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Title: Tacview 1.5 official thread
Post by: Vyrtuoz on August 09, 2016, 04:33:49 PM
Tacview 1.5 is now available to everyone!


Download: Click Here (http://www.strasoftware.com/download/tacview)


While - at the first sight - this version does not look very different from the 1.4.3, it is a huge leap forward! This is simply the biggest upgrade to date: It took about 8 months of hard work and debugging to perfect a whole new telemetry engine and file format.

Why all this work?

The new telemetry engine is more powerful, transparent and efficient than ever:
What does that mean for you?

These two major improvements will soon enable really useful features. Here are two obvious examples:
What about Bullseye?

Tacview 1.5 natively support the display of bullseye and bullseye coordinates. For now, you can display a bullseye by creating and merging a tiny telemetry file like the following. Tools will be added soon so you can create and edit this kind of data directly from Tacview.
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FileType=text/acmi/tacview
FileVersion=2.0
100000001,T=41.72611|42.12278|2000,Type=Navaid+Bullseye,Coalition=Enemies,Color=Blue
100000002,T=40|44|2000,Type=Navaid+Bullseye,Coalition=Allies,Color=Red

(http://www.tacview.net/rss/763036455396597760.jpg)

FEATURES & CHANGES


FIXES

Title: Re: Tacview 1.5 official thread
Post by: Vyrtuoz on August 09, 2016, 04:35:26 PM
Feel free to post here any questions and comments related to Tacview 1.5.

Please, create new threads for general questions.
Title: Re: Tacview 1.5 official thread
Post by: Asid on August 09, 2016, 05:55:10 PM
Great news.

Tacview is an excellent tool. I recommend it to all. Especially when there is a free version.

Keep up the good work Vyrtuoz.
Title: Re: Tacview 1.5 official thread
Post by: Vyrtuoz on August 09, 2016, 08:01:32 PM
Note for BMS users

Thanks to your feedback I have noticed that the day/night cycle is not correct with BMS VHS files.

This is because the time provided in VHS files is in local time instead of UTC.

I will manage properly this case in Tacview 1.5.1