wing.