0.11 EdAv test

[marte21]

We tested it yesterday, 5 pilots, P3D V3.2, dual connection with Vatsim vPilot, CCP, vACMI and FSX@war

Smooth as silk, stable, it reminded me the good old Ibnet

Unfortunatly CCP/FSX@war and vACMI were unable to inject weapons/objects. Maybe in the future?

Anyway, thank you very much, it is an impressive software

Some shots from yesterday night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVFm5GQwO0Y

Diego
http://www.edavirtual.org
https://www.facebook.com/edavirtual.org

[Peter]

Hi Diego,

Thanks for posting your findings. I'm very interested in getting FSX@War and VRS TP working. There is an option in JoinFS at the moment to auto-broadcast objects in your simulator. I believe this has limited success. Weapons are broadcast over the network, but the damage doesn't get transmitted. It may be worth contacting the FSX@War guys and asking them about compatibility.

And I like the guitar audio track on your video.

Best regards,
Peter

[RCFlyer]

Diego:

I use VATSIM Vpilot as well, to fly online with BVA. I am curious why and how you used JoinFS and Vpilot together. What does using them together do?

Regards,

Danny

[marte21]

I am using vPilot + JoinFS in order to fly in close formation and be able to have ATC simultaneously. It is really easy to use. In the past we stablished direct MP between us and then vPilot using invisible or ghost MTL for the planes that we were flying. So that way we were able to fly smooth with our partners and able to see other VATSIM planes

With JoinFS we don't need to have the same simulator. We can use different versions and fly smooth and close. And we don't need to use invisible MDLs. We just select what AI planes broadcast from JoinFS. It is simple and safe.

[RCFlyer]

Marte:

Ok. How do you actually use both? Do you establish a connection using and IP address via JoinFS and then another one using Vpilot? If so, how do establish the connection using Vpilot (IP, server name?)? When I use Vpilot to connect to VATSIM/BVA I use the USA West Server selection. If you use two connections, don't you get two sets of multiplayer aircraft location data?

Thanks

Danny

[marte21]

Quite simple. Just connect to JoinFS using the IP of your server/friend ( or just create your own and act as server yourself, with your mates connecting to your IP)

Then connect to vPilot in an standard way ( we use France server for instance, we live in Spain, and it is the closest server). If your buddies are also connected to VATSIM, you will need to go to JoinFS, select view/aircraft and unselect broadcast in the planes generated by VATSIM of your friends to avoid duplication ( and lagged airplanes specially with vPilot).

Same for the weather. If you are hosting a weather program ( Active Sky, Opus, etc) your mates don't need to have it running. Just tell them to go to JoinFS, view, aircraft, and check YOUR weather tag.

JoinFS is an excellent program, you will enjoy it

Diego
http://www.edavirtual.org

[RCFlyer]

Interesting. So, if some of the flyers are connected to JoinFS only, some are connected to Vatsim only, and, some are connected to both, this method will combine the planes from both server connections for a composite multiplayer display? If so, that is cool.

Danny

[marte21]

You are right

Diego
http://www.edavirtual.org

[Peter]

Good idea about unticking the broadcast box to avoid duplication. However, for formation flying the vPilot aircraft updates will be much less accurate than JoinFS. At some point, soon I hope, I'll look into hiding the vPilot aircraft instead so that you get to fly on VATSIM and have the smooth low latency updates.

Peter

[marte21]

Yes Peter, we untick the broadcast for the vPilot duplicated. Delay in vPilot planes is horrible. So we fly in close using JoinFs but we mantain airliners from VATSIM ( and usually unrelated to our military missions)

Great job!!!!

[RCFlyer]

Peter:

When you say "hide the Vpilot aircraft" are you meaning the multiplayer aircraft being broadcast by being connected to Vatsim? Wouldn't that prohibit us from seeing participants who are flying with us, but, using Vatsim as their server?

By the way, I forgot to let you know that during our flight last night the process to display the "Nickname" didn't work during our P3D flight.

Danny

[Peter]

Hi Danny,

The way I envisage it working is that I would only hide VATSIM aircraft if they match the JoinFS aircraft by callsign and model. So basically it will only hide the duplicates. Any other aircraft flying with you solely on VATSIM will not be affected.

Re: Nickname. That's a shame, it works on FSX. Did you definitely tick the 'Show Nicknames instead of callsign' option in Settings? I know others have missed this option.

Peter

[RCFlyer]

Thanks for the clarification. Yes, I did indeed ensure the "show nickname instead of callsigns" selection was checked. I even left the sim, came back in, and, it still didn't work.

Small thing overall. All three of us were flying P3D and it didn't display for any of us. The display showed the callsign assigned to the aircraft.

Danny

[Tisor]

And maybe Peter, can we find a workaround on deleting the active MTL (model aircraft) for the pilots flying in the server?

Let me elaborate that:

On IVAO, every aircraft get in the registration field (if i'm not wrong) the callsign they are using to connect. For example, in my case, ALD1222.

If I set this also as my username in JoinFS, would you be able to replace the MTL model with an invisible one or maybe just remove it so we don't see duplicated aircrafts? (The one seen on JoinFS and the one in IVAO, which will be like 0.2nm behind due to lags)

[Peter]

Do you mean that in IVAO the callsign of the aircraft is not necessarily the callsign of the model aircraft? In that case, I see, as you suggest I could also check the nickname for a match as well. Good idea.

Peter

[Tisor]

Do you mean that in IVAO the callsign of the aircraft is not necessarily the callsign of the model aircraft? In that case, I see, as you suggest I could also check the nickname for a match as well. Good idea.

Peter

Not talking about the aircraft model, but on the callsign. I can be flying a formation with an F18 from my team but behind we have another F18 team, which are not connected to JoinFS.

Then, I need to remove my team aircrafts, not all the F18s in the session. That's has to be made using the callsign of the aircraft.

On IVAO, our F18 title line is something like F18 AME. The line for our superbug is different, so this cannot work.

IVAO inject the AI Traffic (as you do) setting the registration as the callsign you have connected with to the network. If you can make that matching the callsign on JoinFS to the AI Traffic registration removes that plane, then that would work perfectly.

Hope you get it now. If not I'll try to elaborate a little more.