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PLUTO16
June 9th, 2014, 10:59
SIM SKUNK WORKS IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE RELEASE OF THE VERSION 1.0.0 OF vACMI (Virtual Air Combat Manuevering Installation)
Download links available on SSW web site: http://www.simskunkworks.com (http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.simskunkworks.com%2F&h=nAQGGOg9d&enc=AZNcj4nQdXkJedB0VvJ72-3ilO9tA08Kx2c8PO8uT94INQxQhGgAcxvSoIEEPySQvlApk4cB BxjbPVimk40XvhWed41zhRYTRuRDcw-WaiQL_T-X0MId_nN61WjdduDk8v6-k-g1ahqvFOheSNRTzQVY&s=1)
vACMI requires activation key as others SSW products.
WHAT IS VACMI ?
The virtual Air combat Maneuvering Installation (aka vACMI) is a tool that should help the management of joint simulated military exercises in a FSX®/P3D® multiplayer on-line environment and should enhance the exercise realism as well.
vACMI manages air-to-air, air-to-ground and ground-to-air weapons with the aim to enhance the joint exercise realism and to permit a post-exercise evaluation.
However an use of vACMI in a single player session for a personal entertainment is enhanced as well.
VACMI COMPONENTS
vACMI has a true server-client architecture, therefore it has two sides: a server side with a server and a client side with several clients eventually connected using TCP/IP protocol and serial interface with the server.
vACMI SERVER: the server side is a stand-alone executable that should be run into any lan/internet connected server, it does not require to have the FSX®/P3D® server running on same machine and must be accessible by clients. It is written in Java, to properly run vACMI-X requires to have installed the Java runtime virtual machine version 7 update 51 or later (Windows)
The server can be run on both Windows® and Linux OS.
The server has 2 operations modes:
TRAINING mode, in training mode air-to-air and ground-to-air weapons are managed but no damage will be suffered by targets.
SIMULATION mode, in simulation mode targets will suffer various damages pending on weapon type, launch parameters and randomness.
vACMI CLIENT: is a composed of a communication program called vACMI-X, a dll module, a trafic module, vACMI interface gauge-like and a null-modem emulator driver.
Additional elements are a remote control program called vACMI-Remote-Control and a web interface to visually see the attack/fighting results.
vACMI-X is a communication program that manage communication between the sim and the server, it is written in Java, to properly run vACMI-X requires to have installed the Java runtime virtual machine version 7 update 51 or later.
vACMI.dll is a dynamic linked library written in C/C++ that takes care of the weapon management, aerial and ground targets, including drop/launch results.
Trafic module takes care of other players into multiplayer session, it is written in simprop-compiled XML
vACMI interface gauge-like keep the simmer informed about vACMI status and let him to select a ground target, it is written in simprop-compiled XML
Com0Com Null-modem emulator is an open source kernel-mode virtual serial port driver for Windows, available freely under GPL license. The Null-modem emulator allows you to create an unlimited number of virtual COM port pairs and use any pair to connect one COM port based application to another.
vACMI-Remote-Control (experimental) is a remote control program written in Java that permits to observe and control the vACMI server from a remote location using a friendly interface:
It shows the multiplayer session situation, connected players, aircraft types, etc.. over dynamic geographical maps and/or satellite pictures.
It permits to observe the server and also control it, changing operation mode, ban players and more.
vACMI-Web interface, This application, written in php language, permits to watch weapons drop/launch results on google maps. VAcmi server send informations about drops/launch to a web server, result can be viewed on a web browser. This application will be available on next version.

Cheers,
S.S.W. Staff.