Radar in stable

bgaskey · Post by **bgaskey** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 3:38 pm

Okay. I thought i knew, but i have no idea. What do the 2 little green radar things at the bottom do and how do you use them. I have tried to figure out just by watching them, but they are baffling.

mortaneous · Post by **mortaneous** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:05 pm

The circle on the left is your forward radar, the one on the right is your aft radar.

Dots are all objects. Ships, planets, missiles, space stations...all have a dot. If you have a radar that support friend/foe, friends will be green, foes will be orange to red, and foes actively targeting you will be light blue. Neutral points like planets and jumps should be white or yellow (I believe)

It's actually more of a direction tracker. There's no distance indication, so a ship flying on your wing at less than 1000m looks the same as a ship 200km away in radar. You can only rely on the radar to give you angles to targets.

Dots will remain at the outer rim of one radar display when they move into the field of the other, e.g. when you pass a ship, it's dot will slide to the outside edge of your forward radar, then on the rear radar, you will see its dot move away from the edge.

Miramor · Post by **Miramor** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:09 pm

Regarding the distance thing, there's supposed to be an Elite-style radar option that makes it show distance, but in 0.4.3 that's broken. Hopefully it will work in SVN.

bgaskey · Post by **bgaskey** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 11:25 pm

Thanks guys. That was totally different from what i had thought.

Post by **loki1950** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 11:36 pm

Miramor wrote:

Regarding the distance thing, there's supposed to be an Elite-style radar option that makes it show distance, but in 0.4.3 that's broken. Hopefully it will work in SVN.

Not broken there is no hud art for it ATM

Enjoy the Choice