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Offline Black Wolf

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99% Sure this is impossible - custome highlight brackets
Just want to make sure this isn't an existing feature before I bother the SCP people with it - I want to be able to highlight specific turrets and subsystems on the HUD using target brackets, the way that collision-path asteroids are highlighted in active fields. I don't recall any sexps to do this, but I don't have access to FRED to check it right at the moment. Preferably, I'd also like to be able to define the colour of the brackets - has anyone heard of a way to do this, or does it need to be coded in? Can the hotkeys system be assigned to subsystems?
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Offline Snail

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Re: 99% Sure this is impossible - custome highlight brackets
I imagine it's possible with scripting.

 

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Re: 99% Sure this is impossible - custome highlight brackets
Hrm. Judging by the capship command mission in BP2 you can definitely draw brackets of any color you like around ships and bombs...but subsystems I don't know.

 

Offline m!m

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Re: 99% Sure this is impossible - custome highlight brackets
It's definitely possible via scripting and I've already done this but it isn't possible to draw the targeting brackets hud-like because scripting doesn't have any information about the subsystem size.

  

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Re: 99% Sure this is impossible - custome highlight brackets
m!m, just a suggestion here... can you send the tactical script to Black Wolf? Even if it doesn't draw brackets around subsystems, he will probably like it and help us out with debugging. :)
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