planned F/A-18C Data Cartridge

[jwflowersii]

Is this still in the plans?  

[Hobel]

Now a good 2 jahe passed since this great news, is there anything new about it and how far it is?

 

 

 

[Blackfyre]

From recently updated roadmap:

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We have one encompassing feature that requires cooperation between the F/A-18C and F-16C Team, the DCS Core Team, and 3rd Party Developers: create a shared planning environment and agree on a single strategy to support mission planning for many aircraft types. This includes an Aircraft Setup Card in Options and a Mission Planning Card for waypoints with properties (Sequences, Target Points, Pre-Planned Targets, Pre-Briefed Targets, Initial Points, Bullseyes, etc.) and MUMI and similar pages. This is a complex task that we have been designing, and we will be working with all participants to create the best Aircraft Setup and Mission Planner possible.

As far as I understood, it is on designing stage.

[Weasel]

From recently updated roadmap:

We have one encompassing feature that requires cooperation between the F/A-18C and F-16C Team, the DCS Core Team, and 3rd Party Developers: create a shared planning environment and agree on a single strategy to support mission planning for many aircraft types. This includes an Aircraft Setup Card in Options and a Mission Planning Card for waypoints with properties (Sequences, Target Points, Pre-Planned Targets, Pre-Briefed Targets, Initial Points, Bullseyes, etc.) and MUMI and similar pages. This is a complex task that we have been designing, and we will be working with all participants to create the best Aircraft Setup and Mission Planner possible.

As far as I understood, it is on designing stage.

From which Roadmap is this? I have never seen it before.

[Blackfyre]

1 час назад, Weasel сказал:

As far as I understood, it is on designing stage.

From which Roadmap is this? I have never seen it before.

From this (first message was updated at April 16)

 

[Weasel]

From this (first message was updated at April 16)
 

Thank you mate, thought there was a new roadmap

[Dangerzone]

Just wondering if this is going to be accessible outside of the mission editor. 

This would be very helpful for those of us who make dynamic multiplayer missions/campaigns (or more-so for the players who have to manually key in each time) where they may be doing their own planning as a squadron on a multiplayer server. 

DTC for missions is great too, but just wondering if clients will have access to this independent of the mission editor / host?

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Edited April 28, 2023 by Dangerzone

[Swift.]

11 hours ago, Dangerzone said:

Just wondering if this is going to be accessible outside of the mission editor. 

This would be very helpful for those of us who make dynamic multiplayer missions/campaigns (or more-so for the players who have to manually key in each time) where they may be doing their own planning as a squadron on a multiplayer server. 

DTC for missions is great too, but just wondering if clients will have access to this independent of the mission editor / host?

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Tbh, if the AMU can't be edited outside of the scenario creation, ie by a connecting client. Then it's pretty useless.

Ideally we'd get a plain text lua that we can import, export, share and edit that contains all of the data the AmU would contain.

[raus]

I mean, aside from configuring Waypoints, and making up to 3 sequences...

• can we expect to be able to set additional "drawings"? Like No-fly zones, Killboxes, FLOT... is that something that we could draw without having to rely on one of the 3 sequences, which are mutually-exclusive?
• Can we expect to configure visibility of pre-briefed threats? (to hide SAMs that are no factor for a mission, but contribute to the display clutter)
• Any kind of DDI configuration? Or is that a viper-only thing? (pre-defining the pages showing up per master mode)

I assume other functions will be present, of course (setting radar preferences per weapon, configuring pre-planned targets, countermeasure programs, IFF, etc)

 

[Tholozor]

54 minutes ago, raus said:

• Any kind of DDI configuration? Or is that a viper-only thing? (pre-defining the pages showing up per master mode)

 

This isn't a thing in the Hornet. The Sensor Control Switch logic has pre-set commands to invoke specific pages that cannot be changed.

[raus]

That one I was expecting. I am more intrigued about the first point, though. In case anyone knows

(Edited: typo)

Edited December 21, 2023 by raus

[Hulkbust44]

I mean, aside from configuring Waypoints, and making up to 3 sequences...

• can we expect to be able to set additional "drawings"? Like No-fly zones, Killboxes, FLOT... is that something that we could draw without having to rely on one of the 3 sequences, which are mutually-exclusive?
• Can we expect to configure visibility of pre-briefed threats? (to hide SAMs that are no factor for a mission, but contribute to the display clutter)
• Any kind of DDI configuration? Or is that a viper-only thing? (pre-defining the pages showing up per master mode)

I assume other functions will be present, of course (setting radar preferences per weapon, configuring pre-planned targets, countermeasure programs, IFF, etc)
 

To the first point yes, a ton of functionality that DCS hasn't even hinted to is missing. And those threat rings on the SA should be dynamic.

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[norman99]

8 hours ago, Hulkbust44 said:

And those threat rings on the SA should be dynamic.

What do you mean by this? Aren’t they just pre programmed, based on the latest threat intel? i.e. they could, and sometimes are, completely wrong.

[Hulkbust44]

What do you mean by this? Aren’t they just pre programmed, based on the latest threat intel? i.e. they could, and sometimes are, completely wrong.

Yes, but they can also be added and removed on the L16 network but I'm not sure at what level. (C2 function? I know 16s HTS data can be shared on link to Hornets.) Fun fact, the dashed circles should become solid when they correlate to an ALR-67 trackfile.

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[norman99]

I didn't know that, thanks. 

(An ALR-67 trackfile.......wishful thinking in DCS )

Edited December 22, 2023 by norman99

[Harker]

What do you mean by this? Aren’t they just pre programmed, based on the latest threat intel? i.e. they could, and sometimes are, completely wrong.

They can be donated from C2 assets as MIDS surface points, much like you can see the ground designation of your wingman on the SA page.

The C2 asset can create a surface point, and assign attributes to it (e.g. SA-10, hostile), and so the point will show a red 10, with a red, dashed circle. If the RWR picks it up and correlates it, the circle becomes solid.

And because it's a MIDS point, you can TUC it and get relevant info, as well as hide it from the SA display subpage (which we don't have).

[raus]

Until today, I would have been happy, just to be given the ability to write some lines and shapes in my SA page, to draw a killbox, or the FLOT... now I am missing even more things, thanks to @Harker and @Hulkbust44