Helios Profile for the F-18 Hornet
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Greetings Wheelchock-
Any plans to update your profile to take advantages of Helios’ new features??
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Nothing other possibly switching to RTT
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@Wheelchock
I’ve downloaded this profile a long time ago but due to the F16 MFD inside a F18 I have flown it only once and didn’t bother with setting everything up with Helios. With the release of F15C however I’ve been surprised with the new instruments and I’ve been flying F15C a lot more lately.Capt Zeen had an old DCS F15C profile as well, I’m already imagining how nice it would be to have this on while I fly. http://www.captzeen.com/helios/F-15C.asp
And that brings up another topic: Should all later profile all have a similar structure that they can be switched around by Helios itself according to what aircraft you are flying? Or an ultimate combined profile which will have all F16, F18 plus F15C, that they share the same resource folder to be efficient enough that we can switch on the fly?
I’ve been given lots of hope with the release of F15C and I’ll definitely give your F18 profile a try.
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@jacqueslees I love your high hopes, and also longed for a one size fits all Helios profile. But I have had no luck with one profile for all. I have relied on Ice’s F-16 profile to keep @Wheelchock ‘s F-18 profile up-to-date. And Capt Zeen’s F-15 profile is sooo outdated that most functionality in BMS’ F-15 cockpit is not available. I’ve spent better part of 12 hours straight converting Capt Zeen’s profile and I barely made a dent!! If you have the time to put towards an F-15 profile you’ll be a “hero” among the BMS/Helios community.
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@jacqueslees I had worked on a profile awhile ago that detected the airframe you flew and would switch to either F16 or F18 layout upon entering the pit. It is possible to do using a simple structure of hiding one panel that contains all the F16 stuff and one that contains all the F18 or other plane stuff.
For the F15 I did start taking CptZeens profile and converting it only to realize what @JollyFE realized. It is a lot of work and some aspects of it are pure DCS only, and it doesn’t have any UFC elements. I have abandoned that idea already.
In my opinion the hardest part of creating the profile is getting all the graphical objects together. @linknet Ice profile is just a wonderful piece of work but there so much layering of panels in there that it alone takes 10-20 seconds to load for me. I couldn’t image adding a whole other plane into the profile.
Helios does support profile switching on the fly now. You could create separate profiles for each plane and then bind a button or switch / rotary to cycle through them.
I wish I had more time to dedicate to it myself.
FYI - If you are going to use that F18 profile I made it probably needs a once over of the callbacks. Some have changed since 4.35 or .36 which is when I made that I think.
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@Wheelchock is it possible to use the F-18’s helios profile on a “non touch” screen with the mouse?
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@Dardo_01 Good question, but based on BMS’ coding, I want to say No. When I click off the main screen it will minimize. But feel free to give a shot.
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@Wheelchock said in Helios Profile for the F-18 Hornet:
FYI - If you are going to use that F18 profile I made it probably needs a once over of the callbacks. Some have changed since 4.35 or .36 which is when I made that I thnk.
@Wheelchock FWIW - The only major change I’ve made to your profile is the Comms Menu. SO it has stood up well to the “test of time”.
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@JollyFE good to hear !
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@Dardo_01 You can use the profile with a mouse on a second screen. Helios shouldn’t steal the focus from BMS even with a mouse click as long as the click is on a Helios object.