Author Topic: Film player feature requests =) (Read 293 times)

Graywolf · « **on:** April 18, 2001, 10:01:00 AM »

I've been using the F5 view to look back at some of my old films and it's been a lot of help in getting a handle on what was happening.

As a result I've come up with a couple of feature requests =)

Firstly I'd like to be able to lenghten the trails left by planes in order to make things clearer. Maybe by use of a slider or a couple of hotkeys?

Also It would be very nice to have the trails for different planes in different colours. At them moment complex multi-plane engagements can get very confusing with just the one trail colour.

A big part of my job is providing network stats so I know all about how hard chosing X unique and easily identifiable colours is in practice =)(HP's OpebView utility 'xnmgraph' has a very good default selection though, IMO). Even if there were only, say, four different colours for the trails I think it would makes things a lot easier to follow.

I think the film viewer is an excellent component in the Aces High package as it is, so I'm not going to lose any sleep if these suggestions aren't accepted. I think they'd be nice to have though =)

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Ripsnort · « **Reply #1 on:** April 18, 2001, 10:14:00 AM »

Excellent suggestion(s), can you cross post this as an enhancement in the BUG forum?

SFRT - Frenchy · « **Reply #2 on:** April 18, 2001, 04:17:00 PM »

I thought you could lenghten the trails already. (I recall doing it, but I may be wrong).

The feature I would like is the "pursuit" view with my plane on the foreground and the eni on the background.

Graywolf · « **Reply #3 on:** April 19, 2001, 11:00:00 AM »

I'm not quite sure I understand. How would that differ from 'F3 <numpad 8>'?

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