"Tactical Zoom" level in Sins

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All i wanted to know is if Sins has a "Tactical Zoom" slider option like Galciv2 does. Minimizing this option basically disables the graphics for ships/buildings at any zoom level, which is great for someone with a terrible integrated video card with 512MB of ram like i do.

I have looked around the option screen and the settings file but i could not find anything and was wondering if it exists or is under a differant name, or if this 'feature' was never implimented in Sins

 

Thanks in advance,

ipher

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Yes.  It's even better in Sins than it was in GalCiv (and I say that as the designer of GalCiv).

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

O you mean in like age of empires 2 where you can see just economic activity, military, or overall? and my question to frog is how do we get it then?

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 1
Yes.  It's even better in Sins than it was in GalCiv (and I say that as the designer of GalCiv).
End of Frogboy's quote

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Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 1
Yes.  It's even better in Sins than it was in GalCiv (and I say that as the designer of GalCiv).
End of Frogboy's quote

 

I feel honored to have the designer of GalCiv reply to my question, but i was actually wondering if there is an option to adust the Tactical Zoom settings in Sins. In GalCiv2, i had it set to 0 (i think) which caused the game to use icons for everything in the universe (except for stars), instead of rendering the graphics, no matter how far i zoomed in. I was playing Entrenchment the past few days on a friends computer (great game/expansion btw), and couldn't find a similar option, which would be neccesary to run Sins on my laptop (in GalCiv2 on default settings, anytime i zoomed in to where it would render the 3d models of the ships, it would pause for 30 seconds or so while my swap file went nuts, annoying for a TBS game, devistating for a RTS).

 

Thanks alot for the quick reply,

ipher

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Hi!

Might be the tactical zoom is defined in the following lines in Gameplay.constants

 >  zoomDistanceLevel0ScalarForPlanets 1.5
 >  zoomDistanceLevel0ScalarForNonPlanets 5.0
 >  zoomDistanceLevel0 1000
 >  zoomDistanceLevel1 65000
 >  zoomDistanceLevel2 4000000

BR,  Iztok

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting IztokBitenc, reply 5
Hi!

Might be the tactical zoom is defined in the following lines in Gameplay.constants

 >  zoomDistanceLevel0ScalarForPlanets 1.5
 >  zoomDistanceLevel0ScalarForNonPlanets 5.0
 >  zoomDistanceLevel0 1000
 >  zoomDistanceLevel1 65000
 >  zoomDistanceLevel2 4000000

BR,  Iztok
End of IztokBitenc's quote

 

Sounds about right, ill have to give it a try next time i'm at my friends house.

 

Thanks a bunch,

ipher