Online Squadron Collection v2 is out
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Sorry, let me try again.
I have not yet used a custom ivc client.ini file no.
On Tuesday my test worked fine without a custom ivc client.ini, so I didnāt try one yesterday.I am connected to the host in BMS. I have entered into the online TE. I am in 2D. I am in the seat of an AWACS flight in the ATO.
What I canāt remember though, and this might be the difference between Tuesday (working test) and yesterday (failing test): I did or didnāt checked the āenable IVCā checkbox in the BMS comms those 2 tests. If I read this post, that might be the issue of yesterday.
Will try again this evening and report back my findings.Unrelated to the above issue but for you reaper, I read your ATC lady does not run BMS. I would like to have a setup of that too on an older laptop that wonāt run BMS in 64bit. How do you cope with AIspy then for her to see AI flights? IIRC, AIspy host needs to remain in 2D, so you would need an additional person having BMS running in 2D and not flying along in game.
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[ā¦]If I read this post, that might be the issue of yesterday.
Will try again this evening and report back my findings.[ā¦]Confirmed 3 times in a row now, the above sequence works like a charm!
In faulty situations I recon 2 possible mistakes I made. Either not setting IVC enabled in BMS and forcing local control + reconnect IVC only afterwards; or not hitting change freq buttons on IVC client again after reconnecting. -
Could you post again your procedure step-by-step? I wanna to make a test in our squadron ā¦
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Could you post again your procedure step-by-step? I wanna to make a test in our squadron ā¦
Will do asap. Was planning on making a small pdf including screenshots for future reference for myself and another ATC guy in our sqn anyway. Will share it when finished.
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Great news, highly appreciated!
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Sorry, forgot to answer your question: your ATC lady IS connected to the BMS TE actually, donāt know if sheās using AISPY but i will ask!
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Will do asap. Was planning on making a small pdf including screenshots for future reference for myself and another ATC guy in our sqn anyway. Will share it when finished.
Here you go. donāt know if itās entirely correct or some steps are obsolete, but this has worked for us 3 times in a row, so Iām sticking with it until further notice
If I understand correctly, the outsiders=all setting would even allow me to disconnect from BMS, or at least get out of 2D without having comm issues to players in 3D. But I stay in 2D because I also run AIspy. -
First of all, thanks for this great piece of software, it really adds to the immersion we experience during MP events.
now to my requestā¦;)
when will the U1 compatible version of OSC be available?
i only noticed that it isnāt after i deleted 4.33 a couple of days ago and now, I canāt import any objectives because the theatres cannot be foundā¦
so for now, I reinstalled 4.33 just for f4awacsā¦:)keep it up!
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First of all, thanks for this great piece of software, it really adds to the immersion we experience during MP events.
now to my requestā¦;)
when will the U1 compatible version of OSC be available?
i only noticed that it isnāt after i deleted 4.33 a couple of days ago and now, I canāt import any objectives because the theatres cannot be foundā¦
so for now, I reinstalled 4.33 just for f4awacsā¦:)keep it up!
Today I received a notification an update was available. Donāt know how long itās available already, havenāt done any ATC/GCI in a while.
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Monster,
have you any plans to improve your software or will you let it as it is?
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I have some thoughts about some things that could be improved, but unfortunately, I really donāt have so much free time to work on it right now.
Do you have anything specific in mind?
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Do you have anything specific in mind?
I do, but i never asked before
In order of importance to me:1/ have speed vectors showing estimated position in x seconds or minutes.
I know from ATC in Belgium the line extending from the contact is in relation to the contacts ground speed. They can set a value (eg 1 minute, or 5 minutes) and the line extends to the position of the estimated new position at current GS. In that case, when you zoom in/out on the map, the vector line changes also accordingly.
In F4Awacs now the line is always the same length no matter what zoom level, so not useful for estimating future positions at given time.2/ change color of mouse cursor. I often use a greyscale of black/white map instead of coloured man, or a high contrast map and at certain points the cursor is not visible anymore (e.g. when I go from one grey value to another, for example land to see). Very very hard to make GCI calls because then I always have to click & drag to get a BE cursor line to see where my pointer was located.
3/ being able to show/hide AIspy values separately.
For example we use AIspy for red air, but alm blue air is human. When I disable AI positions, I loose red air, when I enable, I also get that annoying blue air flight lead AI position that is not entirely the same location as the human flight lead, which makes it cluttered without added value.4/ Being able to set colors to human players in batch.
Now when we have a comao with 25 players for example and I want to change the blue air colors to something that is more visible on my map, i have to change them one by one. If I loose server connection for any stupid reason (it sometimes happens), I need to do them all over again.5/ Being able to drag & drop contact information.
Now itās always on a certain position in relation to the contact. Sometimes it gets cluttered. Iāve seen a real ATC screen in Belgium where they can click on the box with data and drag it to another relative position of the contact.6/ easily export/import entire theaters including theater & custom frequencies etc. Makes it easy to distribute vSqn specific settings for a theater to all ATC/GCI people.
7/ change theater freq names in UI.
We have custom labels for our standard frequencies. Now I have changed them in a certain config file, would be nice to be able to change it the same way we can for custom freqs. -
I have some thoughts about some things that could be improved, but unfortunately, I really donāt have so much free time to work on it right now.
Do you have anything specific in mind?
Yes, of course.
1. making a track (current position of an aircraft) hook-able to measure from this track bearing and range (updating numbers as now from a specific point on the map) to the cursor position
2. display all the time cursors bullseye position in the left or right bottom corner of the screen (fixed window)
3. making the labels scalable (I use a 13ā Notebook with a high screen resolution for controlling) to adapt the figures to the screen resolution
4. label deconfliction. Making the label of an track movable to avoid that labels are displayed one over an other and therefore unreadable. The controller could move a label of a track to a free and not bothering position.
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Monster, do you know IVAO? Their current ATC client (v1.2.4.225) has a great UI, while still being very basic in functionality. Maybe you can take a look at the manual for some ideas. Important note, just in case: IVAO has completely developed IvAc in-house, so they obviously have a copyright over it, and Iāve known them to reinforce it, so donāt just reverse-engineer and/or copy - paste anything directly.
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Very nice points, Iāll see what I can do about it.
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Kicking the dust off of this thread.
Iāve just run into a little problem and I have absolutely no clue how itās caused.
This is an image (WIP) Iām trying to get as F4AWACS backgroundā¦
This is how it looks after inserting it in the Theaterā¦
As you can see, for some unknown reason, Iāve lost all info outside of the South-Korean part.
Note: On the screenshot, the lines are still slightly visible, but this is not the case in F4AWACS.Strange thing: after changing the coastline to a more greenish colour, it IS visible (albeit at lower quality, apparently)ā¦
In case itās useful: coastline colour code is 1e281d (opacity 30%) in the first picture, and 24ff00 (opacity 3%) in the second.
Did you managed to get that image working? Could you upload it for the community ? I am very interested in it
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Sure, here it is: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11459075/BMS%20Pictures/KTO.gif
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Iāve used that one and added textual info which can be turned on/off via the "area"s
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Many thanks to both!!
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Iāve used that one and added textual info which can be turned on/off via the "area"s
Please, could you export your areas and upload the file?
Thanks