Tacview – Understand what happened during your last flight! (alternative ACMI viewer)
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maybe not hitting the topic quite, but does anyone know how to “restore” broken acmi files?
hab a great engagement, but crappy machine was not able to save the acmi file properly…stuck in the loading screen, yadayadayada…
is there a way to complete the process for bms in order to watch the file with tacview?regards
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Tacview 1.6.0 is now available to everyone!
The long awaited real-time telemetry is here! Use it with DCS World, FSX, Prepar3D, or X-Plane to record and review in real-time a flight in progress. An first draft of the instructor remote control is also available. This tool enables you to control up to four simulators, to assist trainee pilots and reduce their workload.
To prevent cheating, real-time telemetry may be disabled during network sessions depending on the host preferences.
These two new features go naturally well together: Use the real-time telemetry to watch in real time your trainee from outside and inside the cockpit. Help him/her using the remote control to pause its flight simulator and actuate some of its aircraft controls. In the next update, you will be able to directly bind joystick and keyboard to remote control commands.
All Tacview network features are independent and can be combined the way you want. For example, you can combine the real-time telemetry and the online-debriefing to review, with your fellow squadrons leaders, in real-time, a network battle in progress like a red-flag training.
In addition, many updates and fixes are introduced in this version to better enjoy flight review for all your favorite simulators.
While several surprises are on their way for this year, the next major step will be Tacview 2.0. This new version will offer a fully revamped UI, and a will include most of the improvements which have been requested over the years.
Meanwhile several updates are still planned for Tacview 1.6 and maybe 1.7, to offer a smooth transition while waiting for 2.0. For example, you will soon get an integrated static objects editor to easily add navaids to a battlefield and will be able to display analog cockpit instruments to get more intuitive and faster reading while analysing the quality of a flight.
FEATURES & CHANGES
- Real-time telemetry for DCS World, FSX, Prepar3D, and X-Plane
- Instructor Remote Control to assist trainee pilots
- Added support for iLevil csv files
- Dynamic adjustment of the export frequency to increase accuracy of important objects like player aircraft
- Added an optional 5 minutes playback delay for DCS World exporter
- Integrated Ostsee 3.2.6 theater for Falcon 4.0
- Integrated Pillars of Hercules theater 0.7.8.2 U2 for Falcon 4.0
- Integrated Israel 1.0.3 terrain and database for BMS 4.33 U3
- Trail size can now be defined more accurately and is explicitly displayed in a tooltip
- Added attitude (roll and pitch) charts to analyze pilot induced oscillations
- Added CAS to charts
- Added an additional larger auto scale option
- Added an option to choose the compression level for DCS World recorder
- By default, debug level events are not displayed anymore in the console, use /debug:on to show them
FIXES
- Fixed a crash in DCS World when returning to spectator mode
- Tacview was not properly playing back flights taking place before 1970 like WWII flights
- X-Plane Real-time object teleportation is now gracefully handled
- It was not possible to copy/paste a shortcut containing a bullseye
- It was not possible to select or highlight a bullseye during online debriefing
- Mirage 2000 AA missiles names were mixed up
- Charts horizontal axis graduations were not properly displayed
- ACMI files export path will be preserved when installing a new version of Tacview
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About 20 people in my squadron have the pro version (now called advanced). Since version 1.6.0, online debriefing does not work anymore. When rolling back to a previous version, it wil work again, but not so with 1.6.0 it seems. Saw on Tacview forum that other BMS flying squadrons also have this problem.
Also, we noticed that if you try to change the connectionport, the port reverts back to the default setting when hitting the join button. We normally do use that standard port 42673, and we all have it forwarded in our routers, but we tried changing the port to get it to work again and then we noticed this. Maybe this is related to the problem?
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About 20 people in my squadron have the pro version (now called advanced). Since version 1.6.0, online debriefing does not work anymore. When rolling back to a previous version, it wil work again, but not so with 1.6.0 it seems. Saw on Tacview forum that other BMS flying squadrons also have this problem.
Also, we noticed that if you try to change the connectionport, the port reverts back to the default setting when hitting the join button. We normally do use that standard port 42673, and we all have it forwarded in our routers, but we tried changing the port to get it to work again and then we noticed this. Maybe this is related to the problem?
Same in our SQN
Enviado desde mi GT-I9195I mediante Tapatalk
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Hi,
Just playing around with real life flight and some capabilities of Tacview,same with SRTM3 élévation data
and with SRTM1 (ALPS from Jonathan de Ferranti web site)
I have modelized with blender a centrair 101 Pegase, which is the glider I am used to fly
This is a 548 triangles model, far less than the 4 000 given as a limit.
