VAC Static ATC Menu Mod

[Hollywood_315]

Yes I can confirm that is the approach for VAICOM 2.5. It will be a plugin dll linking directly into the DCS lua environments using network protocols. This means it will become independent of the menu system, keyboard layouts, window focus etc. and also of any static mods. The new system will be dynamically updating itself during the mission. Having said that, this is all pretty complex stuff and we're still a while away before VAICOM2.5 will be released.

So much appreciated keeping this static ATC mod alive for 2.0 users.

 

After messing with these menus and with VAICOM for a few months I think that we are going to have to wait for 2.5 before there is significant further improvement. The ideal approach would be to establish a plugin for VAICOM that communicates directly with LUA code running in the sim so that the menu system could be bypassed completely. The Simple Radio Standalone (SRS) package interacts with DCS this way so I think it is doable. But developing this would involve significant code development, and possibly 2.5 would break that code. However we can hope that Hollywood has something similar in mind for VAICOM!

 

 

It is possible to get a static menu structure in place for the the other recipient types such as JTAC, Tankers, etc. in the same way as done for ATC. However I'm not prioritizing work on that atm as it would be incompatible with VAICOM 2.0 and as mentioned v2.5 will bypass the menu system altogether.

 

Originally Posted by Fisherman82 View Post

Nice work indeed! Does anyone know if it would be possible to do a mod for the JTAC menu also so that the F-keys always stays the same on the different menu pages so that it could be set up with VAC?

 

It might be possible, but since I primarily fly aerobatics and A2A missions I haven't gotten familiar with the JTAC menus. For AWACs, tankers, ships and FARPs a complication is that the set of possible units (and their names) with which you might communicate is dependent on mission design and can even change dynamically within the mission. I don't know if this is an issue for JTAC as well.

[uscstaylor]

Guys can anyone confirm that this mod works still ion 1.5.8 I tried to install it in 1.5.8 and now my comms menu wont come up...when I take it out and then repair game comms works fine...wierd

[GIJoe]

Guys can anyone confirm that this mod works still ion 1.5.8 I tried to install it in 1.5.8 and now my comms menu wont come up...when I take it out and then repair game comms works fine...wierd

 

I am having issues with getting it to work in 1.5.8 as well. I had it working before, but maybe an update changed some things? Really would like to get this going again because I prefer 1.5.8 over 2.5 right now.

 

UPDATE: Got it working. Had to repair my 1.5.8 installation.

Edited February 5, 2018 by GIJoe

[Chic]

Does anybody got this workin in 2.5?

Currently the mod with sthompson's tweak kills the Cargo activation.

 

 

UPDATE: fixed for 2.5

RadioCommandDialogsPanel.lua Line549 change "pCargo:choosingCargo()" => "pCargo:chooseCargo()"

Edited March 17, 2019 by Chic