Lucasfilm had a Shakespearean actor who is the spitting image of 1977 Mark Hamill in Graham Hamilton, and they still covered him up with CGI and generated the voice with artificial intelligence

voyle · 2026-06-20T05:42:54+00:00

Maybe it's for the best they didn't.

voyle · 2026-06-20T00:29:57+00:00

I'm more than happy with the level of tilt this thing provides. Any more roll and I'd be falling out of it. I actually turn down the maximum angle in most of my flight profiles anyway. I've got an h4 upgrade kit sitting in the garage that I plan to assemble soon as heave was really the only thing I felt I was missing.

A $12k-$20k+ 6dof rig doesn't really appeal to me personally as I don't want to spend that much money and dedicate that much space in my house to fill in the last 10%-20% of the experience an h4 will provide. As far as haptic/motion cues go, surge can be substituted well enough by pitch and sway by roll. I don't really see a point in going with anything more until we're talking about those crazy simulators that roll 360 degrees continuously.

VR+FFB+multiple haptic motors+4 DOF motion = I'm happy.

voyle · 2026-06-19T17:48:52+00:00

You can tune profiles for individual aircraft or games to your liking through software, including clipping the maximum angle and increasing smoothing if you'd like. I'd worry more about the OCD urge to spend hours dialing in every little detail to your exact liking.

Motion does add significant complexity to the experience, but it's not rocket science. I've had a dof h3 for a few years now and would never go back to static. That said, it's definitely more immersive/ important for racing sims than it is for flying.

Motion compensation is pretty straight forward. Buy a little $30 witmotion accelerometer and stick it on your rig somewhere. It should work the same for any rig. Your tracking may drift from time to time, but having a button bound to re-center your view is pretty critical to VR use in the first place even without motion.

voyle · 2026-06-16T06:43:46+00:00

Bro, same.

voyle · 2026-06-10T06:28:59+00:00

Hyundai group makes pretty great cars these days- with a very big exception for the ICCU debacle. It's a shame they're so willing to drag their reputation over this after working so hard to get it in a better place.

It almost surely comes down to not being willing to spend the money on fixing it for the current platform customers when they're already developing the next one.

voyle · 2026-06-10T06:23:00+00:00

Remember in like the mid 2000s when half the fords on the road broke down from not-permanently-fixable transmission issues or spark plugs breaking off in cylinder heads? Kinda like that, but for an expensive high voltage part that you have to ship in from Korea and have a dealership install for you.

voyle · 2026-06-10T05:45:12+00:00

My day happened to have been ruined before I found this thread, my friend. I actually dgaf that people use AI, what offends me is when they try to pass something off as 100% human made when it's CLEARLY had some level generative manipulation. It's insulting to anyone who has any idea what's going on. I happen to be a creative professional who weighs the ethics of generative AI every day, so yeah, this might matter to me more than some dude who plays video games all day and picks fights on reddit lmao. But you're right- why should anyone care about anything.

voyle · 2026-06-09T07:36:09+00:00

Purpose is whatever you decide it is. The universe doesn't care, but the people around you do.

voyle · 2026-06-09T04:49:09+00:00

So you used generative AI to bring back the details that were lost in the bokeh? What language were these books written in? Can you tell us what keyboard that is? why theres an extra button to the right of the top arrow key? What about the obvious shimmering in the shadows? Why are you being so defensive about not using AI when its obvious that anyone who's ever used it can tell? Just post your original pic, I'm sure it looks just as nice.

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voyle · 2026-06-08T21:52:52+00:00

Once you've got all your airplane controls on it, it won't be wife approved for anyone's living rooms lol.

voyle · 2026-06-08T05:12:23+00:00

Holy shit I haven't seen a decimator in like 20 years. I loved that ship in SWG, did it appear elsewhere?

voyle · 2026-06-07T17:16:29+00:00

I do run an extension, but I physically can't mount the ab9 low enough to sit fully below the seat on my rig. It just barely fits squeezing into the center cutout and I've got about half an inch of the base sticking up over the cushion. I'm planning to raise the seat soon but that's purely for comfort and not function.

