Labels to big and messy

[jaykinch]

Hello all

 

I'm having problems with labels in game they are too big to much info I think

Then I was watching a video on u tube of 2 guys messing around on a10 and they had really nice labels it just looked like a black dot "." there's a dot . Lol but made the game a lot more tidy.

 

How was the changed made is it a mod for it or is it in game and I'm just too stupid to find the settings

 

Great game, love crashing and love the flying part when I'm not crashing lol

 

Cheers

Jay

[EtherealN]

This is indeed a mod, accomplished through modifying configuration files manually.

 

Unfortunately I don't have it off the top of my head which files to change and how, but if you look through the mod forum or do a search you might be able to find it.

[maturin]

This?

http://www.lockonfiles.com/index.php/topic/36494-dcs-a-10c-label-mod-single-color/

[cichlidfan]

You can also just edit the related file. The file is labels.lua and is located in your DCS World>Config>View folder.

 

 

The file explains things quite clearly but here is the pertinent section so you can see what kind of options are available.

 

 

-- Label max distance depends on graphics visibility range option value

-- For low �E40000.0 m

-- For medium �E50000.0 m

-- For high �E80000.0 m

---------------------------------

-- Label text format symbols

-- %N - name of object

-- %D - distance to object

-- %P - pilot name

-- %n - new line

-- %% - symbol '%'

-- %x, where x is not NDPn% - symbol 'x'

-- %C - extended info for vehicle's and ship's weapon systems

------------------------------------------

-- Example

-- labelFormat[5000] = "Name: %N%nDistance: %D%n Pilot: %P"

-- up to 5km label is:

-- Name: Su-33

-- Distance: 30km

-- Pilot: Pilot1

 

 

Hope this gets you where you would like to be. :)

Edited August 10, 2012 by cichlidfan

[jspec3]

I love how configurable the labels are in this sim.

 

One more thing I wish you could do was affect the transparency, so you could have them fade in and fade out as you like.

[slowhand]

Or you can do this and end up with just a , . for a trgt marker.:thumbup:

 

-- Example

-- labelFormat[5000] = "Name: %N%nDistance: %D%n Pilot: %P"

-- up to 5km label is:

-- Name: Su-33

-- Distance: 30km

-- Pilot: Pilot1

 

AirFormat = {}

AirFormat[10] = ""

AirFormat[5000] = "'"

AirFormat[10000] = "'"

AirFormat[20000] = "'"

AirFormat[30000] = "'"

 

GroundFormat = {}

GroundFormat[5000] = "`"

GroundFormat[10000] = "`"

GroundFormat[20000] = "`"

 

NavyFormat = {}

NavyFormat[10000] = "`"

NavyFormat[20000] = "`"

NavyFormat[40000] = "`"

 

WeaponFormat = {}

WeaponFormat[5000] = "|"

WeaponFormat[10000] = "|"

WeaponFormat[20000] = "|"

[fzfq3m]

Also if you change the color of the labels, let's say to black dots, then configure a button on your joystick to quickly enable/disable the labels while doing your gun strafing... trust me it's not funny when you find out that you were shooting at a label instead of the target...

:-p

[ctguy1955]

OK, this is very interesting and I would also like to be able to change from shooting

at a label and just have black dots ....... Not sure how to do this for the P-51D ?

 

Thanks for any help

[Mar]

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=140440

 

See posts 4 and 6 in that thread. You don't have to do anything different, labels are not module specific.