Kneeboard DDS Manager Released!

[Fish44]

KBMZ (BMS Kneeboard DDS Manager)

STANDALONE VERSION 2.0z released. Now supports BMS 4.37!

This utility allows kneeboard .DDS files (the image files used for the kneeboard in BMS) to be saved as ‘PACKS’ (in zip files) from BMS to a local repository and restored as required. The video in the link below demonstrates what it can do.
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What you need to run KBMZ ?

• BMS 4.35 or later
• Weapons delivery planner (by Falcas).
  * Excel 2007 or later with macros enabled.

How to install KBMZ ?

• Download and extract the KBMZ folder to your desired location
• Run the file KBMZ.exe from the folder (application)
• Supply the BMS version when requested
• Supply the WDP location when requested

V 2.0zFeatures

• Standalone, and does not need excel (still needs WDP),
• Same functionality of previous version plus the following features.:
• It Integrates with packs generated from V1.03, so no need to rebuild packs!
• Selects the current BMS theatre on start up
• Has a quick start button for ‘Falcas’ WDP
• Light weight 550kb

Where to get the application ?

DOWNLOAD LATEST KBMZ FROM HERE
(2.01z fixes issue with displaying a long WDP path)

DOWNLOAD LEGACY VERSION (REQUIRES EXCEL) KBMZ V1.03 FROM HERE

(V1.03 fixes an issue for users of BMS 4.35 only Released 2022.09.08).

Below are the md5 values for the latest version.
KBMZ V2.0z.zip ( 6ffaf1009e9e0d1ec9bd31e364e34fa1 )
KBMZ.exe ( 4f8406f829e3b3a515c94a0a3b0a0cd0 )

[Crassus]

@Fish44 Lookin’ sweet, Fish44.

I’m not sure if you want to know how well your app lays out at various resolutions, but on my Dell laptop with a 15.6” screen at 1920 x 1080: are you able to wrap the text listing the WDP LOCATION?

[Snake122]

@Fish44 thank you!

[Crassus]

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[Fish44]

@Crassus said in Kneeboard DDS Manager Released!:

@Fish44 Lookin’ sweet, Fish44.

… are you able to wrap the text listing the WDP LOCATION?

Thanks @Crassus for highlighting, Fixed in V2.0.1 (available for download in original post)

[Crassus]

@Fish44 Awesome! Thanks!

[Dee-Jay]

@Fish44
Hi!
Just a little tip for you (if you don’t already know it) … for best results, care about saving the DDS with mipmaps. Without mipmaps, DDS are “crunchy” and aliased.

[Fish44]

Thanks @Dee-Jay .
KBMS does not create the .DDS files, It only moves them around. Falcas excellent WDP does all the ‘heavy lifting’

[jc1]

@Fish44 Doesn’t WDP use existing DDS files. How do you create a DDS file?

Also, your videos seem to show colored checklists. Where did you get those?

[Fish44]

@jc1 said in Kneeboard DDS Manager Released!:

@Fish44 Doesn’t WDP use existing DDS files. How do you create a DDS file?

Read the post above or watch the videos.

Also, your videos seem to show colored checklists. Where did you get those?

I created them.

@Fish44 “This utility allows kneeboard .DDS files (the image files used for the kneeboard in BMS) to be saved as ‘PACKS’ (in zip files) from BMS to a local repository and restored as required. The video in the link below demonstrates what it can do…”

[jc1]

@Fish44 Are your checklists available for download anywhere?

[Fish44]

@jc1
No, but they were easy to make.

[Fish44]

Head’s up. No change to KBMZ for 4.37. Install is the same.

You can have a version of KBMZ for each BMS version once you have a corresponding WDP for each version. Just copy the KBMZ.exe file to a new folder, and follow the install instructions.

Or you can use the reset BMS & WDP button to set up for the new BMS version. This creates a new folder in the

...user\AppData\Roaming\

folder. To use packs from older version you can copy then to the new location, but you will need to update the setup.ini file in each pack and change the version everywhere it appears in the file. Otherwise WPD will be pointing to the wrong version. Might find it easier to recreate the packs.

.....Roaming\KBMZ\BMS436Kneeboards\Balkans
to
.....Roaming\KBMZ\BMS437Kneeboards\Balkans