At a minimum, I would like something like the plotting system in TMO or RFB. Replace the contact icons for ships with a generic dot not available at the two lowest zoom levels, no course trails, no pacmans or detection circles around the contact. Make the sonar contact bearing lines way more subtle. And of course get rid of the the tooltip that gives you the target type, range and speed when you hover the cursor on top of it.
I knew how to do most of this in SH4 by playing with the DDS files but it seems they changed how this works for SH5. Now it seems to be controlled by SHP files that look like this:
ContactDirectionSymbol.shp
Code:
0
4
0.0 0.13481 0.0
-2.14312 0.13481 0.0
-2.14312 -0.13481 0.0
0.0 -0.13481 0.0
2
2.0 3.0 0.0
2.0 0.0 1.0
I'm guessing this file is for the course tails on the contact.
I understand the numbers represent a shape using a set of coordinates, but I have no idea how to open these in something other than a text editor to see the actual shape, edit it or replace it altogether with something else.
If anyone knows then please share :-)
These files also control the names on the map. If we can figure this out then we can change a lot of things on the map, including most of the contact stuff.