I'm certainly not intending to criticise your work - but do you think that offset periodic effects a

I'm certainly not intending to criticise your work - but do you think that offset periodic effects are a good idea? An offset will inevitable lead to up and down swelling resonances, which - at least for me - are quite annoying. This is why I tend to reduce the gain on those effects to almost zero.

Number481•7/23/24, 12:42 PM

no need. It happens for the reason I explained.. sometimes the phases align in a constructive way that amplifies the effect. There are no user controls to change the phases. You can adjust the master frequency of the effect, but that will just change the primary frequency of the effect (default is 45hz I believe).

Like I said, I'll see if I can tame down the transitions.

HHiob I'm certainly not intending to criticise your work - but do you think that offse...

Number481•7/23/24, 1:14 PM

Personally I find holding on to a single frequency vibrator far more annoying than something which constantly oscillates and occasionally produces undesirable combinations of frequencies. But I will look to see if I can tone down the phasing a little.

Number481•7/23/24, 1:14 PM

I agree it is currently too abrupt and frequent

NNumber481 Personally I find holding on to a single frequency vibrator far more annoying th...

HiobOP•7/23/24, 1:14 PM

I know - It's a difficult edge to balance. But you catch my drift I assume.

HiobOP•7/23/24, 1:16 PM

(Also the source of the "vibrations" in real aircrafts is kind of constant - regardless of how annoying it might be.....

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mattback•7/23/24, 1:28 PM

mattback•7/23/24, 1:29 PM

@walmis thank you, is this what you requested

NNumber481 no need. It happens for the reason I explained.. sometimes the phases align in ...

hexpod•7/23/24, 1:37 PM

How about random noise ?

mattback•7/23/24, 1:42 PM

random noise is typically investigated as something is causing it

HiobOP•7/23/24, 1:51 PM

I think, what he was suggesting is - instead of a fixed offset for the overlapping frequecies (which INEVITABLE leads to regular up and down-swelling resonances) try to make the offset somehow variable and random. I have no idea if that can be achieved, but it could be appropriate to reduce the problem.

Mmattback random noise is typically investigated as something is causing it

hexpod•7/23/24, 2:07 PM

Maybe one could just code a random behavior by defining the frequency and amplitude boundaries.

hexpod•7/23/24, 2:22 PM

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14058340/adding-noise-to-a-signal-in-python

Stack Overflow

adding noise to a signal in python

I want to add some random noise to some 100 bin signal that I am simulating in Python - to make it more realistic.

On a basic level, my first thought was to go bin by bin and just generate a random

Arew•7/23/24, 3:08 PM

Has anyone else had issues with the Rhino and the F-14B where the Rhino all of a sudden will have uncontrolled left input by itself? It's pretty significant and I usually have to reslot to get rid of it. Has happened in all sorts of regimes, on Saturday it occured while climbing to altitude from the boat, and last night while lifting back off from a touch and go on CVN-71

AArew Has anyone else had issues with the Rhino and the F-14B where the Rhino all of a...

HiobOP•7/23/24, 3:12 PM

Do you have applied any curves in the VP configurtor?

HiobOP•7/23/24, 3:14 PM

Because, for me with certain curves and aircraft, the VP config goes nuts sometimes (messes up the curve for some reason).

AArew Has anyone else had issues with the Rhino and the F-14B where the Rhino all of a...

TheAmazinGreat•7/23/24, 3:17 PM

Is it similar to this issue? 🧰support

HHiob Do you have applied any curves in the VP configurtor?

Arew•7/23/24, 3:20 PM

I dont think i've ever touched them

TTheAmazinGreat Is it similar to this issue? https://discord.com/channels/965234441511383080/968...

Arew•7/23/24, 3:21 PM

Seems similar, but right trim doesn't fix it and it doesn't correct itself

Mmattback random noise is typically investigated as something is causing it

hexpod•7/23/24, 4:01 PM

hexpod•7/23/24, 4:01 PM

This could maybe give some ideas

flowtex•7/23/24, 4:18 PM

I’m a brand new and (so far) happy Rhino owner. I’ve browsed read the official Rhino manual and read various threads here on the Discord server and I think I have most things set up the way I want. I play only DCS and mostly fly the Apache. One thing I’m still unsure about is curvature, saturation, and dead zone of the “control output” (not the ffb itself). From what I can gather here on the forum, I’m not supposed to set any of those in DCS as they will interfere with the trim of the Apache. On the other hand I can’t find any way to adjust saturation, curvature, or dead zone in neither the VPforce Configurator nor the TelemFFB software. Is it correctly understood that there is no way of adjusting those, or have I simply missed something obvious?

RoboGeoff•7/23/24, 4:21 PM

I would like to know too!

RoboGeoff•7/23/24, 4:22 PM

Do people have different VPForce Configurator settings for different aircraft?

AArew Has anyone else had issues with the Rhino and the F-14B where the Rhino all of a...

mattback•7/23/24, 4:53 PM

did you break a flap ?

Mmattback did you break a flap ?

