Welcome!

Unfortunately, I don't think the "first" picture is a correct implementation of an F-16 cockpit.  Looks like a lot of things may have been squished together and while maintaining the same "location," it does not have to correct dimensions/spacing.

Like yourself, I've not had much soldering experience until I started, but I'm quite confident with it now.  We all learn new skills for this hobby!

On the pictures of your first post, it looks like there are no holes cut out on the side console surface for the panels?

Good evening all from Milton Keynes in the UK! I've just started on my first adventure into building a Viper cockpit (or any other cockpit for that matter)....

This thing is a massive learning curve for me as I don't even know how to solder (as yet) and know very little about electronics! I've been into Flight Simulators since the original Flight Sim came out on the PC back in the early 80's (I'm 52 now)!

Back in January I purchased this cockpit off eBay:

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Literally a week later, I saw this 90% built structure on eBay again, which I just had to have! It's been built from Tejay's plans, who's based in the USA:

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I thought it would be reasonably easy to transfer all the gauges, switches, panels, etc to the cockpit, but the more I learn on this fantastic forum the more overwhelmed I feel, lol!

There's a massive amount of research needed, but thankfully there's this fantastic forum where it looks like most of the thousands of questions have already been answered somewhere or other, which is amazing. I've already started 3D printing out parts for the ACES II seat, spraying them and weathering them, etc. I can't wait to start on the main panels. Cheers Chris

Hi @SharkNoir,

Thank you so much for your help.

I have installed those files as advised, however I did't overwrite my *.lua file as my current .lua contains DCS-BIOS and HFS (vibration pad) data.

I have copied the DCStoF4*.lua content into my own .lua file and it seems like my Martin's DED is working perfectly, however no info on RWR and LDG box. Furthermore my DCS-BIOS is also not working anymore. I have tried with only DCStoF4 data but still the same, only DED is working. So can I run simultaneously DCS-BIOS and DCStoF4?

It looks like something brakes my DCS-BIOS. This is currently my Export.lua file:

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dofile(lfs.writedir() .. [[Scripts\DCS-BIOS\BIOS.lua]])

local HFSlfs=require('lfs');dofile(HFSlfs.writedir()..'Scripts/HFSExport.lua')
local xflight=require('lfs');dofile(xflight.writedir()..[[Scripts\DCS-XFLIGHT\Util-Dial.lua]])

Any ideas how to solve this problem?

Hi @SharkNoir,

I am trying to establish the connection between DCS and Martins DEDCapture. I just have received a manual installation version from Martin of the DEDCapture V3.02.05Beta, including manual installation of DCStoF4.

Inside the DCStoF4 V1.22 folder 2 files. What do I have exactly to do with those files? Where do I have to copy them? Any help would be highly appreciated.

Best regards,

Robert

Feel free to submit a pull request

@lightning See https://github.com/lightningviper/lightningstools/pull/7

That should at least make the software run again...

Didn't manage to fix the TAD showing maps in odd colors.