RADAR - confused
Hi there. I've read the several dozen posts about how the RADAR is broken, and various ideas about how to fix it via modding files, but I'm a little confused as to the solution incorporated in this FTT 2.5 mod.
As I understand it, in the "default" FTT 2.5 solution (I'll call this Solution A), the SD has been effectively disabled and an SJ capable of detecting both air and surface provided in it's place. If I'm understanding this correctly, if you install only SJ on your boat this would have the same overall effect as if the boat had both SD and SJ installed? So it's not necessary then to actually install the SD in order to make this solution work?
So if I've really got this right, then what's the deal with the SD fix in the SUPPORT folder? The doc that goes along with it seems to suggest that with this version of the SENSORS file (Solution B) the SD has been tweaked to detect both air and surface. If so, what's the difference between Solution A and Solution B?
What's leading me to believe I've misunderstood something is that I went with Solution A on my S18 class boat and it doesn't seem to work. The RADAR switches on and off as it should, and I can see it hanging there on the mast from the bridge and external views, but I can't get it to rotate. I've tried using both the graphical knobs at the RADAR station, and the icons on the menu bar, and.... nothing. It just points straight ahead, as observed in the external views and by looking at the PPI scope.
Other than adding several additional mods - none of which were reported by JSGME to conflict - the only odd thing I did to the installation was cut and paste lines from the menu_1024_768.ini for the Slide-out Recognition Manual mod (I just can't live without this!) into the one provided by FTT 2.5. That wouldn't have anything to do with it... would it?
Any assistance or enlightenment appreciated.
JD
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