DCS CMS Editor by Bailey

Hello there! While waiting to EDs implementation of a native DCS DTC, I have made a Countermeasures System Editor. No, this isn't just an Ovgme .lua file you have to handle. It's a program that will let you edit the CMDS profile with ease. A picture is worth a thousand flares, er, words.

Click Here to Download from DCS UserFiles

Click Here for the Google Docs Download

All you do is open the program, select the DCS.exe, select an aircraft, play with some buttons, export, and have fun! It will even save a backup of your exported CMDS .lua just incase DCS decides to update and reset it. Remember, at this moment in time, this program is designed for the DCS F18C, F16C, A10C, A10C2, AV8B, and M2000 only only. Interest and demand will determine if other aircraft will be added.

If you give this a try, please read the READMEE. It is hard to miss. Also, I appreciate all feedback. Comments, corrections, suggestions, and even a "thanks" are all welcome. Enjoy!

Thank you to all the folks at the Hoggit Discord for doing some of the testing, general banter, and program naming suggestions ("EDCHITA" was a close second place. You know who you are :megalol:). Also, thank you to Arctic Fox for the program suggestion.

Take a look at the code here: https://github.com/asherao/DCS-CMS-Editor

If you are feeling charitable, please feel free to donate here: https://www.paypal.me/asherao

100% of all donations go to modules to make even more free mods for the community! (For example, the up and coming Kiowa and EuroFighter!...) Join us in the Discord Server! https://discord.gg/PbYgC5e

~Bailey

02OCT2020

Version Notes:

The Viper need this

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Hello there! While waiting to EDs implementation of a native DCS DTC for the F-18C, I have made a Countermeasures System Editor. No, this isn't just an Ovgme .lua file you have to handle. It's a program that will let you edit the CMDS profile with ease. A picture is worth a thousand flares, er, words.

 

 

 

Click Here for the Google Docs Download

 

 

 

 

All you do is open the program, select the .lua, play with some sliders, export, and then have fun! It will even save a backup of your exported CMDS .lua just incase DCS decides to update and reset it. Remember, at this moment in time, this program is designed for the DCS F-18C only. Interest and demand will determine if other aircraft will be added.

 

 

 

If you give this a try, please read the READMEE. It is hard to miss. Also, I appreciate all feedback. Comments, corrections, suggestions, and even a "thanks" are all welcome. Enjoy!

 

 

 

Thank you to all the folks at the Hoggit Discord for doing some of the testing, general banter, and program naming suggestions ("EDCHITA" was a close second place. You know who you are :megalol:). Also, thank you to Arctic Fox for the program suggestion.

 

 

 

If you are feeling charitable, please feel free to donate here: https://www.paypal.me/asherao

 

100% of all donations go to modules to make even more free mods for the community! (For example, the up and coming Kiowa and EuroFighter!...) Join us in the Discord Server! https://discord.gg/PbYgC5e

 

 

 

~Bailey

 

 

 

READMEE

 

 

 

Pro Tip: You can load, edit, and save F-18C CMDS profiles while DCS is running, between F-18C missions.

Great software. Thanks for sharing. This is really needed

Looks excellent Bailey

Can I suggest though that the number of chaff and flares use a numeric box like the ones used for interval and repeat. Currently you can only select 2 flares or chaff and I like to release a lot more in one go

Looks excellent Bailey

 

Can I suggest though that the number of chaff and flares use a numeric box like the ones used for interval and repeat. Currently you can only select 2 flares or chaff and I like to release a lot more in one go

Thank you.

If you (or anyone) provides the testing that "a lot more" actually works, I'd be glad to increase the limit. I made it a slider because it seems that ED says the limit is two. Which means that if the user wants more it is either (1) inaccurate or (2) unsupported. But, I'd be fine to expand that limit with some evidence that it won't break DCS.

Great software. Thanks for sharing. This is really needed

Glad to share. I hope it helps out many people. Spread the word!

The Viper need this

 

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Agreed. It's a balance between community desire, and the free time I have available. The most people that use the utility for the F18 and ask for the F16, the more likely it will be that a F16 version is made.

Hey this is great, Thanks for building

Thank you.