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Thanks to your valuable feedback, the online debriefing has been fixed in Tacview 1.6.1 beta 1.
http://tacview.net/download/beta
Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Please Vyrtuoz, could you point out where one can find some documentation about the"Instructor Remote Control to assist trainee pilots" feature ?
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I did not have the time to write a documentation about it yet.
Do you have a specific question in mind?
For now, this feature works only with DCS World, X-Plane and FSX. The idea it to connect the remote control to a session in progress, and to use Tacview to activate the general controls of the aircraft like gear & flap to assist trainees. The available controls will be extended on demand to any functionality of the supported simulators (like to triggering failures).
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Thanks to your valuable feedback, the online debriefing has been fixed in Tacview 1.6.1 beta 1.
http://tacview.net/download/beta
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Been trying to DL the Beta from your site. Keeps taking me to an Amazon Drive page with no options to DL.
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yes, click on it and click on download at the botton page, and it will start
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Vyrtuoz, what would it take in order to get real time telemetry for BMS implemented as well? Do you need to be able to read the .flt files? (Are you already able to?)
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Its been a long time since I have worked with VHS files and their brothers the FLT files. I am suspecting that it is not possible to read FLT files for two reasons:
- I think that they contain dynamic data which can be interpreted only by Falcon 4.
- They may be locked or not flushed on regular basis which would prevent from reading data fast enough.
I hope it is possible to read F4 telemetry data in real-time, but this will require a lot of investigation and work to do so. This is why I prefer to focus first on other features which are much faster to develop.
I think there is an ATC program for Falcon 4. I forgot its name, but, maybe its developer can help us to know how to read F4 telemetry in real-time over a network connection or something similar.
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Its called F4Awacs, and you should contact Sakis “Monster” Giokas.
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Naktakala=NikNak 1st VFW
Real-time telemetry is possible although falcon writes the .flt every 0.2 seconds so its not particularly smooth (5 fps). Once can interpolate pretty easily though which is what the code does when generating the VHS.
The .flt file is ever growing and different from VHS tapes but the file can be read. Currently I have been unsuccessful in memory mapping the file since it grows with varying size datablocks (i.e. Events vs GenPosdata) but you can have a single process read the file and obtain latest positions after which you can seek forward to not read the file from the start. Anyone interested in how to do this can contact me anytime, I am very willing to handover my research.
Below is a picture of the current capabilities, it includes the following:
Reading falcon shared memory
Reading class tables
Reading the vehicle database
Reading the .flt file
Shows friendlies locking enemies (technically enemies locking friendlies too but I removed that for realism)
Has a ruler
Has bulls-eye and raw coordinates
Reads the datacard and displays ppts stpt-lines and steerpoints
Can show a blue arc line for ILS approaches (not seen in the pic)
Updates other aircraft positions every 3 seconds -
Below is a picture of the current capabilities, it includes the following:
Reading falcon shared memory
Reading class tables
Reading the vehicle database
Reading the .flt file
Shows friendlies locking enemies (technically enemies locking friendlies too but I removed that for realism)
Has a ruler
Has bulls-eye and raw coordinates
Reads the datacard and displays ppts stpt-lines and steerpoints
Can show a blue arc line for ILS approaches (not seen in the pic)
Updates other aircraft positions every 3 secondsBit off-topic to Tacview, but that sounds / looks like a great project for a new and improved ATC / GCI tool. Are you working on that idea, and if so, would it be publicly available someday?
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Good question… I am developing it under the 1st VFW and I want the wing to be the owner of it first, so consequently I want the wing to decide that. I am wary though because if it is available, then basically people will have a much better view of the world than others. The fact is, although it is close to realistic, its still a kind-of Hack IMHO. More than welcome to discuss opinions.
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Niknak(Naktakala)'s work (see above) is the reason why I asked the question as I figured maybe his discoveries could be beneficial for Tacview and possible real time info from BMS to be used as GCI etc. Maybe you guys should talk haha
Its been a long time since I have worked with VHS files and their brothers the FLT files. I am suspecting that it is not possible to read FLT files for two reasons:
- I think that they contain dynamic data which can be interpreted only by Falcon 4.
- They may be locked or not flushed on regular basis which would prevent from reading data fast enough.
I hope it is possible to read F4 telemetry data in real-time, but this will require a lot of investigation and work to do so. This is why I prefer to focus first on other features which are much faster to develop.
I think there is an ATC program for Falcon 4. I forgot its name, but, maybe its developer can help us to know how to read F4 telemetry in real-time over a network connection or something similar.
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Nice work Naktakala!
This is definitively bumping up the task about Falcon 4 real-time telemetry
I will come back to you as soon as I have the time to work on a prototype.