Range Rings on PPI

Front Runner · 04-11-07, 07:53 AM

Has anyone found a way to turn on the range rings on the radar PPI?

flyingdane · 04-11-07, 08:06 AM

you can change the range with the buttons at the bottom of the radar station for both radars.

Front Runner · 04-11-07, 08:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flyingdane

you can change the range with the buttons at the bottom of the radar station for both radars.

Yes, I know how to change the range, I'm just trying to activate the range rings, like in Neal's

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Sweet!! I'm first! I

Radar pips turn into smilies when you hit the SH4 screen print keys, Ctrl F11

See, his PPI has Range Rings and bearing marks.
My PPI does not show range rings or bearing marks.

Front Runner · 04-11-07, 12:07 PM

Anybody? Please?

Onkel Neal · 04-11-07, 10:26 PM

Did you try clicking the big ugly grey knobs below the radar screen? I think that is what does it.

Snuffy · 04-11-07, 10:31 PM

Rumor has it that it depends on the boat your using as to whether or not the radar and the sonar works.

At this time with both the S class and the Porpoise class I have not been able to get the radar to work with either.

Jungman · 04-11-07, 10:33 PM

Yep, those early ships had no radar, so they are disabled. The 3D model does not reflect this fact. So the devs have it disabled for early years on those subs. IIRC They are there, but they really are not there.

DiveMonkey · 04-11-07, 11:07 PM

I wish they could remove them from boats not equipped.

I need the storage space.

simsurfer · 04-11-07, 11:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Did you try clicking the big ugly grey knobs below the radar screen? I think that is what does it.

Tried that, that isnt it, might be a option if you have theose filters activated.

Von Hinten · 04-12-07, 12:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DiveMonkey

I wish they could remove them from boats not equipped.

I need the storage space.

LOL :rotfl: :rotfl:

Snowman999 · 04-12-07, 01:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snuffy

Rumor has it that it depends on the boat your using as to whether or not the radar and the sonar works.

At this time with both the S class and the Porpoise class I have not been able to get the radar to work with either.

In a Tambor in 1944. PPI works, no range rings. Just a sweep on a green screen. Knobs below change a printed phrase on the screen from "Range: 80,000" to "Range: 40,000" (I think; they're pretty fuzzy). But no range rings or bearing marks.

Jensen · 04-12-07, 01:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snowman999

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snuffy

Rumor has it that it depends on the boat your using as to whether or not the radar and the sonar works.

At this time with both the S class and the Porpoise class I have not been able to get the radar to work with either.

In a Tambor in 1944. PPI works, no range rings. Just a sweep on a green screen. Knobs below change a printed phrase on the screen from "Range: 80,000" to "Range: 40,000" (I think; they're pretty fuzzy). But no range rings or bearing marks.

Bernard wiped them off.

Front Runner · 04-21-07, 07:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snowman999

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snuffy

Rumor has it that it depends on the boat your using as to whether or not the radar and the sonar works.

At this time with both the S class and the Porpoise class I have not been able to get the radar to work with either.

In a Tambor in 1944. PPI works, no range rings. Just a sweep on a green screen. Knobs below change a printed phrase on the screen from "Range: 80,000" to "Range: 40,000" (I think; they're pretty fuzzy). But no range rings or bearing marks.

From OP
I have the radar working, I have targets, I have range control (80,000/40,000/8,000) I have sweep. I DON'T have Range Rings as illustrated in the Neal Stevens graphic at the beginning of the thread where he has range rings and bearing marks. My radar just shows a green screen with contacts but no range rings and no bearing marks.
The question is has anyone found a way to activate the range rings and bearing marks?
Does everyone have this problem?
Does anyone have radar WITH range rings and bearings marks?
Why does Onkel Neal's Radar have bearing marks and range rings and mine does not?

I have not seen this particular issue addressed in the bug list but I may have missed it.

Any ideas or information greatly appreciated.

Front Runner · 04-21-07, 07:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Did you try clicking the big ugly grey knobs below the radar screen? I think that is what does it.

Yes, I have tried that. They change the range and turn the sweep on and off but do not activated range rings and bearing marks.

Hitman · 04-21-07, 07:46 AM

Quote:

have the radar working, I have targets, I have range control (80,000/40,000/8,000) I have sweep. I DON'T have Range Rings as illustrated in the Neal Stevens graphic at the beginning of the thread where he has range rings and bearing marks. My radar just shows a green screen with contacts but no range rings and no bearing marks.
The question is has anyone found a way to activate the range rings and bearing marks?
Does everyone have this problem?
Does anyone have radar WITH range rings and bearings marks?
Why does Onkel Neal's Radar have bearing marks and range rings and mine does not?

This also happens to me and to many people. Apparently, the reason why Neal had range circles in the screenshots is that he did them with version 1.0 of the game. Patch 1.1 and 1.2 seem to have broken the range circles AFAIK. The dds graphic file is still there, in Data/Misc ("ppiCircles.dds"), but there is nothing in the 1024_Menu pointing to it. (Yet there also wasn't anything in the 1.0 menu, and yet it worked).

That's everything I know about this issue:hmm:

04-11-07, 07:53 AM	#1
Front Runner XO Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: The FREE State of FLORIDA Posts: 401 Downloads: 217 Uploads: 0	Range Rings on PPI Has anyone found a way to turn on the range rings on the radar PPI? __________________ "It is well war is so terrible, lest we should grow too fond of it" - C.S.A. General Robert E. Lee "Only the dead have seen the end of war" - Plato Gone but not forgotten, RIP Dave "LeoVampire".

04-11-07, 08:06 AM	#2
flyingdane Weps Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 355 Downloads: 33 Uploads: 0	you can change the range with the buttons at the bottom of the radar station for both radars. __________________ It denos't mtater waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, it's olny iprmoatnt taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelms.Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

04-11-07, 12:07 PM	#4
Front Runner XO Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: The FREE State of FLORIDA Posts: 401 Downloads: 217 Uploads: 0	Anybody? Please? __________________ "It is well war is so terrible, lest we should grow too fond of it" - C.S.A. General Robert E. Lee "Only the dead have seen the end of war" - Plato Gone but not forgotten, RIP Dave "LeoVampire".

04-11-07, 10:26 PM	#5
Onkel Neal Born to Run Silent Join Date: Jan 1997 Location: Cougar Trap, Texas Posts: 21,383 Downloads: 541 Uploads: 224	Did you try clicking the big ugly grey knobs below the radar screen? I think that is what does it. __________________ SUBSIM - 26 Years on the Web

04-11-07, 10:31 PM	#6
Snuffy XO Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 420 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Rumor has it that it depends on the boat your using as to whether or not the radar and the sonar works. At this time with both the S class and the Porpoise class I have not been able to get the radar to work with either. __________________ ----------------- Snuffy!

04-11-07, 10:33 PM	#7
Jungman Samurai Navy Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Iowa, USA Posts: 596 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Yep, those early ships had no radar, so they are disabled. The 3D model does not reflect this fact. So the devs have it disabled for early years on those subs. IIRC They are there, but they really are not there.

04-11-07, 11:07 PM	#8
DiveMonkey Torpedoman Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 111 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I wish they could remove them from boats not equipped. I need the storage space.