Capt Zeen F/A-18C Beta Helios Profile ! ! !

Start a mission, and exit. The send me your DCS.log from \Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\log

Thanks mate....here you go

dcs.log.txt

All fixed...the vaicom lines I added to the export.lua caused the issue. Thanks again.

Still at a loss...

Hi All...I've read through this entire thread again in hopes of finding an answer but no luck so far. Here's the issue:

1) I had the F-18 profile installed and working but it stopped after the last major update.

2) I tried the modifications that were recommended the*.lua files and nothing worked.

3) I deleted everything and did a fresh install of DCS & Helios and downloaded Capt Zeen's new profile package on 7/22

4) After some wrangling, I now have the Helios F-18 profile showing correctly on my second 1920x1080 touchscreen monitor

5) When running the game, the IFEI, AMPCD and UFC data are exporting and showing on the touchscreen BUT the Right & Left MFCD are blank (no data at all in the Sim or in the Helios profile). Additionally, the AMPCD text is thick blurry green in the Helios profile but not in the sim.

After working on this for a few days, I'm now at a loss and could really use some help. I would appreciate any suggestions that would help me get this running properly.

Thanks,

Derek

With the new update, the name of the viewports are LEFT_MFCD and RIGHT_MFCD. check that in your monitorsetup config file, probably you still got the LEft_F18 and Right_F18 from my first version of the profile.

Hi

İ have an different question.

situation is:

İ have 4 monitors.3 are the same and 5760X1080 and 1 is below them 1920X1080;a big T shape.

İ did everything and works fine.

Except the mfds and other things are not on the 4th monitor.

When i confugure the X,Ys screen is broken.

My .lua is:

Viewports =

{

Center =

{

x = 0;

y = 0;

width = screen.width;

height = screen.height;

viewDx = 0;

viewDy = 0;

aspect = screen.aspect;

}

}

--LEFT

LEFT_MFCD =

{

x = 2078;

y = 165;

width = 330;

height = 311;

}

--RIGHT

RIGHT_MFCD =

{

x = 2890;

y = 165;

width = 330;

height = 311;

}

-- RWR

F18_RWR =

{

x = 3086;

y = 600;

width = 150;

height = 150;

}

--AMPCD

F18_AMPCD =

{

x = 2482;

y = 572;

width = 315;

height = 300;

}

--IFEI

F18_IFEI =

{

x = 1972;

y = 630;

width = 430;

height = 167;

}

--UFC

F18_UFC =

{

x = 2458;

y = 25;

width = 380;

height = 216;

}

UIMainView = Viewports.Center

İ Know İ Need To Change X and Ys every Mfd and other things.

For exemple

Left Mfd will be x=2078 and y=1245

when i do that main screen will broken

Thav mate

Well, i don't know how people with 4 monitors arrange them in windows, but as far as i know, if you make a T layout, you need to configure your total resolution in DCS as 5760x2160.

But if you arrange the monitors to be the 4 in horizontal line in Windows, your screen total can be 7680x1080 instead of 5760x2160.

7680x1080= 8294400 pixels

5760x2160=12441600 pixels

Anyway other people with 4 monitor configuration can help better. I am still using only two

Dont forget to deactivate the full screen check on DCS options too.

And if you put the actual size in the viewport instead screen.width and screen.height you can be sure the numbers are the correct ones, even if the resolution is not well configured in options.

so use:

Viewports =

{

Center =

{

x = 0;

y = 0;

width = 5760;

height =1080;

viewDx = 0;

viewDy = 0;

aspect = 5.3333;

}

}

Question for ya Zeen since I am still reading up on this. My main DCS monitor is 21:9 aspect ratio, I just want to output my left and right DDIs to these liliput USB monitors which are 4:3. I see the profiles available on your site are only 16:10 and 16:9, does that make a difference?

Edit: Nevermind, I have a lot of reading up to do on how to accomplish this at all. :)

With the new update, the name of the viewports are LEFT_MFCD and RIGHT_MFCD. check that in your monitorsetup config file, probably you still got the LEft_F18 and Right_F18 from my first version of the profile.

Yes, I confirmed that the view ports are correctly named. Any other ideas why the Left & right MFCDs don't show in the sim and the profile export?

