Unit green triangle indicators

[DarkMater 10]

Green unit triangle indicators: Can these be changed to a different color, green is hard to see when everything around me is green. Blue would be nice, any way to do this?

[Thirdup 0]

I believe these are .paa files internal to the game. You could hack/mod them to change the color I guess (but might be mistaken as a cheat by some MP servers). There is no simple what to alter this part of the interface that I currently know of.

[frederf 0]

Aren't the green icon overlays diamonds and not triangles?

[DarkMater 10]

Diamonds, I am mistaken, but green non-the-less.

[Mutet 10]

Green?!

I could have sworn they where yellow...

[frederf 0]

I believe the UI color is in the UI config pbo. The image itself is a straight 1-channel alpha type and the color is applied from the config value.

[Petko 10]

And PLEASE can anyone for gods sake tell me whats the logic behind the diamonds? When do the leader icon or the team icons show up? I think its difficulty related somehow, but i dont know how does it change with difficulty levels, and how does it control when to show up.

I only see in multiplayer games that the leader and team member icons randomly show up or disappear... i need those fuckin icons, and they just randomly dissappear to loose my only last clue where my team is.

Edited July 26, 2009 by Petko

[walker 0]

Hi Petko

I presume you are talking about the 3D interface. Those who are your squad have the diamond markers. The one with stripes are unit commanders.

To find out where an AI commander is press [5] [5] calls out "Where are you?" to him.To see the Diamond unit markers in MP press [Esc] Twice they then show up again. No it does not make you disconect.

If you are commanding press space bar and all units are selected.

There is a video linked from the wiki ArmA II hints page that describes the basics of commanding units.

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ArmA_II_Hints_and_Tips

There is also the manual you got with ArmA II as well as other sources.

Kind Regards walker

Edited July 26, 2009 by walker

[frederf 0]

And PLEASE can anyone for gods sake tell me whats the logic behind the diamonds? When do the leader icon or the team icons show up? I think its difficulty related somehow, but i dont know how does it change with difficulty levels, and how does it control when to show up.

I only see in multiplayer games that the leader and team member icons randomly show up or disappear... i need those fuckin icons, and they just randomly dissappear to loose my only last clue where my team is.

They are part of the difficulty settings. There is a setting for "extended HUD info" and "extended HUD info permanent" the first one fades while the second is on all the time. SP difficulty can be edited point by point in the options menu. Multiplayer difficulty is set by the server.

[Petko 10]

They are part of the difficulty settings. There is a setting for "extended HUD info" and "extended HUD info permanent" the first one fades while the second is on all the time. SP difficulty can be edited point by point in the options menu. Multiplayer difficulty is set by the server.

Thank you!

The 9000 bucks question is: When does it start and stop fading?

As said by Walker the leader icon can be "recalled" by pressing esc twice or bringing the map forward and back. But what about the normal member icons? They just fade and i dont know how to recall them back.

[Alex72 1]

In the options (difficulty) you can set them to fade or not. Same goes for waypoints. Im at work so im not sure exactlly what they are called but there are 2 options of the same. One is called "persistent" or something like that. So HUD persistent = ON would leave the diamonds on the screen at all times. Disabling that one but leave the other HUD option enabled will show the diamonds and then fade them. So to see them again press ESC twice (same for seeing fading waypoints).

So you can make the waypoints and diamonds show all the time if you want. I made all my things FADE as it is now. See it at start and then the screen gets clean. And i know i can see it all by tapping ESC twice (would like some other button tbh then ESC'ing twice).

But mess with the difficulty options. OPTIONS - DIFFICULTY - EDIT

Alex