ataribaby Posted September 9, 2019 Posted September 9, 2019 (edited) What a Friday I had. Accidentally deleted all DCS airplanes input mappings and of course no backups. So after some tears I decided to make Warthog mapping chart editor that can create, edit, save, load, print and export it to PNG. I am going to create all mappings again in editor and store it and print for backup and quick reference when changing aircraft in DCS. .NET Framework 4.5.1 is required. Inside release zip is tool and demo charts for MiG-21 produced by tool. Maybe it will be useful for someone else as well. Enjoy. Here is GitHub https://github.com/ataribaby42/WarthogChart Releases: Releases · ataribaby42/WarthogChart (github.com) Edited January 25, 2021 by ataribaby
pacastro Posted September 9, 2019 Posted September 9, 2019 Excellent tool, thanks for sharing it. An idea to improve it that I would do if I knew how to do it: Assuming you already mapped your inputs inside DCS, you could get an automated graphic profile generator by getting the info directly from DCS joystick configuration files, there you have the buttons assigned and the description for the actions assigned to each one, so someone with the knowledge could do some programing to automatically fill the graphic profile templates.
ataribaby Posted September 9, 2019 Author Posted September 9, 2019 (edited) Well, my aim was for general Warthog map tool not tied with DCS. I just manually fill mappings as some texts needs to be abbreviated to fit inside boxes. Read: I am lazy and probably even don't have idea how to do it ;) What I want to add next is mouse wheel zoom and pan so it will not be dependent on size of your monitor. Edited September 9, 2019 by ataribaby
pacastro Posted September 9, 2019 Posted September 9, 2019 Well, thanks again for sharing it. I for sure will be using it!
Rudel_chw Posted September 9, 2019 Posted September 9, 2019 What a Friday I had. Accidentally deleted all DCS airplanes input mappings and of course no backups. So after some tears I decided to make Warthog mapping chart editor that can create, edit, save, load, print and export it to PNG. There is an alternative: I use Windows directory links to place the important Folders of my DCS setup on a Cloud Drive, where they are safe and have versioning support, so I can go back to a previous version of any file in case of a wrong edit or deletion. It looks like this: Best regards For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
ataribaby Posted September 9, 2019 Author Posted September 9, 2019 @pacastro glad you like it. I will try improve tool over time. @Rudel_chw Thanks for suggestion. I will do it. It was real pain to lose all handcrafted profiles for all airplanes.
ataribaby Posted September 10, 2019 Author Posted September 10, 2019 (edited) Added source code and releases to GitHub. Edited September 10, 2019 by ataribaby
ataribaby Posted September 10, 2019 Author Posted September 10, 2019 Released new version with some fixes and new features.
wju Posted September 10, 2019 Posted September 10, 2019 thanks for sharing! ...nice feature would be direct *device.html import CPU AMD 9800X3D, GPU nVidia RTX 4090, 64GB RAM 6000Mhz; HP Reverb G2; VKB Ultimate stick; VIRPIL Throttle; Slaw Pedals; custom AXIS&BTN BOX based on MMJOY2
ataribaby Posted September 10, 2019 Author Posted September 10, 2019 I need think about any import functionality.
SGT Coyle Posted September 10, 2019 Posted September 10, 2019 set off malware bytes and got quarantined. Night Ops in the Harrier IYAOYAS
ataribaby Posted September 10, 2019 Author Posted September 10, 2019 (edited) What? What are you talking about? What threat it detected? Edit: installed MB and and it marks it as threat. It must be false detection as it was freshly compiled exe. You can build yourself from github source. Edited September 10, 2019 by ataribaby
ataribaby Posted September 10, 2019 Author Posted September 10, 2019 (edited) here we go: https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/229924-machine-learninganomalous94/ https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/239404-false-positive-machinelearninganomalous/ https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/230734-sharpscript-machinelearninganomalous100/ It is problem on MB side not on mine. Edited September 10, 2019 by ataribaby
ataribaby Posted September 11, 2019 Author Posted September 11, 2019 Made little research and found that call to win32 API to remove X button from modal dialog windows causing MB to think it is threat. Of course it is completely legal code. I have no nerves to this so I removed this code and MB now passes. New release v1.0.2.1 is up. Sorry for inconvenience.
lucky-hendrix Posted September 11, 2019 Posted September 11, 2019 This looks great ! I always did this manually using gimp. Can't wait to try it Sent from my VTR-L09 using Tapatalk
ataribaby Posted September 11, 2019 Author Posted September 11, 2019 Yeah, I already printed all my newly remapped DCS planes after loss of mappings :) Today I will do Elite Dangerous and Il-2 Sturmovik BOS. I always have hard time to remember mappings after I switch sim for a while. This sheets solves it for me.
SGT Coyle Posted September 11, 2019 Posted September 11, 2019 ataribaby, Didn't mean to imply any malfeasance. Just letting you know. I really didn't have any concerns, but can't be to careful. Thanks for the effort. I look forward to trying this. Night Ops in the Harrier IYAOYAS
ataribaby Posted September 11, 2019 Author Posted September 11, 2019 (edited) SGT Coyle yup I understand that. I was just bit shocked that such simple .net app is flagged as threat by some AV software. At first I was scared I got infection in my PC but same was when I build tool on my work PC. Anyway I removed Win32 API calls. Modal dialog windows now have closing. I think I must live with that. You can even build tool yourself - download and checkout code from GitHub and install Visual Studio Community Edition (2019 is latest now) with .NET app creation components installed and open .sln file, hit Buid solution and in Bin folder will be your new fresh exe to run. Edited September 11, 2019 by ataribaby
luckyhendrix Posted September 13, 2019 Posted September 13, 2019 I used it and it is a great app. It save a lot of time, rather than doing it in gimp, thx :) we should move this thread, I don't think a lot of ppl we'll see it in this section, it isn't really for this
SGT Coyle Posted September 13, 2019 Posted September 13, 2019 Are there instructions on how to use this? Night Ops in the Harrier IYAOYAS
ataribaby Posted September 14, 2019 Author Posted September 14, 2019 @luckyhendrix: I am happy you found app useful. Already made all my new mappings with it and printed them. @SGT Coyle: Should be straightforward. Just open tool and start write your mappings into boxes. Use Edit menu to set chart name and font and font size (or keep default). Via View menu you can switch view between stick and throttle. You can save your chart or print/export to PNG. When printing or exporting only active view will be printed/exported. Save/Load of course works for both.
SGT Coyle Posted September 14, 2019 Posted September 14, 2019 Excelent, thank you. How about an F18 Grip version? Night Ops in the Harrier IYAOYAS
SGT Coyle Posted September 14, 2019 Posted September 14, 2019 Awesome! Just tried it and wow. Night Ops in the Harrier IYAOYAS
pacastro Posted September 14, 2019 Posted September 14, 2019 Any change you can also add option for different font colors?? when you use 2 assignments for some of the buttons via shift key, its good to have a clear visual distinction for them in the chart.
Recommended Posts