Rotating viewports for monitorsetup.lua use

[lesthegrngo]

Hi all, I have six monitors set up, in such a way that they give me the lowest overall total extended monitor resolution, in this case 2104 x 2700, which gives a 5680800 total pixel count. The next best I can manage would be 2048 x 2960, giving 6062080, nearly 7% more pixel count. Knowing that the higher the total pixel count the heavier it is on the GPU, I'd like to use the smaller one, but it would mean that the two MFCD screens would be set up as portrait on the extended setup, but actually physically arranged as landscape on the dash.

Helios deals with two monitors, so they are fine, and the monitorsetp.lua can deal easily with the CDU export (same alignment on the extended desktop and physically) but for the MFCD's I need to rotate the output to match the two monitors that display them.

I have updated the monitor setup .lua file with a line saying 'rotation = 90' but it doesn't do anything (although surprisingly I get no errors)

So is there a way to rotate the viewports using monitorsetup.lau?

Les

[MadKreator]

I don’t think the overall resolution is anything to worry much about by itself as dcs isn’t rendering the full game over the entire area. Viewports aren’t really a workout for the gpu. Especially if you’re just rendering small ones. DCS just needs the entire resolution area to base the coordinate system off of for placement. Its not like trying to run the main game across 6 monitors. I don’t think you’ll notice any difference since the actual amount of screen space with things being rendered will be the same.  As for rotating a viewport, I have no idea lol  I think you would have to set the monitors in windows as vertical displays, but I’m not sure if the display itself would need that ability. I’ve never run a vertical monitor. 

[lesthegrngo]

Thanks

If the overall size doesn't affect it I may as well make my life easy then! No rotation necessary if I have the larger extended desktop, so I'll go that way

 

Thanks for the input

Les

[tc93]

I want to mount one of my MFDs upside down because the LCD contrast is bad when viewed from certain angles.

However, the displays, or their "WinUsbDisplay.exe" driver just ignore orientation setting coming from Windows.

 

If anybody knows how to rotate the viewport in the export config please let me know!

[tc93]

For the record, I didn't succeed in rotating the viewport directly, but managed to write an app that takes screenshots and displays them rotated: https://github.com/michaelosthege/ViewportReplicator

There are also ways to do it with Helios: https://github.com/HeliosVirtualCockpit/Helios/issues/767