showing label as a dot mod

[Flanker562]

14 minutes ago, daddyairplanes said:

not necessarily a no. just not a yes

 

Even though I'm not the one being addressed, I'm still wondering how to respond to that, kinda like "WTF?"

[daddyairplanes]

2 hours ago, EricJ said:

 I'm still wondering how to respond to that, kinda like "WTF?"

Stratos guessed it was a no after zero response in 24 hours

i merely pointed out that the lack of a response didnt indicate a fully negative response

but expressed it in a shorter, funnier way

[Flanker562]

1 hour ago, daddyairplanes said:

Stratos guessed it was a no after zero response in 24 hours

i merely pointed out that the lack of a response didnt indicate a fully negative response

but expressed it in a shorter, funnier way

Yeah but still WTF, to me anyway.

[Stratos]

No problem, I got the pun intended by daddyairplanes, no harm done, and it seems the SAMS cannot get a proper label. Thanks for the help!

[JamesWilson]

On 6/1/2015 at 11:42 PM, mue said:

As most of you know spotting other aircraft in SF2 is quite difficult.
I think most are using the red targeting box to engage enemy aircraft. But only the currently targeted aircraft is marked with the red box and not the other aircrafts.
Another option would be to turn labels on (HUD Display option set to "Easy"). Unfortunately the label text is too verbose and is also shown at too long distances. Some people already had the idea to change the label text into a single dot but AFAIK nobody has accomplished it yet...until now...

I proudly present the "dot label mod": https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/68w83oukz09mgbk792iob/dot_label_mod.zip?rlkey=ptuujbbftxbjd8imaemcoy14q&st=tzlvpgfv&dl=0

With this mod labels are shown as a dot and only within a distance of 10 nm. This mod uses a modified text drawing shader that hides all characters and digits of the label text and only draws the "dot" character. Unfortunately there is a negative side effect: the text in the target info box is also "filtered" by this shader and therefore not correctly displayed. So I disabled the target info box. Furthermore to get rid of the way point label text (which shows up if the HUD Display option is set to "Easy") the shader also completely hides all text that is drawn with NormalColor. This means that also the text in the top info box and in the bottom left info box is hidden. But the afterburner message is still shown.

To install this mod just put the contents of the zip file (huddata.ini and twfont.fx) into your Flight folder and set the HUD Display option to "Easy".
The enemies are shown with red dots, and friendlies are shown with blue dots. But you can change the colors to your liking by changing the values of EnemyTargetColor and/or FriendlyTargetColor in the huddata.ini AND setting exactly the same values (without the alpha compononent) in the twfont.fx files:

 

e.g:
if you set in huddata.ini

EnemyTargetColor=0.1,0.2,0.3,0.4

you must set in twfont.fx

float3 EnemyTargetColor = float3(0.1,0.2,0.3);

I've just tried but nothing changed it seems. I still see planes withing extremely short range, no dots that mark them for spotting and dogfighting, still red and blue boxes and only on selected target, not all. Only things that changed are i don't see any label or info box anymore, some fonts are smaller, i only see altitude when low, that's it.

I copied and pasted the files into the Flight directory, having to overwrite HUDDATA.INI, there was no TWFONT.FX to overwrite.

I thought this was a mod that made you have little red dots for every enemy and blue ones for every friendly within 10nm, and then you can turn the red dots into black dots, just like in DCS you can choose to have little dots on enemies to keep track of them.

Apparently almost nothing changed. Let me know if i'm missing something or if got what the mod does wrong.

[mue]

Have you set the HUD Display option to Easy?

[JamesWilson]

5 hours ago, mue said:

Have you set the HUD Display option to Easy?

I hadn't done it and now it works! There are 3 questions/problems tho:

first one: why do i keep seeing red and black boxes?

second one: is it normal that dots are this much tiny? is it realistic? or should they be more visible?

third one: are dots red or black? cause i can't see the color unless zommed in. Since i think they're red, would dots be more visible by turning them to black? would it be realistic?

I've uploaded a pic showing the two dots, one of them gets selected automatically with a red dot. I've highlited the whole with a red rectangle i've drawn.

 

[JamesWilson]

45 minutes ago, JamesWilson said:

I hadn't done it and now it works! There are 3 questions/problems tho:

first one: why do i keep seeing red and black boxes?

second one: is it normal that dots are this much tiny? is it realistic? or should they be more visible?

third one: are dots red or black? cause i can't see the color unless zommed in. Since i think they're red, would dots be more visible by turning them to black? would it be realistic?

I've uploaded a pic showing the two dots, one of them gets selected automatically with a red dot. I've highlited the whole with a red rectangle i've drawn.

 

*CORRECTION* (it wont let me edit)

I hadn't done it and now it works! There are 3 questions/problems tho:

first one: why do i keep seeing red and blue boxes?

second one: is it normal that dots are this much tiny? is it realistic? or should they be more visible?

third one: Since i think boxes are red, would dots be possible to turn dots black? i've tried in HUDDATA and it is because there are 4 parameters, but not sure for TWFONT cause there are only 3 parameters. In order to set black in HUDDATA it is 0.0,0.0,0.0,1.0 -but for TWFONT it's only 0.0,0.0,0.0 -no 4th digit, how can i copy it since there is no way to set black? EDIT: i've tried HUDDATA 0.0,0.0,0.0,1.0 and TWFONT 0.0,0.0,0.0, and seems like i have black dots now

For the red squares i've set BoxSize to 0 so it doesn't show, but i still get "*insert plane name* targeted" showing up and when i turn i see the red cone on the edge of my screen.

I've uploaded a pic showing the two dots, one of them gets selected automatically with a red dot. I've highlited the whole with a red rectangle i've drawn.

The screenshot is before i tried to change dots color and reducing BoxSize to 0

Edited October 12 by JamesWilson