How to display owned modules only in bottom main menu?

[bofhlusr]

I searched the forum and googled for an answer first before posting here.

 

 

There are too many plane modules at the bottom of the main screen menu which I don't use. How do I limit the modules displayed to the ones I own only?

 

 

Also, is there a link to the manuals of modules (eg. A-10c) in the main menu of the latest version of DCS World?

 

 

Thank you.

[norbot]

I can't answer your fist question, because I don't know if that is possible.

 

 

You can find the manuals of the aircraft in the respective "Doc" folder. Example for the A-10C: "\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\Mods\aircraft\A-10C\Doc". There ist no shortcut in the Start menue.

[Rudel_chw]

Tip from user @Pudu:

 

For the icons:

- go to saved game/dcs/config/ (or the openbeta equivalent folder), find pluginsEnabled.lua

- open it with notepad++ or another text editor

- add those modules you dont want to see into that lua file

 

For example:

 

pluginsEnabled =

{

["A-10C Warthog by Eagle Dynamics"] = true,

["Flaming Cliffs by Eagle Dynamics"] = false,

["F/A-18C"] = false,

["MiG-15bis by Belsimtek"] = true,

["F-86F Sabre by Belsimtek"] = false,

} -- end of pluginsEnabled

 

And from @AndrewW:

 

And to save you the trouble of having to create the entire file, here it is with all of the current modules. Note you will obviously need to modify the true/false flags according to what you own.

 

pluginsEnabled =

{

["A-10A by Eagle Dynamics"] = true,

["A-10C Warthog by Eagle Dynamics"] = true,

["AJS37 Viggen by Heatblur Simulations"] = true,

["AV-8B N/A by RAZBAM Sims"] = true,

["Bf 109 K-4 by Eagle Dynamics"] = false,

["C-101 Aviojet"] = false,

["Christen Eagle II by Magnitude 3 LLC"] = false,

["F-5E by Belsimtek"] = true,

["F-14B by Heatblur Simulations"] = true,

["F-15C"] = true,

["F-86F Sabre by Belsimtek"] = true,

["F/A-18C"] = true,

["Flaming Cliffs by Eagle Dynamics"] = true,

["FW-190D9 Dora by Eagle Dynamics"] = true,

["Ka-50 Black Shark by Eagle Dynamics"] = true,

["L-39C"] = false,

["M-2000C by RAZBAM Sims"] = false,

["Mi-8MTV2 Hip by Belsimtek"] = false,

["MiG-15bis by Belsimtek"] = false,

["MiG-19P by RAZBAM"] = false,

["MiG-21Bis by Magnitude 3 LLC"] = false,

["MiG-29 Fulcrum by Eagle Dynamics"] = false,

["P-51D Mustang by Eagle Dynamics"] = true,

["SA342 Gazelle by Polychop-Simulations"] = false,

["Spitfire LF Mk. IX by Eagle Dynamics"] = true,

["Su-25A by Eagle Dynamics"] = true,

["Su-27 Flanker by Eagle Dynamics"] = true,

["Su-33 Flanker by Eagle Dynamics"] = true,

["UH-1H Huey by Belsimtek"] = true,

["Yak-52 by Eagle Dynamics"] = false

} -- end of pluginsEnabled

[bofhlusr]

Thank you both. Very helpful.

 

@Rudel, any idea how to remove the following (I tried several permutations without success)?

 

F-16C

Fw 190 A-8

JF-17

 

Thanks again.

Edited April 11, 2020 by bofhlusr

[Rudel_chw]

@Rudel, any idea how to remove the following (I tried several permutations without success)?

 

F-16C

Fw 190 A-8

JF-17

 

Hi,

 

For the F-16, try "F-16C bl.50"

 

For the A8, try "Fw 190 A-8 by Eagle Dynamics"

 

For the JF-17, try 'JF-17 by Deka Ironwork Simulations'

 

This ID can be extracted from the module's entry.lua file, from the line:

 

self_ID = 

 

Best regards

[bofhlusr]

@Rudel, those worked. I never would have guessed since I don't have those items and therefore have no access to the mod's "entry.lua" file. Thank you very much!

 

Would you also know how to center the remaining items? (I only have eight remaining items left).

[Rudel_chw]

@Rudel, those worked. I never would have guessed since I don't have those items and therefore have no access to the mod's "entry.lua" file. Thank you very much!

 

:thumbup: you are welcome.

 

You do have a demo of the Mods that you don't own .. it's at \Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\DemoMods ... in there you can find the entry.lua of the Mods that you don't have :)

 

Would you also know how to center the remaining items?

 

No, sorry, don't know how to do that. I do wish that DCS were able to show 2 lines of icons, if one has too many mods, rather than the horizontal scroll that we have now.

:)

[bofhlusr]

Great info also on the DemoMods folder. Thanks.

 

I agree. Two lines is better than scrolling. There's a lot of screen space available. Scrolling doesn't make sense to me.

 

I'm glad I was able to remove the unneeded icons based on your suggestion. I'm partially color blind. I had a hard time differentiating which module was installed.

[Mogster]

We should be able to drag/drop and show/hide the icons as we wish.

 

Scrolling will only become more onerous as the number of modules increases.

[dlder]

 

On 4/11/2020 at 10:59 AM, Rudel_chw said:

And to save you the trouble of having to create the entire file, here it is with all of the current modules. Note you will obviously need to modify the true/false flags according to what you own.

How do you get those module names? I've tried searching for "declare_plugin", which works for some/most, but for instance the Apache is listed as "AH-64D BLK.II AI"...

Hm, I think I got it: search for "self_ID"

[cgjimeneza]

if I put the owned modules in a specific order (not alphabetically) will they show in the new order?

[Rudel_chw]

6 hours ago, cgjimeneza said:

if I put the owned modules in a specific order (not alphabetically) will they show in the new order?

 

No idea, maybe you could try it and then tell us how it went.

[XpRiV]

Go to main DCS Directory and delete the DemoMods folder. When you load DCS only Your Paid Modules and any Mods you have will Show up.

You have to do this after every update but its not a hardship 

Edited June 9, 2023 by XpRiV

[Rudel_chw]

8 minutes ago, XpRiV said:

Go to main DCS Directory and delete the DemoMods folder. When you load DCS only Your Paid Modules and any Mods you have will Show up.

You have to do this after every update but its not a hardship 

 

Thanks, but I prefer editing pluginsEnabled.lua at my /saved games/ folder once and not worry about updates.

[Red Dog]

very useful info, thanks gents

I finally put some orders in these icons