Winwing and helios.

[Arink429]

Hi.

I'm building my own dogfightboss cockpit adapted for winwing MIPs and a couple of displays for IFEI and stby instruments/RWR. As a new Helios user i'm findind a lot of problems. If I visualice the MIPs, I'm unable to see the RWR, and if I switch the saved Helios cofiguration on DCS menu I can see the RWR but the MIPs show blank. I guess it must be an export lua issue. Some lights on this? Thank you. 

[Wostg]

Hope I understand you correctly, but basically you need to stop using Simapppro for everything but the UFC and lighting:

• you can't use both simapppro and helios for screen exports at the same time, so
• dcs needs to be set to run the helios monitor config, screen size set to 3440x2464 (or whatever based on your setup) and not winwing
• simapppro is only running to control the led readuts on the ufc and lighting
• helios does the mip screen exports to their 3 monitors, and also your IFEI/RWR on your 4th, 5th etc
• on mine, the mip monitors are set to portrait 768x1024, each display is set to 768x768 and placed at the bottom of the helios view (the top section being covered by the buttons)

 

[Arink429]

Thanks, Wostg. How can I use SimappPro for the UFC work only, without exporting their 3 screens? Is there any option for deactivate this? Every time I select the customized Helios resolution in DCS, the SimappPro option "set MFD display" turns red.

My combined screen size is set to 5152x1536.

Thank you.

[MAXsenna]

Hope I understand you correctly, but basically you need to stop using Simapppro for everything but the UFC and lighting:

• you can't use both simapppro and helios for screen exports at the same time, so
• dcs needs to be set to run the helios monitor config, screen size set to 3440x2464 (or whatever based on your setup) and not winwing
• simapppro is only running to control the led readuts on the ufc and lighting
• helios does the mip screen exports to their 3 monitors, and also your IFEI/RWR on your 4th, 5th etc
• on mine, the mip monitors are set to portrait 768x1024, each display is set to 768x768 and placed at the bottom of the helios view (the top section being covered by the buttons)

 

Not entirely correct. Helios does not export screens. It just helps you write the monitor config file, and adds some viewport names for those that have only mfd_right etc. You don't need Helios at all if you know how to manually write the config file. Exporting instruments is another matter entirely.
Cheers!

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[Wostg]

MAXsenna above is entirely correct, but Helios does make it all easy, once you've figured it out.

Set up all your Helios MFDs to manage your exported screens + IFEI etc - this is the video which helped me understand it: 

 

On Simappro's Game Peripheral Display / Set MFD display page, deselect the 3 FA18 MFDs monitors with the blank space.

Ensure DCS is set to:

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(or whatever resolution as appropriate) 

The exported viewports should be then working. Switch on any widgets created with the Control Center and you should be good to go, in-game

[Arink429]

Solved. Now all work properly. Thank you very much for your help! 

[Arink429]

And here the first test video. All screens and gauges working well.

 

[Wostg]

Wow, I want one!

[BMGZ06]

On 5/12/2024 at 11:21 AM, Arink429 said:

Solved. Now all work properly. Thank you very much for your help! 

I would like to use helios instead of simapp to export MFDs and UFC for all aircraft as well. I hate the way Winwing did it so the left and right MFDs in the F18 have the visible area around the black that bleeds through in VR. I have never used Helios before. Any chance you could post your helios settings for the F18? 

[taichi]

On 5/12/2024 at 5:44 PM, Wostg said:

MAXsenna above is entirely correct, but Helios does make it all easy, once you've figured it out.

Set up all your Helios MFDs to manage your exported screens + IFEI etc - this is the video which helped me understand it: 

 

On Simappro's Game Peripheral Display / Set MFD display page, deselect the 3 FA18 MFDs monitors with the blank space.

Ensure DCS is set to:

null

(or whatever resolution as appropriate) 

The exported viewports should be then working. Switch on any widgets created with the Control Center and you should be good to go, in-game

Hi !

Just a question.

So you solved it using only the Helios interface and exporting all your data to the new WinWing Display ?

 

No more SimApp Pro ?

Or using It for other purposes ?

Thanks !

     TaiChi

 

 

[Wostg]

22 minutes ago, taichi said:

No more SimApp Pro ?

Or using It for other purposes ?

I still need it for the UFC unit and the mfd buttons but the monitors can be run from Helios, or manually configured. 

[Ditch]

Potentially helpful. This solution worked for me: