Vyrtuoz

Can you share screenshots of error(s) message(s) displayed by Tacview? What is your exact issue? Are you able to connect to each other? Do you see your friend's name in the list displayed in the 3D view? If you cannot connect to each other computer, please check the following: Make sure the port is properly redirected on your router Make sure the client entered the public address of the host (either IPv4 or IPv6) You can ask google what is your public IP address to be sure you are using the right one If you are using a password, obvsiouly, make sure it is properly copy/pasted (from another program like skype or teamspeak)

This is definitively one of the information I would like to add in v1.5. As long as the information is available from DCS World export environment, you will be able to see it in Tacview. I have planned to add new charts to automatically analyze fuel efficiency and this kind of things too.

Jerky mouse in 1.5.0.46175 Since the update 1.5.0.46175 the mouse is now properly hidden while flying. However, the mouse movements are now quite jerky. It is particularly noticeable while rotating around the aircraft in external view. The same way, rearming dialog box is quite slow to react to the mouse cursor movement over its items. This is unrelated to my frame rate which is between 30 fps and 60 fps. The mouse responsiveness seems like 5 fps… It can be compared to the smooth numpad camera panning. This has been noticed on several computers.

I thought about a problem related to the “laser pointer” feature earlier, but I think I finally found a way to make it work properly for the 1.4.1. Stay tuned!

And you can find the road map here: http://tacview.strasoftware.com/documentation/future/

I can see your point. I don't see an obvious solution for that yet, but I will think about it during the conception of the new exporter.

Both the upgrade and the full license are on sale.

Yes, this will be definitively possible. Another typical use would be an instructor monitoring its trainees during a network session.

Tacview 1.4 is out! http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=2535227#post2535227 To celebrate the online debriefing, Tacview Professional is on sale for about a week. Both the upgrade and the full license are on sale. Note that if you want to upgrade your Home license, please send me an email with a reference to your current license and I will send you back a coupon to upgrade for 50% of the regular upgrade price. Let all your friends and teammates now about it!

Tacview 1.4 and its long awaited online debriefing is available! Tacview 1.4 and its long awaited online debriefing is available! After a long period of debugging and tweaking, it is time to release Tacview 1.4 so you can now enjoy the promised online debriefing feature. Now registered users can connect all together to enjoy a debriefing provided by their instructor. Time, point-of-view, altitude restrictions and other settings will be in sync on all computers. The strategic view and charts will be visible for everyone during the debriefing. Everyone can SHIFT+CLICK an object in the 3D view to highlight a specific action. And don’t forget to press ALT+ENTER to enter fullscreen mode to fully enjoy the debriefing while sipping your favorite drink ;) Please note that a professional license is required to host a session and at least a home license is required to join a session. Obviously, all these features are available during the trial period. In the following updates, the host will also be able to give control to any client with a Professional license and clients may be able to temporarily keep control of their own point of view. Now I can focus on the other long awaited feature: The real-time flight analysis which will be available to most flight simulators and real-life devices like DCS World, FSX and X-Plane just to name a few. Enjoy! Vyrtuoz http://www.strasoftware.com/download/tacview FEATURES & CHANGES Added the online debriefing (requires Professional edition for instructors and Home for trainees) Added support for Garmin G1000 Flight Deck CSV files Added support for KML flight recordings exported from ForeFlight & FlightAware Added support for MGRS coordinates system Added support for DCS World 1.5 You can now insert bookmarks in the events list and timeline You can now share links containing the current view and selection with your friends You can now Shift+Click to attract viewers' attention to a specific object in the 3D view Added AGL (above ground level altitude) to charts, labels & walls Added roll and pitch angles to the telemetry windows It is now possible to display ATC styles labels for aircrafts (using selected unit system) A vertical speed arrow is now displayed in the AGL telemetry label Aircraft position and rotation can now be exported from telemetry charts You can now define AGL & ASL restrictions which trigger alarms When in cockpit or external view the coordinates of the first or secondary object are displayed in place of observer's ones Clicking the compass now returns to a top view with the north up Labels size and auto-scale can now be automatically or manually adjusted to match screen resolution New versions of Tacview will be installed on previously installed versions Charts are now automatically scrolling to keep the time cursor in view Improved fonts used in the 3D view and charts Added preliminary support for RTL languages (like Hebrew) Lower importance objects labels are now slightly faded Playback speed can now be increased up to x64 Added support for Windows 10 Added DA40 Diamond Star & Dassault Rafale 3D mesh Added some real world airports to the map License agreement is now less intrusive Terrain, static objects, and 3D models can now be stored in %ProgramData%\Tacview\Data\ or %APPDATA%\Tacview\Data\ Time slider is now moving smoothly during playing back Added a link to Tacview Facebook page in the status bar FIXES Bookmarks text were not saved in compressed binary acmi files Dogfight mode was not taken into account while switching to satellite view Unsupported acmi file formats were not properly reported as such since version 1.3.3 Fixed a rare crash when some data was displayed on distance charts Multimedia keyboard keys like play or rewind were not working anymore

