prepare minor release (1.5.1)

[wrycu]

@Khopa has a lot of changes staged; getting them to a stable version where everything WIP is done may take a while. In the mean time, I'll prepare a minor bump with the following features:

• F-14B INS alignment pre-stored (Request - Moding & F14b #73)
• F-16C support (F-16 support #72)

Stretch goal:

• SEAD screen size (SEAD Screen sizing #67)
• Correct UH-1 frequency (UH-1 mission #64)
• No air defenses spawn (No air defenses spawn #36)
• View time of day before selecting aircraft (View time of day on the mission before selecting aircraft #19)

[jayrook]

How do you use this? Sorry, I really am quite clueless when it comes to this sort of thing.

[Khopa]

@jayrook
There is no release yet, but you can run from source code if you want.

So if you don't want to wait, you can clone or download the repository on master branch, and follow the dev guide : https://github.com/shdwp/dcs_liberation/wiki/Development-guide

[jayrook]

Thanks!

[wrycu]

Okay, I'll try to get the build together tomorrow. If anyone could try out the Viper before then, that'd be great (I don't own it.)

[Khopa]

I had a quick look, I get the following error when clicking proceed :

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\Software\Python37\lib\tkinter_init_.py", line 1702, in call
return self.func(*args)
File "C:\Users\Clement\Desktop\dcs_liberation-master\ui\eventmenu.py", line 226, in start
self.game.initiate_event(self.event)
File "C:\Users\Clement\Desktop\dcs_liberation-master\game\game.py", line 245, in initiate_event
event.generate()
File "C:\Users\Clement\Desktop\dcs_liberation-master\game\event\event.py", line 117, in generate
self.operation.generate()
File "C:\Users\Clement\Desktop\dcs_liberation-master\game\operation\frontlineattack.py", line 56, in generate
self.airgen.generate_cas_strikegroup(*assigned_units_split(planes_flights), at=self.attackers_starting_position)
File "C:\Users\Clement\Desktop\dcs_liberation-master\gen\aircraft.py", line 289, in generate_cas_strikegroup
at=at and at or self._group_point(self.conflict.air_attackers_location))
File "C:\Users\Clement\Desktop\dcs_liberation-master\gen\aircraft.py", line 212, in _generate_group
return self._generate_inflight(name, side, unit_type, count, client_count, at.position)
File "C:\Users\Clement\Desktop\dcs_liberation-master\gen\aircraft.py", line 173, in _generate_inflight
group_size=count)
File "D:\Software\Python37\lib\site-packages\dcs\mission.py", line 1153, in flight_group
position, altitude, speed, maintask, group_size)
File "D:\Software\Python37\lib\site-packages\dcs\mission.py", line 1004, in flight_group_inflight
p = self.aircraft(name + " Pilot #{nr}".format(nr=i), aircraft_type, country)
File "D:\Software\Python37\lib\site-packages\dcs\mission.py", line 841, in aircraft
return Plane(self.next_unit_id(), self.string(name), _type, country)
File "D:\Software\Python37\lib\site-packages\dcs\unit.py", line 218, in init
super(Plane, self).init(_id, name, _type, _country)
File "D:\Software\Python37\lib\site-packages\dcs\unit.py", line 76, in init
self.livery_id = self.unit_type.default_livery(_country.name)
File "D:\Software\Python37\lib\site-packages\dcs\unittype.py", line 163, in default_livery
liveries = cls.Liveries
AttributeError: type object 'F_16C_50' has no attribute 'Liveries'

This is because the F16C has no Liveries, which cause a bug in pydcs when trying to use the aircraft.
I imported manually one of my fix from qt_ui branch in master :

class DefaultLiveries:
    class Default(Enum):
        af_standard = ""

OH_58D.Liveries = DefaultLiveries
F_16C_50.Liveries = DefaultLiveries
P_51D_30_NA.Liveries = DefaultLiveries

I added this at the beginning of db.py which prevent the issue from occuring for the aircraft type missing liveries options, this is just injecting a blank field for liveries (and it doesn't cause issues in DCS).

[wrycu]

As I mentioned in the discord, you'll need to update pydcs (pip install -r requirements.txt --upgrade.) Can you do that and let me know if you still get errors?

[Khopa]

I don't have blocking errors after my fix.
My pydcs version is already the latest from the pydcs repo.

(Even with latest release from pydcs, there are errors with the Viper if you don't do that, because it is missing liveries options in game for now, and pydcs doesn't seem to like that)

[ShiroSpectre]

Hey wrycu, hey khopa,
Is there a problem with the 1.51 release?

[wrycu]

This is my first time, so I had to figure out how to do it. I've cut a test release and sent it to the dev team on our Discord for testing. Once they've gotten back to me with a confirmation that it doesn't crash horribly, I'll add it as a release here.

[ShiroSpectre]

It was a pain to make my first release. Thank you for the update. Good luck with testing.

If I find the time, I‘ll give the master branch a try.

[wrycu]

Made another test release and sent it. If I get the okay from the other devs, I'll make it public.

[wrycu]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RE4jZyXKEp_vExFY649skCYJYbhjNe7m Please test and let me know if you see any issues. If someone ACKs back with no issues, I'll make it an actual release.

[ShiroSpectre]

Hey @wrycu ,
google is blocking the download, quite likely because there is a bat file in it. Maybe you can upload it on github and mark it as a testrelease?

[Khopa]

I have had this issue as well, i'm not able to download this pre-release on Google Drive either.

[wrycu]

Created a new release. Please provide feedback on the Discord or via new issues.