What's the best way to export viewports (UFC, IFEI for instance)

[Red Dog]

Bear with me, I'm new with DCS F/A-18 but not quite with cockpit building.

 

 

I'm trying myself at carrier ops with DCS and I want to export the MFDs and some more stuff from the pit to a secondary screen.

 

 

At this point, exporting the Left_MFCD, Right_MFCD and Center_MFCD wasn't a problem thanks to previous search on the forum and the multi monitor topic in the DCS A-10 forum.

So this work already.

 

 

What I couldn't get to work was how to declare viewports for instance like the UFC or the EFIE or some analogue gauges

 

 

I couldn't find a list of terms not using dedicated viewports name in the LUA Editing from the Cockpit/scripts folder)

The only three seeming to work are the 3 listed above (MFCDs)

is there such a list or do we have to manually declare these alternate viewports (for UFC and IFEI for instance)?

 

All the references I could find about this are dated back from 2011 and specific to the DCS A-10 and for starters to file folder structure has changed.

I can easily find back the relevant files in the new structure but I Wonder if the coding of the LUA files linked there are still valid?

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=70716

 

 

Since all that is pretty old, I'm wondering if I'm not missing some topics about doing the same for other newer aircrfat modules?

or if there is a GUI to perform these exports easier than messing the LUA files?

 

 

Sorry if the question has been asked before. I have ben looking different forum but wasn't able to get a relevant topic about it.

Bear with me if it was explained somewhere I couldn't find and i'd appreciate some pointer to these topics.

 

 

Many thanks for any help provided

[Rom_un]

Capt Zeen has a good tutorial i've used.

http://www.captzeen.com/helios/F18.asp

 

You can bypass the helios cokpit and export IFEI, UFC, RWR, AMPCD and the two DDI

[Red Dog]

Thank you very much for that pointer,

 

Thanks to these Lua files in the package I could adapt mines and I now have the UFC and IFIE as viewports declared and working great

 

Many thanks

[BluFinBima]

Hi Red Dog, the Helios native interface gives you the UFC and the IFEI without the need for exporting viewports.