Monday 23 November 2015

Fixing the TRIM

For some reason, the default TRIM functions in the .key file does not like to play nice with TrackIR so I've ported over Morphine's lines onto the .key file.  Please download this new .key file so that the TRIM hat works as intended.  Thanks!

BMS - FPM by -Ice.key -- put in your /BMS/User/Config directory

Sunday 22 November 2015

BETA Profile Update - Nov 22

Updated the charts to use the new ones for 4.33.  I think most charts are the same but a few have been taken out and others have been renamed.

Also, thanks for an idea from Toto, I've modded the MFDs so that the "touch area" is bigger making it easier to use.  The rockers have been made bigger too.

Because of the new images, I've uploaded a new .zip file with images.

Here are the new files:
-Ice's BMS 4.33 ver1.2 -- place this on your /Documents/Helios/Profiles directory
Custom Images  -- unzip to your /Documents/Helios/Images directory, so you should end up with a /Documents/Helios/Images/-Ice's Falcon BMS ver.2 directory


For any issues or problems, please post a comment here or on the BMS forum thread.  Thanks!

Thursday 19 November 2015

BETA Profile Update - Nov 18

A bit more work done on the profile and have incorporated a few new things:

  • MFD Gain and Bightness rockers now work
  • The profile should sync with some of the in-game cockpit switches.  This should work for the right autopilot (Pitch) switch, the Parking Brake switch, the Landing Gear lever (only if BMS is the main window during the "loading to 3D" screen), and the JFS switch.
  • Added a button to turn off mouse-clicks in the 3D pit.  You will still see the mouse cursor but it will no longer interact with the switches/buttons/knobs in the pit.  This is a red button just to the right of the Pitch AP switch and it will turn white once pressed.  You should also see a "Mouse Buttons DISABLED" message in the game.
  • Changed keybindings for a few knobs and switches due to some unknown issue with Helios and BMS (CAT switch, Audio SQL/GD knobs, Threat and Missile knobs, ICP Drift Warn switch, and a few others IIRC)
  • Changed TARGET profile to fix a few issues.  Still has a lot of Morphine's old key bindings on the throttle switches on the base but have been "commented out"


Here are the new files:
-Ice's BMS 4.33 ver.1.1 -- place this on your /Documents/Helios/Profiles directory
BMS - FPM by -Ice.key -- put in your /BMS/User/Config directory
Ice's BMS WH Profile ver6 -- open and run with TARGET Script Editor


For any issues or problems, please post a comment here or on the BMS forum thread.  Thanks for trying out my profile!

Wednesday 11 November 2015

BETA Profile Update

Okay, starting to find bugs now, mainly due to changing/renaming/adding/deleting callbacks in 4.33.  I'll have to go through the whole profile to make sure everything is still where it should be and this will take some time.  I'll also have to add the new switches that are in 4.33, so again, this will be a while.

For now, I'm uploading a profile that "fixes" the HDG, CRS, and Altimeter 5-degree increment/decrement issue.  With this "fix," you only have to press ONCE to get a 5-degree increment/decrement.  I've also resized the "buttons" so that each button is on its own quadrant and are equally sized.  Upper right is a 5-degree increment, upper left is a 5-degree decrement.  Lower right/left is a 1-degree increment/decrement.

For this profile to work, you will also need to go into your falcon bms.cfg file and add this entry at the first space at the top:
set g_nKnobAccelerationDelta 300

Refer to this BMS forum thread to learn more about what it does.



-Ice's BMS 4.33 ver.1 - profile with the HDG, CRS, and Altimeter "fix," place this on your /Documents/Helios/Profiles directory

Tuesday 10 November 2015

BMS 4.33 .key file BETA

With the release of 4.33 came a lot of changes to the .key files.  While my old 4.32 .key file would work in 4.33, it lost a bit of functionality (sound feedback) and might have brought problems.  I've worked on a new 4.33 .key file by using the Pitbuilder.key file as base and then adding in the Full.key file callbacks that were not present in the Pitbuilder.key file.  Basically, this meant that all the switch state callbacks (on-off) were mapped to keys and all the toggle callbacks were still included but unmapped.

Another change that had to be done was to relocate all the callbacks that were mapped to the Enter and Numpad Enter keys for the simple reason that Helios doesn't seem to want to work with these two keys in any way.  Slightly annoying but hopefully, once the new Helios profile is up and running with 4.33, the "change" that I had to do won't really be noticed anyway.

So for the meantime, here is my 4.33 .key file for testing.  Please post any problems here or on the BMS forums.  Thanks!


-Ice's BMS 4.33 ver.1 - "new" Helios version, place this on your /Documents/Helios/Profiles directory
BMS 4.33 .key file BETA - put in your /BMS/User/Config directory