0026680: New mode for "Draw Ship Models": "Skip Overlapped By Icon"

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0026680	AI War 2	GUI		Mar 9, 2022 2:10 pm	Mar 10, 2022 2:28 pm

Reporter	Incognito	Assigned To
Status	feature for later	Resolution	open
Product Version	4.002 Macrophage Live!

Summary	0026680: New mode for "Draw Ship Models": "Skip Overlapped By Icon"
Description	Quite often the unit icons are so big that on most zoom levels they overlap ship models completely (or something sticks a little bit out). This will probably never be the case for the biggest models. If it's not gonna be too much work, can we get an additional, smarter model drawing mode that skips drawing models based on (cached) ratio between icon size and current zoom level? All it needs to do is: on "zoomed out enough" the game hides drones, if even more - then hides strikecrafts, then frigates, etc., and on zooming in these will start appearing back to please our eyes.
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Chris_McElligottPark Mar 9, 2022 3:20 pm administrator ~0065320	It's possible that a modder might be able to take that up, but it's quite a lot of math to figure something like that out unfortunately. There's a large amount of processing that might be involved in that in general. There's already some modes for turning off icons, or turning off icons once you get to X zoom level, and some modes that show a ring for faction allegiance, etc, around the units instead of just the icon.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
Mar 9, 2022 2:10 pm	Incognito	New Issue
Mar 9, 2022 3:20 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Status	new => feature for later
Mar 9, 2022 3:20 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Note Added: 0065320
Mar 10, 2022 2:28 pm	Daniexpert	Relationship added	child of 0026429