I have noticed that with non FC3 aircrafts, DCS World 1.5.0.46175 reports "wrong" IAS while reading values from LUA export script environment. My code is baed on values found in scripts like \DCSWorld\Mods\aircraft\P-51D\Cockpit\Scripts\mainpanel_init.lua AirspeedNeedle = CreateGauge() AirspeedNeedle.arg_number = 11 AirspeedNeedle.input = {0, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 350, 400, 450, 500, 550, 600, 650, 700} AirspeedNeedle.output = {0.0, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.2, 0.25, 0.3, 0.35, 0.4, 0.45, 0.5, 0.55, 0.6, 0.65, 0.7} AirspeedNeedle.controller = controllers.AirspeedNeedle Here is some pseudo code: MainPanel=GetDevice(0) MainPanel:update_arguments() MainPanel:get_argument_value(AirspeedNeedle.arg_number) For instance, while doing the test with the TP-51D, the value reported is something like about 200 times bigger than expected. I have noticed the same issue with other non FC3 aircrafts like the A-10C. IAS is reported as expected by DCS World 1.2.8.27915 Is this a bug or a new intended behavior?

Yes, Tacview 1.3.4 is working fine with DCS World 1.5 and the version 1.4 will bring an even better support for it.

Thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately you cannot change yet what is displayed in the telemetry windows. These windows are going to be replaced by fully customizable ones in Tacview 1.6/2.0. (1.4 is going to be released in a few weeks for reference).

Personally, I like friendly fire, this is part of the thrill. That said, I guess it is fine to enable the script for the blue force only protected area... I suggest to not enable it for the red-force since its pilots are supposed to not be trainees anymore :)

I didn’t change anything about aliasing for a long time and - so far - Tacview is working great and is smoother with Windows 10 (at least with my nVidia and Intel graphics cards). Which part of the picture are more aliased? Are you talking about the line, font, textures, objects? Can you share a clear screenshot of the aliased part? (in PNG for example) Which graphic card do you have? Are you using the lasted graphic drivers from Intel/AMD/nVidia website? Maybe a long time ago you have forced anti-aliasing options in the driver and forgot to re-enable the same options after reinstalling Windows?

Indeed, missiles lateral Gs was added to Tacview 1.3.4 ;) + Missiles acceleration (Gs) is now displayed as lateral acceleration instead of total acceleration

Using Tacview 1.3.4 & 1.4 with DCS World 1.5 DCS World open betas are supported since Tacview 1.3.1. You should not have any problem recording and reviewing your DCS World open beta 1.5 flights using Tacview 1.3.4 or 1.4. If you are running the open beta using Steam, you should not have anything to do because the install and configuration folders are exactly the same as the release version. In the worst case, just make sure that the option to record DCS World flights is enabled in Tacview. If you are running the open beta from ED website, you may have to first disable, then re-enable the recording of DCS World flight in Tacview. If you are running the open beta in a custom configuration folder (a rare case) you will have to proceed to a manual installation as described on my website. Please have a look at Q14 & Q15: http://tacview.strasoftware.com/documentation/dcs/

The Online Debriefing is currently in development. If you try the latest beta version you can see the dialog box to setup or join a connection. It should start working in Tacview 1.4 beta 4 in about two weeks.

