Vehicle overlay shapes

[rov-rob]

Summary

Hi. Id like to have the option to add custom vehicle shapes as overlay in pingviewer as this would be of great help operating large vehicles.

• Load in a list of coordinates outlining the vehicle shape.
  • Fileformat could be something simple like a .csv with x and y
  • Option so set colour and have multiple parts on the vehicle outline.
• Have the overlay shape scale with the selected sonar range.
• Have the overlay crop with the sonar sector setting.

I do not have enough programming knowledge to even know where to look to implement this my self.

Additional information

Example .csv and mockup pictures so vehicle is not to scale. Assuming ping360 as CRP in the example.

#x,y,name,colour
-0.4,0.5,base,blue
0.4,0.5,base,blue
0.4,-1.5,base,blue
-0.4,-1.5,base,blue
-0.4,0.5,base,blue

0.3,-1.5,backpack,red
0.3,-1.8,backpack,red
-0.3,-1.8,backpack,red
-0.3,-1.5,backpack,red

[joaoantoniocardoso]

Interesting idea. To add on that, I believe a ~.png~ .svg (vectorized) would be a more universal approach, maybe with an offset coordinate pair to help centralize.

[patrickelectric]

Yep, a SVG would be the way to go for sure!

[rov-rob]

From my experience with survey softwares like qps qinsy, you would define your vehicle shape with a simple csv or cad file(dxf/dwg of similair).

Line width and line colour could then be set by the user in the software without having to change and load different files.

Reading up a bit on svg file format, maybe the stroke and stroke-width parameteris in the .svg-format can be changed by the user in pingviewer.