So… I have the updated lighting panel, canopy and com menu for JTAC working with no issues. I can send it to you guys if you want, I just dont know the best way to share the changes other than just screenshots which doesn’t seem the best way. Do you guys know what files I could share for others to get those updates? I run a hacked up version of Ice’s with several custom changes (ie - Idle Detent button as you can see in the screenshot below) so just sending the whole package probably wont work well.

My question is with the kneeboards, I am not able to get them to update using 4.36 WDP. The only thing I can think is I am missing a step in updating a path as it seems like Ice’s UpdateKneeBoards.EXE isn’t getting the updated files WDP saved. Does anyone use the kneeboards and know what I may be missing?

Also if there is a way I can share the lighting panel let me know if that will help anyone out.

Thanks @linknet, worked like a charm, I did have to change what it is looking for in the first “x” characters of the theater name as it is actually called 1982 Battle for Suez, so changing the lookup to “1982” did the trick. Thanks for the insight on that one. I should have looked a little closer when I was doing it but ran out of time. What is the reason for limiting the length to check only the first few characters and not just return the full name and match the full name? Is that just to optimize the execution or is that to do with the theaters having different name lengths and there would be a problem to return 10 characters if only 5 exist?

My next question which is really just an inconvenience as the work around is to manually copy the DDS files for the kneeboards from the KTO directory to the Suez directory. The issue is WDP doesn’t recognize the FO theater and I can’t update WDP like I just did for the charts in Helios. Since WDP isn’t able to update the kneeboards in the correct directory which is “Add-On 1982 Battle for Suez\Terrdata\objects\KoreaObj” it only updates the DDS files in the standard KTO directory. Since Helios does pull the kneeboards from the Suez directory I am not able to get my own kneeboards unless I manually copy the DDS files from KTO to Suez. Is there a way to make Helios still update the kneeboards from the KTO directory even if it is running a non KTO theater? Doing this would just cause the in game kneeboards to display different images than the Helios kneeboards correct? Since I fly with pilot legs off them being different wouldn’t matter. How are the .jpg images in the “Documents\Helios\Images\FalconBMS Images\Kneeboards” updated from the Suez theater directory? Is that the AutoPadsUpdate.exe figuring out what the directory is for the Suez theater is or is it being done somewhere else?

Thanks

Hey linknet, question on the charts. Is there a reason you have the rotary charts selector hidden? Is there a problem with manually selecting the charts if you know what you are doing? Since the FalconOnline theaters are unique Helios doesn’t recognize them even though there are theaters that could be used, such as the current Suez campaign they have going on. Helios doesn’t recognize it as the Israel theater even though it uses the same map and for the most part the same airport charts. Is there another way to get Helios to pull up the Israel charts other than enabling the rotary and moving the layer above the charts on it? Is there a theater list somewhere that can be edited which corresponds to the theater chart Helios will pull up?

Edit - It looks like after installing Helios a reboot was required as that fixed it.

@linknet - Thanks for the new version, will try and stay a little more current going forward, now that I am getting a little quicker at making my mods.

One issue I am running into on this current version is after setting everything up and resetting the monitors, when I try and open up the monitor to make the changes I am getting an error that it thinks I have the incorrect version of Helios, but I can confirm I have 1.6.5800.0000.

Thoughts?

@Falcas - I am getting something odd when setting up a HADB profile. when looking at the map in WDP under the profile it doesn’t matching up with the map in BMS also the STPT locations and PPTs don’t match the mission either. Here is what WDP shows vs. what BMS is showing. Thoughts?

@delenda - looks like we were able to get it going, it turns out it was a permissions issue where the BMS directory now needs read/write access to the BMS directory.

Thanks for the feedback guys.

@delenda I am using RDP, I tried with VNC and it still crashed, will try from the console next just to be sure.

@delenda @airtex2019 - thanks for the info, current server has 8GB so maybe it is as simple as that.

When you had problems with 8GB we’re you able to get to the UI and then it crashed going to 3D? I can’t even get the server into the UI as it just crashes on startup. I watched the ram usage on startup and didn’t see it increase though, but that was just watching it with the task monitor.

Will see about adding additional ram and testing with 16GB.

@linknet - thanks, I see it now in the revision history. Guess I should have updated. Will do it with the 4.36 directory for now until the next version is released and then update.

@delenda - Thanks, our server doesn’t have a graphics card though so good to know its working and that there probably won’t be any update to the DLL. Will look into what changes can be made on the server to troubleshoot.

@linknet I am having the problem again with the kneeboards updating. It looks like it is that same problem as last time where the KneeBoardsUpdate.exe is hardcoded to the 4.36 directory. Is it easy to provide a quick update to that exe? If not as a workaround I can just run an older version of WDP that is pointed to 4.36 to update the kneeboards so Helios can pull it from the 4.36 directory.