Need Labels Modded from Sentences to Blue and Red Dots / Lines. For Dummies Please!

[redmantab]

Searched all around and through these forums for a way to simply make the Labels that I need to actually spot targets in vr and change them from long sentences that run into eachother to just the current horizontal red or blue lines in game but remove the long wording afterwords.

 

Looking around I see all this Lua jargon and JSGME etc. What on earth are all these acronyms?!

 

More importantly, let's skip long stories about how I should just know this stuff to the solution.

 

Please share in common terms detailing everything (no assumptive acronyms or descriptions) how I can accomplish my goal. What do I download or change and, if possible, a solution that "sticks" after each patch would be great.

 

Thank you! Great game in vr, phenomenal actually, just need to make this change.

[dburne]

Amen to that, I really wish ED could do something about those huge labels in VR.

[toutenglisse]

redmantab, just download this file and paste it in :

 

C:\Users\your-username\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta(or-what-your-is)\Config\View\

 

(view folder has to be created)

This labels.lua file is a text file, you can open it with wordpad and modify the symbology for what you want. (in the one I post I use red or blue "." for air and ground units, "^" for navy units, and "*" for weapons).

 

As this file is not located in main DCS folder it will remains the same after every update.

[redmantab]

redmantab, just download this file and paste it in :

 

C:\Users\your-username\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta(or-what-your-is)\Config\View\

 

(view folder has to be created)

This labels.lua file is a text file, you can open it with wordpad and modify the symbology for what you want. (in the one I post I use red or blue "." for air and ground units, "^" for navy units, and "*" for weapons).

 

As this file is not located in main DCS folder it will remains the same after every update.

 

Thank you! Ok, just a bit more questions.

 

When you said open it with wordpad and modify the symbology for what you want....um, you assume I know how to do these magical things lol. How do I do that? Actually, I'd be happy simply shrinking the wording dramatically in size but so that as I learn the game in VR I can still tell what is an APC, what is a mig, etc....just without 5 inches long wording where they all cram together.

 

It sounds like what you are recommending accomplishes that a bit eh!? Can you kindly elaborate a bit. I found this video below and wouldn't mind something like this where I still see the small horizontal line on each target but it looks like his "sentence descriptions" are shorter.

 

I think you know what I'm aiming for.

 

[redmantab]

Also, do I have to restart DCS every time I make a change to see how the label "takes" after I make adjustments? That could be tedious but I hope you will share that I won't have to.

[toutenglisse]

I made my labels file very simple, just for spotting, no informations.

But you can make the file showing name of object, distance, pilot name, etc.…

If you open labels.lua you see the first half part of text is detailling all options and what to write for each object to achieve what you want, it's very well explained in it, there's even an exemple (every time you see -- in front of text this is explaination text, not active)

 

Size of text by the way is tied to standard fontsize and your resolution. If it's modifiable I Don't know how (maybe labels_format_version ? I've not tried)

 

I Don't know if you need to restart DCS to test ? surely your mission but not necessarly whole sim.

[farmertom]

I made my labels file very simple, just for spotting, no informations.

 

Thanks this file worked for me.... :thumbup: