Posted here to keep from cluttering the DCS thread where I found this post.
Yes, I actually use Nvidia when I want to record things as they are happening from inside the cockpit. I thought you were referring to some other type of software that records everything while I’m flying a mission.
What I am talking about referenced above are the “Replay Track Files” that you save after one is finished playing the mission. Those track files have never really worked for me in DCS. For example, the last time I actually wanted to make a little movie of a mission I flew I had an…
Yes, I actually use Nvidia when I want to record things as they are happening from inside the cockpit. I thought you were referring to some other type of software that records everything while I’m flying a mission.
What I am talking about referenced above are the “Replay Track Files” that you save after one is finished playing the mission. Those track files have never really worked for me in DCS. For example, the last time I actually wanted to make a little movie of a mission I flew I had an issue where the replay track had me careening off the runway during take-off and crashing, dying. That never happened in the actual mission I just got done flying. Kind of hard to use a replay system that doesn’t actually record what actually happened.
The replay-track files, when they do work allow one to capture video from various outside or inside views to suit the what the creator wants to show. Not just from inside the cockpit.
IL-2 Great Battles flight simulator has a superb replay system. I can fly a mission, have some exciting fights in that mission and it will all be recorded in a file. The editing system then allows me to manipulate those tracks from any angle, viewpoint in order to create a very good movie. Never had a problem IL-2 Great Battles replay system.
As I mentioned above, in DCS the replay tracks don’t always show what actually happened in the mission you just got done flying. I can always make a movie from the viewpoint of inside the cockpit. But, I also like to try and be creative with outside views, dramatic flybys etc, etc. but this has been mostly impossible to do with the current DCS track file replay system.
ED needs to fix this.
My main problem/dislike with/of the BoX track replay system is that every patch update breaks the old tracks making them unwatchable. I can not remember how often I have watched an old 1946 track and been transported back to that very moment when the mission was flown. Something not possible with the track system of BoX.
My last post is a perfect example of something I did not want to lose but was unable to save before the system updated and broke the track. (Missed that there was an update and as soon as I clicked the launcher to start the game poof the track is borked…)
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