Tacview issues:

Does FC2 support tacview. If so, then I must have it set up wrong- it says that is recording, but when i run it i get nothing. Any ideas guys??

Yes, and no. FC2 can use tacview's support for DCS. Neverminf what tacview "says", you can have recording even if unchecked.

Go to:

HDD:\LockOn Flaming Cliffs 2\Config\Export

Open Config.lua and edit:

EnableExportScript = false

to:

EnableExportScript = true

Open Export.lua, and at the end of the file add following line:

dofile("./Config/Export/TacviewExportBlackShark.lua")

Extract attached archive and place file TacviewExportBlackShark.lua into map HDD:\LockOn Flaming Cliffs 2\Config\Export

For editing do not use Windows Notepad, but either Notepad2 or Notepad++

TacviewExportBlackShark.rar

Hi Renato - I followed your instructions (although I used Windows Notepad) and it's worked wonderfully. Thank you - hopefully now I can figure out why I keep getting shot down!

GunSlingerAUS, feel free to PM me with a link to an ACMI file if you want help figuring out what's going wrong. I'm not an expert (I only started flying fighters instead of strikers with FC2) but I enjoy the analysis work and might learn something too. :)

I did it and it still doesn't work, I used your file also.

I edited the file to true for exporting. Still nothing.

I need the defualt files config and export if anybocy would upload them. I may have screwed somthing up- I think if I started over it might work, I didnt back anything up.

@GunSlingerAUS - Glad to help :)

Just spreading the yoghurt's...

@DetroitDieseL

Sorry to hear you have problems.

Are you sure that your changes were saved?

Here you have originals, as edited so it works on my PC. There is really nothing different apart from those two lines, try to compare with your files (or post them here): Desktop.rar

Also, attached is default Config folder, unedited (extract to to a separate place, you may overwrite your custom settings if you use this files): Config.rar

Desktop.rar

Config.rar

Thanks alot for your help buddy.

I just copied your defualts to my export folder and changed it to true in the config file and added the line at the bottom of the export file.

Still didn't work. Do I need to do anything in tacview??

Here is my export folder attached.

Export.rar

I think I got it working- but like Hawk said- how do we get the normal names instead of just the aircraft type. Also how can we change the folder they are saved to?

@DetroitDieseL

Your files look OK to me, they are identical to my. So it is working OK now?

As for pilot names, I guess we will have to wait until Vyrtuoz makes new version of Tacview...

Yeah I believe I have it working now. I appreciate it alot buddy, you simplified the instructions- I just realized where they were being saved- is there a way to change the dir. to where they're being saved??

Glad to help, especially cos there are people on this forum that helped me a lot with same issues :)

Bare in mind, I'm not expert with LUA, just copying/pasting what smarten then I have made. Kudos goes to Vyrtuoz and others, but this ain't Oscars, so no list this time around :D

For file location, create a map beforehand, say MyTacviews in folder HDD:\LOFC2\

Then open TacviewExportBlackShark.lua and find line:

-- Create a new log file for each mission

self.AcmiFile=io.open("./Temp/Tacview-"..os.date("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S")..".txt.acmi","wb");

Temp is current location, you may change that with MyTacviews.

Filename is formed like:

Tacview- is prefix

os.date calls date and time from your operating system, and writes it in form:

%Y - year

%m - month

%d - day

%H - hour

%M - minutes

%S - seconds

And then it adds suffix in form:

.txt.acmi

Then it looks like:

Tacview-20100414-123010.txt.acmi

If you want it too look like

MyFlight_2010-04-14_12-30-10.txt.acmi

Change above to:

self.AcmiFile=io.open("./MyTacviews/MyFlight_"..os.date("%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")..".txt.acmi","wb");

EDIT:

for tacview 0.95 edit file

TacviewExportDCS.lua

Do you guys all have such huge acmi files? I have one mp file 581 MB!:huh:

Yeah- thats normal. If your running it for the entire time your flying then the tracks are going to get huge.

Hey, Renato! What a great tool! I didn't realize before, that AI in FC2 are good. Tnx!