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Tshark
06-26-17, 11:29 AM
Just curious about the different shading displayed on the tactical map. Does the shading denote ocean depth or areas of high noise?
I remember Red Storm Rising had a display that showed water sound travel conditions and used to hide in them all the time.

Thanks
Wiz33
06-26-17, 11:41 AM
Just curious about the different shading displayed on the tactical map. Does the shading denote ocean depth or areas of high noise?
I remember Red Storm Rising had a display that showed water sound travel conditions and used to hide in them all the time.

Thanks

From my limited experience, it seems to be water depth. I just wish it's at a higher contrast as it's hard to see between bands for these old eyes.
Killerfish Games
06-26-17, 09:03 PM
In default/hud/default.txt you can change the overlay map colours, thresholds and filtering. 0.33 is sea level. Be sure to make the edits in an override folder.

[LandOverlay]
Thresholds=0.33,0.3507
ColorBlend=1,1,0.9
LandColor=0,0,0,255
CoastColor=0,0,0,255
WaterColor=0,0,10,255
FilterOverlay=TRUE
Tshark
06-27-17, 09:34 AM
So it is depicting the sea floor. Thanks for the info regarding contrasts.:salute:
Wiz33
06-27-17, 11:09 AM
In default/hud/default.txt you can change the overlay map colours, thresholds and filtering. 0.33 is sea level. Be sure to make the edits in an override folder.

[LandOverlay]
Thresholds=0.33,0.3507
ColorBlend=1,1,0.9
LandColor=0,0,0,255
CoastColor=0,0,0,255
WaterColor=0,0,10,255
FilterOverlay=TRUE

Thanks for the info but which value would I change if I want to increase the contrast/color between each band to make them more distinctive?
ollie1983
06-27-17, 07:01 PM
The map needs an overhaul, the range grids need to be in kyds and nmi so we know what the heck we are looking at.
Ansgar Burkhard
06-28-17, 07:48 AM
And we need contour lines of the bottom. Bathimetry maps are stupidly detailed for obvious reasons and they have a lot more information.

https://goo.gl/images/N9SsqX
Wiz33
06-28-17, 10:04 AM
And we need contour lines of the bottom. Bathimetry maps are stupidly detailed for obvious reasons and they have a lot more information.

https://goo.gl/images/N9SsqX

They do if you zoom in but it is hard to see, that's why I want to be able to increase the contrast between each band.