[Release] Tyrant's Virtual Mission Tools (VMT)
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interesting … I installed Balkan, but VMT can not see this theater …
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interesting … I installed Balkan, but VMT can not see this theater …
I used it without any problem, not the latest version of both on date, though.
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interesting … I installed Balkan, but VMT can not see this theater …
So, that sure looks like either a permissions problem or some sort of disk corruption.
If you’re willing to run VMT as an administrator, that might rule out permissions.
Have you rebooted lately? That’s my next suggestion, as well as running CHKDSK, assuming that’s still a Windows thing. I stopped using Windows except to fly BMS years ago, so I’m sort of out of date on what it’s like these days.
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I get following error when trying to open saved cam from Lorik’s Balkans.
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I get following error when trying to open saved cam from Lorik’s Balkans.
Can you try the latest version? I think the one you’re using is quite out of date, and may have a fix for that. Balkans database is pretty weird, and I’ve had to add more than one workaround for it.
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Roger will try didnt realize there was a newer version. Thanks.
Tried new version now it does this:
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Hmm. At least it’s a different error…
So, that looks like it’s in the part of the code where it tries to figure out what theater the mission you just picked is in. Can you post your Data/Terrdata/theaterdefinition/theater.lst file, and the path of the mission file you tried to open? It looks like it couldn’t find either the data directory or the campaign directory for the theater for some reason. Maybe you have an old theater listed in the theater.lst file that you’ve deleted?
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Hmm. At least it’s a different error…
So, that looks like it’s in the part of the code where it tries to figure out what theater the mission you just picked is in. Can you post your Data/Terrdata/theaterdefinition/theater.lst file, and the path of the mission file you tried to open? It looks like it couldn’t find either the data directory or the campaign directory for the theater for some reason. Maybe you have an old theater listed in the theater.lst file that you’ve deleted?
Just a follow up, I got the same error with a KTO Joseon save file. I placed the save file into the reg KTO save folder and it loaded without issue.
It appears to be an issue with the Korea/Balkan alt campaigns that have been recently created by Lorik and Kaos.
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Just a follow up, I got the same error with a KTO Joseon save file. I placed the save file into the reg KTO save folder and it loaded without issue.
It appears to be an issue with the Korea/Balkan alt campaigns that have been recently created by Lorik and Kaos.
Thanks for the followup. I have had another project taking my time away from VMT lately (helping get the 440th VFW up and running), but I’m getting close to the point where I’ll go back to spending more time on VMT, so hopefully I can take a look at this before too long.
Sorry it’s not working for you.
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Would it be possible in af future version, to be able to seperate the map window from the controls? That way you would be able to show a presentor screen on say, a beamer, and then have the controls on the laptop. Just like powerpoint for example.
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Hello Tyrant,
I see you’re providing a Mac client, is Linux support on the cards anytime soon? I could help with testing & debugging if you’re interested.
Thanks for this fantastic tool & keep up the great work!
All the best,
Uwe
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PS: looks like the current version also works rather nicely in WINE, good job!
All the best,
Uwe
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Would it be possible in af future version, to be able to seperate the map window from the controls? That way you would be able to show a presentor screen on say, a beamer, and then have the controls on the laptop. Just like powerpoint for example.
It’s certainly possible, but unfortunately not easy, for technical reasons. I’ve made a note of the feature request, but I would imagine it would be quite a while before it got implemented. I do agree that there are some nice use cases for it, so perhaps inspiration will strike some day and I’ll think of a way to make it easier.
Thanks for the suggestion!
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Hello Tyrant,
I see you’re providing a Mac client, is Linux support on the cards anytime soon? I could help with testing & debugging if you’re interested.
Thanks for this fantastic tool & keep up the great work!
All the best,
Uwe
It might be quite easy, in fact. I will try to remember to have a look at adding support.
PS: looks like the current version also works rather nicely in WINE, good job!
All the best,
Uwe
In the meantime this seems like a nice alternative - glad it works.
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I have been super busy helping to get the 440th up and running, but over the last few weeks I have started to move VMT forward again, albeit slowly. So here we are with the first new release in a while. Hope you find it useful.
First post updated. Downloads available here:
http://org.craigandera.vmt.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/stable/
New stuff:
- Build Linux version as well
- Improved map sizing and positioning: controls will never move below
map. Instead, map gets smaller if necessary to accommodate controls
when resizing window. - Titlebar of map is collapsible to increase usable space.
- Tab names now remain visible even when scrolling content.
- Implemented “Save map image as PNG”
- Flights can be opened in their own tabs
- Flight colors and check state are now saved with briefing
Also, VMT now has its own home page: http://www.440thvfw.com/vmt.
