Apache Display Export Guide

[Floyd1212]

You need to be very careful with your syntax.  It can help if you use an editor like Sublime Text (or others) that are aware of the language you are using, and can help with coloring the syntax to help spot issues.

You are missing two "=" on those last two exports, and one of your curly braces is backwards.

[Derbroomaster]

Yes. 

16 hours ago, Floyd1212 said:

and the one that shows up as an eligible monitor profile is working now?

 

I'll get sublime today and try it out. I'm nowhere near being a coder, I'm just trying to get stuff to work ; )

Honestly, though, is that what would prevent a file from even being listed?

[Floyd1212]

Yes.  When you correct those three errors, it shows up in the list.

When DCS starts up, it sees those files in the folder and reads them.  It gets to the mistakes towards the end of your file, which invalidates the whole thing, and it just skips the file and keeps going.

You don't need Sublime Text to make the changes required, I was merely suggesting it if you think you will be doing a lot of .lua editing in the future.

[Derbroomaster]

1 hour ago, Floyd1212 said:

You don't need Sublime Text to make the changes required, I was merely suggesting it if you think you will be doing a lot of .lua editing in the future.

As long as I'm playing DCS, I'm likely going to be editing .lua files, lol. Can't be a bad tool to have around.

[Derbroomaster]

OK, I made the corrections and the file is recognized.

Thanks very much for yours and Bunny's assistance. I truly appreciate it.

At this point it's simply a question of getting the outputs to the correct x,y parts of the screen, but I think I can handle that.

[shagrat]

vor 23 Stunden schrieb Derbroomaster:

Yes. 

 

I'll get sublime today and try it out. I'm nowhere near being a coder, I'm just trying to get stuff to work ; )

Honestly, though, is that what would prevent a file from even being listed?

Yes, DCS makes a check on config.lua files before it adds them, so any syntax errors do not crash the game itself.

If it does not show in the list 99% chance there is a syntax error.

[Joker256]

got perfectly work 2 mfd and tedac lcds

Camera_3_MFCD.lua TEDAC_init.lua

Edited September 18, 2022 by Joker256

[Swift.]

So what's the latest on using exported displays at night? There was a brief time when using the custom exports as in the first post here would allow you to control the video on the in cockpit displays independently of the exports, so you could turn them way down and still use the exports. But now it seems that using the custom exports as in this thread will just make the video feed on the exports disappear.

So I'm stuck, are we just expected to not fly this at night or something?

[Floyd1212]

1 hour ago, Swift. said:

So I'm stuck, are we just expected to not fly this at night or something?

I posed a similar question here in August, but never got a suitable response.

If anyone has come up with a solution in the meantime, I would also love to know.  I don't fly night missions very often because of this, but when I do, I just have the in-cockpit displays cranked way up and blinding me so I can get my exports to work properly.

[Bunny Clark]

On 10/9/2022 at 12:26 PM, Floyd1212 said:

I just have the in-cockpit displays cranked way up and blinding me so I can get my exports to work properly.

Yup, this is my solution as well in all DCs modules. At night I only look at the displays on my export monitor, and just leave the in-game displays blindingly bright. 

[Purzel]

I've got it working after inserting the following lines to my TEDAC_init.lua:

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

and added the following lines to my monitorsetup-file:

Spoiler

_  = function(p) return p; end;
name = _('Apache PURZEL TEDAC only');
Description = 'Mainscreen + TEDAC =2720x1080'
Viewports =
{
     Center =
     {
          x = 0;
          y = 0;
          width = 1920;
          height = 1080;
          viewDx = 0;
          viewDy = 0;
          aspect = 1920/1080;
     }
}

Gui =
{
    x = 0;
    y = 0;
    width = 1920;
    height = 1080;
}
UIMainView = Gui

    TEDAC =
{
     x = 2021;
     y = 0;
     width = 600;
     height = 600;
}

UIMainView = Viewports.Center
GU_MAIN_VIEWPORT = Viewports.Center

but my ingame-TEDAC shows a "doubled picture" (the exported picture on the hardware-monitor is displayed correctly!)
Does anybody know why?
Is it important to name the viewport "TECAC_LCD"...?

Ingame-picture:

The external picture is ok:

[Floyd1212]

On 4/7/2022 at 1:31 AM, Bunny Clark said:

The TEDAC currently will show up as a double image within DCS when it is exported. There is no known workaround.

Bunny mentioned this in the first post of this thread.  Known issue.

[Bunny Clark]

On 10/23/2022 at 6:35 PM, Purzel said:

but my ingame-TEDAC shows a "doubled picture" (the exported picture on the hardware-monitor is displayed correctly!)
Does anybody know why?

Unfortunately, no. 

Myself and several others have tried chasing down a fix, but everything has been a dead end. At this point I suspect it's something only ED can fix. 

[Swift.]

12 hours ago, Bunny Clark said:

Unfortunately, no. 

Myself and several others have tried chasing down a fix, but everything has been a dead end. At this point I suspect it's something only ED can fix. 

Does the fix that we've been using before not work in 2.8?

Edited October 30, 2022 by Swift.

