rto-chatter / astrs

A Simple Quality of Life mod for the ARMA 3 TFAR Addon. Allows you to save your current configuration, and reload it at any point in the future until a new config is saved.

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ASTRS - A Simple TFAR Radio System is a Quality of Life mod for the ARMA 3 written by Chatter and M3ales which allows you to save/load your TFAR Radios configuration via an ACE Self Interaction.

The mod stores data locally in profileNamespace which means it stores configurations on a per profile basis. This has the added side effect of requiring you to save a new configuration for each profile you make use of, but also ensures you can have different LR configurations for different units etc.

Links

• Steam Workshop

Requirements

• ACE 3
• Task Force Radio 1.0.0 +
• CBA

astrs's Issues

Profiles

Backend already supports it due to design choices, need to work on frontend to allow for profile switching and perhaps editing/viewing in addon options (nice to have but really is a stretch goal due to complexity).

Need to make choices on:

• where it'll be in the tree
• where it'll be in the alternate layout
• shortcuts to load all parts

Change Load Both to Load All

• Rename UI
• Refactor
• Rewrite to cater to VLR

VLR Ace Interact always show up

Title

Double condition

https://github.com/RTO-Chatter/ACE-TFAR-Setter/blob/d3104114f2f925ce524df7f926ccb27a548b1784/CHTR_TFAR_Setter/CfgVehicles.hpp#L139

You should remove one "condition ="

left /right channel settings are not full preserved

When saving and loading channels with Left/right ear preferences these are not fully preserved when loaded.
both primary and alternate channel are put on the same ear.

Vehicle LR Support

Already WIP.

Allow storage and loading of Vehicle Long Ranges.

Considerations

• There is no TFAR method for setting Vehicle LR directly.
• Needs to ensure VLR is saved.
• Needs to use LR storage array and have backwards comparability to prevent a breaking API change if possible.
• Will the interaction be on the vehicle? or on the player under equipment?

Custom Vehicle LR Icons

Ability to select from predefined list of icons for VLR, maybe a tank/car/plane/helicopter.
No timeline on it, but might be nice for you to be able to pick icons.

Alternatively we could go overboard and change the icon based on which vehicle type you were in, but that may be too much.

VLR Icons

• Design
• Add to game

LR Settings Backwards Compatibility

Current Layout has LR as index 2 of the profile, needs to be copied to index 1 of index 2, to allow array storage.

Loading LR does not preserve channel

• Save a LR Profile with radio set to CH2, CH1 as Alternate.
• Move to another CH (other than 2)
• Load LR Profile
• Notice that you haven't been moved back to CH2

I believe it's Intermittent.

Version: 2.1.0-alpha.1

Update Steam workshop with latest functional github

Please update the steam workshop.
Till then we will have to run our own version.
Also please consider removing the dependency on TFAR on the workshop, this would allow the use of either TFAR version.

Enhancement: add single player check

Add a check that tests for single/multiplayer mode and aborts if in single player as TFAR does not load correctly in single player.

Add Reset option to Addon Options

Will reset to default config, basically all zero'd out, and the reset settings will have this option disabled.

Comment what everything does.

So we know what the code does when not looking for long while, GG.

Macro cleanup + Additions

Macros are pretty messy. Usage of ARR_X to prevent Quote catching , as separate arguments isn't really wide spread.

Need to get file line numbers working.