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Annoying icons ! (and how to turn them off or customize their behavior)

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June 29, 2007 4:43:14 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums
Please allow us to enable/disable those damned icons and set draw distances. Trust me most computers can handle the draw distance of a gravitational well easily enough, just please consider, these icons are royaly pissing me off !
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Reply #1 June 29, 2007 4:48:03 PM
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I think its more to do with the scale than the computing power sometimes without the icons I genuinely wouldnt be able to see anything there but I do agree that the current ones are annoying
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Reply #2 June 29, 2007 4:49:03 PM
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You can adjust the icon draw distances and many other related values to your liking in gameplay.constants.
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Reply #3 June 29, 2007 4:54:39 PM
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Hi Massive, you can disable those icons here: menu > options > UI >Show main view icons

Yes, that is right PasDeCharge.
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Reply #4 June 29, 2007 10:07:33 PM
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Actualy, that was really awesome of you guys to respond, thank you

Now i can marvel at my Kol while watching my huge 50 platform planetary gauss defence grid wipe away some pirates. Yeah, i love modding.
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Reply #5 June 29, 2007 10:15:28 PM
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How would i be able to adjust draw distances in said file ? what do i need to edit ?
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Reply #6 June 29, 2007 10:28:24 PM
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Ah I see there is a bug there, good find. Turning off the main view icons should make them visible at any distance but it is cutting them out if they are at a distance where the icons would be off. We'll fix this in the patch. In the meantime you can crank up the VisibilityDistanceData multipliers. You won't need to do this once we patch.

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Reply #7 June 29, 2007 11:18:04 PM
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Blair I would advocate putting the cinematic view button in the game, rather than in the options menu (kindof like the scroll-to-mouse button) that way I can enjoy the beauty of my excellently excecuted attack strategy while still giving out orders without too much of a hastle.
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Reply #8 June 29, 2007 11:38:09 PM
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Perhaps we will exchange it with the scroll-to-mouse button. We were going to move that to the options window because it doesn't seem to be something that you would change frequently during the course of a game whereas cinematic view likely is.
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Reply #9 June 30, 2007 1:05:41 AM
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Yeah, before i couldnt even see a KOL BATTLESHIP because of this crapload of platform icons, one time i could tell my capital planet just by the giant red mark of icons i could see 2 PLANETS away (or was it one, i forget) Point is, this is insanity please send out that patch soon, i really really am hearting for it.
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Reply #10 June 30, 2007 2:02:28 AM
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To get you through until the patch, bump up the VisibilityDistanceData multipliers to 9999 or something high in gameplay.constants.

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Reply #11 June 30, 2007 2:37:07 AM
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Thanks Blair, to you and everyone else, your motto should be:

Straightening out noobs for a better future !

Or something, you guys are great. Would the game crash if i put it to several millions ?



Anyway, i think there should be a way to customize icon size.
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Reply #12 February 13, 2008 8:47:01 PM
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Now I have version 1.2 what setting am I supposed to modify, if I want to change when the ship icons hit in, in the gameplay.constants file? ^^
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