Tacview – Understand what happened during your last flight! (alternative ACMI viewer)
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@suhkoi69 Thanks for sending your analysis by email. I realized that these values will differ because Tacview does not take into account the temperature and atmospheric pressure. The Falcon BMS team could consider exporting these values (MACH, CAS, IAS). We will mention it to our contact on the dev team.
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Tacview 1.9.1 is now available!
Improved CSV file support, updated databases, and fixed rare crashes on some AMD GPUs.
FEATURES & CHANGES
- ADDED IL-2 fakefield objects are now displayed in the 3D view
- ADDED command line option /MSAA:false to turn on/off x4 anti-aliasing
- IMPROVED CSV files support
- IMPROVED Anticipatory trail is now off by default
- IMPROVED IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Normandy texture map coordinates
- IMPROVED Korea database and terrain for BMS 4.37.1
- IMPROVED Path α has been renamed to γ to match NASA documentation
- IMPROVED Fuel export for the DCS: A-10C II
FIXES
- FIXED Rare crash with some AMD GPU & Intel IGPU
- FIXED Invalid reference mission time (regression)
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Falcon BMS 4.37 Vanilla
KTOdoes not match the Lat and Long coordinates of the simulator with those of TACVIEW, terrain in Falcon 4.0 and coordinates compatible with the BMS format.
Can you confirm if someone has the same problem?
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@VIPER-0 said in Tacview – Understand what happened during your last flight! (alternative ACMI viewer):
Falcon BMS 4.37 Vanilla
KTOdoes not match the Lat and Long coordinates of the simulator with those of TACVIEW, terrain in Falcon 4.0 and coordinates compatible with the BMS format.
Hi, can you please share your ACMI or VHS file with a corresponding in-game screenshot and timestamp?
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@BuzyBee said in Tacview – Understand what happened during your last flight! (alternative ACMI viewer):
@VIPER-0 said in Tacview – Understand what happened during your last flight! (alternative ACMI viewer):
Falcon BMS 4.37 Vanilla
KTOdoes not match the Lat and Long coordinates of the simulator with those of TACVIEW, terrain in Falcon 4.0 and coordinates compatible with the BMS format.
Hi, can you please share your ACMI or VHS file with a corresponding in-game screenshot and timestamp?
yes sir. with pleasure. When I return to work, I will share the acmi and the campaign. grateful in advance.
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@BuzyBee said in Tacview – Understand what happened during your last flight! (alternative ACMI viewer):
@VIPER-0 said in Tacview – Understand what happened during your last flight! (alternative ACMI viewer):
Falcon BMS 4.37 Vanilla
KTOdoes not match the Lat and Long coordinates of the simulator with those of TACVIEW, terrain in Falcon 4.0 and coordinates compatible with the BMS format.
Hi, can you please share your ACMI or VHS file with a corresponding in-game screenshot and timestamp?
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/kj8xfcycvyc8c/ACMI
Here is the campaign and the acmi file, as you can see the aircraft moves and points directly over the patriot rdr installation, there the lat and long were taken in the sim and then compared in the acmi.Let me know if you need anything else. I hope it’s helpful. we need those coordinates to match to do accurate debriefing on our wing.
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@Dee-Jay - I once got to play fight controller on a RL TACTS Range at MCAS Yuma, AZ and watch two RL Harriers do ACM against one another. TACVIEW looks VERY much like the Range displays I got to work with, and I’m a big fan of TACVIEW.
I did this op in around 1987, so RL is way ahead of the …er…game. TACVIEW rawks.
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@VIPER-0 The Tacview dev team is aware that the coordinates do not match exactly. This is because Falcon BMS is a 2D world and Tacview is a 3D world. Tacview uses a formula to calculate longitude and latitude from Falcon’s x,y coordinates: https://tacview.fandom.com/wiki/User_Guide_–_Falcon_4.0#How_to_convert_Falcon_4.0_coordinates_in_Tacview_longitude/latitude?
By the way, all telemetry is calculated based on Falcon BMS x,y coordinates, so that part is not affected.
Now that Falcon BMS team is writing the ACMI themselves maybe this is an opportunity for them to export the actual longitude and latitude. We will reach out them about it.
