-Ice's Falcon BMS Helios Profile Updated… Again!
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Wheelchock
I think I understand what you did, but it may be over my head. I am just a retired lawyer and your method was not taught to me in law school. Any chance that you just sent me your revised key file so I can look at it? It is also my understanding that some keys have changed in 4.34 and some of the panels may be different or added. Any thoughts on that?I am presently using the DX command profile that came with 4.34 and I was hoping that I could use Ice’s key file but simply not load Ice’s target profile and instead, program my Hotas the way ICE did in his most recent release, but program them directly in the game or maybe use the Alternative launcher when it is ready. your thoughts in this idea?
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Hello,
New to Helios , BMS 4.34 , Ices’s, Using 4 monitors, surround for 3 and a touch screen for Helios. I can get the image cockpit to show, how do you get the the gauges to show up in the appropriate gauges and slots ? I don’t get how that part works, do you have to drag them? if so where do get them, how do you get it to correspond when flying BMS??? Very frustrated…step by step please. I appreciate it , many thanks!
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If you switched from Helios 1.3.x to the new 1.4.x the newer version
I don’t think the 1.4x is a newer version, I think the better term is it is the DCS version. AFAIK, Helios has been abandoned and is now open source? No idea what’s offered on the DCS Helios version so no idea why there would be a need to update/upgrade to that version. Just stick to the last Gadroc Helios version for now, I guess.
Hello,
New to Helios , BMS 4.34 , Ices’s, Using 4 monitors, surround for 3 and a touch screen for Helios. I can get the image cockpit to show, how do you get the the gauges to show up in the appropriate gauges and slots ? I don’t get how that part works, do you have to drag them? if so where do get them, how do you get it to correspond when flying BMS??? Very frustrated…step by step please. I appreciate it , many thanks!
Go to the blog and read everything from the start; IIRC around 2015. He didn’t post very much so there’s not much to go through but some of his later posts on the blog seem to be under the assumption that you’ve read his previous posts. No idea if everything works under 4.34 though.
As for the key file and Target or no target, the key file is really only for Helios and BMS working together. Edit or delete the DX section as needed and the key file should still work fine. Again, not sure how this will work under the new 4.34 as I’ve not updated to that yet.
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Everything still working under 434
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Good to know
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unless you have airport maps and frequencies programmed they need an update
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mantaray is correct in that the current Ice profile is missing all of the new key commands in 4.34 such as the IFF stuff. I am in the process of adding the new key commands to ICE’s key file so that they can be used on a button box such as the 3rd and 4th MFDs that some of us have. While you cannot change the panels, at least you will be able to control the new panels with the button box and not have to click in the game cockpit.
Perhaps someone more knowable than me in Helios could then figure out how to do something with the new keys in Helios, but for me, the button box will be a good stop gap.
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Hi Ice
I flew with your profile for quiet a while and am very satisfied with it. Unfortunately, when I installed the latest version of Helios I delete the “F16 Gauge Pack” while de-installing the old version. For the life of me I cannot find the F16GaugePack on the Internet. Can you help me?
Regards
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I believe he (Ice) is working on getting his profile updated for 4.34, with the standard 3-4 weeks ETA Or was it 2-3 weeks ETA? I keep forgetting.
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has Ice been un banned yet?
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Looks like someone didn’t like being called out and so he got banned for what he posted on the DCS thread. That was Feb last year so seems like he got a perma-ban? Not like the DCS thread got any better since his ban though!
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Doesn’t appear so . . .
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I picked up a Samsung 49" curved monitor today to replace my 50" tv. Windows sees it as number 1 which is correct and the same as the TV was. My touch panel hasn’t changed. However, when I go to Helios Profile Editor (whatever it’s called) to reset the monitor resolution, the number one has become the number 2 and 2 has become 1. This isn’t usually a big deal and in fact after resetting them, saving, closing and reopening they appear correct in the preview. When I fire up Helios however the profile comes up on the main screen….? Never had this happen before. The new monitors resolution is smaller than the tv was. The tv was 3940x2160 I believe and the new one is 3940x1080. Anyone had this issue?
Thanks,
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Fixed. My scaling was off for the difference in height.
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I am using helios with screens that are not touch screen, when i use the mouse this activates the switch on the helios screens but will not activate the switch in BMS 3 D screen, i have adjusted the BMS config file command set g_bEnableExclusiveMouseCapture from 1 to 0 thinking this would be the answer but all this does is to enable me to use my mouse on other screens.
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I’m curious why you would want to use Helios with a mouse when you can just use a mouse in 3D pit and click the actual buttons? What do you gain by doing this? Your prerogative on how you want to fly but it just seems counter productive.
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It is all about how you want to interface with the simulation. A few people use a keyboard to play with the sim, and a few use a full cockpit. In between, there are many people with sticks, throttles, rudder petals, multiple monitors, input devices, etc. You do not have to understand it, just except that everyone is different and we have different ways of how we do the same thing – having fun flying a great sim.
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Hi guys,
I am trying to get helios/yame set up to run with BMS but I the helios profile (downloaded from Ice’s website) has the following issues:
-Landing gear leaver is missing- ICP buttons missing.
Can anyone suggest a way to fix this?
-Sharpe
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Hi guys,
I am trying to get helios/yame set up to run with BMS but I the helios profile (downloaded from Ice’s website) has the following issues:
-Landing gear leaver is missing- ICP buttons missing.
Can anyone suggest a way to fix this?
-Sharpe
I’ve had this same issue. What version of Helios do you have installed? Ice’s profile was made with Helios 1.3 and if you are using the newer version 1.4.x then the location to default images is different. The easiest way to correct the problem is to create a new “blank Helios profile” and put the controls that are missing images into the new profile. Save the new profile and open both Ice’s profile and the one you just created in a notepad app. There you will see the differences in the location for the images of the new controls. Update the Ice profile with the new location of the images and that should solve your issue.
One other issue I ran in to is some of the layering that is put into Helios profiles, esspecially complex ones. Some controls need to be moved up in the layers. This is easier to do than to explain