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Title: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: mutha on February 19, 2017, 08:04:30 PM
Currently, the altimeter has a  small red marker to indicate ten-thousand feet increments. It's very hard for some color-blind folks (like me) to see.

Can this marker be changed to a brighter color, either permanently or in the settings menu?

Mutha


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Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: Vraciu on February 19, 2017, 08:23:38 PM
Currently, the altimeter has a  small red marker to indicate ten-thousand feet increments. It's very hard for some color-blind folks (like me) to see.

Can this marker be changed to a brighter color, either permanently or in the settings menu?

Mutha


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I have complained about this forever.   It's a byproduct of Post Lighting.   It fuzzes out the tick mark. 

I'd rather see it as a triangle or something that stands out a bit more...
Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: mutha on February 19, 2017, 08:25:07 PM
I can see it only if I zoom in and look down into cockpit. And I have a 32 inch monitor!

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Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: Vraciu on February 19, 2017, 08:58:36 PM
I can see it only if I zoom in and look down into cockpit. And I have a 32 inch monitor!

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Ditto.  Turn off POST LIGHTING/ANTI-ALIAS and you can see it--but then everything else looks like crud.
Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: artik on February 22, 2017, 02:17:37 PM
There is an option to show the speed and altitude in the top right corner....  Problem solved
Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: Vraciu on February 22, 2017, 02:25:07 PM
There is an option to show the speed and altitude in the top right corner....  Problem solved

Not solved.   That's a crutch at best.    I don't look up in the corner of my screen for much of anything.  I'm scanning my instrument panel with glances. 
Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: artik on February 22, 2017, 02:40:14 PM
Not solved.   That's a crutch at best.    I don't look up in the corner of my screen for much of anything.  I'm scanning my instrument panel with glances. 

You are right but in general you should be quite aware of the situation are you at 10k, 20k or 30. And since it does not change very rapidly the number in the corner can help.

That's it.
Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: bustr on February 22, 2017, 03:01:46 PM
In the clipboard go to GUI, then the HUD alt\speed box will darken and can be dragged with your mouse down onto your gunsight. You can see how I placed it in this screen shot.


(https://s20.postimg.org/599bsm13h/tankIls02.jpg)
Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: Vraciu on February 22, 2017, 03:02:10 PM
You are right but in general you should be quite aware of the situation are you at 10k, 20k or 30. And since it does not change very rapidly the number in the corner can help.

That's it.

If I walk away on auto climb or am diving out looking over my shoulder etc. I may not know my altitude instinctively.    That's what the tick mark is for. 

The fact of the matter is the new anti-aliasing makes it hard to see.   This should be fixed. 
Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: Zoney on February 22, 2017, 03:33:35 PM
In the clipboard go to GUI, then the HUD alt\speed box will darken and can be dragged with your mouse down onto your gunsight. You can see how I placed it in this screen shot.


(https://s20.postimg.org/599bsm13h/tankIls02.jpg)

Well done Buster, great tip, I'm doing that to mine when I get on tonight.

Problem Solved !
Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: Vraciu on February 22, 2017, 06:19:29 PM
Not. 
Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: bustr on February 22, 2017, 08:27:37 PM
Once you set the HUD on your gunsight, where ever you point your view, that HUD goes with your PoV.
Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: Vraciu on February 22, 2017, 08:29:50 PM
Once you set the HUD on your gunsight, where ever you point your view, that HUD goes with your PoV.

That's well and good but I don't get info quicker from the red tick mark than with interpretation of four lines of numbers.

We have tapes and dials and colors in glass cockpits for that very reason.  Sometimes you need to know the exact number, sometimes you just need a range.

It's screwed up.  We are compensating for a poorly implemented graphic.   It's growing pain-related, I understand that.  But geeze come on.

 :salute
Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: mutha on February 23, 2017, 03:08:27 PM
That's well and good but I don't get info quicker from the red tick mark than with interpretation of four lines of numbers.

We have tapes and dials and colors in glass cockpits for that very reason.  Sometimes you need to know the exact number, sometimes you just need a range.

It's screwed up.  We are compensating for a poorly implemented graphic.   It's growing pain-related, I understand that.  But geeze come on.

 :salute

What Viraciu says. It's a bug for some of us, and should be fixed.

I suppose the counter-argument is that the game doesn't need to accommodate losers who are color blind!

-Mutha
Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: BowHTR on February 23, 2017, 03:24:30 PM
What Viraciu says. It's a bug for some of us, and should be fixed.

I suppose the counter-argument is that the game doesn't need to accommodate losers who are color blind!

-Mutha

 :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: bustr on February 23, 2017, 04:30:10 PM
Sounds more like you use any pretext to rag on Hitech that you can get away with.
Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: mutha on February 23, 2017, 04:50:04 PM
Sounds more like you use any pretext to rag on Hitech that you can get away with.

Apologies for posting a bug fix request on the wishlist!

I had no idea it was not intended for such crazy notions!

Mutha
Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: BowHTR on February 23, 2017, 04:59:16 PM
Apologies for posting a bug fix request on the wishlist!

I had no idea it was not intended for such crazy notions!

Mutha

It's not a bug. It works as it is supposed to.
Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: mutha on February 23, 2017, 05:07:47 PM
It's not a bug. It works as it is supposed to.




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Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: mutha on February 23, 2017, 05:13:12 PM



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Ok bow - consider your ticket punched!


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Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: BuckShot on February 23, 2017, 07:33:10 PM
Once you set the HUD on your gunsight, where ever you point your view, that HUD goes with your PoV.

Too bad it doesn't stay put when you look around, same with the clip board.
Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: Vraciu on February 23, 2017, 10:41:59 PM
That's well and good but I get info quicker from the red tick mark than with interpretation of four lines of numbers.


Fixed.
Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: BowHTR on February 24, 2017, 07:48:09 AM
Ok bow - consider your ticket punched!


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Looks like we struck a nerve!
Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: mutha on February 24, 2017, 11:36:47 AM
Here are dials that have clearer ticks indicating 10k altitude.

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/69/04/37/690437adfcbf3325d5798e5d5502aa4f.jpg)

(https://fsxtimes.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/rasduke_rda_gif1.gif?w=764)

Another option is to simply extend the 10k tick so that it is longer than the others.

The simplest option is to make the 10k tick yellow!

Mutha
Title: Re: Change 10k altitude increment marker color?
Post by: lunatic1 on February 25, 2017, 10:52:15 AM
Not solved.   That's a crutch at best.    I don't look up in the corner of my screen for much of anything.  I'm scanning my instrument panel with glances.


it's moveable u can set it on the screen where u want it