 

If you (or anyone) provides the testing that "a lot more" actually works, I'd be glad to increase the limit. I made it a slider because it seems that ED says the limit is two. Which means that if the user wants more it is either (1) inaccurate or (2) unsupported. But, I'd be fine to expand that limit with some evidence that it won't break DCS.

I'm only getting into CMS at the moment Bailey and a big fave of my mine on YouTube is Growling Sidewinder.

The first 2 are how to employ effective countermeasures in there he talks about release of up 8, I suppose you could set them as 2 with a very short repeat of 4

This last one refers to setting up the CMS programs, where you can set it up to 100 for Chaff and Flares dumping everything in one go should you desire.

TBH though they are quite old so perhaps things have changed, as I'm just a noob at all this I don't really know.

I'm just basing it on setting up the Horent's CMS programs myself last night when trying out a mission and it worked like in Growling Sidewinder's videos

I have not yet had the opportunity to watch the videos, but if I were to guess, the limit is 0/1/2 because you can deploy one single countermeasure maximum at a single instant per CMDS bucket. Which there happens to be two buckets. Interval represents the time between each Cycle. A cycle is the number of times the sliders (flare/chaff) happens. So, for example, if you used the IR Sam profile in the image, it would deploy 2 flares at once, wait 0.2 seconds, deploy 2 flares again, wait 0.2 seconds, deploy 2 flares again, wait 0.2 seconds, deploy 2 flares again, wait 0.2 seconds, deploy 2 flares again, wait 0.2 seconds, program complete (0.2 interval, 5 cycle).

First post updated with the ED UserFiles download link. https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3311389/

Enjoy!

You made my day

Great software ! Great work ! Thank a lot... this is really a must have. :thumbup:

Great software ! Great work ! Thank a lot... this is really a must have. :thumbup:

Thank you for the compliments!

Do you have any plans of doing this for the F-16? This looks neat!

Do you have any plans of doing this for the F-16? This looks neat!

Yes, there are plans and those plans are currently in development. No ETA, but the more people that want to see it, the faster it will see the light of day.

The Viper need this

Looks excellent Bailey

 

Can I suggest though that the number of chaff and flares use a numeric box like the ones used for interval and repeat. Currently you can only select 2 flares or chaff and I like to release a lot more in one go

Hey this is great, Thanks for building

Do you have any plans of doing this for the F-16? This looks neat!

Input has been received, and changes have been made. Most importantly, I have added F-16C CMS support! Thanks for your support and comments! The downloads are live in the first post: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=281284

Version Notes:

v2

-Added DCS F-16C

-CMS export is enabled even if default aircraft directory is not detected

-Added option to re-create orginal DCS CMS lua

-Adjusted numerical box max, min, and adjustment values to match aircraft

-Replaced sliders with numerical boxes

-Adjusted GUI

Input has been received, and changes have been made. Most importantly, I have added F-16C CMS support! Thanks for your support and comments! The downloads are live in the first post: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=281284

 

Version Notes:

v2

-Added DCS F-16C

-CMS export is enabled even if default aircraft directory is not detected

-Added option to re-create orginal DCS CMS lua

-Adjusted numerical box max, min, and adjustment values to match aircraft

-Replaced sliders with numerical boxes

-Adjusted GUI

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Looks great! Gonna check it out! :thumbup:

Thanks! Definitely gonna be using this a lot!

@Bailey: For some reason the periods get exchanged with comma's when I use your program. Any ideas?

Cheers

Another great job by Bailey well done man. Thanks!

@Bailey: For some reason the periods get exchanged with comma's when I use your program. Any ideas?

 

Cheers

Let me guess, you are not using a USA operating system, or you are in a county other than USA?

Yes I am. Danish.

Maybe if I change the language to US?

Great program BTW.

Yes I am. Danish.

Maybe if I change the language to US?

Great program BTW.

From what I have been able to look up, it is a problem with what is called "culture". Examples include ja-JP for Japanese (Japan) and en-US for English (United States). The culture determines things line dollar signs and, as you have seen, separators for decimals. I have made an update for what I hope to be the solution. If you have the chance, please try it out. I don't have the ability to easily do so myself. Here is the link to the special version.

You should be able to change your localization to US, but lets see if we can get around that.

Another great job by Bailey well done man. Thanks!

thank you :)