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emetakleze

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Druid, is there any way to make the pets either be invisable on the radar, or turn their dots blue? It's a pain sometimes when hunting for that one rabbit and you track the yellow and it turns out to be a pet bug.

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right on brother emetakleze. this might not be possible, but if it is it would be great. Hi Cloud!

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Em,

Dru actually tried exactly what you suggested (because it bugs us too), and (insert technical garbledena here) the radar thingy is just too ingrained, or we lost our funding, or something.

Anyway, he tried really hard and it wouldn't let him.

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Oh, sry to hear that one. oh well, it was worth a try.

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Hi.
I agree the radar would have been great had it been possible.

How about changing the halo then? I know if I make a pet it has a nice bright green halo, but if it's someone else's it's kind of a faint red - that's mostly hard to see, specially at a distance.

Could it be bright white?

Or maybe if the shape can be changed, it could be elongated downward - it would be almost a shroud or something. Just so it's more visible.

...and I'm off.
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Havoc_Summers wrote:
Hi.
I agree the radar would have been great had it been possible.

How about changing the halo then? I know if I make a pet it has a nice bright green halo, but if it's someone else's it's kind of a faint red - that's mostly hard to see, specially at a distance.

Could it be bright white?

Or maybe if the shape can be changed, it could be elongated downward - it would be almost a shroud or something. Just so it's more visible.

...and I'm off.
 


Actually, this would be great. I can't count how many time's I've been using the shock rifle on a titan or warlord on the other side of the map, only to switch to lightning 30 seconds later and find that it's on my side.

I second Havoc's notion!
Cloud34

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noob^3 wrote:

Havoc_Summers wrote:
Hi.
I agree the radar would have been great had it been possible.

How about changing the halo then? I know if I make a pet it has a nice bright green halo, but if it's someone else's it's kind of a faint red - that's mostly hard to see, specially at a distance.

Could it be bright white?

Or maybe if the shape can be changed, it could be elongated downward - it would be almost a shroud or something. Just so it's more visible.

...and I'm off.
 


Actually, this would be great. I can't count how many time's I've been using the shock rifle on a titan or warlord on the other side of the map, only to switch to lightning 30 seconds later and find that it's on my side.

I second Havoc's notion! 


Yeah and a bright white halo would be real easy to see on a winter map
emetakleze

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How about a haze around the pet, kinda like the fire around a player when they hit a level? Maybe not all the time either, just when u shoot it the fire ring springs up around it basically saying "i'm a good guy!!"?

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Cloud34 wrote:

noob^3 wrote:

Havoc_Summers wrote:
Hi.
I agree the radar would have been great had it been possible.

How about changing the halo then? I know if I make a pet it has a nice bright green halo, but if it's someone else's it's kind of a faint red - that's mostly hard to see, specially at a distance.

Could it be bright white?

Or maybe if the shape can be changed, it could be elongated downward - it would be almost a shroud or something. Just so it's more visible.

...and I'm off.
 


Actually, this would be great. I can't count how many time's I've been using the shock rifle on a titan or warlord on the other side of the map, only to switch to lightning 30 seconds later and find that it's on my side.

I second Havoc's notion! 


Yeah and a bright white halo would be real easy to see on a winter map  


Actually, I'm red green colorblind, so white on white is almost easy compared to that red thing. But I'm an uncommon exception, the majority of players is what's important. No big deal.
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cloud....hate it when that happens. You're just in a convo and accidentally offend someone with some sort of impairment...i do it all the time. I got a couple friends red/green colorblind noob, one of which didnt know until he tried to join the marine corp., lol.

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noob^3 wrote:

Cloud34 wrote:

noob^3 wrote:

Havoc_Summers wrote:
Hi.
I agree the radar would have been great had it been possible.

How about changing the halo then? I know if I make a pet it has a nice bright green halo, but if it's someone else's it's kind of a faint red - that's mostly hard to see, specially at a distance.

Could it be bright white?

