[REL] TMOPlot09032013

Rockin Robbins · 09-03-13, 06:58 PM

You know, I really HATE the plotting systems in RFB and TMO 2.5. From the best plotting system in this universe, somehow Ducimus was talked into a cockamamie system where if you're zoomed out you can see a position, but zoom in too close, stand too close to the table and you can't see any of the marks any more. That makes about as much sense as a screen door in a submarine!

It's time for TMOPlot09032013!

Time to bring back the creation of Ducimus before he started taking votes on what his mods would look like! You say, those dots are GPS accurate, that's not justifiable. Well, as long as you have radar those dots are not only justifiable, but they ARE NOT AS ACCURATE AS THE REAL THING!

The real thing was analog, able to display all positions as accurately as the numbers. We have a pixel-based system where if the position is between two pixels, you have to choose one or the other, one error or the other error. This is called binning and is an artifact of all digital systems. Their analog radar didn't suffer from that.

All ships are plotted as a diamond at low zoom settings, changing to a position dot with no friend/foe/neutral color, unit designation, speed or course information on screen with higher magnifications. They no longer vanish because you are standing too close to the plotting table. God help us.......

This will work for RFB 1.52 and TMO 2.5. It will also work for all other mod configurations. In the case of FOTRS, which has many ship types not in this mod, anything TMOPlot covers will be shown as a position dot, anything not covered will be shown as FOTRS standard. I forget whether they used silhouettes or position dots. At any rate, the game will not crash and the mod will work.

It also uses all ships from RSRD so got that covered too!

09-03-13, 06:58 PM	#1
Rockin Robbins Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: DeLand, FL Posts: 8,900 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 52	[REL] TMOPlot09032013 You know, I really HATE the plotting systems in RFB and TMO 2.5. From the best plotting system in this universe, somehow Ducimus was talked into a cockamamie system where if you're zoomed out you can see a position, but zoom in too close, stand too close to the table and you can't see any of the marks any more. That makes about as much sense as a screen door in a submarine! It's time for TMOPlot09032013! Time to bring back the creation of Ducimus before he started taking votes on what his mods would look like! You say, those dots are GPS accurate, that's not justifiable. Well, as long as you have radar those dots are not only justifiable, but they ARE NOT AS ACCURATE AS THE REAL THING! The real thing was analog, able to display all positions as accurately as the numbers. We have a pixel-based system where if the position is between two pixels, you have to choose one or the other, one error or the other error. This is called binning and is an artifact of all digital systems. Their analog radar didn't suffer from that. All ships are plotted as a diamond at low zoom settings, changing to a position dot with no friend/foe/neutral color, unit designation, speed or course information on screen with higher magnifications. They no longer vanish because you are standing too close to the plotting table. God help us....... This will work for RFB 1.52 and TMO 2.5. It will also work for all other mod configurations. In the case of FOTRS, which has many ship types not in this mod, anything TMOPlot covers will be shown as a position dot, anything not covered will be shown as FOTRS standard. I forget whether they used silhouettes or position dots. At any rate, the game will not crash and the mod will work. It also uses all ships from RSRD so got that covered too! __________________ Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks, Slightly Subnuclear Mk 14 & Cutie, Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun, EZPlot 2.0, TMOPlot, TMOKeys, SH4CMS Last edited by Rockin Robbins; 09-04-13 at 08:19 PM.