I remember reading something about improvements in critical phases or flight (like high AoA). Maybe this is simply the way it is supposed to be… 400 Km/h is not so far from the stall speed of the MiG-21 (which should be somewhere greater than 320 Km/h in a clean configuration if my memory is right). I usually pull Gs between 600 and 800 Km/h where the MiG-21 is more in its flight domain… Maybe your aircraft was heavily loaded in addition to Gs?

Thank you very much for the detailed feedback LeCuvier! Your installation of Tacview is working fine. This problem is a known limitation of the current event log. In order to reduce "spam", I have programmed a long time ago, a little function which merge ammo of the same kind in the event log. While drastically reducing the number of similar events, this can – in cases like the one you are describing – produce a less accurate log than expected. A new event log, currently developed for Tacview 2.0, will fix this kind issue.

I wish FC3 aircraft could be "customizable" to such extend :-P

That means that I’ve done my best to export all advanced telemetry available for the corresponding aircraft (like gears, throttle…). Unfortunately, so far, I was not able to find a satisfactory 3D model for the Hawk. I’m still searching... So if someone has a clean mesh to share, to not hesitate to contact me!

Thanks for all the answers! Particularly from pepin1234 and PiedDroit. I forgot about the switch related to the flare which is labelled [OUTER/INNER] close to the counter in the MiG-29 cockpit (page 1-119A). I can imagine that this is a way to select between two kinds of loads… I which I could put my hands on the weapon system manuals! :D Now I understand that countermeasure cartridges are kind of universal and can be either loaded with flares or chaffs. So you can mix them the way you want depending on your mission (like in the F-16 video). In that case I could realistically think that I would like a mixed load of 2/3 of chaffs and 1/3 of flares witch would be both released by the press of one button. I know that some would release the appropriate type depending on the threat. As for me, I have to admit that in the heat of an heavily loaded battlefield, I don’t have the time to think about which button to press (especially in the real-life MiG-29 cockpit) and I’d rather spoil countermeasures that dying because of not spamming them enough :-P

Do DCS World aircraft (and MiG-29s in particular) carry chaff in real-life? This general question is growing in my mind for a long time now... To take one example: While reading the very interesting 1F-MIG29-1 flight manual, I came across several references to “FLARE dispenser” but I didn’t find any reference (yet) about CHAFF dispenser. The manual clearly also mention one FLARE DISPENSE BUTTON on the throttle, but nothing about CHAFF. While I have the feeling that is common to hear about FLARES in documentaries and real-life documentation, I rarely hear about chaff (talking about 3rd & 4th generation aircraft). Why is there CHAFFs and FLAREs available to the DCS World MiG-29s? Is it realistic? If DCS World is right about FLARE and CHAFF onboard of this aircraft, why is there only one gauge in the MiG-29? How does this system work? Are FLARE and CHAFF evenly distributed in the cartridges visible on the top on the aircraft? Is it realistic to have two distinct controls in DCS World to control them separately? (While the MiG-29G flight manual is mentioning only one FLARE DISPENSE BUTTON on the throttle) Now obviously, the same question arise for other FC3 aircraft. I didn’t read their real-life manuals yet, but I can’t help to wonder: is there really chaff onboard of all other FC aircrafts? I hope some specialists will give me nice explanations.

Oops, sorry for this little bug. I forgot to remove a default altitude restriction I was using to debug my code: Labels are blinking when aircraft are violating restrictions. Just right-click on AGL or ASL (don’t remember which one) in the telemetry window and set to 0 the current minimum altitude restriction. This will stop this alert…