Tacview – Understand what happened during your last flight! (alternative ACMI viewer)
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This smells like cooperation between BMS and Tacview to find good solutions gents …. Mav-JP?
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From what I know Falcon 4 shared memory is broadcasting data only for the main aircraft.
Shared memory over network… but that would imply all clients run tacview at the same time …
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@A.S:
Shared memory over network… but that would imply all clients run tacview at the same time …
Which brings us to something like F4Awacs (OSC). How about expanding the data being sent by the Validator there?
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Which brings us to something like F4Awacs (OSC). How about expanding the data being sent there?
Well no much need of this… F4AWACS has fine record function that works great and u have full view of everything there… whole map and whatever objectives u need like…
Sure lacks firing events and kills hits but maybe this question should be addressed to Monster. -
hey. i was just wondering about this and if it’s a bug:
sometimes it’ll display names, and sometimes it won’t. i run the server for a few friends and they connect to it, then we fly a sortie or two together. i start recording usually once we arrive near target, and sometimes it will say "f-16 (name) and sometimes it won’t. it will instead give the packages’ name so instead it will say F-16 (cowboy 2-1) or whatever. why the difference? doesn’t seem to matter when i start recording and it’s intermittent; sometime it will display all of the flight with names, sometimes none, sometimes some.
sorry to bother you over this as it’s a small issue i don’t care about that much. it could also be an issue with the F4BMS built-in recorder, and not tacview itself.
do you know anything about this?
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Hello Cik,
Can you share me several VHS files which are showing all the different ways your F-16s are named? (proper name, group name, no name…)
Please, let me know for each of them how and when they have been recorded.
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yeap this is common I crosschecked with many ACMI’s from many flights.
Same flight recorded from different members the naming is not the same on all…
Must be a Falcon thing - MP issue also leaving rejoining aircraft or mission kind of thing and I have a hunch it has to do with connection quality - speed? -
If someone exits multiplayer before you stop recording the ACMI then it will show the flight name (i.e. Falcon 12). If they are still connected when you stop recording the ACMI it will show their callsign (i.e. Darkman).
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So if he stays in the lobby then all will be fine?
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Tacview 1.2.6 is available!
http://www.strasoftware.com/download/tacview
This version offers a preliminary support for file merge. This is mainly useful to merge recordings coming from different planes in real life. You can also import CSV files. This format can be easier to generate than GPX files in some cases. Target hit events recognition has been improved and you can now export the flight log in a CSV file very easy to read and inject in your leaderboards.
The replay has been improved too: You can now display the aspect angle between selected objects. The long awaited auto scale-up option will give you both an excellent tactical view while keeping everything clear at a dog fight scale.
I will try to offer you constant improvements like in this release while I’m rewriting step by step Tacview to reach an awesome v1.3.
Any feedback is welcome!
Enjoy!
Vyrtuoz- ADDED: Support for file merge
- ADDED: Option to auto scale-up distant objects
- ADDED: Support for flight recordings in CSV format (require at least Tacview Home)
- ADDED: Flight log can now be exported in CSV format
- ADDED: Aspect Angle can now be displayed between selected objects
- ADDED: Attacker is now displayed and exported for has_been_destroyed events
- ADDED: You can now scroll in time with left+right mouse buttons
- ADDED: A clear error message is now displayed in case of invalid command line
- ADDED: /? Command line option to display the command line help
- CHANGED: Improved the flight log XML export to be as easy to handle as the new CSV format
- CHANGED: Improved hit events detection to give more accurate results
- CHANGED: Falcon 4 BMS terrain is now selected by default while opening “Falcon 4.0” VHS files (instead of selecting Falcon 4 Old terrain)
- CHANGED: Slight improvement of objects auto-selection when opening a file
- FIXED: A crash when opening or merging files which are taking place over several years
- FIXED: XML dates more accurate than one second are now properly handled (improves GPX files support and XML debriefing export)
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Well done !
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Some feature request if possible to have ac types in view mode , i mean instead of triangles to have small F-16 , or F-15 , or Mirage 3d objects.
regards
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How can we display a totally new theater map in tac view? When we open the file has an option to select theater. So it loads this, when opened if u choose falcon terrain stays the same.
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How can we display a totally new theater map in tac view? When we open the file has an option to select theater. So it loads this, when opened if u choose falcon terrain stays the same.
I´ve noticed the same, but maybe it will work AFTER laoding a vhs or acmi file ???
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Thanx but i have tried it already and not working.
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Unable to install it on my WindowsXP SP3 (?)
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Nice one Vyrtuoz, auto scale-up is a great addition to TacView. On higher resolution screens with smaller dot pitch it does make the planes a bit too big in my opinion and gets a bit cluttered sometimes. It would be great to have maybe two sizes selectable by the user, so that you can opt for a smaller size somewhere in between the two screenshots you posted if you prefer.
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Thanks for your feedback! I appreciate a lot.
@__Geraki__: Yes, in coming releases, you will be able to see real aircrafts 3D object in place of the actual triangles.
@__Arty__: Are you talking about loading a mission in a theater which is not yet supported by Tacview? If this is the case, please let me know which one so I can add it.
@__Dee-Jay__: I’ve just published a new package of Tacview 1.2.6 which contains two fixes for Windows XP.
@__Darkman__: I will definitively tweak this feature in coming releases. I just wanted to publish it quickly so you can enjoy it without waiting
Please note that, because it is very old, and because Microsoft is abandoning it progressively, it is harder and harder for me to develop for and support Windows XP. I’m doing my best, but since this require more and more work, I may have to drop it for Tacview 1.3 or 1.4…
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THX!