aeronautes

The Route Tool has a drop down box for saved presets. This list is unordered and when the list is long it is cumbersome to find the required preset. The attched image taken from BigNewys guide shows "New route" as the selected preset. Can this list be made ordered with some system so we can more easily view and search the presets? I've tried ordering the wypt entries in the per map route files in Config but that doesn't matter. It appears DCS reads the presets as lua lists and displays them in arbitrary order. At the least n alphabetical listing would be very helpful. Alternatively an enumerated list of presets could be useful for users to impose their own ordering for Route Tool to display.

This mod doesn't implement some of the backend for handling macros, eg the ones used in Macro_sequences.lua. However as mentioned in this previous post an autostart is available with a patch to the mod and using a scratchpad extension. So install the two zip files mentioned. One caveat is that aeronautes-pit extension has been integrated into the main scratchpad github so you can use that if you prefer. You'll still need the Herc zip file from aeronautes github for now.

I posted in discord but for those that don't use it I'm adding here. Here is a scratchpad extension that allows you to manage your cockpit with features such as one click LatLon input, autostart and a variety of other customizations for various modules. In addition it also provides an environment for you to write your own Lua scripts to automate actions you might otherwise do manually. In particular there's specific support for the Anubis Hercules. Here's a video of the autostart( the engine start dials are buggy and require right mouse click) and one showing the LatLon input. You can get a copy here: https://github.com/aeronautes/dcs-scratchpad/archive/refs/heads/main.zip . And for Herc specific support you'll need this patch: https://github.com/aeronautes/Hercules-6.8.2-macrofix As an added bonus the repo includes a message history extension to capture the various text messages displayed in the cockpit while you're playing. It's named aeronautes-msgs.lua 2024-07-02_16-31-09.mp4 2024-07-02_16-42-26.mp4

I've been working on a couple scratchpad extensions for awhile and thought now would be a good time to share them. One is used for cockpit management. It essentially provides a lua based interface to the cockpit controls as well as the DCS API. Around this is built some convenience features that gives functionality even if you dont do any scripting. These include LatLon input into the aircraft flight computer, both single click or saved sequence of waypoints. It also comes per aircraft customizations including autostarts, night lighting mode, maneuver calcluations, automatic PACS programming in F15SE and MFD setup. You can modify these customizations or create your own live while in the cockpit. The other extension buffers the 3 types of messages you can receive in game, these are chat, radio and trigger. The trigger messages are the ones generated during the mission or by the server and usually appear in the top right corner. These messages are presented separately according to which message button you click. They are not all specifically persisted between sessions but the last viewed message type is saved to disk. You can get them from the following github link. They require an updated version of scratchpad which is part of the repo. The changes to scratchpad have been submitted to rkusa for review and hopefully will be pulled into the main repo. https://github.com/aeronautes/dcs-scratchpad/archive/refs/heads/main.zip. If you want support for Anubis Hercules you'll need to install the patch at: https://github.com/aeronautes/Hercules-6.8.2-macrofix/archive/refs/heads/main.zip