Hide GPS crosshair from RscMapControl

[gundy 10]

Hi all,

When entering a helicopter (and probably other vehicles) you seem to be temporarily given a GPS, resulting in a GPS crosshair being drawn on RscMapControls. Is there any way to hide that crosshair from my RscMapControl? I don't mind so much that the player has access to a GPS or that the position is revealed on the main map (when you press 'm'), but I do not want to have that crosshair show up on the RscMapControl I am trying to set up.

Thanks & Best Regards,

Gundy

[gundy 10]

Still haven't found a solution. Is it possible to dynamically set enableGPS on a vehicle, for example to "disable" when loading an SQF script? How would I do that, assuming that I have the target vehicle already as an object?

[gundy 10]

Sorry to bump this again, but I am still looking for a solution. The map resource that gets drawn for the GPS (when hitting CTRL+M) does not show the vertical and horizontal lines through your own position, so this should be possible.

[raspu86 92]

A picture says more than a thousand words.

These lines need to go

[gundy 10]

Right, I found a way, though its not very comfortable. For the the map control's type use use CT_MAP (100) instead of CT_MAP_MAIN (101). No more GPS position lines! Unfortunately this also gets rid of all map markers, so if you want them to show up, you have to write code that gets called in the OnDraw entry to draw these.

[gundy 10]

I tried to create a function that draws the markers on a CT_MAP map control, but its incomplete. Only icons, rectangles and ellipses are drawn, and the both ellipses and rectangles are not drawing "solid" and "solidBorder" grid types correctly yet. Arrows and lines are missing altogether.

I also seem to be unable to get the map to draw "satellite" style, even though the maxSatelliteAlpha, alphaFadeStartScale and alphaFadeEndScale properties are set accordingly and do work fine on a CT_MAP_MAIN map control.

Here is the code I have so far:

draw_markers = {
_cntrlScreen = _this select 0;
{
	private ["_marker","_pos","_type","_size","_icon","_colorType","_color","_brush","_brushType","_shape","_alpha","_dir","_text"];
	_marker = _x;

	_pos = getMarkerPos _marker;
	_type = getMarkerType _marker;
	_size = getMarkerSize _marker;
	_icon = getText(configFile/"CfgMarkers"/_type/"Icon");
	_colorType = getMarkerColor _marker;  
	if (_icon != "" && {_colorType == "Default"}) then {
		_color = getArray(configFile/"CfgMarkers"/_type/"color");
	} else {
		_color = getArray(configFile/"CfgMarkerColors"/_colorType/"color");
	};
	if (typeName (_color select 0) == "STRING") then {
		_color = [
			call compile (_color select 0),
			call compile (_color select 1),
			call compile (_color select 2),
			call compile (_color select 3)
		];
	};
	_brushType = markerBrush _marker;
	_brush = getText(configFile/"CfgMarkerBrushes"/_brushType/"texture");
	_shape = markerShape _marker;
	_alpha = markerAlpha _marker;
	_dir = markerDir _marker;
	_text = markerText _marker;

	switch (_shape) do {
	    case "ICON": {
	    	_cntrlScreen drawIcon [_icon,_color,_pos,(_size select 0) * 20,(_size select 1) * 20,_dir,_text,0,0.035,"TahomaB"];
	    };
	    case "RECTANGLE": {
	    	_cntrlScreen drawRectangle [_pos,_size select 0,_size select 1,_dir,_color,_brush];
		};
		case "ELLIPSE": {
	    	_cntrlScreen drawEllipse [_pos,_size select 0,_size select 1,_dir,_color,_brush];
		};
	};
} forEach allMapMarkers;
};