[Release] Tyrant's Virtual Mission Tools (VMT)
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Hey Tyrant!
Report: not able to sort flights nor change their color anymore.
Thanks for your work, as always.
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Report: not able to sort flights nor change their color anymore.
D’oh! Sorry about that - both of those components have been giving me trouble lately. I’m halfway through replacing the color picker with something equivalent but more stable already - I obviously broke sorting, too.
I’m assuming this report is against v054. Please correct me if that’s not the case. No need to respond otherwise.
I’ll move getting this fixed to the top of the queue. Obviously I should get my testing story improved, too: right now it’s all manual and that’s clearly less than ideal.
In any event, thanks for the bug reports!
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Report: not able to sort flights nor change their color anymore.
Fixed in v055, now available. Thanks again! First post updated.
http://org.craigandera.vmt.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/stable/
Changes:
- Fix bug where sorting was broken on flights page. - Fix bug where flight color selection was not working. - Fix occasional runaway CPU utilization.
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First post updated. Downloads available here:
http://org.craigandera.vmt.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/stable/
The major new feature in this release is map annotations. This is the ability to put shapes, arrows, PPT threat rings, and text onto the map. I wanted to do more than I did (e.g. import images), but I think this is a reasonable starter set of things, and frankly even this much required implementing much of a drawing program inside of VMT. So I will go on to other thing and improve annotations based on feedback of how people are using it.
Annotations are included in the briefing (.vmtb) files, and you can add more annotations while viewing the briefing, as well as save and load annotation sets (.vmta files). Additionally, it is now possible to save a briefing from a briefing, so participants can mark up their briefing and distribute a modified version to other pilots.
Changes:
** v057 [2018-02-01 Thu] - Add missing help text ** v056 [2018-01-28 Sun] - Annotations! - Add arrows, text, shapes, and lines to a map and save them with a briefing - Can now save modified briefing when viewing a briefing - Fix bug where dragging off the map makes things jump around - Reverse use of triangles/circles in waypoints to match BMS - Include download link in update notifications.
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Just wanted to let you know and say a big thumbs up for this program
We just finished a 2 day lan last weekend. flying with about 15 guys in over 4 missions lasting about 2.5 hours per mission.
We used this tool for the briefings, and it was way better than taking screenshots from bms and pasting that in a powerpoint. Moreover, with this tool you can move back and forth over the flightplan and details.
2 feature requests:
- possibilty to show the contents of ini files. For use of PPT’s and Lines.
- this worked really well at the lan, but using this online is another matter. It’s probably a big feature to ask, but being able to join an online session, and briefing online would be fantastic. Kinda like tacview is able to debrief together.
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Just wanted to let you know and say a big thumbs up for this program
We just finished a 2 day lan last weekend. flying with about 15 guys in over 4 missions lasting about 2.5 hours per mission.
We used this tool for the briefings, and it was way better than taking screenshots from bms and pasting that in a powerpoint. Moreover, with this tool you can move back and forth over the flightplan and details.
Great! So glad you found it useful.
2 feature requests:
- possibilty to show the contents of ini files. For use of PPT’s and Lines.
- this worked really well at the lan, but using this online is another matter. It’s probably a big feature to ask, but being able to join an online session, and briefing online would be fantastic. Kinda like tacview is able to debrief together.
Yes, these are both on the (long term) plan. The first is, as you say, much easier. But I myself would love to be able to assign targets etc. etc. right from within VMT and then save the INI. And I’ve always wanted to be able to collaborate on mission planning in either realtime or offline. Some day. Maybe in about 6-8 Falcon weeks.
In the meantime, one thing that helps a tiny bit is that you can now save a briefing from a briefing. So you can hand out a VMTB, someone can mark it up with annotations and save it again to pass along to someone else. Not sure whether you were aware of that change.
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Hi tyrant,
have you planned to add the reader of existing weather ? if yes, is it a priorities among all next features?
thx
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Hi tyrant,
have you planned to add the reader of existing weather ? if yes, is it a priorities among all next features?
thx
It remains on the list, but it’s not at the top. But when people ask about things it tends to move them up, so it’s good that you mention your interest.
As this is a spare time, for-fun project I don’t have a specific roadmap. At the moment I’m working on a variety of minor enhancements, which I’m planning to follow with visualization of objectives and/or ground units. Beyond that it gets fuzzier, and of course it could change if I get excited by some particular idea. And of course fixing bugs that people find is always a high priority.
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your last features are interesting but for PPT , I think it would be a good idea to read an existing *.ini file where the PPT are already defined…
because in our side, we define the PPT in using the BMS UI or via WDP … -
your last features are interesting but for PPT , I think it would be a good idea to read an existing *.ini file where the PPT are already defined…
because in our side, we define the PPT in using the BMS UI or via WDP …Totally agree. Also planned for the future. And when that happens the PPT annotation may or may not go away.
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Any progress on ground unit locations and movements ?
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Any progress on ground unit locations and movements ?
That’s going to be a while - I have been buried at work and am about to go on vacation, and there are other intermediate priorities. So, 3-4 weeks. But it’s towards the top of the list.
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I wanted to use this great tool but I have this error:
some idea ?
Thx
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Hi Mira73,
check and see if the file which is referenced in the error message exists on your harddrive.
-> D:\Falcon BMS 4.33 U1\Data\Terrdata\theaterdefinition\theater.lstcheers
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Exists :
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Exists :
Hmm. Very strange. I will have to look at the code later. Sorry to not have an immediate answer for you, and that it’s not working. We’ll get you sorted out, though.
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Hmm. Very strange. I will have to look at the code later. Sorry to not have an immediate answer for you, and that it’s not working. We’ll get you sorted out, though.
I looked at the code today and I cannot see how this would be happening. Obviously, it is, so I’m mystified. It’s such a weird problem I’m not even sure what to suggest you try next. A few questions:
- Does this happen for every mission you try to open?
- Does it happen if you open briefing (.vmtb) files (assuming you have one handy)?
- Does it happen with every theater?
- Can you post the contents of your theater.lst file? I don’t think it’s even getting that far, but maybe that’s it.
- Is there anything weird about the permissions in the theater.lst file?
- Have you tried deleting your VMT installation and downloading a fresh one?
- Have you tried running a previous version of VMT?
Sorry - I know that’s a lot but I’m at sort of a loss.
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Today I will test the Balkan…
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interesting … I installed Balkan, but VMT can not see this theater …
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interesting … I installed Balkan, but VMT can not see this theater …
I used it without any problem, not the latest version of both on date, though.