Tacview – Understand what happened during your last flight! (alternative ACMI viewer)
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@CriticalMass Also, if you notice any important database entries or objects missing feel free to let me know and I will see if I can add them to Tacview natively. Please include an ACMI or VHS file.
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@CriticalMass Also (sorry for spamming!) you can add your own static objects by right-clicking in the 3D view and selecting “Add Object” and selecting Type=“Building”, or via XML file following these instructions: https://tacview.fandom.com/wiki/Technical_Reference_-_Static_Objects
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@BuzyBee is it possible to drag & drop the ini file ? because I tried and I didn’t see any waypoints line etc …
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@suhkoi69 said in Tacview – Understand what happened during your last flight! (alternative ACMI viewer):
@BuzyBee is it possible to drag & drop the ini file ? because I tried and I didn’t see any waypoints line etc …
If you “Merge” your <callsign>.ini or <mission>.ini file after loading your ACMI file you’ll see the waypoints and other things (lines, tgt points etc.).
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@CriticalMass not sure to well understand what you mean by “merge”
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@suhkoi69 said in Tacview – Understand what happened during your last flight! (alternative ACMI viewer):
@BuzyBee is it possible to drag & drop the ini file ? because I tried and I didn’t see any waypoints line etc …
I had this “problem” previously too. I solved it by “reopening” the ACMI files through the File → Open menu and re-selecting the correct theater again before clicking “Open”. After this the INI drag-and-drop has worked fine. It seems to me Tacview “remembers” the last theater selected on the menu, so you may not need to open the ACMI files this way every time. Have you opened the ACMI file through the File → Open menu and selected the correct theater?
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@BuzyBee
important to select the good theater otherwise It doesn’t work
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unlike many of us, I also decided to use TACVIEW to prepare my mission: yes! I found this tool very interesting to plan a mission at very low altitude … indeed, thanks to the relief of 3D world in Tacview, we can easily visualize the egress and ingress corridors in adding the flight plan ( *.ini)
the only things missing are :- to directly download or read the weather forecast (via FMAP files)
- activate ou desactivate the preplanned threatpoint / lines / etc …
- to be able to modify or add waypoints
with this kind of enhancements, it would be an excellent and complete tool ! although it is already an excellent tool …
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any chance yall can fix the bug in ITO (israel theater) were syria shows up blue on tacview but in game their yellow?
theres a quick workaround fix by a fellow in discord that posted it,
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Rename the file to a zip file (Ie. Delete the .acmi part) extract it, open acmi.txt, search for “Coalition=Syria” and replace with “Coalition=Syria,Color=Orange”
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Zip and add .acmi to file
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Basically you should end up with a <something>.zip.acmi file containing an acmi.txt file
If this helps with anything atleast…
there was also another guy who posted another workaround but i lack the knowledge in languages or whatever the proper term for it is, ill just post it aswell
- Those are yellow jets, there is some issue in the current native Tacview export, not sure what the cause is.
In the meantime, you could run this via a linux shell (like WLS) to fix up the colors for Syrian units:
#!/bin/bash
unzip -p recolor.zip.acmi | sed ‘s/Coalition=Syria/Coalition=Syria,Color=Orange/’ | zip > recolored.zip.acmi -
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@hellsguard Hi, was Syria orange in the “old” VHS files but now they are blue in the new ACMI files?
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@BuzyBee No idea this is my first time using tacview on syria, im fairly new to bms overall.
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@BuzyBee Yes, Syria was either yellow or orange by default in the old VHS files. It definitely wasn’t blue.
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@johku @hellsguard Thanks for the information. I can confirm that this is something that BMS needs to fix on its end. Could you please make a bug report in their bug reports forum? Or share with me an ACMI file where Syria is blue and I will make the report.
In the meantime, the first workaround that hellsguard posted is what I would have suggested myself. -
I am unable to see Panama on a map.
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I’m experiencing a crash in Tacview with ACMI’s generated by 4.37. Posted on Steam, but crossposting here just in case:
Playing ACMI files generated by Falcon BMS 4.37 crashes Tacview, resulting in fatal error.
STR: open an ACMI file, attempt to scroll or play it, eventually some event is encountered (SAM missile?) which crashes the video driver, results in fatal error.
At the same time the AMD Adrenalin crashes as well (22.11.2 latest).
“The application has encountered a critical error.
Exception: 0xC0000005
Please email the log file saved as…”
Then Tacview closes.I can post the dump and a small ACMI for testing.
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@depapier said in Tacview – Understand what happened during your last flight! (alternative ACMI viewer):
I’m experiencing a crash in Tacview with ACMI’s generated by 4.37. Posted on Steam, but crossposting here just in case:
Playing ACMI files generated by Falcon BMS 4.37 crashes Tacview, resulting in fatal error.
STR: open an ACMI file, attempt to scroll or play it, eventually some event is encountered (SAM missile?) which crashes the video driver, results in fatal error.
At the same time the AMD Adrenalin crashes as well (22.11.2 latest).
“The application has encountered a critical error.
Exception: 0xC0000005
Please email the log file saved as…”
Then Tacview closes.I can post the dump and a small ACMI for testing.
Hi,
Yes please do share the dump.
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@BuzyBee just sent an email to support, but here’s a dump+test acmi (happens in any) https://www.mediafire.com/file/ibt651dqv21rq68/tac_crash_falcon.rar/file