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[spartan18a]

I have Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 Gaming G1 WindForce OC 4GB GDDR5

but I have many difficulties to see contacts. Can somebody tell me what to change in the setting to see them better?

I have a mission where the first bandit is at 3kms and then every other km up to 15 kms.
This is what I see when I start the mission and press pause ...

The ones on the left are just a small speck ....

[Kashmiro]

hi.

i was solving that for many daaays. I honestly cant be sure what version u are using but try this commands.

SHIFT+TAB to open the console.

then type.

mp_dotrange DOT 25       (this will set visibility of ALL planes - dots by 25Km which is the maximum u can get.



then u can try.

set visibility 220    (this is rly cool cause it will set up the visibility distance in total (beware of ram usage) this means 22km which works rly fine for me. start at 150 which is 15km
set mesh 150   (mesh objects or such )
set plane 220 (static planes)
set object/objects 200


and then again SHIFT + TAB and try then

there are more commands i have found but those will be enough i guess

[Aioros]

Or check this (It will resolve your visibility problems forever):

http://www.tolwyn.com/il2-icons-explained

[SAS~Storebror]

But be careful, the auto-executing icon settings script will be considered "cheating" on most online servers and it definitely spoils the immersion when you see massive icons plus text at 25km distance already.
In real life it wasn't easy to spot other planes either

Best regards - Mike

[Kashmiro]

True but if he will set only 20km for dots and 3km for displaying icons thrn it will be fine

[SAS~Storebror]

I'm afraid I have to contradict you here.

From a server operators' point of view, when we're talking about online gameplay the visibility distance for dots and the icon display settings are applied on server side and distributed to all clients in a centralized manner.
If a client decides to change these settings locally, he's much likely receiving a situational awareness benefit over other players and that's plain simply cheating.

From a physiological point of view, you might want to read the study "Predicting Visibility of Aircraft" by Andrew Watson, Cesar V. Ramirez andEllen Salud:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0005594
...and "Determination of daytime conspicuity of transport aircraft" by Howell WD (1957) (Indianapolis, Indiana: Civil Aeronautics Administration Technical Development Center. 304 304.)

The bottom line is that unless know precisely what exact direction the other plane is to be expected from, even a plane of the size of a DC-3 can only be detected at a range of 5.5-8.7km.
That'd be your pysioloigically correct dots range for twin engine planes (which gives a good compromise between single engine fighters and heavy 4-engine bombers).
Physiologically and logically in general, the icon range is zero.
In real life planes just don't have any descriptive text or IFF colors around them.

Best regards - Mike

[Kashmiro]

ok...but still mike...he was not asking for your server/or any server online

he just asked HOW to IMPROVE his visibility performance in any case...isnt it?

so if u will try to help him like u did, what was that help for at all?

.....so i think it may be: get version SAS with my range dots and then ull be fine(cause i guess he dont know how to mod it at all, therefore im posting commands instead of describing reality which doesnt matter for his qiestion at all.

cheers (im typing this because of same result on my questions ) no offense at all!

...if any questions, feel free to ask, im here to help

[Kashmiro]

but Ya, your right that its possible for SP and MP,

in SP u must put those commands in QMB every time u quit the game (counts for closely unmodded UP) - maybe not for SAS, CUP etc..im not any sure.

in MP when u are a host of the lan game, as Mike said, every other player will play with ranges/setting u have set up on your pc/host pc.


and u have to make perfect mode, unless u dont wanna fly in "visibility" egg