Aries Radio System

[Hansolo]

Ouch. Hope it's only fixable damage. Take your time getting everything sorted Towsim

 

All the best

Hans

[LowLee]

I hope you will solve soon your problem.

 

In bocca al lupo Towsim!

[NECK]

Hope all is well Towsim, best of luck.

[tifafan]

I have a question.

The lastest verison of Aries still can't work in a full screen mode?I'd like to to play the game in full screen mode,otz.

THX

And I'm sorry to hear about the storm damages.

Edited April 2, 2015 by tifafan

[towsim]

Full screen mode is still not possible and I see no chance to solve this problem. The reason is the additional Aries radio panel, which must be visible all the time on top of the DCS screen. In full screen mode, the entire window z-order is under control of the DCS application. The Aries panel is not usable anymore. In difference to older DCS version, the program does not crash if started with Aries in full screen mode. There would be some black magic possible if I would hack the internal DirectX function scheduler. But this would interfere the DCS program code which must be prevented in the interest of the software creator.

 

BTW, all damaged trees are removed and we are in a good health with the exception, that my body is stiff by all this lumberjack work.

[NeilWillis]

I hope you have a wood burner to make good use of all that fire wood Towsim!

 

I hope there wasn't any collateral damage to your property.

[JayPee]

Full screen mode is still not possible and I see no chance to solve this problem. The reason is the additional Aries radio panel, which must be visible all the time on top of the DCS screen. In full screen mode, the entire window z-order is under control of the DCS application. The Aries panel is not usable anymore. In difference to older DCS version, the program does not crash if started with Aries in full screen mode. There would be some black magic possible if I would hack the internal DirectX function scheduler. But this would interfere the DCS program code which must be prevented in the interest of the software creator.

 

BTW, all damaged trees are removed and we are in a good health with the exception, that my body is stiff by all this lumberjack work.

Maybe I'm saying something stupid now but I've been using your Aries with DCS in full screen mode for as long as I am using it...?

[tifafan]

Full screen mode is still not possible and I see no chance to solve this problem. The reason is the additional Aries radio panel, which must be visible all the time on top of the DCS screen. In full screen mode, the entire window z-order is under control of the DCS application. The Aries panel is not usable anymore. In difference to older DCS version, the program does not crash if started with Aries in full screen mode. There would be some black magic possible if I would hack the internal DirectX function scheduler. But this would interfere the DCS program code which must be prevented in the interest of the software creator.

 

BTW, all damaged trees are removed and we are in a good health with the exception, that my body is stiff by all this lumberjack work.

Thanks for relying me so quickly!I've tested it.I realize window mode is almost the same as full screen mode!And Aries is a Fantastic mod!wow!I will let all my friends to install it! Thank you,Towsim!

[shagrat]

One thing I came across with full screen and 4k.

If you go Window mode, you need yo have the Desktop resolution be 4k (or not larger), than the one set in DCS... or it will center the "larger" window on the "smaller" resolution.

In full screen DCS changes the resolution and it fits 4k.

In general you do not need the overlay window if you have Aries running if the clickable radios can control the interface.

CA and FC3 titles is a bit meh, though, unless the keyboard shortcuts for the Aries interface work now?

In general full screen "works", just comes with some limitations.

[chromium]

Maybe I'm saying something stupid now but I've been using your Aries with DCS in full screen mode for as long as I am using it...?

 

Maybe you're using ARIES at fullscreen resolution but windowed mode? You can't see the difference in that case.

[towsim]

To be sure, I just made the test again. Full screen works with some limitations. As long as you leave the Aries panel on a second monitor. If you drag the panel into the DCS window, it disappears into the background. Full screen seems to be bound to a situation if the DCS window covers only one single monitor. If the DCS window is spread over two or more monitors, the behavior changes back to windowed mode and the Aries panel stays in the foreground again. If someone likes, he can use this configuration. But the radios must then be controlled out of the cockpit if DCS uses a single monitor only. Older versions of DCS did not like Aries with full screen mode active. The simulation crashed immediately. The full screen allergy story of Aries came from that times.

[SkyKnight]

Does anyone have any experience running Aries along with DCS-BIOS? Alone, they run fine, but when I try to run DCS-BIOS with Aries, DCS-BIOS doesn't work. Both require entries in Export.lua, and I wonder if there is not a port conflict going on? DCS-BIOS sends data to localhost address 127.0.0.1 over port 7778.

 

Thanks!

[towsim]

The radio software does not use any port. It uses inter-process communication. Try to change the sequence of the ‘dofile’ entries in export.lua. Since I do not use DCS-BIOS, I cannot test this configuration.

