Tactical Display

[Steven KLein]

Can you resize and reshape the Tactical Display?
I know you can move it. In CFS2 you can resize and reshape it to some degree.Thanks.

 

[Frosty]

You can make all kinds of changes to the HUD gauges through the ViewUI.xml file in this file
C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\yourCFS3install\ViewUI.xml

Look for this line:
<TacticalDisplay BGIMage="tactical_display.dds" BGPos="0 0" BGSize="128 128" BGScale="1.2" BackColor="0x1f0000FF" Mode="0"/>

The BGScale entry alters the scale of the original file size (in this case 1.2 x 128)

 

[dewoitine]

Yes but you must change this line :
<TacticalDisplayMetric BGIMage="tactical_display.dds" BGPos="0 0" BGSize="128 128" BGScale="1.2" BackColor="0x1f0000FF" Mode="0"/>

 

[Steven KLein]

Yes but you must change this line :
<TacticalDisplayMetric BGIMage="tactical_display.dds" BGPos="0 0" BGSize="128 128" BGScale="1.2" BackColor="0x1f0000FF" Mode="0"/>

I understand, but do you increase the numbers or decrease the numbers to reduce the size and scale?Also , can you change the shape of the display from a circle to say an ellipse and stretch it vertically and horizontally too? Thanks for any help.

 

[dewoitine]

I had BGScale=".8" and I have change in BGScale="1.2" like Frosty
<TacticalDisplay BGIMage and <TacticalDisplayMetric BGIMage

 

[Frosty]

IIRC the BGSize entry is the size of the original background texture file, in this case 128x128 pixels. The BGScale entry multiplies those dimensions with the number entered. So a scale factor smaller than 1 reduces the displayed size of the Tactical Display, a higher number will enlarge it on your screen. Don't be afraid to experiment a bit.

Since CFS3 requires textures to be a power of two (64x64, 128x128, 256x256 etc.), and the scale factor affects both height and width, I can't see how it would be possible to stretch the Display in one dimension. However, if you want, you could create a new background texture with a different visible area: The current Display has a circular visible area, but if you'd change that to something else, you might get what you want. You would need to create a new tactical_display.dds which includes an alpha layer that masks the area you wish to be visible.