Don_Quixote, on Sep 1 2005, 09:10 PM, said:
A circular radar screen HAS been done before, i just cant remember the exact post where the person displayed. It is possible.
I have no idea how to do it.
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Uncle Twitchy did one in one of the SFA alphas. Ask him.
UT just made a circle around the radar screen. It's still a square.
Well, wouldn't that work? And it seems to be fine with IFF's too.
darth_vader, on Sep 9 2005, 05:08 PM, said:
Well, wouldn't that work? And it seems to be fine with IFF's too.View Post
It works as a radar, and from my limited experience with it you don't really notice that it's actually square.
The only possible problems are A) it isn't truely round, so you can see farther on the diagonals than you do in the cardinal directions, and B) the radar's range is noticably smaller- SFA's radar is about 120 pixels across, while the Nova radar is around 175.
(EDIT)Drat those smilies! Always sneaking in when your head is turned.
Edwards
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Edwards, on Sep 8 2005, 03:13 AM, said:
Judging by the SFA Teaser, he did it by creating a small square in a circular outline, with large empty curves on all four sides.
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That is correct.
Edwards, on Sep 9 2005, 07:19 PM, said:
It works as a radar, and from my limited experience with it you don't really notice that it's actually square.
Until you get interference. Then it's very obvious. <_<
Unless you change the interference ppats to take it into account.
...which, last I checked, you didn't do.
"Just you wait, 'Enry 'Iggins, just you wait..."
<cryptic grin>
