Number displays

[DeputyLOL]

Now we have dials to select numbers. We need something nice to display them on! If possible, could they have the orange background and bright orange, digital style numbers? They would also go blank when a certain variable either met or not met.

[DeputyLOL]

yeah, good idea. Have the 'degree' look like it is part of the other numbers. (remove line inbetween 0 and degree and add the faint grey lines underneath the degree.

[Alexustas]

  "Have the 'degree' look like it is part of the other numbers. (remove line inbetween 0 and degree"

I'm afraid I do not understand what you mean

[DeputyLOL]

Sorry. You see the faint 8s to the left that signify that the number is not currently illuminated. Have that effect on the degree symbol. (bright circle on top, dim circle on bottom)

As for the line, I was referring to the thin white line inbetween the 0 and degree

[Alexustas]

ah, it's ok. it's just quick sketch. not a final look )) i forgot to put dark-grey "8" behind "degree", sorry

[Alexustas]

that's better? ))

[DeputyLOL]

yup!

[Alexustas]

Do you need two seperate COURSE display and dials or only one?

[DeputyLOL]

in real planes there are 2 and they are separate. I personally don't need a second one. The course selector is a little useless in KSP, as it is basically heading that takes into account any crosswinds.... KSP doesn't have wind. Others might want a second one though.

[Alexustas]

ok

[Alexustas]

Bo-oo-m! I got it! ))

https://youtu.be/fqR4XEDaZew

[Alexustas]

https://youtu.be/Ki6joEVREQo

[DeputyLOL]

that looks perfect. sorry I have been a bit quiet recently, work was starting to mount up.

[Alexustas]

i need clean up something and then I will upload all MCP stuff

[DeputyLOL]

ok

[Alexustas]

MCP Displays: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0i8rvis4e5z9y4a/EFIS_MCP_Display.zip?dl=0

edti URLs, or put "EFIS_MCP_Display" into "\GameData\ASET\ASET_Props\Instruments\"

[Alexustas]

Dials: https://www.dropbox.com/s/guawdqgh64296pc/MCP_Dials.zip?dl=0

[Alexustas]

Rotary wheel for V/S - G/S adjust: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hkgzptv2yx51x6o/MCP_RotaryWheel.zip?dl=0

[DeputyLOL]

SO MANY NEW THINGS FOR TESTING :smiley: (btw you misspelt glide slope in the page text file for the V/S G/S screen, you spelt it glidesplope) I corrected it in my setup

[Alexustas]

oh, thanks. typo - it's my constant problem ((

[Alexustas]

btw, i can make inscriptions (or labels, or signs, or... how it's called in English?) for MCP. It's will be seperate polygonal texts props. ALTITUDE, COURSE, HEADING etc. in same style like "BANK" on the "heading" dial and "DN <----> UP"

[Alexustas]

[DeputyLOL]

yes please. my cockpit display is a different shape to yours so is it possible to have the lines and lables as separate props.

[DeputyLOL]

Thinking about it, maybe better to just have a configurable lable prop

[Alexustas]

hmmm. i can make prop like "SmallLabelPlate" but with small clearance between text and plate

[DeputyLOL]

yes please.

[Alexustas]

I hope you understand my idea. I find it hard to describe in words

[DeputyLOL]

yeah I understand it. Its going to be fiddly in unity, but I think it could work well.

[Alexustas]

yes, you can't see the text itself in Unity, this is not very convenient. What's why i've maked lables with plates underneath.

But you will be able to see text origin and scale, and you get a configurable label without any background. I do not have any other ideas how to do this

[Alexustas]

I need to think about how to make this process as easy as possible

[Alexustas]

it seems I came up with how to do this

[DeputyLOL]

I sense a diagram....

[Alexustas]

No, the diagram is not much help here. ksp reders internals and props only if they placed in a specific Unity layer. if i take a regular labelPlate prop and place them in the "wrong" layer, you stiil be able to see it (and click it and moved etc) in Unity editor, but it not be rendered in KSP

[Alexustas]

but your text of course will be rendered ))

[DeputyLOL]

that's good then

[Alexustas]

[Alexustas]

Yes! it's work. you can just replace mu-model and you will get all your label w/o background. but of course, you need to change a color of text

[DeputyLOL]

is it possible to have the labels 'light up'? currently, all the labels of all your props can be 'on' (white) or 'off' (dark grey). can the labels be white when off and a brighter glowing white when on?

[Alexustas]

no. the stock module used for labels. it's hardcoded by squad and it's not glowing if only black. And i hate it for this. what's why i've maked BLACK text oon white plate.

[DeputyLOL]

hmmmm.... would the text be colour configurable?

[Alexustas]

MOARdv mentioned about the problem: "Short answer, no. It's using a KSP object that doesn't provide any font control (font, justification, etc). That may change when KSP 1.1 drops and we have to deal with the side-effects of Unity 5." here: https://github.com/Mihara/RasterPropMonitor/issues/401#issuecomment-147192318

[DeputyLOL]

ok

[Alexustas]

 "hmmmm.... would the text be colour configurable?"

everything will work exactly the same as in the SmallLabelPlate but the plate itself will be invisible (in game)

[DeputyLOL]

that's ok then

[Alexustas]

I've added transforms for text to the all MCP displays

[Alexustas]

DL: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0i8rvis4e5z9y4a/EFIS_MCP_Display.zip?dl=0

[DeputyLOL]

I'm having an issue with the vertspeed and glideslope display. It is meant to switch between showing 2 separate variables.

The vertical speed mode works fine, the glide slope mode doesn't. It appears as a white and black box. Any ideas?

[DeputyLOL]

nevermind fixed it. I was still using the type version and forgot to change the textfile name in the monitor config.