Transfer steerpoints from the F10 map into the aircraft - DCS: The Way

[Eggcake]

Holy moly, amazing!

Such a simple solution but I have not thought of it at all.

Thank you so much!!

[Slimmothy]

I have a new bug I started noticing today (first Ive been on DCS in about a month). I noticed ThWay is not staying on top like it use too. Despite having "always on top" selected in the settings, whenever I click on the f10 map to scroll around, the app disappears. I updated to the latest version today, but that did not fix it. I also noticed the app isn't showing up in the taskbar like it did previously. So no Alt+Tab to switch over to it. I have to continuously hit my app launch button on my streamdeck to get the app back on top. Any ideas why this may be happening? Thanks.  

[winghunter]

I have integrated DCS TheWay into the DCS Web Viewer Livemap. You can save the coordinates created with the measure tool to a .tw file.

Currently its only in the dev version
https://dcs-web-editor.github.io/dcs-web-viewer-deploy/live/dev.html

 

[winghunter]

TheWay support in DCS Web Viewer.

You can now convert flight plans / waypoints from any mission as TheWay .tw file. Open a .miz file, click a waypoint or unit popup and click "Export TheWay" to save.
( Or "Edit TheWay" to open a JSON editor, make your desired changes, then save as *.json and rename to *.tw. )

 

You can also convert drawn polylines via the measure tool, in the main menu.

 

https://dcs-web-editor.github.io/dcs-web-viewer-deploy/

 

Edited February 16 by winghunter

[mdtenor22001]

New to the Hercules 6.8.2 mod. I tried adding the four files found at the v1.01 hotfix shown in the Way app (and linked above).  DCS crashes now when I load into the Herc.  When I remove the four files and restore to previous state, everything is fine.  Am I doing something wrong with installation of the hotfix? The four files just go into the "Cockpit/Scripts" folder, right?

[sbenus]

at the moment, the waypoints are importing correctly in the Viper. However, in the hornet, they don't seem to input correctly. is there something I need to do differently?

[jonsky7]

On 5/4/2025 at 7:56 PM, sbenus said:

at the moment, the waypoints are importing correctly in the Viper. However, in the hornet, they don't seem to input correctly. is there something I need to do differently?

Did you switch on "PRECISE" mode?

[Wedge32]

HI, loving the app, I fly the A10CII and when I "Transfer to DCS" it does not transfer the elevation. How can i fix this?

 

[Mapi]

Am 4.5.2025 um 20:56 schrieb sbenus:

at the moment, the waypoints are importing correctly in the Viper. However, in the hornet, they don't seem to input correctly. is there something I need to do differently?

look here:

 

[Wedge32]

12 hours ago, Wedge32 said:

HI, loving the app, I fly the A10CII and when I "Transfer to DCS" it does not transfer the elevation. How can i fix this?

 

I found the issue, I wasn't waiting for the INS to be aligned, therefore  no elevation data was available. 

 

[BluesRocket]

I skimmed through this pretty quickly. Seems awesome (F-16 here).

But are there two development branches? It looks like the original stopped development July last year on GitHub (https://github.com/aronCiucu/DCSTheWay Then another here, apparently to fix an update with F-16 waypoint entry from DED (https://github.com/jonsky752/DCSTheWay) this past January. Is the latter the latest is there another development branch?

 

[jonsky7]

On 7/8/2025 at 1:24 PM, BluesRocket said:

I skimmed through this pretty quickly. Seems awesome (F-16 here).

But are there two development branches? It looks like the original stopped development July last year on GitHub (https://github.com/aronCiucu/DCSTheWay Then another here, apparently to fix an update with F-16 waypoint entry from DED (https://github.com/jonsky752/DCSTheWay) this past January. Is the latter the latest is there another development branch?

 

I wouldnt say I took over development exactly. I couldn't have made this from scratch as I don't have the knowledge.
However, I have been able to add a couple of aircraft, and make some minor mods and fixes.

I have also taken some other people's mods for theWay and combined them into one.

I thought they made good additions, after testing and minor modifications, I thought I would share it here.

There are some fixes in "my branch" that will not be in the official branch, F16 DED entry being one of them.

Edited July 24 by jonsky7

[jnr4817]

Nice job. 

[BluesRocket]

Well, I tried both development branches. Both work but once I send to the jet (F-16) the game completely freezes up. Tried uninstall/reinstalls a few times and have up. Nice concept though.

[jonsky7]

9 hours ago, BluesRocket said:

Well, I tried both development branches. Both work but once I send to the jet (F-16) the game completely freezes up. Tried uninstall/reinstalls a few times and have up. Nice concept though.

Seems fine to me at the moment

[BluesRocket]

1 hour ago, jonsky7 said:

Seems fine to me at the moment

Several members on my discord use it without issue. Not sure what's going on with my end. I'll try to figure it out tomorrow. It's too valuable a tool.

[firehorse]

I've installed The Way before and it worked but have recently reinstalled DCS 2.9.

Here is the export.lua code I'm trying to fix..

pcall(function() local dcsSr=require('lfs');dofile(dcsSr.writedir()..[[Mods\Services\DCS-SRS\Scripts\DCS-SimpleRadioStandalone.lua]]); end,nil);

pcall(function() local TheWayLfs=require('lfs');dofile(TheWayLfs.writedir()..'Scripts/TheWay/TheWay.lua'); end)

any help would be great 

The Way opens but after selecting point the error comes up 'cannot connect to DCS'

[jonsky7]

Hello again,

Due to the ongoing bug with the CH47 Chinook CDU where the screen goes blank while trying to access certain pages, or the page doesn't change,
I have modified how the waypoints are entered.

I have removed the ACP entries, so now the LAT/LON coordinates are entered directly into the FLPN/ALTN FPLN pages. 
I believe this solves an issue that can pop up when two or more ACPs are entered with the same name, i.e. when you create a new list of waypoints in "TheWay".
If ACP 1 already existed, and a new ACP called 1 was entered, when the ACP 1 was being entered into the FLPN, the user would have to select which ACP 1 was to be used. There is no way for "TheWay" to see the "new" Waypoint selection screen, so it could get out of sync with DCS and create INPUT ERRORS.

This new method also speeds up the creation of a FLPN, as it doesn't have to create the ACPs first.

It seems that the underlying CDU systems are working as they should, and it is only the CDU display output that is bugged. 
So you are still able to create new, and add to existing, ALTN FPLNs. (the display just doesn't follow along when data is entered)
The ALTN FPLN summary is still updated, and the route can be shown on the HSD by enabling it.

https://github.com/jonsky752/DCSTheWay/releases/tag/v2.5.9

Cheers
Jon