Battlefield Graphics - Line showing with waypoint markers

[creme_fraiche]

Reproduce:

1. Create a line graphic in the DCS Drawing editor, name it something the KW will pick up. Example: "KW-PL SHIELD"

2. Run the mission and look at your battlefield graphics

3. Note that the Line shows up with number waypoints, like it is a route: "7W, 6W, 5W" etc.

 

Expected Behavior:

The line should not have waypoint markers.

Actual Behavior:

The line has waypoint markers.

 

Notes: not sure if this is a bug or how the actual aircraft works. It doesn't match the manual, so just wanted to confirm either way. Track and miz attached. Thanks!

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Thunderhorse_Day0_v1.miz KW_graphics.trk

[Vakarian]

What you have shown are the line "management" pages, it shows of which waypoints the line is created. That is correct IIRC as all lines and areas are created from the point in aircraft memory (waypoints and control points, I think target points can't be a part of the line/area/route)

To see how it would display on the HSD, you can slew the HSD to the e.g. 6W and then see if the HSD will display PL-SHIELD or something else. Not a home PC so can't check the track, but I would go on a limb to say this is correct, you just haven't looked at the HSD

[Kinkkujuustovoileipä]

I haven't touched the KW code since leaving PC so I'm a little rusty, but from memory of implementing this it's correct behaviour.

I believe the reason you aren't seeing the WP names in the screenshots from the manual is because I turned off the display of the WP names for LINE and AREA graphics when I took those screenshots, specifically because the screen becomes quite cluttered. This can be done in the RMS->SETUP page IIRC. I think this setting affects all pages that display BF graphics, i.e. it's a 'global' setting, not specific to the RMS or HSD pages. Again, I believe that is correct behaviour for the CDS we modelled.

As Vakarian mentioned, all BF GRAPHICS are in fact created from WPs and CPs (can't remember if TPs?) and so when importing the drawings from the mission editor, the points of the drawing are constructed as new WPs and added to your WP list. I believe this is discussed in the manual, including the priorities of constructing the WPs from the various possible ME sources.