Or maybe if the shape can be changed, it could be elongated downward - it would be almost a shroud or something. Just so it's more visible.

...and I'm off.
 


Actually, this would be great. I can't count how many time's I've been using the shock rifle on a titan or warlord on the other side of the map, only to switch to lightning 30 seconds later and find that it's on my side.

I second Havoc's notion! 


Yeah and a bright white halo would be real easy to see on a winter map  


Actually, I'm red green colorblind, so white on white is almost easy compared to that red thing. But I'm an uncommon exception, the majority of players is what's important. No big deal. 


Crap. I didn't know

(dof)dcs wrote:
cloud....hate it when that happens. You're just in a convo and accidentally offend someone with some sort of impairment...i do it all the time.  


It happens to me all the time on the server
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noob^3 wrote:

Cloud34 wrote:

noob^3 wrote:

Havoc_Summers wrote:
Hi.
I agree the radar would have been great had it been possible.

How about changing the halo then? I know if I make a pet it has a nice bright green halo, but if it's someone else's it's kind of a faint red - that's mostly hard to see, specially at a distance.

Could it be bright white?

Or maybe if the shape can be changed, it could be elongated downward - it would be almost a shroud or something. Just so it's more visible.

...and I'm off.
 


Actually, this would be great. I can't count how many time's I've been using the shock rifle on a titan or warlord on the other side of the map, only to switch to lightning 30 seconds later and find that it's on my side.

I second Havoc's notion! 


Yeah and a bright white halo would be real easy to see on a winter map  


Actually, I'm red green colorblind, so white on white is almost easy compared to that red thing. But I'm an uncommon exception, the majority of players is what's important. No big deal. 



If any of you have an idea and want to implement it, I'm always open to contributions of code

Other than that, this portion of code is all Mysterial's, and after all the troubhe he's had, I really dont want to touch it.

I did want to make a post with a quote that was at least 4 levels deep though

As for colorblind, sorry. I'm guessing you have a lot of trouble with the unreal interface... it doesn't seem very friendly for colorblindness...

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Okay, first off, I wasn't offended at all. I was more or less defending myself from looking stupid about the white on white thing. I don't easilly get offended on the colorlindness thing. There's only one thing people can do to upset me, and that's impossible online so don't worry. Unless the new loading screen starts to read COLORBLIND PEOPLE SUCK or something, I don't care.

As for the effect on my UT, yeah it can be a pain, and when I first started I spent two minutes going around onslaught looking for red base. Heh...

But, now I've adapted and I can't really tell a difference. My brother's colorblind as well, and both of us don't even think about it.

[Insert long story about colorblind people and *culture* (if there is one) here]

I always wanted to be an air force pilot, but by the age of eight I knew that wouldn't happen, so I can relate to dof's friend. Unless it doesnt have any lights I can't fly a thing, unless it's RC.

Don't worry, I wasn't offended. You meant no harm, so no harm felt.
(dof)dcs

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um...im not dof. dof is a group of people. im dcs.

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Heh, white was just a suggestion... er, meant to suggest something brighter than the semi transparent (probably flame) red colored ordinary halo.

Most of the issues with not seeing the halo is because the titan is so big, his head is mostly hiding the halo -- in this case, even on a winter map, a white titan halo will be visibile in contrast with his own head. Yet, still I could be wrong about this.

As far as implementable code -- if there is a size (dimension) variable to the halo, altering just the height dimension might work. That may be just one number to change.
Changing color could be easy as well (one hopes). Or if not color, brightness level may be easy - like that could be one number variable (value 0-255 maybe or some such) ?

But also! If you shoot a friendly pet, mostly you can hear it groan... or say "ow" or something. Or is it "aiee!" (I think it alternates between "ow"and "aiee" -- like when you shoot a player.)
If all pets say "ow" it might be good enough -- but sometimes I don't think they make a noise at all.
So - as another implementable code, if all pets would yelp, or if their yelp could be turned up louder to make it more obvious, that might be enough.

Do I get an award for the long post?
 
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