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Let's coordinate a time,
Chief
Hi Chief. I've been out of town for the past 3 weeks so I haven't been flying. I'm back now. I'll be monitoring "Mumble" (using the root channel at LinuxAirCombat.com) to arrange flights. I hope to fly with you soon.
-bbosen-
Welcome back. Is there a private message function on this forum? Might be easier to coordinate there.
I'm in the Pacific time zone and have time in the evenings depending on thr day....
Chief
No private message function here.
I am in the Central timezone (Texas). How about 9:30PM Central time tomorrow (Thursday) evening? I suppose that would be 7:30PM California time? Unless you contact me with some other schedule, I'll be flying in the default Realm "0" and MissionNetworkBattle03, hoping to meet up with you. Looking forward to it. If you have Mumble installed we can use that to communicate. Otherwise we can just use LAC's "Morse Code Radio" to exchange text messages.
-bbosen-
Last edit: bbosen 2019-05-29
Ok, I should be able to make that time.
Chief
If you have "Mumble", that is the preferred way to coordinate things. I always monitor the "root" channel of our Mumble Server at LinuxAirCombat.com. We use that root channel at first, and then we switch to the appropriate channel for the chosen mission and team. I suggest we use MissionNetworkBattle03 as it has proven simplest for beginners. I already have a "Server Mission" continuously active in that mission. It sends a series of RedTeam heavy bombers against the BlueTeam HQ. I will be flying for the BlueTeam against those replayed bombers. My Mumble username and LAC "CommunityHandle" will be "LINCOLN" tonight.
If you DON'T have Mumble, the fallback is to use LAC's "Morse Code Radio" to exchange text messages. This only works within missions. Toggle your keyboard between flight mode and Morse Code Radio mode with your "Caps Lock" key. (For any give mission, LAC's Morse Code Radio has only a single communicating channel, so everybody always hears everything.)
Looking forward to this....
-bbosen-
Not sure if I have time to get mumble working but we can set up a channel via morse code. Be shooting at you soon...
=8^)
Chief
How do use morse code
Well that was great fun! Nice flying with you guys!
Chief
Hail Chief!
You represented yourself VERY WELL last night! I recorded four YouTube clips of our escapades from my viewpoint. They are all uploading right now (slow process). Two of the four are already visible, and the remainder will be done in 2 or 3 hours. I put them all into the well-known "Linux Air Combat" playlist. Here is the URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0WtgfwgorA&list=PL1IYes9MY6lIlvyyMfGQ0BC75_u3v14tU
That playlist has a lot of clips in it. Look at the end of the list. All of the clips from last night have names beginning with "Linux Air Combat V7.64".
Here is the descriptive text accompanying each of those clips in YouTube:
"On 30May2019 Four players joined Linux Air Combat's 'MissionNetworkBattle03' for a wild, delirious combat session. The players were:
Bob (Flying as "Lincoln" in Blue4)
Blake (Flying as "Adams" in Blue2)
Jim (Flying as "Chief" in Blue10)
Adam (Flying as "0000000" in Red1)
Adam, flying alone for RedTeam, was joined by automated "replay" bombers that were targeting BlueHQ.
Adam was the PERFECT villain in all of this, using every ruse, deception, skill, and devious trick to keep us off balance.
Jim, the newest player, represented himself very very well. Obviously he has skills from other combat flight simulators!
Everybody had a GREAT time.
Linux Air Combat ("LAC") is a new, free, open-source combat flight simulator for LINUX. Version 7.64, shown here, is the latest version as of 30May2019. Learn more about LAC here:
https://askmisterwizard.com/2019/LinuxAirCombat/LinuxAirCombat.htm "
THANKS for joining us! You can fly my wing anytime.
Your excellent performance last night inspires some questions as follows:
1- Do your obvious air combat skills derive from experience in some other flight simulator? Are you a real-world pilot?
2- Given that you asked no basic questions and that the questions you DID ask were enlightened, I conclude that you somehow learned all of the basics of LAC and many of the not-so-obvious details before you joined us last night, I want to ask how you learned so much about the specific quirks of LAC?
3- Did you encounter any problems compiling LAC?
4- Did your copy of LAC suffer any segmentation faults or crashes at any point during our antics?
5- Were you using a joystick as your primary flight control, or a mouse?
6- Did you customize your keyboard control mapping?
-Bob-
I have been flying RC helicopters, sailplanes, and airplanes for years. I think I first learned to fly on the Red Baron WW1 sim eons ago. I have messed around with many sims but my 2 all time favorites were that one and il2sturmovik. LAC reminds me of Red Baron-- graphics are basic but good quality and lets your imagination do its work. Framerates and responiveness are great.
I watched the How To video series which was super helpful, including how to compile it.
No problems. I was missing the exact packages you were missing so my compile proceeded pretty much exactly as you had it on the videos. I'm running Ubuntu.
When I first installed it I had a few segmentation faults which seemed to be related to my screen resolution choices. Once I found the right resolution for my monitor I have not seen any crashes (I've running it for about 3 weeks). I have a strong system and have every video quality setting turned on/maced out. Runs at 60fps.
Joystick. Luckily I had an old Logitek Extreme 3D Pro laying around which I think is the one you have the default config set up for. I did not have to make any joystick config changes. I did need to install a new package which enabled me to calibrate it (jscal or jstest, I forget which one)
I have not made any keyboard changes.
Chief
Thanks Chief.
For the benefit of others who may read this thread in the future, I will add that the "How To video series" to which you refer is THIS YouTube Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1IYes9MY6lL95GbWC60qKKEbhqB4oyKL
For Ubuntu users, the corresponding YouTube playlist focusing on compiling LAC is here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1IYes9MY6lLv_g8KUGIHWgpirjnzyi2i
-bbosen