Heads Up Displays

[DH14300]

Building a cockpit? Or, just looking for the coolest, new hardware? We have the real deal- Heads up displays for DCS. Our HUDs work with 7 DCS aircraft: F/A-18C, F-16C, A-10C, A-10C-II, F-14B, T-45C and F-15E. We provide the LUA mods to export the HUD images for you. To learn more, see photos and videos, visit us at headsupview.com

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[Rudel_chw]

This is a novel product for me, so I searched a bit and found this review (not the typical video, but a real written review):

 

https://www.skywardfm.com/post/heads-up-view-dt1-hud-unboxing-first-impression

 

Visited the manufacturer's website expecting to find an 800 dollar item, but I was surprised to see a price of US$ 645: https://www.headsupview.com/shop   

 

It's actually within my reach, and it really seems like a very desirable piece of kit ... the only downside (for me)  that I can see, is that it seems not compatible with the Viggen and Mirage 2000 .. but it works with the A-10, F-16, F-18 and (partly) with the F-15E.  Will start saving $$ and think an excuse for my wifey 

[Jeb]

so with this in front of you, you now have 2 huds, the physical and the one in DCS. thats is a lot of stuff in my view

Edited November 3, 2023 by Jeb

[Dos]

Wait can't we just turn HUD BRT to off? Thinking about it may cause problems when binding the external HUD.

Dos

Edited November 3, 2023 by Dos

[agrasyuk]

External HUD will still use the output as it's viewport. Meaning if you dim it in game it will get dimmer on viewport. 

The proper way would be configuring the HUD device lua file to not render in game and only export. "view purposes " is the line somewhere in there. 

[MAXsenna]

@lesthegrngo You've seen this?

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[lesthegrngo]

Oh dear, I have now!

Cheers 

Les

[lesthegrngo]

On 11/4/2023 at 6:33 PM, agrasyuk said:

External HUD will still use the output as it's viewport. Meaning if you dim it in game it will get dimmer on viewport. 

The proper way would be configuring the HUD device lua file to not render in game and only export. "view purposes " is the line somewhere in there. 

While the HUD kit mentioned is ever so nice and makes my wallet itch, a vestigial sense of self-preservation tells me I have to wait a while before I can justify to SWMBO. That being the case, I still want to find a half way house, and having the current HUD removed from the 'HUD View' preset and replacing it with a viewport that can be adjusted (resized) to suit in the monitorsetup .lua file would be great. 

Your statement quoted above seems to indicate that I can indeed tell the game not to render the HUD, can you expand on that? Looking at the HUD_init.lua file it quotes "purposes      = {render_purpose.GENERAL,render_purpose.HUD_ONLY_VIEW}", would removing the part "render_purpose.HUD_ONLY_VIEW" mean that the HUD view stops showing the HUD?

Cheers

 

Les 

Edited November 7, 2023 by lesthegrngo

[lesthegrngo]

I just tried it, and it does work, no more HUD in HUD view. However there must be something wrong with my .lua viewport file as it doesn't show up after inserting this

HUD =
	{
		x = 400;
		y = -200;
		width = 400;
		height = 400;
	}	

I'll keep trying

the HUD_init.lua file has this at the bottom of it

dofile(LockOn_Options.common_script_path.."ViewportHandling.lua")
try_find_assigned_viewport("A_10C_HUD", "HUD")

I have tried both A_10C_HUD and HUD without success, however I have had this issue before on .lua files where it seems to be correct but something is not quite right, maybe the script characters are different or there is a space somewhere there shouldn't be

****EDIT Number 2*****

I was right, some thing was incorrect and redoing it now has it working - except now, despite the removal of the "render_purpose.HUD_ONLY_VIEW" from the HUD_init.lua file, now I have two instances of the HUD, the original and the new viewport version.

Going to the the Viewporthandling.lua file and commenting out the "render_purpose.HUD_ONLY_VIEW" line stops the original HUD from being rendered, but has the unfortunate side effect of knocking out the other viewports  when in HUD_view mode

Again, I'll keep trying....

Les

 

Edited November 7, 2023 by lesthegrngo

[lesthegrngo]

For anyone interested, I managed to do this - take a look here 

 

Les

[DH14300]

All...we provide thew HUD export solutions and HUD removal instructions for Alt+F1 view on the 7 aircraft we support for DCS World. Here are the details...https://www.headsupview.com/dcs-world

All mod instructions are provided there (Luas, etc)!

HeadsUpView.com

[Dudikoff]

Looks VERY interesting, I was just wondering if such a thing exists few weeks ago.

I would advise providing a few review samples to some of the respected YouTube sim-related content makers to advertise it as I'm sure prospective buyers would want an unbiased take on how well it works in sims (and combines with Track IR, for example) before pulling the trigger.

Edited December 1, 2023 by Dudikoff

[Harley]

Is this a totally new thing? Because I've been looking for weeks! I thought for sure Google would have returned this result by now. Great find! And instructions for how to edit the lua files enclosed? Seems almost too good to be true.

Long gone are the old days of having to make all this stuff yourself. It is pretty amazing watching the flight sim hobby/obsession finally taking off with all the panels and designs we have to choose from now. We're truly blessed to have all these kinds of things available.

If a sim pilot wants to build an F/A-18C cockpit in the house, the biggest obstacle seems to be the significant other.

[MAXsenna]

Is this a totally new thing? Because I've been looking for weeks! I thought for sure Google would have returned this result by now. Great find! And instructions for how to edit the lua files enclosed? Seems almost too good to be true.
Long gone are the old days of having to make all this stuff yourself. It is pretty amazing watching the flight sim hobby/obsession finally taking off with all the panels and designs we have to choose from now. We're truly blessed to have all these kinds of things available.
If a sim pilot wants to build an F/A-18C cockpit in the house, the biggest obstacle seems to be the significant other.

Kinda new, been looking all over myself. OP posted on the 2nd of November!

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[Keith Briscoe]

So many childhood dreams able to come true these days!