WIP DCS A-10C and Mumble Integration

[tjhowse]

Mumble is a great, open source, alternative to the likes of Teamspeak and Ventrillo. It's lacked any integration with DCS games until now.

 

I've started work on a plugin that does stuff similar to TARS, but for mumble rather than teamspeak. At the moment it only does UHF radios, and it's totally untested. I'm hoping to get some testing done tonight.

 

It's available here: https://github.com/tjhowse/MumbleDCS , along with all the source and setup instructions. This is version 0.1, I'm planning to continue work on it until it's comparable to TARS in functionality. Donations welcome.

[wittrup]

How is this work coming along?

[fangav]

Very slowly I think ;)

[tjhowse]

I gave up developing it any further once I discovered that mumble doesn't presently have a way of interfacing to the client to adjust volume and apply voice effects to other users. I've started poking around the server side of things and it looks like it might be possible to do things more elegantly there, but still no possibility at this stage of static. Losing contact with people when they're too far away is doable, but multiple radios aren't, as far as I can tell. I'll keep poking around.

Edited March 6, 2013 by tjhowse
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[mhe]

Would it be possible to leave out voice degradation etc and just implement the functions necessary to require to be on the same frequency to talk to each other? I'd be more than content with that. I usually play MP and we also have CA users in our group, so TARS is currently a bit unusable for the group due to the CA players. Mumble would solve that elegantly.

[tjhowse]

Currently it should work just fine for UHF radios. If everyone's installed the plugin properly, and set their mumble settings as per the guide, you won't be able to hear anyone who's not on your UHF channel.