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Ability to import waypoints/Points Of Opportunity from ACE MicroDAGR #215

Open unhappytroll opened 1 year ago

unhappytroll commented 1 year ago

Aims

  1. Ability to import waypoints/POO from ACE MicroDAGR.
  2. Ability to import (or synchronize) markers (filtered or not) from cTab (if this is even possible) and use them as waypoints/POO. If it is not possible, I'm fine just with MicroDAGR.

How do you envision this feature being implemented?

ACE interaction or one of the buttons on TSD page. Preferably former.

Reference material

Hatchet's clickable UH-60 has the ability to import waypoints from MicroDAGR via FMC in cockpit.

mattysmith22 commented 1 year ago

This is an interesting proposal. I like the idea of improved interaction with ACE subsystems like the MicroDAGR. We are currently planning on adding a hard ACE dependency anyway due to us moving to ACE laser & missile guidance so I am not too fearful of that - plus we could do it with a soft dependency anyway

mattysmith22 commented 1 year ago

However, I will likely hold off on implementation as the DMS (data management system) is currently in a state of flux with the MPD update.

While currently in the steam version of the mod, we only have waypoints, we are working on the full implementation of waypoints, hazards, control measures & targets. This hits two issues for this potential feature:

  1. If the data structures within the DMS are being rebuilt currently, building a data importer for it will be wasted work as it will need to be rebuilt once the data structures are redone
  2. We need more information to build points now - type, identifier type, position, altitude, free text etc. We should be able to provide some sensible defaults for the data we can't extract from MicroDAGR but it is something to keep in mind.

I will revisit this enhancement when the work to do with the above is complete.