DCS Kneeboard like overlay for IL2?

[Tonester]

Hi all…when flying VR one must have a very good memory for where which buttons for what controls lie, especially

in my case as i have a Warthog, 2 saitek quads, 1 CH quad, a saitek multi and radio panel, and a

saitek yoke and believe it or not i use at least something on each peripheral in every sim. In DCS i made up controller maps

and added them to the kneeboard so i can just bring them up when needed to see what button i need to press and

i dont have to remove my headset or alt tab out of the sim. In IL2, as far as i am aware, one can only add a very small

photo to the cockpit however that is way way too small for my needs. Is there some kind of overlay one can use to show

something pop up in the sim, like in the way the map does? Any suggestions…???

[R3animate]

Yep, there's a mod - see the kneeboard section!

[Tonester]

1 hour ago, R3animate said:

Yep, there's a mod - see the kneeboard section!

Thanks...is this useable in MP though as thats all i fly due to the AI and campaigns being a source of much disappointment to me

[firdimigdi]

https://github.com/OpenKneeboard/OpenKneeboard

[Tonester]

1 hour ago, Firdimigdi said:

https://github.com/OpenKneeboard/OpenKneeboard

This works in IL2GB?? I thought it was ONLY for DCS??

[firdimigdi]

13 minutes ago, Tonester said:

This works in IL2GB?? I thought it was ONLY for DCS??

 

[Tonester]

1 hour ago, Firdimigdi said:

 

Cool!...got it going, thanks very much, but how does one save their kneeboard so they can load up different kneeboards for different aircraft? Or is that

not possible and i will have to just have a kneeboard crammed full of different pdfs for different aircraft and flick through them all to find the one im after?

Edited July 29, 2022 by Tonester

[firdimigdi]

Sadly it only has automation hooks for DCS, for all other sims/games it's manual mode only. You can either concatenate/merge some PDFs in to groups that make sense for you, make images of cheatsheets and put them in a folder or indeed have a tab for each plane you fly; whichever works for you.