Shared intel rigns with allies, is it possible?

[ZLO_RD]

Range rings are only displayed for selected units.

huh what? i just have all rings for all units always enabled

[keyser]

I wish devs would do more UI enhancements and less balance fixes.

for the 2556464 times, it's not same dev working on the same stuff; balance fixes are mainly done by none dev.

Also i asked hussar, and he said something like it would require too much to computer. It is well known that's displaying range slows down the game, although displaying only radar/smd would already be a big achievement.

[nine2]

Regarding it's too slow:

- Only display radar and smd as you say
- Only display the 10 biggest radar ranges from the team
- Have a switch to turn it off

Could get fancy and have some icon you hover over that shows all-intel-ranges-on-demand ... ie they only display when your cursor is over it, there is no way to turn it hard-on.

[Franck83]

The CPU cost is that it calculates all bp ranges depending on all radar units at each tick or each 2 ticks.

So you can simply add a cooldown. For example, after 3s with no zoom changes, you can draw your radar layer. Then at zoom change or screen scrolling, you erase your radar layer.

So it calculates maximum once per 3s, so no CPU power cost.

Instead of a cooldown, you can trigger the draw of the radar layers with a shortcut.

[Myxir]

one option how to do it (maybe not the best, idc):

1. hook unit.lua in the sim layer
- when a unit is created, inform allies of id + tier + interesting ranges (intel, direct fire), ... via sync tables
- when a unit dies, or alliance breaks, send an info to remove the unit by id
2. in the usersync, upon receiving that info, send it to a new module/file where it is managed
3. upon receiving that info, create range rings (although the "additional camera stuff" solution for rings isn't beautiful, it works)
keep track of created rings so you can remove them once e.g. the unit dies
4. add UI options
- filter by tier / type
- update rings when changing options

note that this applies to static stuff, if the unit is moving around, you also need to update range ring positions
(and the UI might become horribly slow)

[Uveso]

5. If you don't want a flickering rangering, then you need to refresh the circle every 2 ticks.

Will a 2 ticks refresh fix this issue ? viewtopic.php?f=41&t=16506

nope. This only works static.
You can't use this with mobile objects.

UI refresh cycle and gfx FPS are not sync.