Way to change movement Units? Basically say 1m = 1km on Movedisk

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#1

Hi there,

not for a specific mod yet, but I think others may find this usefull too.

Did anyone notice a file that let’s you change the Units for the movement disk?

I’m talking only about the visual representation that tells you the distance when movement disk is active. (143m or 4km) Not the actual scale or ingame value. Only the text.

Primary goal is to scale.
So huge ships and Objects can be scaled down to a useable size - together with all other content. Like SSD from starwars or Eve titans from about 20km can be numerically scaled down, but unit display would still be wrong.

What i’m looking for is a way to “fix” this. The best case would be if there is a way to tell the Label to show a fraction of the actual distance. Example:
4 km in real
10 km in the mods scale (So a Titan would only be 8 km while display shows 20)

I was not sure how to describe my whole Problem in a good way, so hopefully you’ll still get the idea. I would be great if someone stumbled over a file that had this information inside.

I did a lot of modding over the years but always avoided to touch the UI folder too much.

Best Regards
Mr.Thi

#2

Nope - there’s no fix. The code and places in the code where this is dealt with aren’t open to Modding.

#3

Another note is that small ships like fighters start having camera clipping issues, and I believe minimum precision issues causing mesh deformation (I have tried this and problems occurred so I didn’t pursue it further)

#4

What a shame. Well, at least I can stop looking for it now. Thanks for the answer.

I had used this on the last Iteration of the old EVE: RTS mod and an internal Nexus test Version. It worked out pretty well back then. Scale was 1/10. But jea … I think fighters where pretty close to the limit.

Maybe I can go with 1/3 size if necessary. If my memory is accurate, a Titan may then have a size similar to Sajuuk.

Otherwise I’ll simply build a larger map and script the ship speed - or ignore Titans anyway =D.