Posted By: {S}DickDastardly
How to display working cockpit gauges, lights & MFDs on a second PC or monitor. - 05/03/07 11:26 PM
Hi all,
Some of you may have read about this before in the EECHCommServer thread, but I thought it was worth starting a new one so people don't have to wade through pages of tech talk before finding the links. I'll keep this first post updated with the latest downloads.
For those of you who didn't read the other thread, a few pictures should be more informative than a lengthy explanation. All the following images are taken from a second PC which is networked to the one on which EECH is running. Almost everything you see in these shots is responding to live data from the sim.
Commanche:
Hokum:
Havoc:
I've uploaded a full setup guide here which includes links to all the downloads, and the latest UDPSpeed sets for each helicopter are also listed below:
UDPSpeed_Commanche_Beta_02.zip (03/05/07 added more data to the top left screen and changed the colour of the digital readouts)
UDPSpeed_Hokum_Beta_08.zip (03/05/07 removed some redundant files and renumbered the subfolders)
UDPSpeed_Havoc_Beta_05.zip (03/05/07 added weapons payload panel and changed text colour of the digital fuel display).
Getting all this stuff working has been a real international collaboration, with contributions from Russia, Ukraine, Austria, Germany and Britain. I wouldn't have had a chance in hell of doing it myself without a lot of hard work behind the scenes from the following coders:
-Hruks and Alezz, the authors of UDPSpeed, particularly Hruks who's been extraordinarily patient with my repeated requests for new features. Thanks to him a bit of software which was designed to display a few simple gauges for a WWII sim is now capable of handling the complexity of a modern helicopter gunship.
-Retro who created the shared memory feature for EECH and wrote the EECHCommServer, without which none of my UDPSpeed sets for this sim would have been possible.
-_mue who coded the exporting of the MFDs -a wonderful feature which has really added to the utility and fun of displaying a cockpit on a second screen.
Thanks very much guys!
Cheers,
DD
Some of you may have read about this before in the EECHCommServer thread, but I thought it was worth starting a new one so people don't have to wade through pages of tech talk before finding the links. I'll keep this first post updated with the latest downloads.
For those of you who didn't read the other thread, a few pictures should be more informative than a lengthy explanation. All the following images are taken from a second PC which is networked to the one on which EECH is running. Almost everything you see in these shots is responding to live data from the sim.
Commanche:
Hokum:
Havoc:
I've uploaded a full setup guide here which includes links to all the downloads, and the latest UDPSpeed sets for each helicopter are also listed below:
UDPSpeed_Commanche_Beta_02.zip (03/05/07 added more data to the top left screen and changed the colour of the digital readouts)
UDPSpeed_Hokum_Beta_08.zip (03/05/07 removed some redundant files and renumbered the subfolders)
UDPSpeed_Havoc_Beta_05.zip (03/05/07 added weapons payload panel and changed text colour of the digital fuel display).
Getting all this stuff working has been a real international collaboration, with contributions from Russia, Ukraine, Austria, Germany and Britain. I wouldn't have had a chance in hell of doing it myself without a lot of hard work behind the scenes from the following coders:
-Hruks and Alezz, the authors of UDPSpeed, particularly Hruks who's been extraordinarily patient with my repeated requests for new features. Thanks to him a bit of software which was designed to display a few simple gauges for a WWII sim is now capable of handling the complexity of a modern helicopter gunship.
-Retro who created the shared memory feature for EECH and wrote the EECHCommServer, without which none of my UDPSpeed sets for this sim would have been possible.
-_mue who coded the exporting of the MFDs -a wonderful feature which has really added to the utility and fun of displaying a cockpit on a second screen.
Thanks very much guys!
Cheers,
DD