F18C Helios Capt Zeen

Capt Zeen Your Profile for DCS F18C looks great but only the DDI panels work for me (see JPG)

I have attach the Monitor setup is

Center =

{

x = 0;

y = 0;

width = 1920;

height = 1080;

viewDx = 0;

viewDy = 0;

aspect = 16/9;

}

}

--LEFT

LEFT_MFCD =

{

x = 396;

y = 1254;

width = 318;

height = 307;

}

--RIGHT

RIGHT_MFCD =

{

x = 1206;

y = 1254;

width = 318;

height = 307;

}

-- RWR

RWR =

{

x = 1389;

y = 1680;

width = 150;

height = 150;

}

--AMPCD

AMPCD =

{

x = 805;

y = 1661;

width = 302;

height = 300;

}

--IFEI

IFEI =

{

x = 300;

y = 1713;

width = 430;

height = 167;

}

--UFC

F18_UFC =

{

x = 753;

y = 1112;

width = 380;

height = 219;

}

Please Help

eulaced Foxbat

Yes, I confirmed that the view ports are correctly named. Any other ideas why the Left & right MFCDs don't show in the sim and the profile export?

Capt Zeen Your Profile for DCS F18C looks great but only the DDI panels work for me (see JPG)

I have attach the Monitor setup is

 

 

 

Please Help

 

eulaced Foxbat

Check if you got installed the files needed for the viewport export. You got the files in the profile package, inside the folder: monitor configuration.

F18C Helios Capt Zeen

Install the Mod package , now nothing work , might need to so update tomorrow

Capt Zeen any new ideas sir

Foxbat eulaced

Lets see...

Wen you install a Helios profile, and you got a problem, try to identify exactly what happens.

Usually two issues can show up:

1 - The gauges, switches, lamps, etc, don't work

2 - The diferent viewports from DCS, like DDIs IFEI, RWR, etc, do not work.

In the FIRST case:

Helios is probably not getting the DCS info needed, and thats because the export.lua is not doig his job. So...

- check if the export files are you using are the correct ones

- check if the place where you installed is the correct one:

Export.lua inside the folder \Users\yourusername\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Scripts\

HelioCore.lua and HeliosExport.lua inside the folder \Users\yourusername\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Scripts\Helios\

- then double check again !

- and of course, always use my last export files.

If you are using a system with more than two monitors,

- check the FAQ on the site. There is a bug on Helios that can asign a incorrect monitor to all bindings on the profile. There you got a solution for that.

If everything looks correct with the export files and still no joy,

- run a mision, and exit DCS,

- then check the dcs.log ins savedgames/dcs/logs and look for errors in the export.lua . If something wrong happens in the export.lua the log tell you where to look at.

If you are using other tools with Helios, like: Simpleradio,Tackview DCS-bios etc, you can try to change the order of the lines in the export.lua. Those ones do not give problems, but some tools can, so give it a try.

In the SECOND case:

Ok, this is important to know, Helios do not export the viewports, is DCS who do that.

Some DCS modules are ready to export some of his viewport, but not all of them. That's the reason we need to change some .luas to make that module ready to export the viewports.

In the F18 case, and at this date, only the 2 DDIs are ready to export. The AMPCD, IFEI, RWR and UFC are not, so we need to overwrite those .luas with other ones ready to export viewport.

Usually, in my profile packages you got everything you need to do that operation in a folder called monitor configuration. So...

-Check if you installed the files in the correct place. I recomend to you use JSGME or OVGME to do the job, because in every DCS update those files are rewriten again

- Then edit the MonitorSetup file to adjust the viewports to your monitor configuration. (2_monitors-FA18C.lua )

- In DCS options, put your max resolution

- In DCS options, uncheck full screen option

- In DCS options, select the monitorsetup file to use (the one your just edited)

if you got other problems, check the FAQ on the site

If still you don't find a solution, you can use my discord channel too: https://discord.gg/sS66aJf

And of course you can ask in this forum too !!

..

Okay.

There used to be an export.lua. It had to be copied into the \Users\xyz\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Scripts\ folder and everything was fine.

Now I have three .lua in the package:

- export.lua (it's only 225 bytes)

- HelioCore.lua

- HeliosExport.lua

Where do I put them?

I'm also asking because everything was fine until the last patch.

Now the BTTM and LFT2 panels are not working, no matter which switches I flick nothing happens.

THX

Okay.

