Weapon Delivery Planner released
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Hi Falcas,
Something is off with the bullseye location of tanker… “Weasel6” flight …
(tho, dunno really how tanker KC-130 got this flight name)
But you clearly see his op area is about ~220/120 … but WDP reported 157/300.The other one, “Mudhen7” is also NOT ok. 166/97 reported, but is closer to 140/240.
Cheers
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@Teddy561002 same issue for me in 4.37.3 did you find some workaround?
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issue : impossible to put manually the elevations for OA1, OA2, VRP, PUP, …
the elevation value are always those defined in POP UP menu
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Hi all
Just wanted to ask that when I click Get DTC File, the corresponding .ini file for the campaign mission I saved isn’t found.
Am I missing a step in order to load the DTC file?
Thanks
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I’ve been looking for information for a long time and I can’t find it. Is there a document or article that mentions the C++ structure of the contents of a .tac or .cam file?
In summary, the information obtained via a “Print Briefing” in BMS is insufficient for my needs.
I would like to be able to read the [mission].tac or [mission.cam] in order to obtain all the information of the package and not just the data of a single “flight”. I am sure that “Falcas” has this knowledge which would be very useful to me. If you read it “Falcas”, please PM me.
Someone told me that you are possibly going to take a break (temporary or permanent?) from the development of the WDP and MC tools. I’ve used these apps for almost a decade and I don’t know how I could do without your genius. Your highly evolved applications have allowed me to present professional briefings and enabled the management of expert campaigns for my squadron. How will I be able to live without them! Bravo and congratulations for your dedication since 2011. I am an old VB programmer and I have always been very impressed by your remarkable work. I very much hope that you will be able to continue this excellent work in the near future. If not, thank you for your enormous contribution to our Falcon community!
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@101-Spyder not a c++ but a c# structure and as library. I’m currently testing if it still works on all embedded files
https://github.com/lightningviper/lightningstools/tree/master/src/F4Utils/CampaignAnother one that used to read cam files
https://github.com/candera/vmtBut I have also been told that cam file might get changed to a complete different format in the future
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@oakdesign
I believe the code in the “CmpFile.cs” file is the one I need to analyze more precisely.However, I don’t know if the format of a .cam file and that of a .tac file uses the same structure, but I believe that logically it would be the case, so I will check all that.
I already had all these lightning libraries mainly for the operation of MFDE.
So thank you for the info, I’ll take the time to look at “F4Utils” in more detail. Hours of reading!!!
And as you mention, it will be wiser to wait for the release of 4.38 to see if the formats of these files will actually be modified before undertaking large-scale projects (Lol).Once again, thanks for pointing me in the right direction, it’s much appreciated.
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@101-Spyder said in Weapon Delivery Planner released:
@oakdesign
I believe the code in the “CmpFile.cs” file is the one I need to analyze more precisely.However, I don’t know if the format of a .cam file and that of a .tac file uses the same structure, but I believe that logically it would be the case, so I will check all that.
I already had all these lightning libraries mainly for the operation of MFDE.
So thank you for the info, I’ll take the time to look at “F4Utils” in more detail. Hours of reading!!!
And as you mention, it will be wiser to wait for the release of 4.38 to see if the formats of these files will actually be modified before undertaking large-scale projects (Lol).Once again, thanks for pointing me in the right direction, it’s much appreciated.
No the CmpFile is not the starting point, as a cmp file is just one of the embedded files in a cam file.
The starting point to extract the contents of a tac or cam file is the F4CampaignFileBundleReader.
Think of a cam or tac file like a zip archive. it contains a number of othter files some of them are just binary files some of them are additionally compressed with lzss (a managed lzss is as well part of F4Utils).
An example of the content files would be the above mentioned cmp file that structure is indeed the campfile, another would for example be a .uni file which hold unit information and need to be decoded with aditional queries agains the BMS DB of the theater in order to get useful contents -
@oakdesign
I don’t know if “Lightning” is a member of the BMS Dev Team but I especially hope that its library will be updated when BMS 4.38 is released. It offers a huge source of information on the structure of BMS in any case.Thank you for clarifying the “starting point”, I understand much better now.
I really didn’t know that .tac contained different files. Glad to hear all this from you.I appreciate that his code is in C#, because for me, C++ is a little more complex to understand.