FCS Generator

Updated version of the sight generation tool by Assin127. Cleanup in progress, but should be mostly functional. Currently depends on the (manually updated) included data files or a provided datamine source, but extraction from local install will be integrated later.

Download

• Requires .NET 10 runtime: Download here.
• Get the latest Windows build from Releases.
• Download the newest ZIP, extract it anywhere, and run FCS.exe.

Quick start

Important

The game UserSights folder has been relocated as of the 2.53 Line of Contact update. According to the changelog, custom sights should now be placed in:

• Windows: Documents\My Games\War Thunder\saves\{user id}\production\UserSights
• Linux: $HOME/.config/WarThunder/Saves/{user id}/production/UserSights
• macOS: Users/{user name}/My Games/War Thunder/saves/{user id}/production/UserSights

1. Run FCS.exe.
2. Select language, sight type, and any options you want. The default paths are fine—no changes required.
3. Click the "Make Sights" button.
4. Copy the output files from the UserSights folder next to FCS.exe into the War Thunder UserSights folder.
   • Optional: you can set the output path in FCS settings directly to the game’s UserSights folder to skip the copy step.

Note

Make sure you select sight type and language before pressing "Make Sights" or it will sit on NaN% forever (lol). The other two buttons ("Convert Datamine" and "Make Ballistic") are only needed if you want to update the data files from your local War Thunder install or another datamine source (see below). If you just want to generate sights using the included data files, you can ignore them.

Advanced: update data files from your local install

The included data files are manually updated and may be out of date. Data extraction will be moved into the actual tool soon, but in the meantime you can use the provided PowerShell script Update-Datamine.ps1 along with the wt_ext_cli tool to extract the latest data files from your install.

1. Download the wt_ext_cli binary from Warthunder-Open-Source-Foundation/wt_ext_cli/releases (needed to extract the .vromfs.bin files) and place it on your PATH or next to Update-Datamine.ps1
2. Run the Update-Datamine.ps1 script - it will attempt to auto-detect your War Thunder install path, but will ask if it fails. You can also specify the install path manually by running it with -InstallPath "C:\Path\To\WarThunder"
3. Launch FCS.exe and click "Convert Datamine" → "Make Ballistic"
4. Proceed as normal with "Make Sights"

You can also downloaded the pre-extracted datamine files from gszabi99/War-Thunder-Datamine (which also uses wt_ext_cli for extraction) and point the Datamine path to that folder in FCS.exe

Note

ignore.txt filters out event/non-playable vehicles to avoid increasing load times with unusable sight files. If downloaded from the above repo you may want to remove the files listed in ignore.txt from aces.vromfs.bin_u/gamedata/units/tankmodels yourself, or just ignore them if you don't care about the extra sight generation/load time.

If something breaks (there are many things that can break at the moment), you can yell at the professional customer support team (me) in the Discord and I can probably fix it.

Original README below - to be updated; instructions may be outdated (it should just werk with the default paths now) but still some useful information

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*** FCS MANAGER VERSION 1.6.231215 ***
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***************** EN *****************

* How to change the language, color or other settings?
  1) Run the program
  2) If the program is in the same directory as the folders "Localisation", "Ballistic", "Data",
  then go to the next step. Otherwise, specify the path to each directory.
  1) In the "UserSights" specify the folder UserSights from the directory of the game, in this case, all the sights will be loaded there.
  2) In the "Language" list select language.
  3) In the "Sight type" list, select sight.
  4) In the window below, select the sight subtypes.
  5) In the list below, select the playing countries.
  6) If necessary, you can change some settings in "Advanced Settings".
  7) Click the "Make sight" button.

 * Additional settings:
  - "Sensitivity" is determined by the "Mouse Wheel Multiplier" of the game. By default 50%.
  If you change this setting, you must recalculate the ballistics! To do this, press the "Make ballistic" button.
  The ballistics of all projectiles are counted up to 4 km (in some cases less).

  Made by: assin127 (Discord)

***************** RU *****************

 * Как сменить язык, цвет и другие настройки?
  1) Запустить программу
  2) Если программа находится в той же директории, что и папки Localisation, Ballistic, Data,
  то переходим к следующему пункту. В противном случае указываем путь до каждой директории.
  3) В графе UserSights указываем папку UserSights из директории игры, в этом случае все прицелы сразу загрузятся туда.
  4) В списке Language выбираем язык.
  5) В списке Sight type указываем прицел.
  6) В окне ниже выбираем подтипы прицела.
  7) В списке ниже указываем игровые страны.
  8) При необходимости можно изменить некоторые настройки в Advanced Settings.
  9) Нажать кнопку "Make sight".

 * Дополнительные настройки:
  - Sensitivity определяется "Множителем колеса мыши" игры. По умолчанию 50%.
  При изменении этого параметра необходимо пересчитать баллистику! Для этого требуется нажать кнопку Make ballistic.
  Баллистика всех снарядов считается до 4 км (в некоторых случаях меньше).

  Разработчик: assin127 (Discord)