There used to be an export.lua. It had to be copied into the \Users\xyz\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Scripts\ folder and everything was fine.

Now I have three .lua in the package:

- export.lua (it's only 225 bytes)

- HelioCore.lua

- HeliosExport.lua

Where do I put them?

 

I'm also asking because everything was fine until the last patch.

Now the BTTM and LFT2 panels are not working, no matter which switches I flick nothing happens.

 

THX

1- Export.lua inside the folder \Users\xyz\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Scripts\

HelioCore.lua and HeliosExport.lua inside the folder \Users\xyz\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Scripts\Helios\

2- ED changed in the last patch the order on the device numbers and that cause some system to be directed to another controls.

Download again the export files from the site, those are ready for the update and fix the problem.

You dont need to change the profile, only the export files.

Thank you so much!

Can not open file as archive (FA-18C)

Hi Capt Zeen,

Probably a stupid question and has been answered before. I did a quick skim to see, but came up with nothing.

I am able to DL your other Helios profiles and open them fine, except for the F-18 one. I get a "Can not open file 'C:\blah\blah\blah\Capt_Zeen_FA-18C beta update.rar' as archive.

Suggestions?

Hi Capt Zeen,

 

 

Probably a stupid question and has been answered before. I did a quick skim to see, but came up with nothing.

 

 

I am able to DL your other Helios profiles and open them fine, except for the F-18 one. I get a "Can not open file 'C:\blah\blah\blah\Capt_Zeen_FA-18C beta update.rar' as archive.

 

 

Suggestions?

I just downloaded from the website and opened with Winrar. No problems at all, here.

I just downloaded from the website and opened with Winrar. No problems at all, here.

Interesting. Thanks for checking.

I tried on 2 other machines with WinRar and 7-zip, all 3 machines have a unknown format or damage message.

Guess it's something on my end with the DL. But like I mentioned... all the other profile DLs (Hip, Gazelle, KA-50) worked fine.

Cheers

EDIT: I updated the WinRar software on an old machine and was able to open it there. 7-zip may not work for some users like me. All good now Capt Zeen!

Download link

So sorry I must be blind, but where can I find the download link for the preofile?

Thank you!

So sorry I must be blind, but where can I find the download link for the preofile?

 

 

Thank you!

http://www.captzeen.com/helios/downloads.asp

Export issue

Thank you MustangSally

I've get on the point to set up all cordinates, but unfortunatelly nothing exported out :(

export.lua along with helios folder copied in the c:...\saved games\dcs\scripts

Any suggestions?

 

I tried on 2 other machines with WinRar and 7-zip, all 3 machines have a unknown format or damage message.

 

I had similar problems.

Upgrading 7zip to the actual version solved the issue for me.

Thank you MustangSally

 

 

I've get on the point to set up all cordinates, but unfortunatelly nothing exported out :(

 

 

export.lua along with helios folder copied in the c:...\saved games\dcs\scripts

 

 

Any suggestions?

Post your monitor config?

Primary monitor 1920x1080

Secondary 1366x768

_  = function(p) return p; end;
name = _('2_monitors_FA18C');
Description = 'Right, Left, RWR, IFEI, UFC, and AMPCD in right monitor'

--TOTAL DEL VIEWPORT
Viewports =
{
    Center =
    {
         x = 0;
         y = 0;
         width  = 1920;
         height = 1080;
         viewDx = 0;
         viewDy = 0;
         aspect = 16/9;
    }
}


--LEFT
LEFT_MFCD =
{
    x = 2118;
    y = 140;
    width = 267;
    height = 267;
}

--RIGHT
RIGHT_MFCD =
{
    x = 2813;
    y = 141;
    width = 276;
    height = 267;
}


-- RWR
F18_RWR =
{
    x = 2970;
    y = 500;
    width = 148;
    height = 148;
}



--AMPCD
F18_AMPCD =
{
    x = 2448;
    y = 485;
    width = 257;
    height = 256;
}

--IFEI
F18_IFEI =
{
    x = 2055;
    y = 535;
    width = 355;
    height = 140;
}


--UFC
F18_UFC =
{
    x = 2445;
    y = 20;
    width = 324;
    height = 187;
}



UIMainView = Viewports.Center

I've get on the point to set up all cordinates, but unfortunatelly nothing exported out :(

In DCS settings: The resolution corresponds to the size of both monitors?

=> 3286x1080?