[Flipside]

Really nice work Phreak, now all I have to do is make conversions of all the Elite ships......

[mrduckman]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
Dots tell you where **** is in relation to you, lines tell you what direction. Not that hard.

I know, but since the dots tell you the direction anyway....
Great stuff, anyway, Phreak

[TopAce]

I am curious how quickly we will learn to find our way on this radar screen.

[WMCoolmon]

When I typed out my post, I was thinking of the line width size. I too figure this should be settable as a command-line argument, with the default being the old radar.

[TopAce]

If command line parameters were able to attack, they would have already began their invasion on your software. If they were intelligent, they would know there are enough of them to invade the forums.



OK, this is the last post for today, Good Night, everyone!

[Trivial Psychic]

I'd like the radar to be able to indicate a difference between fighters, bombers, cap-ships, etc.

[mrduckman]

It should be an in-game option, I think.

And I like Trivial Psychic's suggestion.

[J3Vr6]

Flag, IMO.  I thought the regular radar was fine and easy to use.  The 3D radar looks cool, but I'm sure it would take getting used to.   At least for me

[TopAce]

Getting used to it will not be a problem, but understanding it!

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Trivial Psychic
I'd like the radar to be able to indicate a difference between fighters, bombers, cap-ships, etc.

Different shades of the relevant colour should do that. Dark green for huge friendly ships. Light green for friendly fighters etc.

[Flipside]

One thought, maybe it would be better to have the 'tails', rather than radiating out from the centre, drawn down to the same horizontal plane as the player, that way, at a glance, you can tell how far above or below you the object is? I'm assuming the current way is a'la Independence Wars, and I also know my one is more like the Elite radar, but hey, it shows my age

[TopAce]

Are you THAT old?

[Flipside]

LOL Not really, only 31, but I remember Elite well enough It was my first introduction to the breed of game that led to Freespace

[Sigma957]

Elite is a classic, still got the game for the amiga and pc

[karajorma]

I'm assuming you mean Elite 2 : Frontier (Which I have and managed to reach the rank of deadly on). .  

The original Elite is older than the Amiga is

[vyper]

Very. Nice.

Will take some getting used to though...

[Sigma957]

Originally posted by karajorma
I'm assuming you mean Elite 2 : Frontier (Which I have and managed to reach the rank of deadly on). .

The original Elite is older than the Amiga is

Got that elte2 on the amiga but have the amiga and pc version of elite aswell.

[karajorma]

Really? I never new Elite was released for either. I might go take a look for that one day

[phreak]

its been finished.  in future builds posted after August 2nd, use the -orbradar command line flag to activate.

any ships/bombs that are within weapons range will be drawn pointing inward, otherwise they will point outwards

[Sigma957]

Cool.