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Edit: sold Bought new in January but only used a few hours and no longer needed. In perfect condition, and I have all original boxes and parts. This includes all the pieces of the Phoenix MIP: - 3xMFD frames - UFC - HUD control panel - 3 desk mounts As well as the PTO2 panel, with its own desk mount. This combo is $700+ new on their website. I'm selling for $600, and hoping to find someone in the MD/DC/VA area who could come pick it up rather than have to ship it, as it's 6-7 boxes and would likely be prohibitively expensive.

I don't fly MP so I didn't realize some of these lua tweaks and mods cause issues, but yes, agreed, all of these elements should be customizable the way HUD elements often are in racing games like Automobilista 2.

I too have wrestled with this for years. Right now I have a setup that I'm pretty happy with, but it's not cheap and still requires a lot of room. I bought a large gaming desk and use clamped mounts to attach all my flight sim peripherals to it, with pedals under it, and use a gaming chair as the seat (not shown in the pic, but it's an Andaseat Kaiser 3). For racing, I move the gaming chair aside and push a NLR GTTrack rig up to the desk. The front edge of the rig just about touches my rudder pedals, and rig frame almost touches the furthest-protruding flight sim peripherals.

This looks amazing! Thank you so much for putting so much effort into creating this. Looking forward to giving it a try this weekend.

I see the latest update added the manual thumbnail assignment capability - thank you!

Ended up answering my own question based on CapnCoke's excellent AMPCD mod thread where he goes into detail about all the tweaks needed to control all the displays' fonts and symbology. Highly recommend people check out that thread for more tips like the one Lemur_Olo posted above.

Just wanted to thank you for this incredible mod and all the knowledge that you've shared in this thread about editing the relevant files. After struggling for years to get all of the F-18 displays' text and symbology to look right in the 8000x2100 window I run DCS in, I've finally got what I think is about as ideal as I can expect to achieve on the HUD, AMPCD and HMCS. Thank you!

I've just recently stumbled across this fix and I really like how it calculates it based on your actual aspect ratio, unlike the other mods I've seen over the years that just suggest specific values for thickness and fuzziness. I run a windowed resolution of 8000 x 2100 and settled on values of 0.5 and 0.9, respectively. The HUD now looks better than anything else I've tried, however I noticed that the HMD now seems to be just a single pixel thick, which is very difficult to read in sunny conditions. When I uninstall the mod and go back to the default HUD, the HMD font and symbol are still extremely thin, but appear to be at least two pixels wide and thus significantly easier to read. I've tried messing with the other values in the file but none seems to have any effect. @Lemur_Olo or anyone else have any success improving the look of the HMD?

Excellent!! Perhaps you read my mind because just last night I was wondering if there was a way to manually do it already, and I meant to start poking around the files but then got distracted with other DCS tweaking. But this ability would be huge and I for one would be extremely appreciative of it.

Just wanted to note that I see the same behavior - this zoom speed tweak only works while in the pause menu, not while flying.

Just wanted to note that as of a year later, in 2.9.11, this fix continues to not work anymore except for in the pause screen. Sure would be nice to get this as an adjustable parameter at some point!

Wow, thanks for the quick work!!! I just tried the new version and verified that it does indeed work to install his skins. Shame about missing the thumbnail though, but I look forward to you tackling that one too at some point.

Thanks for looking into it. And just to clarify, even if I unzip the outer zip, and then point LL at the actual zip with the skins, it gives me above error, so I'm thinking it must be something about the way he's describing his skins in the Lua file.

I've been waiting for someone to develop an app exactly like this one for YEARS now, and have been very surprised that no one was doing it. So to come across this now (as I'd taken a break from DCS the past few months) absolutely made my day! This is phenomenal, THANK YOU for creating and sharing this. Two questions so far: 1. Are you planning to add a way to delete skins? 2. I can't get any of Foxtrot1's recent skins to install; when I do the 'install from file' option, I get the error 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object'. Seems he always includes a zip within a zip, so downloading directly from the URL doesn't find the right files. But even when trying to install from the downloaded zip-within-the-zip, I get above error. His skins do include a description.lua, so I'm not sure what else the tool is looking for and can't find, any idea? Even with above issues, I am absolutely loving this - thank you, again.

Edit: sold. Bought new in July but only used for two hours and no longer needed. In perfect condition with no problems at all. I have the original boxes and all included accessories. Verified to work with both DCS and Falcon4 BMS. Currently sells for $322 direct from WinWing. Note that this does not include the USB displays that WinWing also sells for use with this setup.