3D Printed F/A-18 Hornet Cockpit for DCS World
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Its been a labor of love over about a 2 year period but here is a tour of my Hornet cockpit for DCS. I play in VR so the goal was to get all the controls in as close to the right spot as possible so what you see in VR is what you feel with your hands. Its mostly 3D printed, with a combination of Arduino and Leo Bodnar controllers. Let me know if you have any questions or comments. I'm more than happy to help out where I can. 3D Print files are available below. Donations appreciated but not mandatory - paypal - jself1@gmail.com
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forums.eagle.r... - ED forum post on the consoles
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TWITCH: / jselfdcs
www.vcsg3.com - The DCS world group I'm a part of.
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The best thing I like about this video is that I can show it to my Wife when she’s worried that I’m out of control
HAHA
Her vision similar to my wife also
cracked me up lol
I ALWAYS show my wife the most expensive thing I can find when I want a new toy, that way way when I show her what I would "settle" for I actually get what I really wanted in the first place.
😂 wives… can’t live with them can’t live without them.
You should have installed it on your roof, with a real ejector seat. And when you land in your neighbour's pool they can be dressed up as a sea rescue unit
Lmao 🤣🤣
I can see it your on your roof screaming you have bandit on your ass and then just send it and launch up into the sky
Lmfao
Lol
Funniest thing I've heard all day!! His setup is awesome when I can afford it maybe I'll install it on a roof...
I can barely keep my computer desk clean and this dude has made skynet in sim form
Very bad ass!!sound system to go aroun
Same despite my best efforts including massive cable management lol
same
mhuhahaha right on
@@JohnSmith-xq1pz I used to have good cable management, but now it looks like an uncontrolled vine patch in the Amazon Rainforest behind the entertainment center, and I just can't be bothered to go back through and clean all of it up (a lot of it started getting messy when I introduced multiple VR headsets, one for PSVR and one for PC, and then added a wireless VR module, and the cords just never got clean again after that).
So realistic, it even costs as much as a real F/A-18.
lmao
straight up, for the price/effort I'd rather just go learn how to fly a real plane lmao
@@funtourhawk clearly don’t know how hard it is to get hours
@@funtourhawk "a real plane" unless we talking spitfire or mustang..... what you gonna do with a birdmincer.
@@JTD472 Actually it's easy join the navy they need pilots
Really wish stuff like this was manufactured, this is *way* beyond a HOTAS system and is an absolutely incredible setup, well done!
I'm working on an F16 version front panel system that will attach to a desk or sim rig. If it goes well i will try and marketize it.
@@alexsp7086 goodluck and may you prosper in this attempt
"This is way beyond a HOTAS system"
No shit?
A lot of it is, now. I'm looking at a shop called "Coutronics" for the main panels, winwing for the MIP, and almost all the rest comes from Etsy and a place called TekCreations. One.can now build an entire hornet sim by delivery.
Just wow. The attention to detail here is outstanding. Very impressed.
HI, I am an AIRFORCE RECRUITER and I wonder what you are doing for lunch tomorrow?
@@fladave99 im having chicken sandwhichers
@@jackr0101 MOM! CHICKEN SANDWICH HERE PLEASE!
@@fladave99 what?!?!? why!?!?!
The way you mapped the controlls is insane. You have the rotations and all. Sweet VR Build!
yeah im shocked there is a game out there with this capability.
How did he even go about mapping these controls? having everything recognised by the pc as an input device? I'm impressed to say the least
@@michaelsMW2movies DCS has been around for probably 15 years.....actually, just checked...it came out in 2008.
@@michaelsMW2movies The cockpit is not giving the PC any input. That is all done in VR. The cockpit is just to have the tactile feel of everything being real to the user while manipulating everything in VR. As he said, it isn't a 1:1 cockpit, but when he reaches for the controls in VR, the spacing is perfect for his cockpit.
@@James_Bee Nope..the cockpit is giving the inputs to the game. works in or our of VR
@@DCSTex Dude... I cannot express just how in awe of you (and envious) I am. I... I'm speechless.
Well done.. I guess? Just seems a bit redundant 😳
*describes literally one of the best pc setups possible*
“It runs it pretty well”
You think this is good.
You should see the guy who made an Elite Dangerous desk.
@@CS-932 then what can?!
