[Release] Tyrant's Virtual Mission Tools (VMT)
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Well, I don’t have a permanent solution to this yet, but I’m working on it. In the meantime I implemented a hack that, while gross, should work fine. Balkans, ITO, and KTO missions all load fine for me now, but of course I don’t have the bandwidth to test it to the extent all of you collectively do. I think everything works except for Korea TvT and large theaters. Those I have no current plans to implement support for, as I think TvT is only little used, and large theater support requires substantial changes to the code.
Anyway, should work with Balkans and ITO now. Please test with these and whatever other theaters you care to throw at it:
http://org.craigandera.vmt.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/435-beta/
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thanks a lot for your tools, Tyrant !
but the Random parameters for weather generate some strange behavior without knowing why…I don’t think now the current weather model accepts anything
I tested many cases and I m pretty sure : the bug comes from TWX & FMAP files created from VMT
in this video, you can see the backUp ADI + ADI + horizon line on HUD change when Nose wheel steering is activated
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OK, good info. The TWX format is pretty complicated, unfortunately. The turbulence values produced are a complex function of the new sliders in the UI, so I sort of punted and may have made some mistakes there. The FMAP format, however, I think is unchanged.
I’m not too surprised that the random weather is a little quirky. The changes to the weather system in 4.34 made it WAY more complicated, and I think maybe I didn’t do a great job of figuring out how to constrain that in the VMT UI. But can we try to narrow it down a bit? If you keep the VMT-generated FMAPs but save a new TWX (edit the weather in the BMS UI), does the problem still happen? What if you reverse that (make a simple FMAP in Weather Commander)?
Another thing to try is to force VMT to generate very simple weather. The easy way to do that is to make a weather override that covers the whole theater. Enter a radius and falloff of 50, for example. If you still see weirdness with, say, sunny weather and constant temperature and pressure over the whole theater, it’s likely that I goofed up the file formats. If not, then it may just be that VMT is generating weather parameters that the BMS weather engine isn’t able to deal with.
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Well, I don’t have a permanent solution to this yet, but I’m working on it. In the meantime I implemented a hack that, while gross, should work fine. Balkans, ITO, and KTO missions all load fine for me now, but of course I don’t have the bandwidth to test it to the extent all of you collectively do. I think everything works except for Korea TvT and large theaters. Those I have no current plans to implement support for, as I think TvT is only little used, and large theater support requires substantial changes to the code.
Anyway, should work with Balkans and ITO now. Please test with these and whatever other theaters you care to throw at it:
http://org.craigandera.vmt.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/435-beta/
Thank you for your ongoing work Tyrant! Really stoked I can now use this with ITO and Balkans!
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@DUSTOFF17:
Thank you for your ongoing work Tyrant! Really stoked I can now use this with ITO and Balkans!
Figured it out! Permanent solution is now obvious to me. Will need some time to code it up but mystery solved: KTO files use a mixture of database versions that I wasn’t picking up on correctly. It also gives me confidence that the hack I put in place should work fine for now.
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Figured it out! Permanent solution is now obvious to me. Will need some time to code it up but mystery solved: KTO files use a mixture of database versions that I wasn’t picking up on correctly. It also gives me confidence that the hack I put in place should work fine for now.
Good new
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Figured it out! Permanent solution is now obvious to me. Will need some time to code it up but mystery solved: KTO files use a mixture of database versions that I wasn’t picking up on correctly. It also gives me confidence that the hack I put in place should work fine for now.
Permanent solution implemented. Much better now. New version available here:
http://org.craigandera.vmt.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/435-beta/
No differences as far as users are concerned.
The only outstanding issue before I push this to GA would be that TWX thing mentioned above.
thanks a lot for your tools, Tyrant !
but the Random parameters for weather generate some strange behavior without knowing why…I don’t think now the current weather model accepts anything
I tested many cases and I m pretty sure : the bug comes from TWX & FMAP files created from VMT
I’m still not entirely sure what issue is being reported, or whether we have a solid repro. If anyone can provide more info about this, or especially help out by verifying that the issue does/does not occur with the only change being substitution of a known-good TWX, I’d love to hear it.
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Also I would be remiss if I didn’t thank Falcas and Nick for helping me sort this out. So thanks!
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You are welcome
gr Falcas
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Given that I have not heard any more about issues with the TWX, and in the absence of any other bug reports, I’ve made the changes for 4.35 available on the stable channel (the main release channel).
http://org.craigandera.vmt.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/stable/
This release is identical to the 4.35 beta previously posted.
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error with 4.35.1
I couldn’t load TE in VMT
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error with 4.35.1
I couldn’t load TE in VMT
Ok thanks. I will have a look this weekend.
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error with 4.35.1
I couldn’t load TE in VMT
Any chance you can send me the TE? Also what theater is it in?
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Hi. Very interesting and useful Tool!!
One note, i am trying to save briefing or map. it say that is going to save the file but after i cant see it on the directory i choose…… i dont know why the file disappear…any suggestion?
Many thanks
Gundam
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Any chance you can send me the TE? Also what theater is it in?
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please check the TE(KTO) here
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jlZWB02youdcHbBRJbysoEuOFiMEt5eR?usp=sharing
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Hi. Very interesting and useful Tool!!
One note, i am trying to save briefing or map. it say that is going to save the file but after i cant see it on the directory i choose…… i dont know why the file disappear…any suggestion?
Many thanks
Gundam
That should work. I will admit I didn’t test that with the new release. I’ll try to look at it soon. In the meantime perhaps someone else can say whether it’s working for them?
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please check the TE(KTO) here
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jlZWB02youdcHbBRJbysoEuOFiMEt5eR?usp=sharing
Thanks. I didn’t get around to looking at this yet so this is helpful.
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please check the TE(KTO) here
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jlZWB02youdcHbBRJbysoEuOFiMEt5eR?usp=sharing
OK, yep, total helmet fire on my part. Just completely missed something when I was doing the update. v061 is uploading and should be available shortly and should fix the problem.
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please check the TE(KTO) here
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jlZWB02youdcHbBRJbysoEuOFiMEt5eR?usp=sharing
Hi. Very interesting and useful Tool!!
One note, i am trying to save briefing or map. it say that is going to save the file but after i cant see it on the directory i choose…… i dont know why the file disappear…any suggestion?
Many thanks
Gundam
OK, yep, bug on my part again. Sorry. v062 (fixed version) is uploading now.
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Hey Tyrant,
I’ve been using VMT for quite a while to build briefing maps, and I love it!
I did notice that ever since BMS 4.35 and VMT v059, the PPT diamonds no longer appear on the map when you add a PPT. Could you take a look at this when you get a chance?