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Help displaying weapon, radar distance, etc on screen

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Hi all, 

 

When playing Wings Over Europe whenever I select weapon, change radar setting, gear etc it all shows up in a small box at the bottom. It tells me what weapon is selected and radar distance, i'm sure you know what i'm talking about. But when I play Strike Fighters 2 this box does not appear. Did anyone else have this problem? I have deselected then selected subtitles as its the only setting that was different from WoE.

 

*edit: I wanted to also add that time compression does show up in the box as well as pause and unpause.

 

Thanks 

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This is controlled by the MESSAGESYSTEM config file in the FLIGHT folder.

Mine looks like this


TextFontName=Arial
TextSize=15

[MessageSystem]
MaxMessages=1
MessageTime=2.0
MessageFadeTime=3.0

;MaxMessages=25
;MessageTime=200
;MessageFadeTime=2.5

[MessageWindow]
BackgroundImage=TextBackground.tga
TopLeftPosition=0.01,0.845
BottomRightPosition=0.210,0.865
VerticalBorder=0.0015
HorizontalBorder=0.008

;TopLeftPosition=0.2,0.2
;BottomRightPosition=0.8,0.985
;VerticalBorder=0.0015
;HorizontalBorder=0.008

 

Best to use extractor file to get it to show up. If your WOE version is working, copy it across to your WOV flight folder

MESSAGESYSTEM.INI

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