[Bunny Clark]

14 hours ago, Swift. said:

Does the fix that we've been using before not work in 2.8?

I'm not aware of a TEDAC export fix?

[Swift.]

6 hours ago, Bunny Clark said:

I'm not aware of a TEDAC export fix?

Involves commenting out a line somewhere. I'll compile something and share it.

[Swift.]

23 hours ago, Bunny Clark said:

I'm not aware of a TEDAC export fix?

Scripts/Aircrafts/_Common/Cockpit/ViewportHandling.lua

line 81. comment out render_purpose.GENERAL

Will remove the double render from all displays, will also completely remove the EUFD from the game window (so export only Im afraid).

If you are also using the old AH64_PLT_LEFT_MPCD (iirc) viewports, rather than the normal DCS LEFT_MPCD ones. You can go to Mods/Aircraft/AH-64D/Cockpit/Scripts/Displays/MFD/indicator/LCD/MFD_LCD.lua
and comment out lines 11-25.

Which will remove the in game renders completely (and the universal exports, hence the need for the older ones). Which means you can fly at night finally!

Edited October 31, 2022 by Swift.

[hannibal]

On 9/16/2022 at 6:23 PM, Joker256 said:

got perfectly work 2 mfd and tedac lcds

Camera_3_MFCD.lua 954 B · 14 downloads TEDAC_init.lua 1.06 kB · 15 downloads

 

what location should be the file "TEDAC_init.lua" be saved to @Joker256

[hannibal]

I was able to get the export to work, no special lua files needed except appending for the one that @Purzel described...

but of course customizing the actual multimontior config file specific to your multimonitors setup..

SIMPLY AMAZING... thanks for the find..

 

 

[hreich]

Does anybody know if this issue "-- TEDAC currently will show up as a double image within DCS when it is exported. There is no known workaround. "

 

is fixed in the latest patch? If it is -what i need to change in my lua files to get it fixed..?

Edited December 17, 2022 by hreich

[rrutko]

It says in the patch notes that it was fixed, but it wasn't. Mine does it still as well. If you flip it to night mode the double render goes away.

Edited December 18, 2022 by rrutko

[JIGGAwest]

On 10/31/2022 at 4:22 PM, Swift. said:

Scripts/Aircrafts/_Common/Cockpit/ViewportHandling.lua

line 81. comment out render_purpose.GENERAL

Will remove the double render from all displays, will also completely remove the EUFD from the game window (so export only Im afraid).

If you are also using the old AH64_PLT_LEFT_MPCD (iirc) viewports, rather than the normal DCS LEFT_MPCD ones. You can go to Mods/Aircraft/AH-64D/Cockpit/Scripts/Displays/MFD/indicator/LCD/MFD_LCD.lua
and comment out lines 11-25.

Which will remove the in game renders completely (and the universal exports, hence the need for the older ones). Which means you can fly at night finally!

 

Thanks Swift!!

 

if anyone is wondering For TEDAC double Render FIX 

I use the standard LEFT_MPCD, RIGHT_MPCD in the monitor config lua

Scripts/Aircrafts/_Common/Cockpit/ViewportHandling.lua , the lines 81-84 should look like this:

 purposes                  = {--render_purpose.GENERAL,
                                render_purpose.HUD_ONLY_VIEW,
                                render_purpose.SCREENSPACE_OUTSIDE_COCKPIT,
                                render_purpose.SCREENSPACE_INSIDE_COCKPIT}

 

Edited December 23, 2022 by JIGGAwest

[Floyd1212]

Does that “purposes” section enable display exports to stay live when looking at an external view, like F2?

[grim_reaper68]

Hi 

I've solved the double display problem. Just put TEDAC for the TEDAC display and it will work fine. It switches also to the night mode.

_  = function(p) return p; end;

name = _('Camera+RMFCD2');

Description = 'Left MFCD on the left monitor,Right MFCD on the right and camera on the center'

Viewports =

{

     Center =

     {

          x = 0;

          y = 0;

          width = 1920;

          height = 1080;

          viewDx = 0;

          viewDy = 0;

          aspect = 16/9;

     }

}

 

LEFT_MFCD =

{

     x = 1920;

     y = 0;

     width = 560;

     height = 560;

}

 

CENTER_MFCD =

{

     x = 2480;

     y = 490;

     width = 560;

     height = 560;

}

 

RIGHT_MFCD =

{

     x = 3040;

     y = 0;

     width = 560;

     height = 560;

}

 

TEDAC =

{

     x = 2480;

     y = 490;

     width = 560;

     height = 560;

}

 

UIMainView = Viewports.Center

GU_MAIN_VIEWPORT = Viewports.Center

I just don't know how to take a screenshot from both screen together. Geforce experience only take the right screen as desktop.  

Edited December 30, 2022 by grim_reaper68

[Joker256]

On 11/2/2022 at 7:57 AM, hannibal said:

what location should be the file "TEDAC_init.lua" be saved to @Joker256

I've installed to program files, so my way will be like this:

C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\Mods\aircraft\AH-64D\Cockpit\Scripts\Displays\TEDAC

 

(sry for so long answer)