Export annotations to the Ka-50 ABRIS

[jboecker]

Before this can be implemented, we need to know how pre-populated ABRIS data is stored in DCS: World mission archives.

[ghost]

There you go !

It's simply in the group table, at the same level as the group name.

                                ["name"] = "New Helicopter Group #002",
                                ["communication"] = true,
                                ["start_time"] = 0,
                                ["NavTargetPoints"] = 
                                {
                                    [1] = 
                                    {
                                        ["y"] = 819064.28571428,
                                        ["x"] = -284945.71428571,
                                        ["index"] = 1,
                                        ["text_comment"] = "",
                                    }, -- end of [1]
                                    [2] = 
                                    {
                                        ["y"] = 821771.42857143,
                                        ["x"] = -284960,
                                        ["index"] = 2,
                                        ["text_comment"] = "",
                                    }, -- end of [2]
                                    [3] = 
                                    {
                                        ["y"] = 819850,
                                        ["x"] = -283560,
                                        ["index"] = 3,
                                        ["text_comment"] = "",
                                    }, -- end of [3]
                                }, -- end of ["NavTargetPoints"]

[jboecker]

I think those waypoints have something to do with how the Ka-50 has two navigation systems (ABRIS and PVI-800). I have opened a separate issue to track that (#18).

I was talking about drawing lines on the ABRIS map. I just did a quick test, the additional map features go into a file ABRIS/Database/ADDITIONAL.lua, which looks like this:

additional=
{
    ["date"]=
    {
        ["year"]=2011,
        ["day"]=1,
        ["month"]=6,
    },
    ["expiration_date"]=
    {
        ["year"]=2012,
        ["day"]=1,
        ["month"]=6,
    },
    ["additional_objects"]=
    {
        [1]=
        {
            ["type"]=1,
            ["name"]="",
            ["sub_type"]=0,
            ["color"]=
            {
                ["B"]=25.000001907349,
                ["G"]=127.00000762939,
                ["R"]=227.00001525879,
            },
            ["class"]="ABRIS_Linear_Object",
            ["points"]=
            {
                [1]=
                {
                    ["longitude"]=42.035221954158,
                    ["latitude"]=42.250464027068,
                    ["height"]=0,
                },
                [2]=
                {
                    ["longitude"]=42.011912444532,
                    ["latitude"]=42.271919604712,
                    ["height"]=0,
                },
                [3]=
                {
                    ["longitude"]=42.008820006822,
                    ["latitude"]=42.250379780636,
                    ["height"]=0,
                },
                [4]=
                {
                    ["longitude"]=42.034912001284,
                    ["latitude"]=42.248310215811,
                    ["height"]=0,
                },
                [5]=
                {
                    ["longitude"]=42.035423023468,
                    ["latitude"]=42.272232728456,
                    ["height"]=0,
                },
                [6]=
                {
                    ["longitude"]=42.00932119958,
                    ["latitude"]=42.274303350889,
                    ["height"]=0,
                },
            },
        },
    },
}

[jboecker]

The problem with this is that they will be the same for every Ka-50 in the mission. This means that it's not useful for red vs. blue PvP (when both sides have Ka-50's), as everyone would get both side's annotations.