Additionally, I’m opening up the beta releases to anyone that cares to suffer with them. You can download them at
http://org.craigandera.vmt.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/dev/
You can have a dev/beta release installed at the same time as the release version and they won’t interfere with each other. Support for the dev/beta versions will be via the VMT thread on the 440th forum:
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I have been super busy helping to get the 440th up and running, but over the last few weeks I have started to move VMT forward again, albeit slowly. So here we are with the first new release in a while. Hope you find it useful.
First post updated. Downloads available here:
http://org.craigandera.vmt.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/stable/
New stuff:
- Build Linux version as well
- Improved map sizing and positioning: controls will never move below
map. Instead, map gets smaller if necessary to accommodate controls
when resizing window. - Titlebar of map is collapsible to increase usable space.
- Tab names now remain visible even when scrolling content.
- Implemented “Save map image as PNG”
- Flights can be opened in their own tabs
- Flight colors and check state are now saved with briefing
Also, VMT now has its own home page: http://www.440thvfw.com/vmt.
Additionally, I’m opening up the beta releases to anyone that cares to suffer with them. You can download them at
http://org.craigandera.vmt.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/dev/
You can have a dev/beta release installed at the same time as the release version and they won’t interfere with each other. Support for the dev/beta versions will be via the VMT thread on the 440th forum:
Excellent, thank you Tyrant! I love your tool
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Thanks Tyrant.Really usefull app
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Thanks for the update Tyrant and most of all thanks for providing a native Linux version
Would it be possible to manually set the BMS installation path? My active BMS installation lives on my final remaining win7 partition for now and when trying to load a TE, I get the following error:
✗Loading mission
✓Locating installation directory
✓Scanning Falcon installation at /media/hoover/SSD250G/bms/bms433u1
✗Determining theater
✗
TypeError: Cannot read property ‘replace’ of null
at clojure.string.replace (file:///media/hoover/HP1TB/00Downloads/bms/tools/VMT/linux/resources/app/mission.html.js:3339:71)
at weathergen.filesystem.normalize (file:///media/hoover/HP1TB/00Downloads/bms/tools/VMT/linux/resources/app/mission.html.js:5864:177)
at Function.weathergen.filesystem.path_combine.cljs$core$IFn$_invoke$arity$2 (file:///media/hoover/HP1TB/00Downloads/bms/tools/VMT/linux/resources/app/mission.html.js:5866:186)
at weathergen.filesystem.path_combine (file:///media/hoover/HP1TB/00Downloads/bms/tools/VMT/linux/resources/app/mission.html.js:5865:196)
at Function.weathergen.falcon.files.mission.campaign_dir.cljs$core$IFn$_invoke$arity$2 (file:///media/hoover/HP1TB/00Downloads/bms/tools/VMT/linux/resources/app/mission.html.js:6603:132)
at weathergen.falcon.files.mission.campaign_dir (file:///media/hoover/HP1TB/00Downloads/bms/tools/VMT/linux/resources/app/mission.html.js:6601:319)
at file:///media/hoover/HP1TB/00Downloads/bms/tools/VMT/linux/resources/app/mission.html.js:6622:303
at file:///media/hoover/HP1TB/00Downloads/bms/tools/VMT/linux/resources/app/mission.html.js:2229:277
at cljs.core.LazySeq.sval (file:///media/hoover/HP1TB/00Downloads/bms/tools/VMT/linux/resources/app/mission.html.js:1907:154)
at cljs.core.LazySeq.cljs$core$ISeqable$_seq$arity$1 (file:///media/hoover/HP1TB/00Downloads/bms/tools/VMT/linux/resources/app/mission.html.js:1913:343)The theater in question is “Aegean”. Loading a custom TE created in stock KTO seems to work fine OTOH although VMT claims that it “Cannot find a matching installation of Falcon BMS for this mission.” on the “create briefing” section.
All the best, Uwe
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Right. Extra steps are required for OS X/Linux installations and I forgot to write them down somewhere visible.
For Linux, you’ll need to create a file at ~/.config/craigandera.org/VMT/settings.edn. (On OS X, this should be at ~/Library/Application Support/craigandera.org/VMT/settings.edn)
The contents should be as below. Obviously you will need to change the path to be correct for your system.
{ :installations {"Falcon BMS 4.33 U1" "/path/to/falcon/4.33.3" ;; ;; Some people have more than one install pointing to the same directory ;; "Falcon BMS 4.33" "/path/to/falcon/4.33.3" } }
The reason for this is that under Windows (which 99.9% of the users are using), we get the BMS location from the registry. We don’t have that on the other operating systems, so we simulate it with this file.
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Nice App, first off. I have a request in the annotations. i am wanting to put a box with a text label and also have it able to brought to front on the map. currently it is displayed behind all my steerlines for my flights. Is this possible?
Also i have a question on the weather tab. i was trying to figure out how the forcast is projected. i wanted to create a map update fmap file and use it but it doesn’t seem to pick up that update file for the forcast.
thanks for your help
Jambo