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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: What evar on February 22, 2005, 07:19:20 pm
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It took me a few days, but now I've finally installed FS2 and FS2 Open. I was about to finally play it for real, but then I noticed that the blips that used to be on my radar before I installed FS2 Open aren't there anymore!
I tried to check every FAQ I could find, but I didn't find any solution to this problem. Do any of you know what I might have done wrong?
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Hmm, the second poster in as many days on the subject of dissapearing radar blips. I still get all of them, so it's something that isn't being checked or some obscure feature being turned on by an over-eager setup. What command line arguments are you using?
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I got this problem once, too. It turned out that the radar range was set to minimum level by some weird mistake, so therefor there was nothing in range for the radar to see. See if there is an infinity symbol in the corner of your radar, and not something like 1k.
If that doesnt work, you need to check the bleeps, the sweeps, and the creeps.
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Try switching between normal radar and 3D radar.
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Mkae sure you uncheck -radarreduce or somthing like that in the gameplay section of flags in the launcher.
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yea, remove -radar reduce or add a number like 10000 after it.
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Yes, I did notice that infinity symbol. And now that I'm looking at that flag section I can see that -radar_reduce is turned on. I hadn't noticed that there were several tabs for command lines. Thanks a lot!
Now, I'm just wondering; why is this turned on by default?
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It's not. My guess is that you (and a lot of people new at this) selected "all features on" when they first ran the launcher. That option should really be changed though, since most people want the graphical goodies without the gameplay-altering stuff.
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Yeah, I did do that.
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Originally posted by StratComm
It's not. My guess is that you (and a lot of people new at this) selected "all features on" when they first ran the launcher. That option should really be changed though, since most people want the graphical goodies without the gameplay-altering stuff.
What would be good there would a a file that contains a default setup so that newbs aren't confused, and it would especially good for various total conversions since they may depend gameplay altering command flags and if someone who doesn't know about that and doesn't set in in the lauchner thinks the game is broken then or something.
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a good readme is another solution
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yeah...but you know, people and reading...:rolleyes:
I bet you'd get some complaints anyway because there are always people too stupid to check the readme.
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No there's the drop-down presets menu in the launcher... it needs a high-end recommended features option and a warning next to "all on." I have about as high-end a rig as you can get right now, but I only use about 30% of the available flags as the others are either useless or alter gameplay in a way I either don't like or don't want. If they want to turn them on later that's fine, but having the all on preset turn on crap like -nopeirce and -radarreduce is a burden on support.
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Since it's kind of on topic here, why did the original FS1/FS2 have the "feature" of reducing your radar's range? There's absolutely no need to have it on anything other than infinite; anything less just hinders you. Even worse, the default setting is 2000 meters; I know it took me a long time to figure out how to change it.
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Well I know in the last few missions in FS2 I kept seeing a huge cluster of hostiles on my Radar, I'd turn around expecting to see 500 Seraphims coming to attack the Colossus/Bastion/convoy/3rd Fleet HQ and then I would see something much more frightening, but thankfully it was about 20000KM away.
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Manners, guys! Welcome to HLP, What evar. :)
:welcome:
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Originally posted by Scuddie
If that doesnt work, you need to check the bleeps, the sweeps, and the creeps.
Only one man would dare give me the raspberry!
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Try cleaning the jam off your keyboard.
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Originally posted by Eishtmo
Only one man would dare give me the raspberry!
LONE STARR!!
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You mean Lonestar (http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=46)! :p
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Now, I don't know about other people, but I usually do whatever I can before registering an account on a forum I'm not sure if I'm going to keep posting in.
A good readme (The one included pretty much just said "Go to the online Wiki") would be really great.
Also, one thing I thought was a little lacking was the documentation on those command lines. I had no idea what most of them did, and without any complete documentation, I just decided to turn all high memory usage features on, and I'm not sure if that was such a good idea. <.<