Toto's Helios BMS Profile WIP
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I’m trying to create a straightforward Helios profile for BMS. I found swiping and using dials on my touchscreen monitor rather imprecise, so this profile ditches the skeuomorphic look of some other profiles for a simple push button only solution.
I’m creating all of the graphics I can from scratch, and using the opportunity to help my SA by color coding. Green lights mean combat ready and orange mean not combat ready (e.g., master arm “off” and “sim” buttons are orange, “arm” is green". It seems like I’m always forgetting to set something (e.g. laser arm, ecm, something…) so I hope this will help ensure I don’t forget anything.
I use a ViewSonic TD 2220, which is 22", so this profile will display best on a 22" monitor.
Here is an early draft of the profile’s main panel. Most of the buttons are where you’d expect them. Open the image in a new tab to see it full size.
Big thanks to Ice and Rogue who’s excellent profiles I’m using to help me build mine. Also thanks to Gadroc for this amazing software.
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You had me at ‘skeuomorphic’ …… … :oops:
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That is sweet! Wish I had me a touchscreen now. I have a 26" monitor that sits right in front of me when I’m flying and that would work perfectly, but a touch screen for that cost a lot.
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Looks great, would love to test that when you finished it!
GL & Cheers
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I’ve (mostly) finished the front panel of my Helios profile. Next I’m going to add the left and right consoles as well as buttons for checklists and custom user images. Please feel free to try it out and provide me any feedback or suggestions. I use it with a 22" touchscreen monitor at 1920 x 1080.
One thing I haven’t figured out how to do is set some of the buttons to be pushed by default (e.g., master arm, catI/III, radar, CMDS mode/profile, etc.), so you’ll have to set up your normal starting configuration before you are in the 3D world.
You can download it here:
https://googledrive.com/host/0BzQQUCFVmaJ4a29kQ2hKTTJoa3c/Toto_Helios_v0.1.7z -
That is sweet! Wish I had me a touchscreen now. I have a 26" monitor that sits right in front of me when I’m flying and that would work perfectly, but a touch screen for that cost a lot.
I use a 22" ViewSonic TD2220. You can get it for about US$300. It works pretty well, but can be overly sensitive sometimes. I haven’t found any better for the price and size.
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Are you having no issues using your touchscreen as secondary monitor ? I.E getting the touches to register within bms 3D
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No, works great for me. Gadroc’s instructions for setting up a touch screen seem to work pretty well.
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Toto
your BMS screen has finally convinced me to try Helios and buy a touchscreen. I will probably get the same one that you have, but I do have one question. I am running Win 7 and will Helios and this monitor all work nicely with Win 7? That is, will the touch feature of the monitor work in Win 7? -
From Gadroc’s web page I recall that Helios was designed and tested on Win7, both 32 and 64 bit. He says it should work on XP. In any case it depends on the .NET 4.0 framework from Microsoft being installed first.
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Toto
your BMS screen has finally convinced me to try Helios and buy a touchscreen. I will probably get the same one that you have, but I do have one question. I am running Win 7 and will Helios and this monitor all work nicely with Win 7? That is, will the touch feature of the monitor work in Win 7?I’m using it with Win7 and it works pretty well… though not perfect. I still get a stray mouse click in the 3D put every now and again when manipulating the touch screen. Hope there is a way in future versions of BMS to turn off mouse clicks all together.
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Toto
For items such as the RWR, DED, MFDs. gauges and the like, what programs did you use-MFDE, the BMS extractor or what?
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Toto
For items such as the RWR, DED, MFDs. gauges and the like, what programs did you use-MFDE, the BMS extractor or what?
ThanksA combination of both. All of the instructions are in the included txt file.
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Toto
I didn’t see a txt file in the download. Did I miss it? What Hotas are you using and if you are using a TM WH, could you send me the profile.
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Toto
I didn’t see a txt file in the download. Did I miss it? What Hotas are you using and if you are using a TM WH, could you send me the profile.
ThanksSobe, sorry I forgot to include the .txt file in the .7z file. It’s included now: https://googledrive.com/host/0BzQQUC…Helios_v0.1.7z
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Toto
404. That’s an error.The requested URL was not found on this server. That’s all we know.
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Try the link in post 5. I think that works
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Toto
Okay. Got the text file. What HOTAS do you use? If a Warthog, can you please send me your profile.
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I use the cougar, but most of my profile is DX buttons so you should be fine using your existing warthog profile if it is DX. The included .key file is simply a modification of the .bms key file and is required to make the Helios profile work correctly.
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Toto, I can’t get you MFDs and Up front controller push buttons to work. I wonder what I’m doing wrong? I need to set the Helios add interface key file to yours, right? The one in the user/config/ folder?
apoll