Capt Zeen F/A-18C Beta Helios Profile ! ! !

[MustangSally]

It makes the ingame screens thin and much harder to read. (including the HUD)

 

Mine are fine...I do run 2560 x 1440 tho

[Mykey1202]

Can someone help me? Back in the day i used Helios but cannot remember squat now. All I want are the MFDs to be on my second screen on my left. The big screen is screen number one so it is the top left of the combined screens. Both are running at 1920x1080 so when i scale my resolution to 3840x1080 it splits the image like in my pic below even when flying. What am i doing wrong here??

[Mykey1202]

ok i got that sorted by using the 2 screens monitor setup in DCS but now my MFDs arent showing up and i will need to resize them as I want to overlay my cougar Mfds over the images. HELP! :helpsmilie:

[Capt Zeen]

ok i got that sorted by using the 2 screens monitor setup in DCS but now my MFDs arent showing up and i will need to resize them as I want to overlay my cougar Mfds over the images. HELP! :helpsmilie:

Look on the first post, troubleshooting. There you got everything you need to setup your viewports

[Adixylian]

Hey, it's a great thing what you did

Thank you dude!

 

Is it possible to export only the UFC from your profile? I bought a tablet only to do that, other sensors (your helios profile) are on 2nd screen

[Capt Zeen]

Yes. It is posible.

But you need to setup your tablet as an aditional monitor in your windows.

[Adixylian]

I did that already and I exported the info for the UFC (it's easy, just edit the .lua and put the correct pixels and width x height)

Now I just need the keys from your Hellios to be able to make an input for UFC, but don't know how to do it...

Is it possible to cut out your UFC and put it on other screen?

[Capt Zeen]

Yes. It can be done.

You need to select all the ufc switches and buttons from inside the main panel and then copy all of them inside a new panel.

Probably youll need to copy the background part of the ufc using photoshop or something similar.

Right now i'm not at home.

When i come back next week i can prepare a ufc module alone.

[ilikepie]

can anyone help trouble shoot a problem? I'm trying to figure out why the ins and radar rotaries do not respond to the touch input? info is being sent to helios from dcs as they move when clicked in game? all the other switches and rotaries respond to touch input except these 2.

 

if there is a more appropriate place for this question please let me know and i can ask there, cheers

[Capt Zeen]

can anyone help trouble shoot a problem? I'm trying to figure out why the ins and radar rotaries do not respond to the touch input? info is being sent to helios from dcs as they move when clicked in game? all the other switches and rotaries respond to touch input except these 2.

 

if there is a more appropriate place for this question please let me know and i can ask there, cheers

 

Update your export files with the latest one on my site.

Some weeks ago, ED changed the device number orders, and the radar, countermeasures etc, get affected.

[ilikepie]

cheers mate, sorted.

 

Bloody fantastic effort on the profile too, it's a work of art

[Tomcat]

At Last.

 

 

 

[Snacko]

I set this up when it first came out, but I know there have been several changes..

 

Has the first/original post by the Capt. Z been updated to reflect the current setup procedure? Not sure if I can find all the changes that have been made in this thread.. :book:

 

How 'stable' is the current setup? Have the changes settled down..

 

Just not sure if I should do this setup again now, or wait..

 

Thanks!

[Fakum]

I am also interested in getting this setup and have the same question. Thanks guys

[HeavyTemlar33]

@ Capt Zeen, The rar file says

 

 

 

"the archive is either in unknown format or damaged"

 

 

Same for the restructured export.lua

 

 

Other files were not an issue and I am able to extract them.

[sobe]

HeavyTemlar33

For some reason, 7z does not work with CZ's rar file. However, Freecommander works fine.

[HeavyTemlar33]

I use WinRar which is pretty reliable. The 2 files still won't extract but everything else from the site does. I resorted to the UnArchiver tool on the trusty Mac which recognized that the rar files have issues but still extracted them anyway.

[Capt Zeen]

Hello all!

 

UPDATE 2 is Ready for download.

 

it fixed the beheviors of some switches:

 

Launch bar Switch

Hook Bypass Switch

ALR-67 Power Button

 

You can find it in the Download section of my site, hope you like it !

