[phreak]

will be very low key indeed.



its working fairly well, but tweaking is needed.

comments, questions, an orb model, or radar gauge graphics would be appreciated

[Setekh]

3D radar! Sweet. Congrats on the 4k.

[Kazan]

i always hated that radar mode in Privateer 2

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I didn't even notice that i passed 5K until now - i probably did it posting one of the multiupdates

[mrduckman]

Uh.. I quite don't understand that radar.

[Knight Templar]

Dots tell you where **** is in relation to you, lines tell you what direction. Not that hard.

[Black Wolf]

Could you thicken up those lines? They look too thin on the FS2 hud. Otherwise, cool

[Sigma957]

That looks cool and congrats on 4K.

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

Really cool indeed. I always liked the orb radar in I-war 2

[Nico]

Originally posted by Black Wolf
Could you thicken up those lines? They look too thin on the FS2 hud. Otherwise, cool

Heh? It's already quite a mess as it is :/
Never liked orbes, they're confusing and that's it.

[Fineus]

They're not that hard to work out, I like it. But keep in mind that thickening the lines up will make it harder to tell what is where - when there's lots in mission at least.

[WMCoolmon]

I'm sure they'll look much better with antialiasing.

If you want, this could be settable via a hud_gauges.tbl variable.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
They're not that hard to work out, I like it. But keep in mind that thickening the lines up will make it harder to tell what is where - when there's lots in mission at least.

No, but they're nowhere as easy to use as the current one either.

[Liberator]

I think that if you drop the directional indicators so that it looks like a 3-D representation of what we're used to it will look better.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by WMCoolmon
If you want, this could be settable via a hud_gauges.tbl variable.

Set it via a flag. Choice of radars is definately something that should be under the player's control.

[KARMA]

yeah, it seem a bit confusing but it show potentials
what I'd do:

the lines shouldn't go from the dots to the external, but the opposite, from the dots to the center.
Those lines shouldn't be complete, or it'd turn in a mess, I think that only a portion of the lines should be used, and you could use the lenght of the lines as an indicator of distance. A better distance indicator would be the luminosity of the dots, tho
Or, you could render only the horizontal plane (the same H plane of the pilot's ship) and use the lines to show the height of the dots from that plane

[Fineus]

Originally posted by Nico
No, but they're nowhere as easy to use as the current one either.

Not for you, maybe

[kasperl]

Kara: a "force old radar" flag should be implemented, and a "force new radar" too, but I think that the HUD table ought to do thos normally. It'd just be another step into difference between ships. So that if you change units, you really do have trouble settling in.

[HotSnoJ]

Great job PhReAk!

But I must ask, what is wrong with the old radar? I personally didn't have trouble with it.

And I'd say to go with KARMA's idea about a plane and lines to indicate height. It worked for Battlezone 1 & 2.

[TopAce]

I like it. I want to see it working in-game!

[castor]

Maybe have the brightness of those lines toned down a bit, so the "dots" would be easier to see.
Could be clearer to only draw them for hostile ships.