Yeah that had me dead 😂
Yeah when he said 3090 Founder's Edition and "runs it pretty well" I almost did a spit take. Oh, what so many of us would give to get our hands on an RTX 3090 at a reasonable price.... 😔
@@Zeithri hey buddy after reading your comment I looked for elite dangerous setup videos and only found some that had low(ish) number of views, so not sure who you meant.
Any chance you could give me a name or specify which setup you meant? Thanks
I served on an aircraft carrier (USS George Washington CVN-73) and had the opportunity to see some of this stuff 'up close and personal,' and with that being said this is simply bad ass! You really can't get much more realistic! Great job on both the design work and the electronics that goes into it!!!
Jesus loves you
Ive been around 18's for a number of years, you did pretty damn good on this
Jesus loves you
That is incredible. I can't even begin to get my head around that, very impressive.
watch the video again and pause occasionally. It worked for me anyway. I'm still looking for the parachute
Sweet setup. I really like how it doesn’t take up an entire room.
+its not messy and gross
Yeah, he decided to forego the wings.😉
@@niko7903 haha!
Idk why you have a hornet and a tomcat in your pc, but that's epic lol
Tomcat was my all time favorite jet, but for DCS the Hornet my favorite module
@@DCSTex where did you buy them from? i've been wanting to do something like that with my computer
@@Iknow700 ebay - search Hogan wings
Fly Navy! 🤙
@@DCSTex UFOs vs F- 18 super hornets from Uss Nimitz aircraft carrier and the its strike group Video shot by a F-18 off the coast
Of California and Ensenada Mexico NOV 2004
UFO travel 60 miles 3,700 mph under a minute
That is a fantastic set up. Wish you were my neighbor. Well done sir.
Apart from the seat and the area around the sim, this looks nearly identical to what the real sims I've seen at an Air Force training base looked like from the inside, and I think they transplant a real frame and instrument panels for theirs, so bravo!
Dude you must have a lot of other boxes in life ticked to spend this much time and money on this! I love it
Maybe that's true, maybe not. People don't need to have things in order to spend insane amounts of money and time on things that shouldn't be number one priority right now.
Not sure why this was in my recommended? I know nothing about planes or sims and didn’t understand half of what you said,but I’m blown away. Amazing work. Thanks for sharing.👍
gotta love YT algorithm!!
Stewardess: “Are there any passengers on board that are a pilot”
Guy raises is hand!
Stewardess: “Sir are you a pilot”
Man: “Not really but I have a fully printed 3D cockpit in my bedroom with 500hrs of flight sim experience”🤣
There's no way it's just 500 hours. For someone to have the dedication to make a setup like that AND go through the effort of even mapping the controls... This guy has to have 1,000's of hours of playtime in that game.
@@nopenope5203 Barely have 200 myself and its astonishing how quick you learn!
seems legit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Doctor: "The pilot, copilot, and half the passengers are sick and need to go to a hospital!"
Stewardess: "A hospital? What is it?"
Doctor: "A big building used for treating sick patients, but that's not important right now...."
@@Menaceblue3 Airplane was so good.
This is badass... With this level of realistic simulation it seems like you could hop into the real one and pick it up quickly.
Badass set up man. Really impressed with the 3D printing. Your imagination is almost endless having access to one
0:40 love the little models you put in the computer! Would love to have a simulator like this!
Just hope the cooling works otherwise they'll melt
I have a little model p51 in my rig that I have suspended with some fishing ling. pretty cool stuff lol
@@DurtKokayne do you know what brand they are? i wanna get one for my pc
Dude. This is legit. My compliments on a pristine set up. If I weren’t into camping and over landing I’d be spending my money trying to build something similar.
Whoa someone that realizes there are different hobbies people like to spend their money on. I’m deep into the camping gear as well, but have been migrating to the flight sim.
I found your original thread on the forums and it really inspired me to learn fusion 360, hadn't modelled in CAD for like 4 years. Made a smaller remix of the jettison panel and 3d printed it on my ender 3. Its still sitting on my desk waiting for to be painted, soldered and programmed XD
awesome!!
When I was working on the Jane’s Combat Sims games back in the 90s we always knew there was someone like this out there! 🤘🔥
This is probably one of the coolest things that I've ever seen. Congrats bro
this is actually insane
🔰 My thought exactly…never seen anything like that in a home
Very impressive man! I have to "reach out into muscle memory" when I fly vr, I can imagine this rocks
Amazing stuff Tex! Never gets old looking at it!
