Sonar contact lines and "Tails" - Colour info

oRGy · 10-11-05, 07:34 AM

Hi;

For the next version of Improved U-Boat I've changed from the RuB model of contact lines and tails to a sort of 'vaguer SH3' style, where you the ship contact tails and icons are all there, but are only in black, so you still have to manually id' the ship to tell if its friendly, neutral, or enemy.

Now this was surprisingly easy, but doing this had the side-effect of making the sonar lines of warships the same colour (black) as merchants. Now, I am not altogether sure this is a bad thing, but I was wondering if there was a more elegant way to do this that would allow one to keep the sonar lines of warships red... The problem is that the file contline.tga is used for sonar lines, ship 'tails', and other things.

Any chance the colour info for all these things is stored in some easily accessible cfg file, or does anyone have some interesting tidbits of information?

10-11-05, 07:34 AM	#1
oRGy Crusty Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 648 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Sonar contact lines and "Tails" - Colour info Hi; For the next version of Improved U-Boat I've changed from the RuB model of contact lines and tails to a sort of 'vaguer SH3' style, where you the ship contact tails and icons are all there, but are only in black, so you still have to manually id' the ship to tell if its friendly, neutral, or enemy. Now this was surprisingly easy, but doing this had the side-effect of making the sonar lines of warships the same colour (black) as merchants. Now, I am not altogether sure this is a bad thing, but I was wondering if there was a more elegant way to do this that would allow one to keep the sonar lines of warships red... The problem is that the file contline.tga is used for sonar lines, ship 'tails', and other things. Any chance the colour info for all these things is stored in some easily accessible cfg file, or does anyone have some interesting tidbits of information?