THR File - Radar Picture

[Phoenix711]

Please anyone confirm...

I have a feeling that the THR file info is used on the ground radar screen, drawing the paths / lines for roads / rivers.

If it is so, the "no rivers" option of the THR Creator would be a bad idea for spotting bridges easily on the radar, or give instructions to your wingmans (not AI, online Human) over the radar like "Left of the river turning point" etc.

Confirm?

[Sherlock]

Please anyone confirm...

I have a feeling that the THR file info is used on the ground radar screen, drawing the paths / lines for roads / rivers.

If it is so, the "no rivers" option of the THR Creator would be a bad idea for spotting bridges easily on the radar, or give instructions to your wingmans (not AI, online Human) over the radar like "Left of the river turning point" etc.

Confirm?

Dr. Fred "BaldEagle" Balding is probably the only one that I know that can answer this question for sure. I know I don't know the answer.

[Luk]

Dr. Fred "BaldEagle" Balding is probably the only one that I know that can answer this question for sure. I know I don't know the answer.

the second way is to try it
2d and 3d world are very different
for example in AF - in 2d, ACs can take off from unleveled bases
in 3d they will stack in taxiway

in 2d units can cross urban tile bridge/river without bridge geometry (it's for an other post, but I have tried it)
in 3D - they will stack

*.thr file deffinition is very schematic in my opinion - as I can remember BaldEagle said in an other post: "add some river vectors to the tile an it will be recognized as a river" (perhaps he was talking about road vectors)
I translated it this way -" no matter which direction vector has, just it has to be present"
Vectors are connected in HSD screen. So I suppose, they are defined in *.bin and not in *.thr.
But I can be totally wrong.
Sorry for my english.

I can try it this evening.
Luk

[Luk]

I am sorry, I am not competent to test it. I can not see any vector paths on F4-AFś A-G radar scope - neither in default Korea and Balkan theaters.
I see only some green noise and some bright spots (targets) on HSD.

in 2d units can cross urban tile bridge/river without bridge geometry (it's for an other post, but I have tried it)
in 3D - they will stack

This was premature note - I am not sure, but I could use non-updated *.thr file during the test.
Luk

[Phoenix711]

Use SHIFT + F3. Hope I remember right. This will decrease the radar gain so you will be able to see things better, after some sweeps.

BTW, I think now the THR cannot be used in the AG radar, because, whatever the road direction is, the THR puts a road info on the complete tile, and no direction etc information exists in the THR file.

So you're possibly right. It is the tile definitions, that are drawed on the AG radar.