As the pace of development on Tacview 2.0 increases, Tacview 1.8 is switching more and more to maintenance mode.
However, Tacview 1.8 is still a great test bed for experimenting with simplified versions of new features. As such, this update still brings cool new tools along the usual quality of life improvement and bug fixes.
For example, whenever it is supported by your flight simulator and your aircraft, you can now display the flight controls position as well as the pilot sight. Together with the optional display of aircraft course, you have now all the tools to analyze the exact behavior of the pilot and pinpoint habits to improve stick and rudder skills.
As usual, the Lua SDK has been considerably extended. For example, it is now possible to create real dialog boxes to directly interact with the user. If you are interested into creating Lua addons, feel free to share your work or ask for help on our discord channel!
https://discord.com/invite/HM4SMD3XPu
BuzyBee and I would like to thank again everyone for your support and feedback!
I will now return to the Batcave to resume my work on Tacview 2 :)
Vyrtuoz
FEATURES & CHANGES
- ADDED support for IGC files (International Gliding Commission)
- ADDED support for TGA files (16, 24 and 32 bit)
- ADDED support for pilot’s head movements for DCS World local player
- ADDED options to display aircraft heading, course, lift and pilot line of sight (when available)
- ADDED display of selected aircraft course
- ADDED Controls position can now be displayed in the 3D view when data available
- ADDED DCS World F-5E, F-16C, F/A-18C, L-39, M2000C controls positions
- ADDED Mach number is now recorded from Flight Simulator / P3D
- ADDED CAS to X-Plane (local aircraft)
- ADDED Angle of Slip to telemetry export, charts and SDK
- ADDED support for dialog boxes in the Lua SDK
- ADDED Copy/paste coordinates from Google Maps via CTRL+SHIFT+LEFT_CLICK / CTRL+V
- ADDED a new upgrade webpage for Tacview enterprise users
- ADDED Hercules 3D parachute objects (donation from Asta)
- IMPROVED CSV files support
- IMRPOVED EAG files support
- IMPROVED CAS to be calculated based on Mach speed when possible
- IMPROVED DCS World Mirage 2000C advanced telemetry
- IMPROVED Turn rate addon calculations and support for different units
- IMPROVED support of lineSTPT in BMS DTC files
- IMPROVED static buildings support
- IMPROVED Flight Simulator and X-Plane exporters are now resilient to these simulators crashes
- IMPROVED area covered by DCS: Persian Gulf Map
- IMPROVED the last ten logs are now saved in %temp%\Tacview\
- IMPROVED Lua API now uses 256 KiB text buffers instead of 4 KiB for text samples
FIXES
- FIXED some textures tiles displayed at the wrong position on Earth
- FIXED potential crashes when running out of memory when loading textures in 32-bit
- FIXED DCS World export script was not installed if SRS one was installed before
- FIXED DCS World export script would not install on a fresh DCS World
- FIXED DCS World exporter default settings were not properly installed
- FIXED rare crash when launched with exotic user locale / language
- FIXED control list was displayed when launched for the first time from CMO
- FIXED display of Landed *close to* Sochi Adler event instead of Landed *at* Sochi Adler
- FIXED several bugs in the Lua API