Thanks Bloat!!
dude holy shit... this entire set up is just insane!
You're really committed to the process.
Great setup! I'm jealous of that collective!
Same. That’s the thing I focused on. My dream is to build a helicopter cockpit one day.
Imagine arm/ hand tracking with a 3d avatar and your pit.
That'll be amazing
That would be kinda pointless IMHO. Why would you need hand tracking when you've got the physical switches right in front of you?
@@MyFavoriteDisease for hand tracking a pilot avatar
ruclips.net/video/F4yKM_FgMOE/видео.html&ab_channel=VIPERWING.com%3AbuildingF-16%2CF-35andothersimulators%21
@@MyFavoriteDisease because it's in VR I reckon it'll be easier to place your hand if you can see where you hand is without needed a passthrough
@@ezrolly898 but you wouldn't need any of the panels in you have hand tracking. you'd just reach the controls in the game.
Impressive as hell. This is exactly what I'd like to try to build, even down to your ability to swap to different airframes.
This is INSANE!!!!!! My brother is going to love this.
Whoa. That's... that's the best setup I've ever seen honestly
I've been following your work on the DCS forums and am currently educating myself with Arduino scripting and making circuits via the bread board. Love what you did!
It would be incredible if you found a way to streamline this process and sell these as sets. Obviously multiple printers would be needed to cut time down per unit - thus creating a more consumer friendly cost. (with the screens/hardware either not being included or as an added purchasable option perhaps?)
Purely hypothetical of course, just curious as to how much it would end up being for someone who's moderately interested in the concept. Really great work!
@John Self I would be open to getting a 3d printer and printing/shipping these parts on demand if you wanted to get something going.
Very nice work buddy. I've got a pit for my AV8B and I'm about to go the VR route. It's great to hear that you are able to find the controls like you do. I think I need to redesign some of the panels though for more one-to-one match between game and cockpit in the real world. I have a Mars 2 Pro - clearly I need to put it to better use!
Theres def interest! For us hobbyists this is a dream come true!
As someone who is also playing DCS in VR, I must really tell you: Awesome work! Looks so incredible good!
Brilliant, well done! I'm in the process of making my new hornet pit at the moment.. my Super Taurus arrived this week, amazing bit of gear. This video helps the motivation to keep moving forward with the project for sure, cheers.
I’ve 3D printed one of the panels for my X-Wing simpit but I haven’t done any of the ones with toggle switches yet so I’m glad to see that it looks so good with your build!
Incredible effort man, totally outrageous ( in a good way of course ) The whole Pit set up, looks like it doesn't take up that much space either. Remarkable.. hats off to you brother 👌
thanks
Man this is serious work with some serious talent. I wouldn't even know where to begin with a project like this. Nice job!
What does a setup like this cost to build? I know those sticks just alone are like 500 bucks
@@208flatheads3 Basically just doing really big estimate here cause I'm not entirely sure, but the PC that's running it is probably like 6 or 7k, the stick as you mentioned, is roughly 4-500$, You'd need a 3d printer to make a bunch of the panels, which is probably another 400-600, maybe more depending on the printer you get, The fillament for the printer is surprisingly cheap so I'm probably going to chalk that up to about 50$
I'm guessing, rough estimate for all the other cockpit equipment is another 1k ish, and the rudder pedals are also probably similar in price to the flight stick at around 500 ish dollars
so in total, a rough estimate for the price of this whole setup
10k?
Added a couple hundred for things I didn't include like the seat and other things
I don't get impressed easily and this certainly is not one of those times and I'm not serious this is actually really amazing
rip
Dudes low key building a fighter jet from the inside out.
Smart.
Instead of VR i would put a huge Curved screen for this setup, its looking so good, for me personally it is a waste of immersion and time to play on this setup with VR ;)
Thats just my small opinion :D
Besides that it is a great job and amazing setup :)
Good luck and Good Hunts Sir :)
I honestly think this is just the next best thing to full finger tracking, which seems to always be right around the corner. If finger tracking is worked right in dcs in conjunction with vr I'd find playing the game 100x more fun, especially with all these new headsets coming out with increased resolutions. I guess might also just like the idea of able to use head tracking for targeting 😅. Motion sims are also one of the few games i think have an actual use case for these force haptic gloves that are starting to get hyped.
