Tacview – Understand what happened during your last flight! (alternative ACMI viewer)
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Tacview 1.6.1 is available!
Hi,
One type of functionality that, personally, I’ve been missing and what keeps me from using Tacview regularly is the ability to focus on one object, and track another object simultaneously without having to constantly work with the mouse to pan around the action of two objects simultaneously.
This functionality doesn’t fully exist from what I’ve been able to find. What it does have of course, is a simultaneous track “between” two different objects, rather than being able to “focus” on one object, while you constantly track another object in the background.
In Falcon BMS’ ACMI viewer, there is a camera option called “Tracking” that provides “Focus” and “Track” options on two different objects of interest. Additionally, the telemetry of each object is placed near the object with enough scaling to read the telemetry constantly, while not obscuring the object of interest.
If this already exists within Tacview, my apologies because I’m not very up to speed with all of your great work. If it’s absent, take this as a humble whining to an otherwise fantastic program.
Respectfully,
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Sorry, just to expound a bit more on the desire for focus and track camera options between two objects of interest is the relative motion of the ‘tracked’ object in relation to the ‘focused’ object (as noted in BMS ACMI viewer).
The ‘tracked’ object moves with the rendered 3d world around the ‘focused’ object of interest.
This type of functionality gives a much stronger feel for a few key aspects of analysis in my opinion.
Such as increased reference of momentum, inertia, plane of motion, relative to the focused object of interest.
The whole world moves with the ‘tracked’ object of interest in the background of the ‘focused’ object of interest. This removes the static feel of Tacview in looking a fixed world that you’re free to move around in, but can’t make it move around you.
Thanks again for a wonderful program, and if I’m missing this capability forgive me.
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Errr… Any of those wonderful features and fixes are for Falcon BMS?
They are general and mostly for other simulators as I understood?sent from my mi5 using Tapatalk
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[Shift] + says “Attract viewers´attention to a specific object”
but it seems to be doing nothing - at least for me.
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It is true that this version does not offer new features related to BMS. However, I am quite sure that you will appreciate most of the fixes, especially the one concerning the online debriefing.
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I see what you mean KidVicious. I am going to add a “tracking” camera mode in the coming releases which will be like the one in BMS.
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I see what you mean KidVicious. I am going to add a “tracking” camera mode in the coming releases which will be like the one in BMS.
Good man
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The summer sale is on,
From Jun 23rd to Jul 9th: 40% off all Tacview editions!
Time to try the real-time telemetry and all the great features offered by the advanced edition of Tacview!
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Last chance to get Tacview at 40% off, or up to 70% off on group orders!
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@__Vytruoz__
you know what would be AWESOME !!! ??
if you could implement a “drawing and markings” feature for online debriefings, similar to what you can see here…
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Indeed! I have planned to add such tool for the online debriefing in a coming update.
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You rock !
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Tacview 1.6.2 is now available to everyone!
Download: http://tacview.net/download
This update brings numerous fixes, plus the following improvements:
The instructors are going to like the upgraded remote controls: You can now assign custom keyboard and joystick controls to remotely controls and assist the aircraft of your trainees flying in DCS World, FSX, Prepar3D and X-Plane. Remote controls can also be used to trigger special features (flags) in your DCS World mission.
The DCS World exporter has been improved to fully record and playback network flights when playing back the corresponding track files in DCS World. The next update will bring an improved anti-cheat system which will enable you to playback any network flight as long as you wait enough time before reviewing it in Tacview.
New command line options have been introduced so administrators can silently and remotely install and update Tacview using the command line.
FEATURES & CHANGES
• Integrated BMS Balkans 4.33.3.5 terrain and database
• Integrated BMS Ikaros 4.1.0 terrain and database
• Acmi files saved from Tacview are now as compact as they are with the latest universal exporter
• Added /ConfigSet command line option to separately store user preferences for each specific instance of Tacview
• Added /ProductKey:“xxx” command line option to register Tacview from the installer
• Added /InstallFolder:“xxx” command line option for the installer
• Added /Quiet command line option for the installer
• Added support for custom and animated explosions and smoke radius
• Added support for AGL altitude advanced telemetry data
• Remote controls will now automatically attempt to re-establish the connection with the host sim
• Remote controls are now displaying big icons easier to use with touch screens
• It is now possible to use keyboard and joystick inputs to remote control simulators
• Added remote control command to toggle wing tip smoke
• Eject and respawn now requires a double click in the remote controls
• Added /ConnectRealTimeTelemetry command line option to auto connect real-time telemetry at startup
• Added /ConnectRemoteControl[:*] command line option to auto connect specified remote control at startup
• Real-time telemetry now keeps the current camera mode when connecting to a new session
• Remote controls are now distinctively colored depending on the simulator host name
• It is now possible to trigger the flags 1001 to 1004 in DCS World with Tacview remote controlFIXES
• Cockpit camera keyboard controls were inverted
• Pitch value was inverted in the charts
• Screen-saver will not be active anymore while watching real-time telemetry
• Network flights recorded using DCS World track player can now be reviewed up to the end depending on the playback duration
• DCS World exporter logic has been rewritten to fix rare remote control and real-time telemetry issues
• Fixed several connection bugs concerning the remote control and real-time telemetry in Tacview
• It was not possible to pause X-Plane with the remote control -
All sorted now - many thanks
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Can it be an earlier version? I have 1.5.0
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Not sure what you mean by that. Even if older versions of Falcon and the theaters are not supported, they should work without any major problem with Tacview 1.6.2.
You can freely update your Tacview 1.5.0 to the version 1.6.2. Did you encounter any issue related to the update?
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Not sure what you mean by that. Even if older versions of Falcon and the theaters are not supported, they should work without any major problem with Tacview 1.6.2.
You can freely update your Tacview 1.5.0 to the version 1.6.2. Did you encounter any issue related to the update?
Sorry, I was replying to Malc’s request for version 1.5.3.
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With Tacview 1.6.3 beta 1, you can now display your own custom textures and orthophoto in Tacview!
http://tacview.net/download/beta/
For this example, you will need the Korea VFR map which can be found here: http://users.skynet.be/bs999158/F4download_navigation.htm
Save or copy the jpeg file as:
C:\ProgramData\Tacview\Data\Terrain\Textures\ONC_kneemap_korea_4096_print.jpg
Download the xml file: http://www.tacview.net/download/CustomTextureList.xml
And save or copy it as:
C:\ProgramData\Tacview\Data\Terrain\Textures\CustomTextureList.xml
Relaunch Tacview, make sure BMS terrain is automatically or manually displayed and you should see the Korean low-level VFR map!
Feel free to edit CustomTextureList.xml to add more BMS maps in Tacview based on the theaters coordinates which can be found in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Tacview (beta)\Data\Xml\Data-Falcon4Theaters.xml
Best enjoyed with the excellent KTO AIP by Windblow: http://www.tacview.net/download/addons/
Special thanks to Olivier Beaumont for his great VFR maps!
Enjoy!
Vyrtuoz -
Nice application of the map, i’ll definitely try that.
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Very cool.