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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: moto61 on December 01, 2004, 03:01:19 PM

Title: Hard time gettine a visible tag
Post by: moto61 on December 01, 2004, 03:01:19 PM

I would like to ask that HiTech do something with the icons. It is are  hard to find a color that is visible. The maps with the light colored water, the whites, yellows, light greens are useless and when you set it to a dark color you can not see the icon once you get over land masses.

Surely I'm not the only one with this problem.

Could you either put the tags in a window similar to the text buffer that we can adjust the transparancy or come up with a better mix of colors for tags or even a standard (color depth...brightness, whatever its called. for maps you use.

Also how about perking us a few points when we have to go thru an HTC induced reset for patch problems etc. I frequently lose a few kill points because I can't get landed fast enough. I lost whatever points I would have gotten from a 190 vz. 110.  As HTC reset I was over the runway.

Title: Hard time gettine a visible tag
Post by: wrag on December 02, 2004, 06:34:41 AM

Hmmm...

Not sure about your reference?

What I have noticed, with the 109's in particular, is the antiglare plate infront of the actual sight.

That antiglare plate makes seeing the enemy aircraft very difficult or even next to impossible when looking downward, over certain terrains, on certain maps at certain times of the AH day.

Only way I KNOW a plane is there is I followed it down and sometimes I still see the icon.

I have requested that the anitglare plate be made movable, perhaps by using a new key control.

Title: Not the planes themselves the tags
Post by: moto61 on December 02, 2004, 07:13:43 AM

No Im not talking about the planes themselves. I have difficulty finding a color for the friendlies that is visible over land or water without having to comstantly tweak it. The red for enemy gives me the least amount of trouble, but some maps it is very difficult to read the maps icons for either side. There needs to be more contrast or a banner background for the tags is what Im suggesting. I would rather see better contrast than a banner background.

Also what is the rationale behind the clipboard picking up the sunlight and making the map unreadable? Why cant the clipboard be opaque?

Of these two irritants I would rather have a better system for map tags and plane icons.

Title: Hard time gettine a visible tag
Post by: Ghosth on December 02, 2004, 08:00:56 AM

I had a similar problem back when AH2 first came out.

I eventually found that when I finally got the drivers & everything set right that the icon colors were right on. It was MY system screwing up.

Title: Hard time gettine a visible tag
Post by: wrag on December 02, 2004, 03:30:18 PM

I changed only the squad color to different.

Set it white.