Weapon Delivery Planner released
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Can you explain what solved your problem? I’m having the same situation. I have win8.1 so I downloaded a win 8.1version of dotnet3.5 but had no change. I was hoping the new 3.6.3 would not have a dotnet problem but it does. BTW If I understand it, Windows 8.1 comes with dotnet3.5. You have to go into the control panel to programs and then activate it(???). So maybe some win 8.1 experts can help with this.
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I have win8.1 so I downloaded a win 8.1version of dotnet3.5 but had no change.
Please read the first post, it clearly says (and gives you the link) you need .NET4.0.
Gr Falcas
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Falcas - Is there any way to change the way WDP assigns AA TACAN signals to your flight? I.E. I just ran a mission with my flight being a 4 ship flight. WDP shows the IDM adresses correctly - they all work as I’d expect. But the AA TACAN is given as 12y, 22y, 75y and 85y for 11, 12, 13 and 14 respectively. But my experience in the sim is that this is not correct, 1 should be @ 75y, 2 should be @ 85y, 3 should be @ 12y and 4 @ 22y. I’m able to adjust it since it is in the yellow field, but this is the default setup. So my ranging is not correct with the AI. Is there a better quick fix for this? Besides that little issue your software fills in the gaps for me very well.
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Falcas - Is there any way to change the way WDP assigns AA TACAN signals to your flight? I.E. I just ran a mission with my flight being a 4 ship flight. WDP shows the IDM adresses correctly - they all work as I’d expect. But the AA TACAN is given as 12y, 22y, 75y and 85y for 11, 12, 13 and 14 respectively. But my experience in the sim is that this is not correct, 1 should be @ 75y, 2 should be @ 85y, 3 should be @ 12y and 4 @ 22y. I’m able to adjust it since it is in the yellow field, but this is the default setup. So my ranging is not correct with the AI. Is there a better quick fix for this? Besides that little issue your software fills in the gaps for me very well.
-BabiteHi Babite,
WDP is showing you the correct values now and it is what the AI is using.
And it also depends on which flight inside the package you are in.If you are in the first flight, the tacan is set to:
12Y, 22Y, 75Y, 85YIf you step into the second flight, the tacans get set to:
13Y, 23Y, 76Y, 86YIf you step into the third flight, the tacans get set to:
14Y, 24Y, 77Y, 87YIf you step into the fourth flight, the tacans get set to:
15Y, 25Y, 78Y, 88YIf you step into the fifth flight, the tacans get set to:
16Y, 26Y, 79Y, 89YQuote from the BMS-Manual page124
If humans can select any channel and band, AI (Artificial Intelligence) aircraft are using fixed TACAN channels all in the Y band. AI first flight is set on 12, 22, 75 & 85Y. The next AI flight is the same structure but one number higher: 13, 23, 76 & 86Y. And the BMS code can support up to five flights of AI with this system. That means that you can always find the AI controlled aircraft in the first 5 flights.
Gr Falcas
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Falcas - I have read that. Maybe I’m misunderstanding the implementation. Or maybe it’s just my system wants to get back at me for something. Still, great program.
-Babite -
Greetings. I’m quite new to this great community Have been searching around the Forums and have recently come across this great piece of software. I am currently using 1 Screen to fly Falcon BMS and my somewhat “newbie” question is; can you use WDP with a single Screen set up. I ask this because to my Knowledge. “Knee Pad” View is not implemented in BMS. I’ve read about the “WDP Knee Pad Updater”/“Pilot Model” Mods, but is there an alternative? Thanks. Jay.
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Hi Jaycee:
WDP is much much more than having a Knee Pad in cockpit. I recommend you to search in YT for WDP tutorials, (Falcas has published great ones, but there are users who has done also great ones).
Then to answer your question to kneepads: you can export the mission data card generated by WDP and have it in your cockpit. Before, you need a pilot model (at least the legs) from Harpoon. This model originally loads a .dds image with all the airbases data. Its name is 8019.dds and lives in \Falcon BMS 4.32\Data\Terrdata\objects\KoreaObj. You can download a dds viewer to view that file.
Once you know what file is, you could export the mission data card generated by WDP, in dds format, and overwrite the 8019.dds file. You would need to do this for each mission.
The WDP Knee Pad updater is an utility that does this automatically for you.
I hope it all makes more sense now.
S!
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Small bug report that should be relatively easy to squash.
Loading a package sortie with >4 flights gives a “array index out of bounds” probably because WDP doesn’t expect more than 4 flights in package.
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Another small thing; on the Threats page, when NATO and SAM Missiles are selected, the list shows the NATO AAA.
Thanks a lot for building this great program!
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Small bug report that should be relatively easy to squash.
Loading a package sortie with >4 flights gives a “array index out of bounds” probably because WDP doesn’t expect more than 4 flights in package.
