[Release] Tyrant's Virtual Mission Tools (VMT)
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I made a ten-minute intro video:
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No sir. No Balkan in the List. But…I started your Tool on my older PC and…
it works… I don’t know why… I think my flight-pc is a little bit weird:blowpar: -
Maybe it’s mentioned here before but couldn’t really find it when browsing through the replies, but I tried loading several Balkans 3.5 TE’s and they all stop at “loading objectives”. I get a red cross instead of the green checkmark and it stops there. Any clue what I’m doing wrong?
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Maybe it’s mentioned here before but couldn’t really find it when browsing through the replies, but I tried loading several Balkans 3.5 TE’s and they all stop at “loading objectives”. I get a red cross instead of the green checkmark and it stops there. Any clue what I’m doing wrong?
Can you click the text that says “Show Error”, scroll down so you can see the error text, and paste it here? Hopefully we can figure out what’s up. Also, be sure you are running the latest version (v047) as I fixed some bugs in the version that I initially launched with.
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No sir. No Balkan in the List. But…I started your Tool on my older PC and…
it works… I don’t know why… I think my flight-pc is a little bit weird:blowpar:Hmm. That’s strange. Do you still want to try to troubleshoot it? I’m up for it if it’s a problem for you.
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Hmm. That’s strange. Do you still want to try to troubleshoot it? I’m up for it if it’s a problem for you.
I think you can wait a while. I think the problem is my pc. Don’t waste your time
Thank you
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I think you can wait a while. I think the problem is my pc. Don’t waste your time
Thank you
OK, sounds good. Let me know if you have any other problems, or if this one gets in your way.
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Hey Tyrant,
First look of your tool looks very good and promising.
Q: Doesn’t this do the same thing as Mission Commander?
A: Definitely not. For one thing Mission Commander can edit missions - VMT (currently) cannot. Mission Commander is a great tool for mission planners, but I wanted something that both mission planners and mission participants could use visualize the virtual battlefield.Nope not the same as MC, but very much the same as WDP
Enjoy the road of creating tools like this. Its very rewarding.
But be aware… you might end up getting tons of email, questions and hardly see the outside of your computer roomGr Falcas
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First look of your tool looks very good and promising.
Thanks, Falcas: high praise from the author of tools like MC and WDP, both of which are awesome. MC has been particularly helpful in the process of making VMT, since it has helped me understand the structure of the Falcon files better, and provided a source of truth for what’s in a mission file. Good stuff.
Nope not the same as MC, but very much the same as WDP
True, there’s definitely more overlap there, but I think WDP still does a ton of things that VMT does not. I do hope to add more features around data card management at some point, for example, but there’s very little in place for that now and it’ll be a while before I can even think about what I would want.
Enjoy the road of creating tools like this. Its very rewarding.
But be aware… you might end up getting tons of email, questions and hardly see the outside of your computer roomHaha - yes. Good thing the process of making them is fun!
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Can you click the text that says “Show Error”, scroll down so you can see the error text, and paste it here? Hopefully we can figure out what’s up. Also, be sure you are running the latest version (v047) as I fixed some bugs in the version that I initially launched with.
I’ll do that asap.
Another question meanwhile. I see the video you made has VMT running on Mac. Will that also come available? I use Macs for as good as all my work and only have a windows pc for BMS (dedicated game pc). This would make it easy for me to do some initial planning or reviewing without requiring me to get into the room where the BMS pc is at. -
I’ll do that asap.
Another question meanwhile. I see the video you made has VMT running on Mac. Will that also come available? I use Macs for as good as all my work and only have a windows pc for BMS (dedicated game pc). This would make it easy for me to do some initial planning or reviewing without requiring me to get into the room where the BMS pc is at.It’s possible to run it on a Mac, yes. I do all my dev on a Mac, so I hacked a few things into place to make it run there. Pretty much everything just loads from the filesystem, but there are a couple of extra setup steps required to emulate the registry and one or two other things. It’s not really a supported setup, but if you want to try it I can outline the steps. PM me - it will likely take a few tries to get it right.
Far easier if you just want to use it from a Mac, though, is to use Microsoft Remote Desktop to jump to your BMS Windows machine and use it there. I do that a bunch for testing it under Windows. If that’s a possibility for you, I recommend it.
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I haven’t had a chance to look yet but Thanks for you efforts, it looks promising ,
Cheers. Shad
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Can you click the text that says “Show Error”, scroll down so you can see the error text, and paste it here? Hopefully we can figure out what’s up. Also, be sure you are running the latest version (v047) as I fixed some bugs in the version that I initially launched with.
