pilot map and enemy plane view

[jollyjack]

2 (stupid) questions about the pilot map during game play:

 

1) can you size the map view (the 2 versions?) somehow? One is often too small, and the general overview shows too much at times ...

2) The payer plane is seen alright with it's buddies, red in my case, but how do you make the enemy planes appear (blue) ?

In a quick missions loaded it works OK, but when i load a self made missions with spawned enemies that don't show up during game play. Spotter is set to 200.

 

thnx.

 

 

[Sketch]

1) You can scroll wheel the map up to a certain point, but you can't go further. You can also use "move camera to object" selection by right clicking an object in your outliner. 

 

 

2) I'm making some assumptions because your question is kind of vague to me. I assume you want enemy plane icons to show up on the map via the spotting system of vehicle entities. You must have an enabled entity vehicle, it must be set to a country (in your case, Red), and "spotter" must be checked. You can find more information on spotter logic on page 86 of the mission editor manual. 

 

[jollyjack]

Hi Sketch, i mean this: the enemy planes don't show, also not when closer, and the content sizing of the map here (details view):

 

 

The enemy plane's settings here are:

 

Edited June 18, 2020 by jollyjack

[Sketch]

Most likely the enemy planes are not showing up on the map because none of the friendly planes have spotter enabled. IIRC, you get friendly planes on the map and icons for both friendly and enemy entities with normal difficulty - which is what you probably have going on in the screenshot. If you want icons and the map to show enemy planes, you'll need to give one of the friendly planes spotter capabilities in the mission editor.

 

I don't believe you can make the in-game mini map any larger or zoom in/zoom out of it. You can open the regular map at anytime, I believe the default key is m. 

[Jaegermeister]

I think 3 km is too far away for the enemy AC to show up on your mini-map. They should appear when they get closer. Probably within 2 km from memory, but I don't use the mini-map much so I don't know for sure. Not at my computer to test it this evening either.