I'm at my wit's end with these "^^"^&%" lua files!

[98abaile]

No matter what I do the game will not start a mission, it just stops working and spits me out to the end mission screen.

 

Two monitors. Left one is 17" 1280x1024. Main one is 22" 1680x1050. They are set up so that the bottom edges are flush (left monitor is arranged at -1280, 26 in windows as an extended desktop).

My options file:

options = 
{
   ["difficulty"] = 
   {
       ["padlock"] = true,
       ["easyRadar"] = false,
       ["miniHUD"] = true,
       ["birds"] = 100,
       ["optionsView"] = "optview_all",
       ["permitCrash"] = true,
       ["immortal"] = false,
       ["map"] = true,
       ["radio"] = true,
       ["labels"] = false,
       ["tips"] = true,
       ["aftSwitching"] = false,
       ["cockpitLanguage"] = "english",
       ["units"] = "imperial",
       ["easyFlight"] = false,
       ["altTrimmingMethod"] = false,
       ["externalViews"] = true,
       ["iconsTheme"] = "nato",
       ["fuel"] = false,
       ["weapons"] = false,
       ["setGlobal"] = false,
       ["geffect"] = "none",
   }, -- end of ["difficulty"]
   ["views"] = 
   {
       ["cockpit"] = 
       {
           ["mirrors"] = true,
           ["reflections"] = false,
           ["russianHud"] = false,
           ["avionics"] = 1,
       }, -- end of ["cockpit"]
   }, -- end of ["views"]
   ["sound"] = 
   {
       ["world"] = 0,
       ["radioSpeech"] = true,
       ["cockpit"] = 0,
       ["volume"] = 0,
       ["headphones"] = 0,
       ["music"] = 0,
       ["subtitles"] = true,
       ["gui"] = 0,
   }, -- end of ["sound"]
   ["graphics"] = 
   {
       ["multiMonitorSetup"] = "custom+shkval+camera",
       ["color"] = "32",
       ["heatBlr"] = 1,
       ["scenes"] = "high",
       ["water"] = 2,
       ["fullScreen"] = true,
       ["visibRange"] = "High",
       ["aspect"] = 1.6,
       ["textures"] = 2,
       ["shadows"] = 3,
       ["effects"] = 3,
       ["width"] = 2960,
       ["lights"] = 2,
       ["height"] = 1050,
       ["civTraffic"] = 0,
       ["resolution"] = "1680x1050",
       ["haze"] = 1,
   }, -- end of ["graphics"]
} -- end of options

My custom+shkval+camera file:

_  = function(p) return p; end;
name = _('Custom+Shkval+Camera');
Description = 'Shkval on the left monitor, camera on the right';
Viewports =
{
    Center =
    {
         x = 1280;
         y = 0;
         width = 1680;
         height = screen.height;
         viewDx = 0;
         viewDy = 0;
         aspect = 1.6;
    }
}

Shkval =
{
    x = 0;
    y = 26;
    width = 1280;
    height = 1024;
}

Please help me out. I have no idea where I'm going wrong.:helpsmilie:

Eventually, I'd like to get the ABRIS displayed on the right half of the left screen and the shkval in the top left quarter of the left screen (then use Helios to fill the rest in with dials).

[98abaile]

Okay, so I figured out that if I turn off the Full Screen toggle in the options, that I can actually start a mission. However I now have a problem where the game tries to display both screens in one monitor, so all I see is the shkval and a little bit of the camera. How can I get the shkval on my left monitor?

 

I'd really appreciate the help. It's so frustrating to being so tantalisingly close yet unable to get it right.:doh:

 

EDIT:

Changed the custom+shkval+camera file to:

_  = function(p) return p; end; name = _('Custom+Shkval+Camera');
Description = 'Shkval on the left monitor, camera on the right';
Viewports = {
     Center =      {
          x = 0;
          y = 0;
          width = 1680;
          height = screen.height;
          viewDx = 0;
          viewDy = 0;
          aspect = 1.6;
     }
}
 Shkval = {
     x = -1280;
     y = 26;
     width = 1280;
     height = 1024;
}

Which has now centred the main camera, but still nothing on the left monitor.

Edited May 28, 2011 by 98abaile

[5thduke]

your more advanced into this than i am man, good luck hope you get help so maybe i can figure mine out too.

[98abaile]

Been playing around with setting my left monitor as the main screen with the top edges flush. The problem I have now is that the task bar on my (now) right screen (because I've put it there so I can continue using it as my defacto main screen), stays on top of everything and the whole image is now shifted down 26px (even though the left screen is the highest point and the y value of the camera view is 0 (flush with the top of the left screen)).

 

I think ED really needs to work on a native ability for DCS to treat screens and MFDs as borderless windows so that they can be moved to other screens like a regular window without the need for .lua files. Literally just have radio buttons in the settings for each MFD that will open new windows for each MFD selected; then you just Alt+Tab to them, move them about and Alt+Tab back to the game.

 

EDIT: Fixed the mis-alignment problem. Now if someone could help me stop the taskbar from displaying during play (without it being permanently set to autohide), I can finally get aroung to setting up my joystick and then learning to actually fly the helicopter.

Edited May 29, 2011 by 98abaile

[vortex360]

Now if someone could help me stop the taskbar from displaying during play (without it being permanently set to autohide), I can finally get aroung to setting up my joystick and then learning to actually fly the helicopter.

 

 

Perhaps you have the game in "windowed mode" instead of full screen. I do see the true setting in "fullscreen" on the lau file though. Those files should be edited with Notepad++.

Edited May 29, 2011 by vortex360

[98abaile]

Yeah I just switched to ++ after reading another thread. As I said in my second post, I realised it was the full screen setting that was actually preventing me from launching a mission.

 

It doesn't matter now anyway, I just rearranged my desk and now the second monitor is on the right (which isn't what I wanted, but it serves its purpose. At least my widescreen is back to being my main monitor) and both the shkval and the abris display fine now (just need to learn how to use them now. Baby steps, lol).