Here you go:
RangeError: Offset is outside the bounds of the DataView
at DataView.getFloat32 (<anonymous>)
at DataView.octet$buffer$IBufferFloat$read_float$arity$2 (file:///D:/Software/vmt/resources/app/mission.html.js:5680:165)
at octet.buffer.read_float (file:///D:/Software/vmt/resources/app/mission.html.js:5619:113)
at undefined.octet.spec.basic.t_octet$spec$basic34499.octet.spec.basic.t_octet$spec$basic34499.octet$spec$ISpec$read$arity$3 (file:///D:/Software/vmt/resources/app/mission.html.js:5759:352)
at octet.spec.read (file:///D:/Software/vmt/resources/app/mission.html.js:5699:475)
at undefined.octet.spec.t_octet$spec34385.octet.spec.t_octet$spec34385.octet$spec$ISpec$read$arity$3 (file:///D:/Software/vmt/resources/app/mission.html.js:5727:354)
at octet.spec.read (file:///D:/Software/vmt/resources/app/mission.html.js:5699:475)
at Function.octet.core.read_STAR_.cljs$core$IFn$invoke$arity$3 (file:///D:/Software/vmt/resources/app/mission.html.js:5910:478)
at octet.core.read_STAR (file:///D:/Software/vmt/resources/app/mission.html.js:5909:263)
at undefined.weathergen.falcon.files.t_weathergen$falcon$files34706.weathergen.falcon.files.t_weathergen$falcon$files34706.octet$spec$ISpec$read$arity$3 (file:///D:/Software/vmt/resources/app/mission.html.js:5972:275)</anonymous> -
Here you go:
Thanks. That’s a new one on me. Can you confirm which version of Balkans you’re using? And can you send me (via PM) one of the TEs that are giving you trouble? I’ll try to reproduce the problem here. If I can, I should be able to figure out what it is and get it fixed.
One other thing you can do in the meantime is open the TE with Mission Commander and see if it complains about anything. MC is good at detecting common corruption problems with theaters/missions, and VMT isn’t yet particularly robust in the face of weirdness. Fairly likely this is a VMT bug, but we can’t rule out a theater/mission problem.
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Thanks. That’s a new one on me. Can you confirm which version of Balkans you’re using? And can you send me (via PM) one of the TEs that are giving you trouble? I’ll try to reproduce the problem here. If I can, I should be able to figure out what it is and get it fixed.
One other thing you can do in the meantime is open the TE with Mission Commander and see if it complains about anything. MC is good at detecting common corruption problems with theaters/missions, and VMT isn’t yet particularly robust in the face of weirdness. Fairly likely this is a VMT bug, but we can’t rule out a theater/mission problem.
Latest Balkans 3.5; all TE’s from Balkans gives issues (up till now didn’t think about testing KTO of course, dumb of me).
I’ll open them in MC first and if I don’t see any warnings, I’ll send some via PM. -
Latest Balkans 3.5; all TE’s from Balkans gives issues (up till now didn’t think about testing KTO of course, dumb of me).
I’ll open them in MC first and if I don’t see any warnings, I’ll send some via PM.MC shows an error regarding the objectives. Weird thing is, I have this at àll my Balkan TE’s.
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MC shows an error regarding the objectives. Weird thing is, I have this at àll my Balkan TE’s.
Much of a mission is kept in the “saveN.cam” and “te-new.tac” files, so if there’s a problem in one of those, it can affect every mission in a theater.
That said, I am not sure that’s what’s happening here. VMT is new enough that it’s more likely to be a bug in VMT. I haven’t had a chance to try the latest Balkans theater to see if it gives me the same issue. When this bug gets to the front of the queue (it’s close, but I’m working on a couple of others right now) I’ll try it. In the meantime, if anyone else is able to use Balkans 3.5 successfully with VMT, mentioning it here would be appreciated.
Sorry you’re having trouble, Focaldesign. We’ll get you sorted eventually. And thanks for reporting the bug - it really helps everyone that comes after you!
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Super !
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Great tool Tyrant, especially for mission planners. I have to leave the weather part aside unfortunately, since the loaded map since to never match either the save fmap, nor the appropriate one in WeatherMapUpdate folder. Isn’t there a way to just load the fmap? Sorry if this is a dumb question, I don’t fully master this part of a mission structure.
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Great tool Tyrant, especially for mission planners. I have to leave the weather part aside unfortunately, since the loaded map since to never match either the save fmap, nor the appropriate one in WeatherMapUpdate folder. Isn’t there a way to just load the fmap? Sorry if this is a dumb question, I don’t fully master this part of a mission structure.
Ah, yes, that’s one of the areas where I think VMT could be less confusing. So it’s definitely not a dumb question.
Basically, VMT can only deal with generated weather. That is, weather that you create with VMT. If you have existing FMAP files, VMT does not display them, and cannot modify them at this point. It’s something I’d like to improve. For instance, I’d like to be able to use Ahmed’s real weather tool to download a bunch of real world FMAPs and then use VMT to do things like stabilize the wind around carriers and tankers, override weather at home plate for ILS approaches, etc. etc. But none of that is currently possible.