 

 

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Edited August 29, 2018 by Capt Zeen

[sobe]

AMPCD lua file issue

 

In doing the update to both the DCS F18 and to CZ's F18 profile, I noticed that I had some additional wording in the AMPCD lua file. The language in bold/italics does not seem to be in the new updates and I don't know where or when I got it. Any ideas?

dofile(LockOn_Options.common_script_path.."devices_defs.lua")

dofile(LockOn_Options.script_path.."Multipurpose_Display_Group/Common/indicator/MDG_materials.lua")

 

opacity_sensitive_materials =

{

MDG_font_name(MDG_SELF_IDS.HI),

MDG_material_name(MDG_SELF_IDS.HI)

),

"MPD_DMC_OUTLINE",

"font_MPD_DMC_outline",

"font_MPD_DMC_main",

}

 

-- Parameters handling functions

dofile(LockOn_Options.script_path.."Multipurpose_Display_Group/Common/indicator/InitParams.lua")

 

indicator_type = indicator_types.COMMON

 

-- for test purposes HUD only added

purposes = {render_purpose.GENERAL}

 

 

 

, render_purpose.HUD_ONLY_VIEW}

shaderLineParamsUpdatable = true

shaderLineDefaultThickness = 0.8

shaderLineDefaultFuzziness = 0.5

shaderLineDrawAsWire = false

shaderLineUseSpecularPass = true

 

 

 

------------------------ added by Capt Zeen

dofile(LockOn_Options.common_script_path.."ViewportHandling.lua")

try_find_assigned_viewport("F18_AMPCD")

------------------------------------- end of added by Capt Zeen

 

 

 

-- Parameters to customize common symbology properties

writeParameter("MDG_init_specifics", LockOn_Options.script_path.."Multipurpose_Display_Group/AMPCD/indicator/AMPCD_specifics.lua")

writeParameter("MDG_init_DEFAULT_LEVEL", 8)

 

-- page specific for the indicator, implements indicator border/FOV

BasePage = LockOn_Options.script_path.."Multipurpose_Display_Group/Common/indicator/Pages/MPD/MPD_base.lua"

-- Cautions/Advisories and MENU label

IndicatorSpecificPage = LockOn_Options.script_path.."Multipurpose_Display_Group/Common/indicator/Pages/MPD/CautAdvAndMenuPage.lua"

dofile(LockOn_Options.script_path.."Multipurpose_Display_Group/Common/indicator/Pages/MPD/MPD_AdvisoriesDefs.lua")

dofile(LockOn_Options.script_path.."Multipurpose_Display_Group/Common/indicator/Common_init.lua")

 

 

 

-- for test purposes HUD only added

--ViewportHandling

dofile(LockOn_Options.common_script_path.."ViewportHandling.lua")

----------------------------------------------------------------------

local w = LockOn_Options.screen.width;

local h = LockOn_Options.screen.height;

 

if LockOn_Options.screen.oculus_rift then

local ui_x,ui_y,ui_w,ui_h = get_UIMainView()

w = ui_w;

h = ui_h;

end

 

local size = 0.5 * h

if size > h then

size = h

end

if size > 0.5 * w then

size = 0.5 * w

end

 

dedicated_viewport = {0.5 * w - 0.5 * size,h - size,size,size}

dedicated_viewport_arcade = dedicated_viewport

----------------------------------------------------------------------

--SHK DELETED NEXT LINE AS DUPLICATE FOR CAPT Z ABOVE

--try_find_assigned_viewport("CENTER_MFCD")

[Capt Zeen]

i'll take a look this ofternoon

[sobe]

Further thoughts on Post 245 above.

 

 

 

It appears that the additional language that is in bold/italic that appears in this lua file is from the latest update from DCS. When I used DCS's update for this file, but changed the viewport name to conform to my monitor config viewport name, the AMPCD screen appeared on my game screen and not on my Helios screen. So there appears to be a conflict between DCS's lua file and and my monitor config file as to the location for this screen.

[Capt Zeen]

OK... ED added ( 08/29/2018 ) the lines to export the AMPCD in his code, so we don't need anymore my extra lines. And they asigned the name "CENTER_MFCD" for that viewport.

 

Soooo.....You can use the actual ED code instead my code for the AMPCD ( we still need it for the IFEI, RWR and UFC )

 

 

If you use JSGME or other mod manager, delete the folder "Multipurpose_Display_Group" from Monitor configuration\Mods\aircraft\FA-18C\Cockpit\Scripts\Multipurpose_Display_Group in your mod manager files and activate it again.

 

And change the name of the viewport in your configuration file! replace "F18_AMPCD" by "CENTER_MFCD"

 

 

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Edited August 30, 2018 by Capt Zeen

[Tomcat]

Dear Capt Zeen,

Have you changed all changes in your profile.i mixed up again.

Do i need to change anything?According to post 245 and 248.

Thank you.

[Capt Zeen]

I actuallized the UPDATE 2 with the new changes on the config files, for the AMPCD, So the web package is up to date with all changes and improvements.

 

Do not overwrite your monitor config file! use yours, simple change the name of the "F18_AMPCD" to "CENTER_MFCD"

[Snacko]

Sweet, thanks for the info..