Arew•7/23/24, 4:55 PM

mattback•7/23/24, 4:56 PM

ok because in both situations are you describing things that can happen when a flap gets stuck after takeoff / wave off / touch and go on the turkey without retracting them soon enough

Arew•7/23/24, 4:56 PM

touch and go and wave off you never retract them, but a broken flap shouldn't give untrimmable full left stick either way

mattback•7/23/24, 4:57 PM

well i dont know what you were climbing to or where in the pattern you were going but i understand

Arew•7/23/24, 4:57 PM

for both of those you climb to 600 ft along brc once past the landing area and proceed downwind on interval

mattback•7/23/24, 5:03 PM

ok, i have no idea then

mattback•7/23/24, 5:04 PM

someone will know

Fflowtex I’m a brand new and (so far) happy Rhino owner. I’ve browsed read the official R...

amadeus•7/23/24, 5:07 PM

There are no curves or dead zone settings with the rhino currently

amadeus•7/23/24, 5:08 PM

I fly the Apache with no extension and I think with the higher spring forces with force trim it mostly alleviates the need for any curves

AArew no

amadeus•7/23/24, 5:14 PM

Do you by chance have another axis in DCS bound?

Fflowtex I’m a brand new and (so far) happy Rhino owner. I’ve browsed read the official R...

Number481•7/23/24, 5:16 PM

While the rhino firmware does not support curves as amadeus said, this is purely a DCS thing. Call it a bug or a limitation or whatever, but FFB is just not compatible with curves and/or saturation adjustments. The FFB "spring center offset" is linear, so when the axis logical position is thrown off by a curve, bad things happen because the physical location on the linear FFB line does not match the logical position on the curved axis line. This infographic walmis created also shows why it doesn't make sense to move the center position on the curve. 📃general It might be possible to move the center of the curve itself but that would be... hard. But its important (for me) that you understand its a DCS thing since it is in control of the FFB center offset.

I've never been a fan of curves and always preferred saturation/scaling. Expecially in helicopters where you rarely if ever use full stick deflection. Unfortunately that does not work will in DCS either.

What you can do (I've suggested a specific feature/setting in configurator for this) is artificially increase the calibrated range beyond the stops in configurator.

For example, if your calibrated range is 1275 to 3003, simply subtract/add an equal amount from both ends. 1075 and 3203 as an example. This will cause the full physical deflection of the stick to only amount to a partial excursion of the in-game stick, which is exactly what the saturation does for reducing sensitivity.

Aamadeus Do you by chance have another axis in DCS bound?

Arew•7/23/24, 5:17 PM

I'm fairly confident I don't for roll/pitch, but I will double check when I get home.

NNumber481 While the rhino firmware does not support curves as amadeus said, this is purely...

flowtex•7/23/24, 5:25 PM

Thanks for the thorough explanation. Highly appreciated! I agree that curves are not optimal but saturation would be nice as you suggest.
In the meantime I’ve tried the “workaround” with the calibration axis that you suggested and that seems to work quite well for achieving the roughly 80% saturation that I was looking for. Great tip. Thanks

Aamadeus I fly the Apache with no extension and I think with the higher spring forces wit...

flowtex•7/23/24, 5:33 PM

I fly the Apache without an extension as well and it works well most of the time but for the hovering it would still be nice to have saturation, curves, or dead zone, mostly the former. But I’m still adjusting my muscle memory from my previous spring-based stick setup so maybe I just need a bit more practice

amadeus•7/23/24, 5:36 PM

Between using the adaptive recentering feature, and spring forces at 100% with a telemffb setting of like 20% damping, I find it quite manageable. Like all changes, there is an adjustment period, but I’ve become quite fond of this setup

Hhexpod This could maybe give some ideas

hexpod•7/23/24, 5:54 PM

It seems pretty well documented if someone is capable to implement something less trivial what we have at the moment.

https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/random/generated/numpy.random.normal.html

Number481•7/23/24, 6:03 PM

Except that we dont generate "a signal". At every simulation frame we have the opportunity to start/stop/modify one or more periodic effects. Those effects have an
- intensity (amplitude)
- direction (0-359)
- Frequency (Hz)
- Phase offset
- Shape (sine, square, triangle, sawtooth).

You cant "add noise" to a effect At any point in time it is what it is based on the agruments above.

You can create additional effects with offset values that will create an oscillation/warbling when they are played simultaneously based on the interference of the signals.

Reed•7/23/24, 7:10 PM

@walmis did we discuss increasing the adaptive centering force or allowing us to adjust up to, say 25% of master setting, to get a snappier return or more consistent return with those using longer extensions and if its a viable request?

Reed•7/23/24, 7:11 PM

i can add to the request thread if needed for tracking

RReed @walmis did we discuss increasing the adaptive centering force or allowing us to...

HiobOP•7/23/24, 8:24 PM

You can edit the spring gain curve to achieve that. Make the first part of the curve steeper ét voila.

amadeus•7/23/24, 8:37 PM

i think it's also worth bearing in mind that games can apply a higher spring force than what we can apply in the configurator

amadeus•7/23/24, 8:37 PM

so if you're playing around with it, using 100% spring force in the configurator, it's possilble for DCS modules to go higher

Aamadeus so if you're playing around with it, using 100% spring force in the configurator...

HiobOP•7/23/24, 8:51 PM

You talk about the effects gains or the settings gains? Because as I understand it, that‘s only true for the effects gains (which can be overwritten by the game) but not for the basic settings including master gain.

amadeus•7/23/24, 8:52 PM

i'm mostly referring to the perceived power of the spring force

amadeus•7/23/24, 8:52 PM

i don't know how they pull it off

Aamadeus i'm mostly referring to the perceived power of the spring force

HiobOP•7/23/24, 9:16 PM

As I understood it, it works like factors. Master gain (100%) x Settings gain (100%) x effects gain (which can be overwritten by the game) 100% gives maximum force output. Either factor can be reduced, but you can’t get more than what is set in master and/or settings gain. An effective way to limit maximum force.

I'm certainly not intending to criticise your work - but do you think that offset periodic effects a

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