Hi,
This can’t be because of package with more that 4 flights. This has been tested (a lot ).
But just to be sure I just checked again and loading missions with 5 flights in a package without any problem.
So it is probably something else.Any chance you send me the mission and tell me which flight to open?
Thanks for the report.
Gr Falcas
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Another small thing; on the Threats page, when NATO and SAM Missiles are selected, the list shows the NATO AAA.
Thanks a lot for building this great program!
Hi,
Fixed in the next update.
Thanks for the heads up.
Gr Falcas
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Hi Jaycee:
WDP is much much more than having a Knee Pad in cockpit. I recommend you to search in YT for WDP tutorials, (Falcas has published great ones, but there are users who has done also great ones).
Then to answer your question to kneepads: you can export the mission data card generated by WDP and have it in your cockpit. Before, you need a pilot model (at least the legs) from Harpoon. This model originally loads a .dds image with all the airbases data. Its name is 8019.dds and lives in \Falcon BMS 4.32\Data\Terrdata\objects\KoreaObj. You can download a dds viewer to view that file.
Once you know what file is, you could export the mission data card generated by WDP, in dds format, and overwrite the 8019.dds file. You would need to do this for each mission.
The WDP Knee Pad updater is an utility that does this automatically for you.
I hope it all makes more sense now.
S!
Thanks for your response. Off to check some Vids in YT. Falcon is getting better by the day!
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Hi,
This can’t be because of package with more that 4 flights. This has been tested (a lot ).
But just to be sure I just checked again and loading missions with 5 flights in a package without any problem.
So it is probably something else.Any chance you send me the mission and tell me which flight to open?
Thanks for the report.
Gr Falcas
It’s weird. I try it again and sometimes it crashes and sometimes not.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0hy8jvaxmfvkic8/Save-Day%20%201%2014%2002%2011.zipKorea Original
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I gave your mission a couple of tries, but can’t get it to crash.
Which is good… but also bad. If you have a crash again can you see if you can reproduce it by using the exact same steps?gr Falcas
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I can’t get it to reproduce on that save file but I can on the one before it. During the time between the UH-1 CSAR flight dropped off the list between the two saves. This dropped the total number of flights in package from 6 to 5. The former save with the 6 flights does crash.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jateegzos0q4rup/Save-Day%20%201%2013%2018%2035.cam
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Aaahhhh that makes sence.
The max flights in a package in Falcon is 5Gr Falcas
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Nice job Falcas!
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I have a question concerning the PPT and INI file. When I create PPT in WDP and save the DTC, it creates the Mission INI file and saves it in the DATA/CAMPAIGN/SAVE folder but when I load BMS the PPT’s are not visible. Only visible in WDP. Also to clarify, it is a TE and i’m loading the mission once in BMS.
Any ideas?
Bill
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@bill_3810:
I have a question concerning the PPT and INI file. When I create PPT in WDP and save the DTC, it creates the Mission INI file and saves it in the DATA/CAMPAIGN/SAVE folder but when I load BMS the PPT’s are not visible. Only visible in WDP. Also to clarify, it is a TE and i’m loading the mission once in BMS.
Any ideas?
Bill
Hi Bill,
That depends a bit on what you do. Normaly you see the PPTs in TE, but you have to save the DTC (in WDP) before you start the TE or reload the DTC in the BMS UI.
Gr Falcas
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Falcas,
Thanks for the quick reply, however I was doing exactly as you said. Auto PPT or set them individually then save the DTC. Then when I went into BMS, and loaded the TE they should pop up automatically, in which they did not. So I hit Load and nothing happened.
Then I tried copying the Mission to Callsign ini then went into BMS and the same thing, even when I loaded the DTC, still nothing. I did a lot of reading in this long thread, well actually luckily I just picked 103 and found a posting about my very same issue :-). However you mentioned it might be a BMS issue, so this got me thinking.
What I did was from the DTC comms menu, I hit RESET, then save.
Went into WDP and loaded the mission, then AUTO PPT, then saved to the DTC.
Then when I went back into Falcon, Walla it was there.
Unfortunately I have to do this every time I set PPT in WDP. This i’m a bit puzzled about however it’s a workaround for now. I have created backups for all the settings that you offer a backup function for, in case when I reset the DTC I loose my EWS or MFD settings I can quickly recover these.
This will work for now, do you have any ideas what might be causing this?
Thanks
Bill
UPDATE to this POST:
In an interesting development, I decided to create a TE from scratch and when doing so I had no problems creating PPT with WDP and then viewing them in the UI screen in BMS.
The issue appears to be, missions created in the past. It appears in order to create PPT in WDP and have them show up in the BMS UI screen I have to first open BMS, reset my data cartridge, then save, then I can go to WDP and everything works.
So fresh TE’s I’m not having an issue at the moment.