#3898270 - 01/19/14 11:20 PM
Re: A/C Sighting Distances
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#3898331 - 01/20/14 02:04 AM
Re: A/C Sighting Distances
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Lazfield, put it in Wish list. It is what it is in WOFF right now. That's your personal wish/preference so add it there.
Will do Polovski. It is my wish and it is a bit of a fact. I have 20/20 vision and I can spot a WWI sized aircraft 4 to 5 miles away (air to air). This isn't one off but a constant thing over the coarse of years and years. I have seen that most people with good vision can do this. Now people with little flight experience may not spot these aircraft but those same people will not spot them in the sim as they wont scan as a more experienced sim pilot.
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#3899118 - 01/21/14 04:30 PM
Re: A/C Sighting Distances
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A solution, maybe not the best though, is to have dot labels activated. If you go into your Uires file in your main WOFF folder, you can set at the line with dots shadowing to "n" which is no. That means that ingame you won't have the black/yellow dot anymore but just a greyish one which pretty much is looking like distant specks. Since it is just a label and not a real speck you can't really estimate the distance, so you might have your TAC activated, set to aircraft, and set to 4 km. So when you see a speck in the distance, and it's still outside TAC 4km, then you know it is too far to stalk or something. When you also see the AC in your Radar, then you'll know that it's close enough and maybe worth checking. As I said, maybe not the best solution but it should work. I missed this the first time. Creaghorn, I went into the Uires file but I see nothing that talks about "dots shadowing". Could you please elaborate about where this file is and what to do? I am very interested in making the "dots" just grey instead of black as this would cure my spotting problems. EDIT: Found it. It is not under Uires but it is in the main folder s "ui". I changed it and now I will test it.
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#3899153 - 01/21/14 05:49 PM
Re: A/C Sighting Distances
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How do you guys get to see anything at these distances with labels or am I misunderstanding what's going on?? This is what I have. Airfield not visible at greater than 4.2NM Airfield visible less than 4.2NM Aircraft not identified at more than 1.5NM, and a dot with no labels beyond that distance Aircraft identified at less than 1600yds
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#3899168 - 01/21/14 06:04 PM
Re: A/C Sighting Distances
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A solution, maybe not the best though, is to have dot labels activated. If you go into your Uires file in your main WOFF folder, you can set at the line with dots shadowing to "n" which is no. That means that ingame you won't have the black/yellow dot anymore but just a greyish one which pretty much is looking like distant specks. Since it is just a label and not a real speck you can't really estimate the distance, so you might have your TAC activated, set to aircraft, and set to 4 km. So when you see a speck in the distance, and it's still outside TAC 4km, then you know it is too far to stalk or something. When you also see the AC in your Radar, then you'll know that it's close enough and maybe worth checking. As I said, maybe not the best solution but it should work. I missed this the first time. Creaghorn, I went into the Uires file but I see nothing that talks about "dots shadowing". Could you please elaborate about where this file is and what to do? I am very interested in making the "dots" just grey instead of black as this would cure my spotting problems. EDIT: Found it. It is not under Uires but it is in the main folder s "ui". I changed it and now I will test it. Okay I played with this setting but I still get bright black "dots" that are too easy to see. There is a line in there that sets the color of the "dot". It is currently "0xFF505050". If someone knows the code for the color grey (like the color of the clouds) we could put that in and the "dots" will appear far away but it will be very hard to spot them. So we would have "label dots" on but instead of a black dot we would have a grey dot which is harder to see so you have to really scan. Also you can see it when zoomed fully out! We need the code for the cloud color grey!
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#3899246 - 01/21/14 08:05 PM
Re: A/C Sighting Distances
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How would I make, say 200,200,200 (grey) into this "hex" that you talk about?
UPDATE: Okay I found a website that makes RGB to hex but what about the "0xFF" part in front of the color? Do I leave that as is?
Also, what about the # in front of the RGB to HEX answer?
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#3899258 - 01/21/14 08:23 PM
Re: A/C Sighting Distances
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#3899262 - 01/21/14 08:31 PM
Re: A/C Sighting Distances
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AWSOME!!!
I will start with 0xFFE1E1E1
This should make light grey dots that are hard to see!
Now I can fly around zoomed out and scan for targets.
EDIT: too light...trying b4b4b4
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#3899394 - 01/22/14 12:31 AM
Re: A/C Sighting Distances
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I think I posted that too soon. Still messing around with things. *Edit* Ya scratch that idea. Darn it.
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Exodus
by RedOneAlpha. 04/18/24 05:46 PM
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