MFD Tutorial #1: The Basics

@Subnerdica
Gozinya#5122

what's your discord tag? I might need help making altitude and orbital velocity indicators @Gozinya

@Subnerdica
You can do it! Reach out to me in discord if you need any help with it.

using the stuff you taught me im gonna try to make an mfd capable of selecting one of six different missiles and firing them individually just by clicking the screen, no longer needing individual activation groups. thank you for all the help, and wish me luck!

ah ok thanks @Gozinya

@Subnerdica
Transparency of widgets is controlled through the ‘opacity’ feature, and is 0 to 1.

do you know what the hex color is for completely transparent? @Gozinya

@Subnerdica It shouldn’t be laggy but rather just slow, like with the radar in the default mfd, when you turn the resolution up.

Oh god that sounds laggy @Kleesmilie

@Subnerdica using vectors to get the terrain colour in a certain direction, then the one next to it and so on, to get the pixels to display. Asking, where does a vector with these angles relative to the ‘camera’ intersect the terrain and what colour does that point have. Essentially you would make the mfd-programme do the work of a grafics-card.

a what? @Kleesmilie

@Subnerdica
It should be possible to do a raytracing mfd, but that wouldn‘t really be practical.

@Subnerdica
Unfortunately not. That would be cool feature wouldn’t it?

Do you know if there’s a way to make an mfd display the view from a camera?

thanks for the vid this actually helped a lot

Nice video thanks now I know how to do some things I didn't.

Thank you so much I was having so much trouble with these @Gozinya

@NewFrontiersExploration
Thanks! Next one should be in about a week.

@Gozinya, I love you for this, thank you so much, much appreciated. And also congrats on hitting 30k points 😁
Definitely looking forward to the next tutorial vid.

@Arstotzka
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