Contact Report Help

tedhealy · 06-15-07, 09:47 AM

InitLongoff and InitLatoff appear to be longitude and latitude coordinates...but either reversed or something else because

-40 longitude and 103 latitude does not make sense

-40 latitude and 103 longitude would be somewhere southwest of Fremantle if I"m not mistaken. That probably isn't much better because I doubt you were sending contact reports from there.

I'd suggest noting exactly where you are on the map when you send the contact report to see how it matches up to these numbers.

Stew U-582 · 06-15-07, 08:51 PM

is it possible these cordinates are a starting point and you must be at a point with a greater value to transmit or receive this as a response?

eg it may be a way to have mutiple responses for the same situation depending on location.

tedhealy · 06-15-07, 09:22 PM

I don't konw. Does the game really care from where you send your contact reports?

Initial longitude Off....off what? Or is off shortened for something else?

Could be the game records latitude and longitude differently so that what I'm assuming is -40 and 103 is actually something very different. In the radio.ini, latitude and longitude are in a more readable format.

About the only thing I can come up with is to send a contact report from a couple different specific latitudes and longitudes to see how these values change compared to the known location.

Stew U-582 · 06-16-07, 12:43 AM

Tomoro ill try making up some additional contact report files. I think ive got enough info to give it a go.
Ill try using the cordinates from other files and see what happens ,but it would be good to know what that section does.
Ill post my results

06-16-07, 06:42 AM

I thought that those are just settings for the editor and did not affect the mission.

[EditorParams]
InitLongOff=-40262000.000000
InitLatOff=10346500.000000
ZoomIndex=0
Prefix=ContactReport 06

The x,y cord are where the editor when opened would be centered, the zoomindex would be how far it would be zoomed in or out. The only one that seems to make a difference is the prefix, it will apend that value to the name of the unit that you add to a mission using the mission editor.

When saving the mission file, both InetLongOff and InetLatOff will be updated in the *.mis file based on where you are centered in the map, but they should not affect anthing with the mission.

06-15-07, 08:51 PM	#2
Stew U-582 Lieutenant Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Adelaide Australia Posts: 266 Downloads: 240 Uploads: 0	is it possible these cordinates are a starting point and you must be at a point with a greater value to transmit or receive this as a response? eg it may be a way to have mutiple responses for the same situation depending on location. __________________ Captain Stu from Down Under , Down Under

06-16-07, 12:43 AM	#4
Stew U-582 Lieutenant Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Adelaide Australia Posts: 266 Downloads: 240 Uploads: 0	Tomoro ill try making up some additional contact report files. I think ive got enough info to give it a go. Ill try using the cordinates from other files and see what happens ,but it would be good to know what that section does. Ill post my results __________________ Captain Stu from Down Under , Down Under

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06-15-07, 09:47 AM	#1
tedhealy Grey Wolf Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: St. Louis, MO, USA Posts: 772 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	InitLongoff and InitLatoff appear to be longitude and latitude coordinates...but either reversed or something else because -40 longitude and 103 latitude does not make sense -40 latitude and 103 longitude would be somewhere southwest of Fremantle if I"m not mistaken. That probably isn't much better because I doubt you were sending contact reports from there. I'd suggest noting exactly where you are on the map when you send the contact report to see how it matches up to these numbers.

06-15-07, 09:22 PM	#3
tedhealy Grey Wolf Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: St. Louis, MO, USA Posts: 772 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	I don't konw. Does the game really care from where you send your contact reports? Initial longitude Off....off what? Or is off shortened for something else? Could be the game records latitude and longitude differently so that what I'm assuming is -40 and 103 is actually something very different. In the radio.ini, latitude and longitude are in a more readable format. About the only thing I can come up with is to send a contact report from a couple different specific latitudes and longitudes to see how these values change compared to the known location.

06-16-07, 06:42 AM	#5
Bill.Braskey Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	I thought that those are just settings for the editor and did not affect the mission. [EditorParams] InitLongOff=-40262000.000000 InitLatOff=10346500.000000 ZoomIndex=0 Prefix=ContactReport 06 The x,y cord are where the editor when opened would be centered, the zoomindex would be how far it would be zoomed in or out. The only one that seems to make a difference is the prefix, it will apend that value to the name of the unit that you add to a mission using the mission editor. When saving the mission file, both InetLongOff and InetLatOff will be updated in the *.mis file based on where you are centered in the map, but they should not affect anthing with the mission.