How to move crew indicator?

[skypickle]

There is an option to display the crew indicator in the bottom left of the screen. It looks like this:

but as you can see, mine has been cut off. I do have a 768x1024 screen below my main monitor to display an MFD. It correctly works with my modified monitor.lua to display exported MFDs. However, the HUEY crew indicator is hard coded.

 here:

C:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\Mods\aircraft\Uh-1H\Cockpit\Scripts\CrewIndicator\crew_indicator_page.lua

The file contains this:

 

dofile(LockOn_Options.common_script_path .. "elements_defs.lua")
dofile(LockOn_Options.common_script_path .. "crew_indicator_common.lua")

SetCustomScale(1.0)

populate(4, {{90.0/128.0, -78.0/256.0}, {38.0/128.0, -78.0/256.0}, {33.0/128.0, -155.0/256.0}, {94.0/128.0, -155.0/256.0},})

First, I cannot find the file crew_indicator_common.lua

Secondly, The text to the right of the helicopter diagram does not move.

Also, changing SetCustomScale(0.5) has no effect.

 

Does anyone know how to move the text??

[cgrxman]

Bumping this because I am getting tired of restarting DCS in single-monitor mode to play helicopters.  What was wrong with the old display method?

[Smashy]

On 1/20/2024 at 8:41 AM, cgrxman said:

Bumping this because I am getting tired of restarting DCS in single-monitor mode to play helicopters.  What was wrong with the old display method?

I'm not sure if this is the optimal solution but this fixed it for me:

Edit <DCS base dir>/Mods/aircraft/Uh-1H/Cockpit/Scripts/AI/ControlPanel/g_panel_page.lua

Find the following line (appx line 42):

local shift_X		  = -0.65

Experiment with the value to position the AI crew panel to where you like.  My multi-monitor configuration has a horizontal resolution of 6144 and changing this value to "-2.80" put the AI panel where I wanted it.  It will get overwritten when you update/repair DCS so save it in a safe place or look for it in <DCS base dir>/_backup.### to find it again.

Hope this helps.

Edited January 23, 2024 by Smashy

[cgrxman]

On 1/23/2024 at 1:41 PM, Smashy said:

I'm not sure if this is the optimal solution but this fixed it for me:

Edit <DCS base dir>/Mods/aircraft/Uh-1H/Cockpit/Scripts/AI/ControlPanel/g_panel_page.lua

Find the following line (appx line 42):

local shift_X		  = -0.65

Experiment with the value to position the AI crew panel to where you like.  My multi-monitor configuration has a horizontal resolution of 6144 and changing this value to "-2.80" put the AI panel where I wanted it.  It will get overwritten when you update/repair DCS so save it in a safe place or look for it in <DCS base dir>/_backup.### to find it again.

Hope this helps.

 

Thanks so much.  I'll give it a try and report back.

[Adamemnon]

This... Will should sort it... Thanks to a friend who found this other thread.