DCS Monitor Setup

Demo Video Part 1: https://youtu.be/UbVGleRAXhg

Demo Video Part 2 (Combined Monitor Setup): https://youtu.be/RFMxnSyo0_M

Helios optionally supports the creation of Monitor Setup files and viewports directly from a profile.

WARNING: This functionality currently only works correctly if all your displays are set to the same DPI configured via Windows setting "Display | Scale and layout | Change the size of text, apps, and other items." Using a different scale factor on your Helios monitor than you do on your other displays will result in incorrect placement of viewports and/or controls.

Profiles can have rectangles drawn on them using the Simulator Viewport control object from the toolbox or any of the many pre-created templates for different DCS aircraft's viewports.

Place one of these rectangles over the area where you want the viewport mapped. Subsequent Reset Monitors operations will also scale this rectangle, so it will stay in the correct place relative to the cockpit graphics.

If you have an interface of type "DCS Monitor Setup" in the profile, then Helios will create the monitor setup for you from these rectangles. If you use only viewports with unique names, then Helios will detect this fact and let you configure a shared Monitor Setup file that can be used for all your profiles.

In order to use any of the Monitor Setup functionality, your profile needs to be saved so that it has a name. Additionally, "Reset Monitors" will need to be completed. The UI will inform you of this fact and may not show all of the UI until you have done so.

If your profile has viewports that collide with some of your other profiles, you can move it to the "Separate" section by clicking the "Minus" icon next to its name in the "Combined" section. This will tell Helios to make a separate Monitor Setup and tell you the name of this setup file. If you use this option, you will need to switch "Monitors" in DCS when you switch profiles.

In order to be able to rename the viewports to be unique across aircraft, Helios also contains the ability to apply viewport mods for you. Please see DCS Additional Viewports.

Alternatively, you can configure the "Advanced Options" collapsible configuration section to specify that you will take care of the viewport mods yourself using some other software. If you do so, please consider informing the Helios developers of other projects that help you create these viewports. Helios is already cooperating with Jabbers' "DCS Alternative Launcher" project to ensure compatible naming, and we would like to also cooperate with any other projects helping people configure viewports.

Note: Because Helios cannot open all your profiles at the same time, you will need to open each profile and reconfigure the monitor setup if you make changes to the monitors on your DCS system. The UI will inform you of this fact.

Because Helios does not edit your DCS settings, you will have to manually follow its instructions that will be shown both in the DCS Monitor Setup UI and in the Interface Status Details view. Specifically, you will have to configure the DCS "Resolution" and "Monitors" settings.