Tacview for CoD?

Vyrtuoz · #1 03-01-2011, 12:01 AM

Question to IL-2 Sturmovik: CoD developers:

Greetings,

I'm Vyrtuoz, the creator of Tacview. A flight analysis tool you probably heard about: http://tacview.strasoftware.com

I always wanted to support IL2 to see how modern flight analysis can improve WWII pilots' skills. But since IL2 data export abilities were reduced to the minimum I was not able to create flight recordings for Tacview by the past.

Will CoD offer more data export capabilities? For example, will it be easy to get aircrafts' coordinates through a script or a SDK?

It is possible to grant me access to a private beta or to a dedicated SDK so I can write an add-on to support CoD for its launch? (I can sign a NDA if required)

Best regards,
Vyrtuoz

(Sorry to post this request here, I haven't found another way to reach the dev team. You can reply by PM or email if required)

TheGrunch · #2 03-01-2011, 12:16 AM

Wow, nice program Vyrtuoz, I wasn't aware of it.

Blackdog_kt · #3 03-01-2011, 01:32 AM

I don't know how easy it would be to work with it in a WWII setting (a lot more maneuvering than in a jet sim, due to only having guns and not missiles), but it would be awesome to have a means of analyzing our flights and learning from our mistakes. Plus, it will also come in handy in the future if we get the korean war expansion.

We do already have tracks, but it would still be nice to have a "dry", scientific-like interface without all the pretty ingame graphics to distract us from our analysis

This looks like an awesome job and i'm very glad we have guys like you who are putting in work for free to enhance the hobby for the rest of us. It's not worth much coming from me, but if i was part of the dev team i would definitely try to get you a beta version so you can start working on it

swiss · #4 03-01-2011, 01:51 AM

if the coordinates are accessible I hope only in tracks.
Realtime would be bad, really bad.

TheGrunch · #5 03-01-2011, 01:57 AM

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Originally Posted by swiss

if the coordinates are accessible I hope only in tracks.
Realtime would be bad, really bad.

Agreed. Apparently there's already some kind of cheat to detect bombers in Il-2, if one of the threads in this forum is correct. Let's not have these kinds of exploits available in CoD.

swiss · #6 03-01-2011, 02:02 AM

They detect them by recording and watching the ntrk almost in realtime(my guess)

Royraiden · #7 03-01-2011, 02:03 AM

I would like to have such feature,I hope the devs will get in contact with you.

TheGrunch · #8 03-01-2011, 02:06 AM

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Originally Posted by swiss

They detect them by recording and watching the ntrk almost in realtime(my guess)

Mmm, no, I don't think so. It was something to do with an action that's printed in the logfile for bombers, I think it was changing crew positions maybe?

Heliocon · #9 03-01-2011, 02:12 AM

Reminds me alittle bit of AceCombat replay feature on the ps2...

Man that was a good game when I was 10 years old

Erkki · #10 03-01-2011, 07:29 AM

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Originally Posted by TheGrunch

Mmm, no, I don't think so. It was something to do with an action that's printed in the logfile for bombers, I think it was changing crew positions maybe?

AFAIK 3 ways to do it... You cant really block more than 1 of them.

They all work with all planes btw but they're a problem especially with bombers in online campaigns. Against certain people keeping bombers alive can be very frustrating...