No.401_Wolverine
Dec-23-2015, 09:55
Working in the FMB last night I came across something that might affect mission building in general but may be just my imagination. Looking to get some confirmation on this theory from other builders.
I believe I discovered that if I put a static object on the map as army 'none' that it did not produce the distance dot that many objects show (thus giving away the target area if you're using them for targets). I noticed this as I was looking at fuel barrel objects. I'd placed a TON of these on the map in various places, but on approaching the target to test an attack, I realized that I couldn't see any dots. Also, bomb craters produced no dots. But then I noticed that there were still objects on my map producing dots. When I went back into the FMB I saw that the things I was observing on the map were the objects with an 'army' assigned.
So I changed the army of objects that I knew I could see as dots to none and reloaded the map. No dots.
I'll be testing this more extensively, but this might be useful information to mission builders new and old.
Question for all those Mission Builders out there is have you notice this same behavior? Can you replicate it and confirm it?
I believe I discovered that if I put a static object on the map as army 'none' that it did not produce the distance dot that many objects show (thus giving away the target area if you're using them for targets). I noticed this as I was looking at fuel barrel objects. I'd placed a TON of these on the map in various places, but on approaching the target to test an attack, I realized that I couldn't see any dots. Also, bomb craters produced no dots. But then I noticed that there were still objects on my map producing dots. When I went back into the FMB I saw that the things I was observing on the map were the objects with an 'army' assigned.
So I changed the army of objects that I knew I could see as dots to none and reloaded the map. No dots.
I'll be testing this more extensively, but this might be useful information to mission builders new and old.
Question for all those Mission Builders out there is have you notice this same behavior? Can you replicate it and confirm it?