kneeboard for specific missions?

[Tricky11]

Is it possible to add specific kneeboard pages into a mission therefor all the clients have the info?

If so where do i put them?

[Tricky11]

nevermind i done it

[Paul1994]

I'm also interested in this too, it's possible to explain how you did it?

[Tricky11]

you need to make a folder in the miz file called KNEEBOARD and inside that folder make another folder called IMAGES. In that folder place your jpegs... Simple as that..

[Johnny_Rico]

thanks for sharing that

[Paul1994]

you need to make a folder in the miz file called KNEEBOARD and inside that folder make another folder called IMAGES. In that folder place your jpegs... Simple as that..

 

 

And it's all ? Thks for sharing

[Paul1994]

Does anyone know how to add this kind of kneeboard and make it invisible for a camp?

[Hippo]

you need to make a folder in the miz file called KNEEBOARD and inside that folder make another folder called IMAGES. In that folder place your jpegs... Simple as that..

 

For the benefit of others who, like me, may not find the above quite so obvious:

 

It appears that *.miz files are zip files - at any rate the above can be accomplished using 7-zip.

 

The case of the folders KNEEBOARD and IMAGES does matter.

 

They don't have to be jpegs. I was able to copy png files produced by kneeboard builder, and those worked - saving some time.

[fargo007]

The aspect ration of the images must also be 4:3 IIRC.

 

7-zip is the easiest way if you are doing this manually.

 

Create KNEEBOARD, then go into KNEEBOARD and create folder IMAGES.

 

Just drag and drop your images there and exit 7-zip.

[SGT Coyle]

Can I make a KB airframe specific in the same mission? Say, my player spawns in a Harrier, can I have a KB built for that airframe, that he/she uses, or if the player spawns in a Hornet, they see a differen't KB.

[Wrench]

Inside of the KNEEBOARD folder, you can use subfolders for each aircraft, such as A-10C or KA-50 so that only those types of ac can see them. It won't work Coalition wide but can give you some options.

The "Kneeboard Builder" app might be worth a look, as it has a snazzy UI to add kneeboards to .miz files as well as DCS in general.

Note that it wigs out with the text on PDF files sometimes.

[SGT Coyle]

Inside of the KNEEBOARD folder, you can use subfolders for each aircraft, such as A-10C or KA-50 so that only those types of ac can see them.

Excelent, that's just what I'm looking for.

Thanks

[Paganus]

To make kneeboards work for specific aircraft you must get the aircraft name correct.

 

A-10C

 

Ka-50

 

AV8BNA

 

etc..

 

Someone made a list some time ago. You may have to search for it or figure them out yourself.

[Sedlo]

And some of the aircraft names are not always intuitive (like the Hornet). This is the small list of the ones I know:

 

A-10C

AJS37

AV8BNA

F-15C

FA-18C_hornet

M-2000C

UH-1H

[Wrench]

It should be the same as the liveries directories.

[Dkraver]

Is it Also possible to make specific kneeboards to specific planes. Say i have a group og f18 flying sead and another flying Cap. And i want them to have different info on kneeboard. Can this be done

using pilot id?

[DeepDrummer]

There are 2 trains of thought here and more.

 

To Make a kneeboard specific to one type of aircraft one must create a kneeboard folder under the saved games/DCS (or beta) folder.

Then under that folder make another folder of the aircraft in question using the exact name such as SpitfireLFMkIX.

put the jpg or png files in here that you want all Spitfires to see in all missions.

 

To make a mission specific kneeboard for a specific type of aircraft, I found that opening up the .miz file (winzip) and making a folder within the .miz for kneeboard and then under that make an aircraft specific folder I.E. SpitfireLFMkIX. Under that folder make another folder called IMAGES and place your jpg and png files in there for mission specific aircraft specific. It works for me.

 

This gets a selection, when you bring up the kneeboard for all missions and the ones that only show up on the specific .miz mission you edited by adding files and folders via .zip program or the afore mentioned utility.

 

Now to get on to investigating individual aircraft specific kneeboards which is beyond my pay scale at present.

 

Thanks for the incentive to dig deeper.

[Whistler]

Total noob - so opened in WinZip. Created folder "KNEEBOARD/IMAGES", then rezipped. Added ".miz" to end of filename. DCS won't show it in missions. What do I need to do differently? Thanks.

[Rudel_chw]

Total noob - so opened in WinZip. Created folder "KNEEBOARD/IMAGES", then rezipped. Added ".miz" to end of filename. DCS won't show it in missions. What do I need to do differently?

 

Your Mission has to look like this sample:

 

[Nagilem]

First - thanks for all the info, this has been helpful.

 

I have a miz file with the following directories

 

KNEEBOARD\IMAGES

KNEEBOARD\FA-18c_hornet\IMAGES

KNEEBOARD\F-16C_50\IMAGES

 

I have files in all three images folders. I can see the KNEEBOARD\IMAGES files in both planes. I can see the KNEEBOARD\F-16C_50\IMAGES in the F-16.

 

I cannot see the KNEEBOARD\FA-18c_hornet\IMAGES files in the F18.

 

Any thoughts on why? Is the folder structure and naming correct? Any one know what the F-14, AV8B, and A10C folder names are?

 

I've also tried KNEEBOARD\FA-18C_hornet\IMAGES with no luck.

 

 

*****UPDATE*****

 

I figured it out - its KNEEBOARD\FA-18C_hornet\IMAGES. The "C" must be capitalized.

Edited October 4, 2019 by Nagilem

[Bailey]

The aspect ration of the images must also be 4:3 IIRC.

 

7-zip is the easiest way if you are doing this manually.

 

Create KNEEBOARD, then go into KNEEBOARD and create folder IMAGES.

 

Just drag and drop your images there and exit 7-zip.

 

Kneeboard ratio seems to be 4:6, aka 400x600, aka 800x1200, aka 1200x1800, etc.

[Hunter_5E]

Total noob - so opened in WinZip. Created folder "KNEEBOARD/IMAGES", then rezipped. Added ".miz" to end of filename. DCS won't show it in missions. What do I need to do differently? Thanks.

 

Don't extract the mission files, add stuff, then "re-zip" them using Winzip or Winrar as it will break the mission file.

 

Rename the mission file to have a ".rar" or ".zip" extension, open it in Winrar or whatever, add the content you want then rename the file back to a ".miz" file when you're finished.

Edited September 10, 2020 by Hunter_5E

[Tomy10]

Does anyone know how to add this kind of kneeboard and make it invisible for a camp?

 

Hey ! did you find out how to do it ?? :D

[sirrah]

Sorry for reopening this thread, but I can't get this to work 

 

I tried to add my kneeboard images just like @Rudel_chw showed above, but somehow they don't show up when I test my mission.

 

I created one of the png's with aspect ratio 4:3 (600x800pixels).

The other one, I see now, is 1146x1600 --> could this be the problem? Or is there maybe a size limit?

 

Strange however that I also can't see the 600x800 one..

 

any ideas?

[Rudel_chw]

I haven’t used this in a while, and the kneeboard was recently revamped .. let me test and came back later.