Dental1 Posted October 5, 2016 Posted October 5, 2016 Hi Is Helios the best option to put the MFD and other instruments on a 2nd moniter. thx Lee
cichlidfan Posted October 5, 2016 Posted October 5, 2016 You don't need Helios just to display the MFDs on a 2nd screen, but if you want working OSB buttons around them, and for the other instruments, the Helios is the way to go. ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero, i7-6700K, Noctua NH-D14 Cooler, Crucial 32GB DDR4 2133, Samsung 950 Pro NVMe 256GB, Samsung EVO 250GB & 500GB SSD, 2TB Caviar Black, Zotac GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme 8GB, Corsair HX1000i, Phillips BDM4065UC 40" 4k monitor, VX2258 TouchScreen, TIR 5 w/ProClip, TM Warthog, VKB Gladiator Pro, Saitek X56, et. al., MFG Crosswind Pedals #1199, VolairSim Pit, Rift CV1 :thumbup:
Dental1 Posted October 5, 2016 Author Posted October 5, 2016 Thank you for your quick response. Is helios a user friendly program? Are there any tutorials for it?. I' m coming from the world of prepared 3d and am new to dcs. thanks Lee
cichlidfan Posted October 5, 2016 Posted October 5, 2016 There are some tutorials on YouTube. I would call it semi-user-friendly. The documentation is a bit sparse. IMHO, the best way to learn Helios is to start with an existing profile and reverse engineer it to learn how certain things work. It is quite powerful, once you get the hang of it. Btw, for this forum, I consider three hours to be a slow response. ;) ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero, i7-6700K, Noctua NH-D14 Cooler, Crucial 32GB DDR4 2133, Samsung 950 Pro NVMe 256GB, Samsung EVO 250GB & 500GB SSD, 2TB Caviar Black, Zotac GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme 8GB, Corsair HX1000i, Phillips BDM4065UC 40" 4k monitor, VX2258 TouchScreen, TIR 5 w/ProClip, TM Warthog, VKB Gladiator Pro, Saitek X56, et. al., MFG Crosswind Pedals #1199, VolairSim Pit, Rift CV1 :thumbup:
Dental1 Posted October 7, 2016 Author Posted October 7, 2016 Hi thanks for the response. One question. Can I place the ultra mfcd on the premade instrument panel made through helios since the premade a-10c profile instrument panel does not have working mfcds without jumping thru insane code manipulation. thx Lee
cichlidfan Posted October 7, 2016 Posted October 7, 2016 UMFCD is nice, but it does nothing for the analog instruments. ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero, i7-6700K, Noctua NH-D14 Cooler, Crucial 32GB DDR4 2133, Samsung 950 Pro NVMe 256GB, Samsung EVO 250GB & 500GB SSD, 2TB Caviar Black, Zotac GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme 8GB, Corsair HX1000i, Phillips BDM4065UC 40" 4k monitor, VX2258 TouchScreen, TIR 5 w/ProClip, TM Warthog, VKB Gladiator Pro, Saitek X56, et. al., MFG Crosswind Pedals #1199, VolairSim Pit, Rift CV1 :thumbup:
cichlidfan Posted October 8, 2016 Posted October 8, 2016 Helios is relativity straight forward for the analog stuff, MFCD's is where the nightmare begins. Never found the monitor lua to be a nightmare. It is rather straightforward. ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero, i7-6700K, Noctua NH-D14 Cooler, Crucial 32GB DDR4 2133, Samsung 950 Pro NVMe 256GB, Samsung EVO 250GB & 500GB SSD, 2TB Caviar Black, Zotac GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme 8GB, Corsair HX1000i, Phillips BDM4065UC 40" 4k monitor, VX2258 TouchScreen, TIR 5 w/ProClip, TM Warthog, VKB Gladiator Pro, Saitek X56, et. al., MFG Crosswind Pedals #1199, VolairSim Pit, Rift CV1 :thumbup:
Dental1 Posted October 8, 2016 Author Posted October 8, 2016 Is it possible to combine the umfcd program with the profile being used in helios. I ask because I successfully got the a-10c profile on second monitor but the instructions to get the mfcds into the profile are very complicated. Any suggestions? Thx Lee
Dental1 Posted October 8, 2016 Author Posted October 8, 2016 I have the a-10c Loz SM V2.1 on 2nd monitor and fundtioning fine but with two blank spaces where the mfcds belong. I read dereks beginners tutorial to get as far as I did but reading further about the steps to export the mfcds was very confusing with changing lines of code etc. Is there an easier way? thx Lee
Dental1 Posted October 9, 2016 Author Posted October 9, 2016 Hi I found the easy solution to getting both mfcds over to the second monitor to work with the helios profile Use a program called dcs virtual cockpit server. It's amazingly simple. Just drag mfcds onto the second monitor with the helios profile and resize in place and save. It works beautifully. The company is called bit-smith. Now the question is , does helios work with dcs v2.
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