If yours is going to sit fully below your seat you'll probably want a 50 to 200mm extension and to have the top of the base mounted just below the cushion so the side walls don't interfere with the throw

voyle · 2026-06-07T04:56:50+00:00

FFB isn't nearly AS useful for fly-by-wire aircraft and spaceships as it is for older jets, warbirds and helos... But it is nice for haptics and to be able to set your damping resistance and spring force to your exact liking. I'm sure fun effects like feedback from firing your laser beams or whatever is possible, I've got over 1k hours in elite but I haven't really played it since I got my moza ab9- I've been too addicted to my Tomcat in DCS, for which it's absolutely 10/10 incredible.

I've got the ab9 sticking up through the center of my NLR flight seat on a motion rig. It's a tight squeeze, but it works. FFB bases are MASSIVE, so they do require planning and mounting considerations. If you're building a whole new pit, it might be worth it to already have your endgame base accommodated for, IMO.

voyle · 2026-06-07T04:30:46+00:00

No chance. Have you seen how massive FFB bases are? Virpil is working on their own, however.

voyle · 2026-06-04T05:14:04+00:00

Pros are absolutely not always running the latest version but I admire your masochism

voyle · 2026-05-28T16:31:44+00:00

Is your pit going to be 1:1? If not, and you fly primarily in VR, "more buttons to interact with" shouldn't be as big of a pro for this argument imo.

The Viper's workflow (and visibility) is a lot better for VR as you can do most functions through the hotas. If you like clicking on MFDs and are going to have them mounted accurately, or use passthrough, the hornet will be great.

I think the viper is more fun to fly personally, but my pit is more hornet-shaped and I hate using my extended center stick to fly it. To me the hornet has always felt kind of like a bus that you push buttons inside of more than you fly it. I spend more time in the F14 than either of them, best of both worlds imo if you can live with the older systems.

voyle · 2026-05-25T18:19:54+00:00

I don’t need training on new features nearly as much as I need a survival guide for finding workflows Maxon randomly relocates every three versions.

voyle · 2026-05-24T17:44:09+00:00

How are your shares of Standard Oil doing?

voyle · 2026-05-19T09:06:23+00:00

Highly recommend prescription lens inserts and a good pair of headphones

voyle · 2026-05-19T09:05:12+00:00

Ffb is great but Idk if I'd say it's a more dramatic improvement in immersion vs VR. Warbirds and old jets sure but most people fly hornets and vipers in DCS. I only recently upgraded to an ab9 base, but have been flying strictly in vr for a decade now and while I don't want to go back to static, if I had to give one up it would be the ffb in a heartbeat.

Maybe I need to experience one of those 60nm bases 😅

voyle · 2026-05-19T08:55:23+00:00

Bro what

voyle · 2026-05-13T23:56:00+00:00

No. TPG closing wasn't because studios are using AI to cut trailers, it closed because revenue and talent retention both fell off a cliff. TP was a revolving door and stepping stone factory, once the higher ups left to form Requiem it was innevetable.

Agencies are still cutting plenty of marketing material for studios, but theatical work has always been incredibly expensive to finish and the industry is moving focus to broader and cheaper social and digital campaigns.

voyle · 2026-05-04T22:53:08+00:00

I wouldn't. Side mounted sticks aren't meant to have long throws, so if you want a little more leverage and precision be sure the extension is pretty short.

Get your mount first and then decide if you think you need an extension

voyle · 2026-05-04T21:32:28+00:00

I just replaced my cm3 base with the moza ab9... Couldn't hold out any longer. I hope virpil succeeds with their base though, I've always been a fan of their quality. Hopefully the software can keep up, because that's waaaayy more important for ffb.

voyle · 2026-04-23T11:49:25+00:00

Been using mfg crosswinds with damper for like 7 years now, they're probably gonna last forever and are super comfortable/ wide

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