Icon Detail in Coop (mp_dotrange)

[wheelsup_cavu]

When I read your original example it seems that you have things backwards? According to the v4.11 Guide the old style Icons need to have a smaller value in the "Type" value for new Icons for it to work.

Additional icon options (from the v4.11 guide.)
Three more options were added for mp_dotrange command: ALTICON, ALTCOLOR, ALTSYMBOL.

• ALTICON sets the maximum distance when the icon will be shown.
• ALTCOLOR sets the color of the icon.
• ALTSYMBOL sets the one character symbol which will be shown as icon.

These settings only kick in when old style icons are not shown, i.e. when distance of COLOR, TYPE, NAME, ID and RANGE are smaller than the distance to the aircraft.

Example:
mp_dotrange FRIENDLY DOT 25.0 COLOR 0.1 RANGE 0.1 TYPE 1.0 ID 0.1 NAME 0.1 ALTICON 2.5 ALTSYMBOL + ALTCOLOR 3
This will display a symbol "+" above the aircraft between 1.0 and 2.5 km in color 3 (green).

In their example "Type" is 1.0 and ALTICON is 2.5. (Only numbers that match their example)
In your example "Type" is 5.0 and ALTICON is 3.0. Reverse the numbers and see if that works for you?

Edit:
I tested it on the 352nd dogfight server and found that everything except the DOT value needs to be smaller than the ALTICON value or the ALTICON symbol will not show. Once one of those values is triggered the ALTICON symbol disappears in favor of the other options.

Grab4894 shows three plus signs but grab4896 shows just two plus signs and the Range and Type ID for the other aircraft. In grab4896 the Range and Type ID's have taken precedence for the closest aircraft.


Wheels

[Tolwyn]

You are correct and I get it now after re-reading the 4.11 readme.

Originally Posted by wheelsup_cavu

When I read your original example it seems that you have things backwards? According to the v4.11 Guide the old style Icons need to have a smaller value in the "Type" value for new Icons for it to work.

[wheelsup_cavu]

Cool, glad to hear it is working for you now.


Wheels