Having fun with Helios

[agrasyuk]

was thinking for some time how to make those MFDs usefull outside the sim. after learning more about Helios bindings an idea popped! attached is a result of wasted evening. I'm not very artistic person nor good with computer graphics, so i could not imagine anything other then green on black (well, kinda goes with the style :) ). for now couple shortcuts to folders and websites of interest + a convinient way to initiate and terminate autohotkey script that translates rotary encoder input. i can see how this can be made fancier with labels changing colors on press (DSMS style :) ) etc...

 

basically if nothing else Helios is a very convinient way to assign simple actions to buttons AND have a non permanent label near to remind what it is assigned to. besides the profile attached i also started on several other concepts. attempting to draw auto-pilot and and some other controls for FSX since proper interface into FSX is for now does not exist . and another profile for railroad simulator (yes, i love these too :music_whistling: )

 

what do you think? anyone else does something similar?

[cichlidfan]

If you wanted to fancy up the graphics a bit. An easy source would be web page button graphics. You can get nice pairs of images (for on and off positions).

 

Very cool idea though!:thumbup:

[Ragtop]

This is an awesome idea, when I'm not flying, my second display is never used, so something like this would be very helpful!