@@BananaSentry The next best thing would be a full motion sim. I've seen them for between 15-30k I think ? China.
ruclips.net/video/gxXOGbbQcfA/видео.html
It shouldn't be too difficult to build something like this yourself. I mean the software and hardware should be pretty straightforward for basic full motion sim in helicopters or not doing alerons and barrels quickly. (You would need a bunch of hydraulic actuators for that)
A 2D screen will never beats depth perception of VR from an immersion standpoint
A curved screen works well for the warthog because you're mostly facing forward, but for a fighter when you're constantly looking up and back it's more awkward.
props brother this is next level......just brilliant.
that setup is freaking awesome
I wonder how many hours you put into this project. Really cool!
I don't want to know...
John, that’s so impressive. Thanks for sharing. What was your total time
Dedicated to this build?
My question is: How sturdy is it?
Do you have to worry about breaking the switches and dials? Or leaning too much on the stick and paneling?
Looks pretty usable to me
@@AndroidFerret
I think so too. But I can get a bit rough when I have to act quickly in a game and I just was wondering if a setup like this can take rough treatment.
Its mostly all 3D printed plastic, so it will break if overly stressed. I haven't broken anything yet, but some of the more intricate controls (parking brake, hook, g
ear, etc) I'm pretty gentle with
@@DCSTex
Thanks.
I didn't know I needed this until I saw this video. But I now know I need this.
In absolute awe of the detail
Your passion is inspiring!
This is very impressive!
Congratulatinos,,, very..very good !!!!!!
Oh! I'm inspired for sure. I just don't have the ingenuity, the engineering, the planning, the skills, the patience, the time, the money, the 3d printer, the materials, the VR, the computer and the game. Dude, what you have done here is fucking insane and I love it.
this has opened my eyes to the potential when it comes to 3d printing and home cockpits. good video
very cool! i might look your group up later on when i know what im doing in DCS.
That's really cool how it has all those little details too
Dude you must have a lot of other boxes in life ticked to spend this much time and money on this! I love it
incredible job! congrats
Man, that is an awesome set up!
This is amazing! "I don't need to get into this hobby, I don't need into get into this hobby, I don't need to get into this hobby!"
Wow absolute great...realy good work. nice. I like this so much. A Dream
Very cool. Really nice build. Thank you so much for sharing the files.
Simply AWESOME!! You can tell that a lot of work went into this. Thanks.
it's almost a year now, just saw this clip, totally impressive work!!!!!!! Nice!
That's amazing. Absolutely gobstopped looking at this. The detail.
Worked on Hornets for 11yrs, nice job.
Man that looks like a touch of heaven
I wish I had the time, the money and knowledge to build something similar. That is truly amazing
I am blown away, this is so cool!!!
Holy shit amazing work greetings from Austria 👌
That looks fantastic!!!
Holy mother of god .......... what u did here is exceptional........😍😍
Wow incredible work!
Dude you are having what i have dream about one day :) great job indeed. Greetings from Germany:)
Phew... that's next level geek setup ❤️ amazing work there
dude this is truly amazing...so awesome!
OMG this is wonderful, I love you settings 😊👍
This is literally my dream setup
Amazing! Nice work!
That is absolutely wild.
Impressive. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome!
Greetings from Sweden.
exceptional work
Dude. This is so insane. Im awestruck
John, you are amazing!
Well done Sir.
holly crap thats insane great job
This is awesome. One simpit user to another, having 3 wrap around monitors for me was the single greatest improvement I ever made. I can never go back to a single screen now. The brain feels so much more immersed if it's peripheral vision is filled. Anyway, looks so cool, have fun!!
If I played in 2D I would definitely have a wrap around projector or 3 large monitors, but for me VR is where its at!
@@DCSTex Ahh your a lucky man. VR makes me sooo sick unfortunately
that is so awesome, good job!
I’m in a Commemorative Air Force and we fly and restore old world war planes. We had an old simulator from the early Cold War and took out the massive computer, put in a gaming one, hooked up all the controls. Long and complicated. But now we have a real simulator we use and we fly it on DCS and another game
This is mind-blowing
This is beyond cool man. It's gotta feel wild reaching out and operating the controls with the VR headset on. Wild.
A must have for any kitchen
Awesome job. I'm waiting for some parts to arrive before I start something similar as well.
Congratulations that is the coolest thing I ever seen.