[Hansolo]

It should work. I am running DCS-BIOS, Helios and Aries at the same time I have got not issues.

As Towsim suggested try and change the sequence of the dofiles, or post you export.lua

 

Cheers

Hans

[SkyKnight]

This is my Export.lua

dofile("./AriesWings/AriesRadio.luac")
dofile(lfs.writedir()..[[scripts\DCS-BIOS\BIOS.lua]])

 

Just those two lines. Should there be more? I've tried swapping the order, with no luck. Perhaps if I could see an example of someone's working Export.lua, I could see what I'm missing.

[Hansolo]

Nah it looks ok to me. Mine are in opposite order but that about it.

 

This is my complete export.lua:

function LuaExportStart()

end

function LuaExportBeforeNextFrame()

end

function LuaExportAfterNextFrame()

end

function LuaExportStop()

end

function LuaExportActivityNextEvent(t)

local tNext = t

return tNext

end

-- Min oprindelige Helios export

dofile(lfs.writedir()..'Scripts\\HELIOS.lua')

 

--OverproExport

--dofile(lfs.writedir()..'Scripts\\OverproExport.lua')

 

-- DCS BIOS export

dofile(lfs.writedir()..[[scripts\DCS-BIOS\BIOS.lua]])

 

dofile("./AriesWings/AriesRadio.luac")

 

local Tacviewlfs=require('lfs');dofile(Tacviewlfs.writedir()..'Scripts/TacviewExportDCS.lua')

 

As said I am running Helios, Aries, DC-BIOS and Tacview.

 

Cheers

Hans

[towsim]

If Aries still works with DCS-BIOS enabled. It would be the better choice to post the problem in the DCS-BIOS thread. Aries takes care, that the export interface chain is not interrupted (LuaExportBeforeNextFrame, LuaExportAfterNextFrame, LuaExportActivityNextEvent).Nevertheless, I could have a look to your log file for unusual situations. For that you have to enable the log file creation in the configurator first. After a session you find the required log file at DCS World\AriesWings\logs\AriesAirborneRadio_log.html. send the file to support @ariescon.com

[SkyKnight]

Thanks for the Export, Hans.

 

Appreciate your assistance, towsim! I agree the issue is not an Aries issue. Was hoping someone watching this thread was running DCS-BIOS with Aries, and I got my answer. Still can't get both to work, but I doubt it has anything to do with Aries. In any case, I'll send you my Aries log just to confirm.

[towsim]

Version 1.976

 

Dear Aries users,

Version 1.976 of Aries Radio is now officially available on the Aries download page

http://ariescon.com/index10.html

 

Version 1.976 contains the following bug fixes and new features:

 

Communication quality dialog

The Horizon Bug is fixed and the function may be enabled again.

The selected quality values are stored in the INI file so that the configuration is set automatically with the next mission start.

 

Protocol File

The protocol file generation is moved to a separate application. All protocol messages are centralized in only one file for all Aries applications. This ensures, that probable bugs in the protocol file will not impact the running application. Furthermore, the performance is not dragged down, if complicated and long messages have to be interpreted and stored.

The common protocol file can be found now at:

C:\Program Files\AriesWings\PRCL\ApplicationData\Aries_Session_Protocol.html

The activation of the protocol was removed from the configurator. The protocol generation is active permanently.

 

IFF/SIF

 

There is an additional hardware key configuration for IFF/SIF. This will be used with the coming Aries Radar software. If you are requested to squawk ‘ident’, you can trigger it with this key.

 

New models

The following models are now added to Aries Radio:

Bf-109K-4

Mi-8MT

 

Beta Testers

The release version 1.976 has no new features compared to version 1.976 beta. The only difference is the appearance of the protocol application. However, if the release version shall be installed, take care, that AriesProtocol.exe is deleted from C:\Program Files\AriesWings\PRCL, before you install the release version. The reason is a version detection mismatch caused by the Aries Radar installation.

[EntropySG]

Aries rocks!! Thanks so much for your work!

 

o7

[Esac_mirmidon]

Thanks , great news !!!.

 

The new K4 and Mi-8 support are also included in the Beta version?

[towsim]

Sorry, this was ambiguously worded. The new models are in the release version only.

[VBS_Nero]

Great :thumbup:

[shagrat]

Did he say Bf-109 K4 supported? OhMyGodOhMyGodOhMyGod...

[Esac_mirmidon]

Thanks again.

 

Eagerly launching this version to test my beloved Mi-8 with Aries.