Ice’s Falcon BMS Profile Updated for BMS 4.37
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Hello,
I am reading in this forum for a while. This is my first post and I am hoping to find some help because I didn’t found my problem through the search function.
I have installed BMS 4.36 U3 and Ice’s Helios Profile with a second screen with a resolution of 1920*1080, (touchscreen). All the graphic items of the profile look fine, BUT:
I have the problem that the click/touch zones for the ICP-buttons and also all the OSB-Buttons are somewhat shifted relatively to the corresponding graphic items, so that it is not possible to use them.
Moreover it doesn’t seem that it is a fixed offset in a fixed direction, but it is different with every button.
I haven’t tried 100% of the other switches and knobs, but the ones I tried function correctly.This is as far as now the only problem with the profile, so I suppose my setup of it is generally ok.
Does someone here know the reason and/or how to solve that problem?
Best regards and thanks’s in advance!
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@Markusle I bet you have one screen that is using windows scaling and the touch screen is not, am I right?
I had this same issue and found out that Helios doesn’t really recognize the different in scaling in different screens. so if that is the case with yours you will need to set all screens to the same windows scaling value.
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@Todd1215 @Markusle
100% this! Helios doesn’t seem to like scaling and gets confused so I had to turn of scaling in my main screen as touch input would be offset once using Helios + BMS. -
@linknet said in Ice’s Falcon BMS Profile Updated for BMS 4.36:
@arbee The latest profile includes all of the updated and additional charts for Korea except the training range charts. A number of airbases were renamed for 4.36 which can make it appear that some have been removed. However the Balkans and Israel theatres charts are well out of date but unfortunately the latest charts for these aren’t available yet.
Can you be more specific about which charts you think are missing.
Thanks @linknet. Hope I can make sense. The 2 Japan airbases? Would like to incorporate charts for Baltic for example. Will try to insert here what I have for downloaded files difference between 4.35 & 4.36.
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@arbee
It would appear that I’m getting ahead of myself, I’ve included all of the charts as shown by the blue folders in the image below but they’re in version 4.36-05 of the profile which hasn’t been released yet. I’ve been waiting for the developers of the Balkans and Israel 4.36 theatres to add all of the missing charts before I release it. At the moment these two theatres only include the airbase charts, which I’ve already added to the 4.36-05 profile but I’m still waiting for the ILS and TACAN charts etc. which they say that they will be adding at a later date. -
Thanks @linknet. Looking forward to the update.
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@Atlas @Todd1215 many thanks for your advice with the windows scaling issue. That helped, problem solved. Still got some minor issues with helios, but I am working solving these…
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Hi all, unfortunately I have another issue where I need help:
Unfortunately nearly all of the switches and knobs in the profile don’t synchronize with the corresponding DX-Buttons. (It concerns a Winwing Orion 2 throttle base, but I guess this is not the key here? )
Acutally the only switch that I could identify that synchronize with the DX-Button is the gear handle. All the rest does not syncronize which is quite annoying.Thanks in advance for every hint that leads to a solution!
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and another problem perhaps someone knows it: For unknown reason the HMCS is set to on (and weirdly is aligned already) at some point after starting taxiing after cold start. This is indeed very weird. Anybody knows that pronlem and has a solution?
Sorry for all the questions…
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@Markusle
The majority of buttons and switches in BMS are one way only with no feedback on their positional status. So if your DX-Button sends a callback command directly to one of these controls in BMS then Helios won’t receive any position notification. This is exactly the same as clicking on these controls in the BMS 3D view, there won’t be any feedback. -
@Markusle
It’s not a problem, that’s the way it’s designed. I prefer the HMCS to turn on automatically, so it’s set to turn on when the landing gear is raised. If you don’t want that then just edit the HMCS knob inputs in the profile. -
Hi, can anyone help me please. This is great and I am trying to setup the profile. All MFD etc seem to be working fine, but the Steerpoints information on the Left and Right Kneepad for the default kneepads are always blank. I have checked there seems to be a Briefing file created.
I have noticed in the ‘Control Center problems’ log, this statement and not sure if this is a problem or not and how to get around it.
ERROR|GadrocsWorkshop.Helios.HeliosProcessControl.ProcessControlInterface|Profile attempted to start a process ““C:\Bin\DataAutoUpdate.exe”” but this action is not permitted on this machine|
Thanks
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@daz said in Ice’s Falcon BMS Profile Updated for BMS 4.36:
Hi, can anyone help me please. This is great and I am trying to setup the profile. All MFD etc seem to be working fine, but the Steerpoints information on the Left and Right Kneepad for the default kneepads are always blank. I have checked there seems to be a Briefing file created.
I have noticed in the ‘Control Center problems’ log, this statement and not sure if this is a problem or not and how to get around it.
ERROR|GadrocsWorkshop.Helios.HeliosProcessControl.ProcessControlInterface|Profile attempted to start a process ““C:\Bin\DataAutoUpdate.exe”” but this action is not permitted on this machine|
Thanks
Have you carried out this procedure from the Setup Guide?
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@linknet Hi, thanks for that and coming back, I missed that point, it seems to not have that error anymore in the log files so 1 step closer My kneeboards for the steerpoint is still blank though.
What I do:
- Start Profile in Helios Control Centre
- Launch Falcon (not from Profile because I get an AutoIt Error saying: Array Variable has incorrect number of subscripts or subscript dimension range exceeded) - see ‘Control Center.txt for the AutoIt Error’ below.
- Goto Training Mission (Take-Off for example)
- Select Briefing… Print
- Press TakeOff
- Wait for Cockpit to Start
- Press Reset in Helios Control Centre
- Take-Off
- Click on SteerPoints Screen
- Kneeboards Open with Steerpoint Table on Right and Pilot Roster on Left.
- Table is Blank.
See the Control Centre.txt at bottom for the full output based on launching Falcon externally to the Profile.
I have checked the Briefing Text file is there at ‘C:\Falcon BMS 4.36\User\Briefings’, and the Steerpoints do update in the CPD view correctly. It is just the kneeboards.
Thanks
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@linknet Could it be my resolution, I am only using 1366x768 at the moment until I get a better screen.
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@linknet I am also not using the Key file yet, until I get my flight stick… this week
Not sure if that would impact this.
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@daz said in Ice’s Falcon BMS Profile Updated for BMS 4.36:
@linknet Could it be my resolution, I am only using 1366x768 at the moment until I get a better screen.
No that won’t be a problem. The ControlCenter.txt is fine and doesn’t help with the AutoIt errors. So perhaps could you delete that particular post to save clogging up the thread and then I’ll have a think about the kneeboard problem.
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@daz Can you post a copy of the PathNames.ini file located in the C:\Bin folder?