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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Virage on May 07, 2002, 03:59:15 PM

Title: Friendly Icon toggle request
Post by: Virage on May 07, 2002, 03:59:15 PM

In my perfect AH world, I would be able to c my teammates name AND his plane type at the same time.  Could this option be included in the toggle selection?

I am constantly rolling thru the icon toggle for SA purposes.  It is a pain in the butt, and eats up all my text display space.   Can you feel my pain?

Title: Friendly Icon toggle request
Post by: Midnight on May 08, 2002, 12:09:00 PM

No.

Scroll through when you need to.

The only thing I hate is when I accidentally leave it on 'friendly only' icon setting.

I can recall a few times that I watched as a plane got closer, thinking 'I should get an Icon on that guy any second' only to realize later that he was closing fast and I had enemy icons off.

Man I hate that.

Hey, HT... how about a small flashing indicator to remind the pilot if he left the icons set to 'friendly only'

Title: Friendly Icon toggle request
Post by: Chairboy on May 12, 2002, 06:52:23 PM

Like the original poster, I find myself needing to scroll through almost continuosly.  

You sounded pretty definate with your 'No', any particular reason?  WB has this, and it's quite convenient.

Title: Friendly Icon toggle request
Post by: Virage on May 12, 2002, 10:20:43 PM

I'm not suggesting replacing the options we have now, but adding 1 more.

Title: Friendly Icon toggle request
Post by: ccvi on May 13, 2002, 07:13:56 AM

Add a menu with checkboxes to setup which icon setting modes you want to be able to switch to.

Or maybe add individual buttons for different icon settings (i=full icons, friendly with names ; alt-i = full icons, friendly ID ; ctrl-i = ...)

Title: Friendly Icon toggle request
Post by: DmdNexus on May 13, 2002, 11:27:53 AM

What's the purpose of friendly icons only?
Really?
Just do away with that option.

Title: Friendly Icon toggle request
Post by: ccvi on May 13, 2002, 01:30:10 PM

Maybe it can be forced to that setting in e.g. a scenario? But OTOH that would probably be enemyiconrange=0, doesn't it?

Title: Friendly Icon toggle request
Post by: Turbot on May 14, 2002, 03:12:58 PM

I also find the current icon setup bothersome.   It's AH version of the multiple maps in Warburds (you have to page thru multiple versions of the arena map).  

For AH icons I ended up setting up a button on throttle for it.