Since we create a target waypoint for every target in a
strike/SEAD/DEAD objective area (including every ground vehicle), the
kneeboard can quickly be overrun with target waypoints. When there are
many target waypoints, collapse them all into a single row for
brevity.
I've been wrongly importing these from `pydcs.dcs` instead of just
`dcs`, because that was what PyCharm thought they were. These will all
be broken when we get back to using a real pydcs instead of relying on
its directory being in our tree.
This page in the wiki should be updated:
https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/wiki/Developer's-Guide
Instead of recommending that `PYTHONPATH` be updated in the run
configuration, it should instead recommend that Settings -> Project:
dcs_liberation -> Project Structure be set to exclude the pydcs
directory from the dcs_liberation content root, and add the pydcs
directory as a *separate* content root.
Alternatively, we could recommend that configure a virtualenv (good
advice anyway, and pycharm knows how to set them up) that have people
run `pip install -e pydcs`.
I think even easier would be switching from the virtualenv-style
requirements.txt to pipenv, which can actually encode the `-e` style
pip install into its equivalent of requirements.txt.
I removed the nav target info from the briefing because that doesn't
seem to have been doing what it was intended to do. It didn't give any
actual target information, all it would show was (example is a JF-17
strike mission):
PP1
PP2
PP3
PP4
Without any additional context that doesn't seem too helpful to me.
I'll be following up (hopefully) shortly by adding target information
(type, coordinates, STPT/PP, etc) to both the briefing and the
kneeboard that will cover that.
Refactor a bunch to share some code with the kneeboard generator as
well.
Add central registries for allocating TACAN/radio channels to the
Operation. These ensure that each channel is allocated uniquely, and
removes the caller's need to think about which frequency to use.
The registry allocates frequencies based on the radio it is given,
which ensures that the allocated frequency will be compatible with the
radio that needs it. A mapping from aircraft to the radio used by that
aircraft for intra-flight comms (i.e. the F-16 uses the AN/ARC-222)
exists for creating infra-flight channels appropriate for the
aircraft. Inter-flight channels are allocated by a generic UHF radio.
I've moved the inter-flight radio channels from the VHF to UHF range,
since that's the most easily allocated band, and inter-flight will be
in the highest demand.
Intra-flight radios are now generally not shared. For aircraft where
the radio type is not known we will still fall back to the shared
channel, but that will stop being the case as we gain more data.
Tankers have been moved to the Y TACAN band. Not completely needed,
but seems typical for most missions and deconflicts the tankers from
any unknown airfields (which always use the X band in DCS).
This includes most of the briefing information in the kneeboard:
* Airfield info
* Waypoint info
* Comm info
* AWACS
* Tankers
* JTAC
There's more that could be done:
* Restrict tankers to the type compatible with the current aircraft
* Support for carriers
* Merge all relevant comm info (tankers, AWACS, JTAC, other flights)
into the comm ladder
This gives us a good start and a framework to build on. Very likely
that we'll want to split part of this (probably the comm ladder) off
onto a separate page once we start adding more to this, since it's a
pretty full page currently.
Also missing is any checking that the contents do not go beyond the
bounds of the page. We could add this if needed. For now the page has
enough room for about a dozen waypoints, which is quite a bit more
than most missions need.