Thanks for the report.
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@BuzyBee grateful for your prompt response, greetings to you and the entire tacview team, we in our wing use it every day, a phenomenal tool.
I know the BMS team will get to work, so it’s just a matter of waiting.
GREETINGS.
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Tacview 1.9.2 is available now!
Download: https://tacview.net/download
• Release Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2023
• Operating System: Windows 32-bit / 64-bit
• File Size: 750.4 MBTo help you wait during Tacview 2 development, here is a brand-new maintenance update for Tacview 1.9.
As always, with better support for your favorite flight simulators as well as real life data. There are also minor improvements to the stability and performances based on your feedback.
We thank you for your precious feedback. Your requests and suggestions are always taken into consideration. While some might not make it into Tacview 1, they are certainly considered to be part of Tacview 2 from the ground up.
Speaking of Tacview 2: The new architecture, multiplatform UI and Vulkan renderer are now running well (including Linux). We are currently working on the brand-new terrain engine. This is the last difficult point of the project to “prototype”. After that, everything should take shape more quickly. We are eager to reach a point where we can deliver a first closed alpha to begin large scale testing and feedback gathering.
Fly safe!
Vyrtuoz & BuzyBeeRelease notes
FEATURES & CHANGES
• ADDED Inclinometer (slip indicator) cockpit instrument
• ADDED tacviewPlaybackDelay custom option for DCS World servers (60, 120, 300, 600, 1200, 1800 sec)
• ADDED DCS: Normandy 2 terrain and airfields
• ADDED RPM and Throttle #2 to X-Plane advanced telemetry• IMPROVED Korea database and terrain for BMS 4.37.2
• IMPROVED CSV files support
• IMPROVED DCS2ACMI debug logFIXES
• FIXED real-time telemetry disconnect would not always work
• FIXED real-time telemetry was auto-retrying on wrong password
• FIXED corrupted A-10 3D model (regression)
• FIXED multiple errors and oversights in the SDK documentation
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Tacview’s SUMMER SALE 2023 has begun: 40% off Tacview Standard and Advanced from June 29th to July 13th.
To upgrade from Tacview Standard to Tacview Advanced at an equivalent discount, please contact us at [email protected]
Happy flying!
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@BuzyBee said in Tacview – Understand what happened during your last flight! (alternative ACMI viewer):
Tacview’s SUMMER SALE 2023 has begun: 40% off Tacview Standard and Advanced from June 29th to July 13th.
To upgrade from Tacview Standard to Tacview Advanced at an equivalent discount, please contact us at [email protected]
Happy flying!
Tomorrow is the last day of the summer sale!
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@tbuc
Hi,
Could you share information on how you read information from BMS to Labview.
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@stingy there is a header file in the tools folder from BMS.
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@MaxWaldorf
thanks for the answer, I have such settings to import into labview but it doesn’t work
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@Vyrtuoz said in Tacview – Understand what happened during your last flight! (alternative ACMI viewer):
Tacview 1.9.2 is available now!
Download: https://tacview.net/download
• Release Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2023
• Operating System: Windows 32-bit / 64-bit
• File Size: 750.4 MBTo help you wait during Tacview 2 development, here is a brand-new maintenance update for Tacview 1.9.
Thank you for this update!
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I don’t think it was mentioned in the changelog but u3 saw the addition of the config option
TacviewFramesSkippedMultiplier
. Setting this to a value larger than 1 will reduce the number of samples taken and thus the file size. Smaller than1.0
will increase the sample rate and at0.0
, all frames are written. The latter can be used for debug purposes, but especially in campaigns will lead to very large files.So open your
Falcon BMS User.cfg
and addset TacviewFramesSkippedMultiplier 2.0
to reduce the general sample frequency by a factor of 2. I guess, it will take some trial and error to find the sweet spot. -
@Tumbler31 it is… it is
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Tacview’s Holiday Sale has begun: 40% off Tacview Standard and Tacview Advanced from December 21st to January 4th.
To upgrade from Tacview Standard to Tacview Advanced, email us at [email protected]
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@busybee how can theaters like Panama and Vietnam be added?