algerad3

I never tried arcade mode, Did not interest me . Off the top of my head , go to the options screen and click gameplay. Once on that page , look at bottom and click arcade/game. ( I had to cheat and open the game and look.) I have now tried arcade mode . Cute , but not me .... Good luck.

Cyprus, If you can push it , Get the Warthog. I myself have an x-65, and x52 pro. I do like the mfd screen on the pro but the twist rudder is a pain as I find rudder input being applied as I move the stick. I have had a regular x-52 and the pro and never had a problem with either. The X-65 is a good stick for Combat sims but it does not move ( force sensing). The Warthog gives you more options and you can get rudder later.

O.k I am back at home and will start to work on getting something together for the saitek gear . What I would like is suggestions as to how you may want the layout for the x-52 to look. What Info do you want. As for the fip, what gauges are important. I did get the buttons of the fip to work in place of the buttons on the Abris. Bring me your ideas.

Hey there welcome to the group and hobby. So you have an x52 pro......... take a look at this .... http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=94174

Well, time to take a short break. Too many other issues to deal with to focus. Need more stick time to figure out what is useful at this point and I also need to work on learning the different ways to activate buttons. I guess when I get everything sorted out ( lua and RL) I will create an export script that is "paste and play". until then , keep at it. Be back soon.

I was afraid of that . Oh, well I will create something out of my vision and pass along. I can't wait until the display is working... Hey, have you tried a usb mouse, I am thinking maybe the touchpad drivers may not provide the input required from the sim. I recall when A-10 was out in beta stages I was having similiar issues. It was holidays and I took my laptop with me and tried to preview it on that , My video card also was under powered and affected my abilities to do anything. If you can grab a portable mouse and plug in, it should (windows ) install mouse drivers , after that you should be good to go ( I think). I never tried mouse for laptop as I had desktop at home. That was the impression I was left with at the time , Just now remembered this.

Feed Back Anyone?

Cleaned up buttons example. I have attached another ( cleaner) example of the button assignment process. The Fip is included even though the display portion is still a wip. I am under the impression that others are finding things straight forward to install and use. Not a lot of questions, excitement or buzz going on here. Anyone have any examples of how they use the mfd they want to share? Export.lua

Been away for a bit , had things going on. Still working on cleaning up the button press part of the export lua example.

Sweet , I will keep looking and tinkering on my end. I am working on tutorial to include buttons use for both the x52 and fip.

I have been tinkering with it and one thing I read is that the setimage will only send info based on screen size set up. Question is this : Is there a way to reduce the stream sent by the Lo...SetTexture function independence of the monitor setting....Say maybe to 320x240. That would reduce a lot of bandwidth usage back to the memory..?

Chrilith, I am not sure how the others are doing it, but there is this LoSetSharedTexture(name) -- register texture with name "name" to export -- LoRemoveSharedTexture(name) -- copy texture with name "name" to named shared memory area "name" -- LoUpdateSharedTexture(name) -- unregister texture -- texture exported like Windows BMP file. It slows things down a bit. I don't know if Create Gauge() I used in one of the previous tutorials works as I can not draw to the fip, you can try. Also Check out this thread. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=70716&highlight=Multi+monitor

cichlidfan I see you have wood in place to keep your pedals from sliding out of place . LOL I have to do the same. At least I now know how to keep my roller chair from sliding back when I tried to add rudders when flying. Never thought about a rug. Cool idea.

Give me a minute to clean it up and do tutorial add on. Was in the middle of a few things and finally got it going . Wanted to share before I went to bed .

Buttons example It's ugly, it's messy but, it's here. Finally got the buttons, scroll wheel and such working . I made a mess of the script file but, wanted to get out quickly. I will clean up later. :music_whistling: saitekbuttonsexample.lua

I have not tried with gd. The docs I have says bmp is not supported, will try (cross fingers, silent prayers) Thx

Looking for tips on how to format the shared memory stream(bmp) with lua.

New Tutorial . O.k, Now I finally got it done. The new Saitek tutorial completed. This zip file includes the 64 bit lua components , 2 instructional lua files. I am stuck in a remote area and internet is $1.50 per MB. so I did not include Lua for windows files, If anyone would like to add Lua for Windows to the zip and upload, that would be great. I am still working out a few things , but the basic functionality are set up. I will post more as I learn more. Algerad3 Saitek Tutorial.zip

Tango, Would you know how to go about formatting bmp images in Lua, or maybe an associate. I am still new to this programming stuff and there is a lot for me to learn to get things proper for the fip.

Pixel, Same old x52pro. we are working on getting the display working with dcs series. Saitek had Microsoft flight Sims in mind when the x52 pro came out and never worked on providing access to information on other sims. you can find pics towards the bottom of page one on this thread. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=92667 THe Flight Instrument panels work on the same principle but displays gauges from bmp ,jpeg and I believe png images and /or streams . Still working on converting output to them so they display properly.

Tango, The display resolution is 320 x240 pixels. I agree , there is a lot more Saitek could have done with a little effort. So do you have yours up and running?

Working on expanding the tutorials. wanted to have it out tonight , had issues. Will get it out soon.

Well, my friend it does allow us to use the rotaries and buttons , actually I was crashing bs1 with them not to long ago. As of right now in need to figure a few things out to get them working. The Author of the dll has opened up a new forum in the name of Saitek for Dcs. check it out. http://forums.chrilith.com/ Hey 82nd, Did you get things sorted out over there?

O.k We got Lua's every where, Which Lua file are we referrring to? Saitek Dll goes in to the Dcs bin file of the module you are using. The 64 bit lua.exe, luac.exe and all that goes into the c:program files (x86) lua file. ( remove the original ones first.) Reinstall lua for windows . The tutorial.lua is just an example to show how to get things going. Use that as a template for your lua export setup. In reality you should create a new lua file and add a dofile command pointing to the new file from lua export. If still not clear , tell me lua file you are confused about and we will go from there.