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A question on wind & guns gauge

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Bill Bones

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Houm.... I've got Build 13 upgrade 2 , and I've noticed that now the "wind & guns gauge" that used to be in the upper right corner now is smaller and close to the lower left corner. I've been loking for a way to deactivate the mod causing this effect as, frankly, the "new" gauge sucks. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whippa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":whipa" border="0" alt="whippa.gif" /> I really miss the older (and BIGGER, and READABLE, and USABLE <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whippa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":whipa" border="0" alt="whippa.gif" /> ) one. Is there something I can do about this? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/8q.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":8q" border="0" alt="8q.gif" />
 
Hi, Bill. How are you? I am playing Build 13 + 2up just now too. Please, Could you send me your regular e-mail address through private message? I owe you my replay for your last e-mail but I don´t have your address as the Ellaybe is out of working now. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hi.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":gday" border="0" alt="hi.gif" />
 
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Houm.... I've got Build 13 upgrade 2 , and I've noticed that now the "wind & guns gauge" that used to be in the upper right corner now is smaller and close to the lower left corner. I've been loking for a way to deactivate the mod causing this effect as, frankly, the "new" gauge sucks. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whippa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":whipa" border="0" alt="whippa.gif" /> I really miss the older (and BIGGER, and READABLE, and USABLE <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whippa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":whipa" border="0" alt="whippa.gif" /> ) one. Is there something I can do about this? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/8q.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":8q" border="0" alt="8q.gif" />
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You can change that in the "Options" interface <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whippa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":whipa" border="0" alt="whippa.gif" />

Frankly, the old gauge sucks more <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whippa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":whipa" border="0" alt="whippa.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whippa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":whipa" border="0" alt="whippa.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="icon_wink.gif" />

EDIT: to clarify that: <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whippa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":whipa" border="0" alt="whippa.gif" /> is usually not my style, but you seem to like <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whippa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":whipa" border="0" alt="whippa.gif" /> a lot, so I'm happy to oblige <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bow.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":bow" border="0" alt="bow.gif" />
 
shouldn't you change it in the buildsetttings? actually, i think that the old one is better as well.
 
Well, if someone asks me in a decent manner he gets a decent answer:

Of course it is a matter of playstyle and taste whether you like an interface design or not. No need to write drawn out complaints about that, the Build gives you the option to choose the one you like: simply click "Options - Sailing mode - Old looking status radar" to reenable the original big "radar/wind gauge" in the upper right corner.

In Buildsettings.h you can choose different textures for that interface:

#define ONSEA_COMPASS 1
// 0: Stock PotC: Compass rose is blue
// 1: Orange transparent compass
// 2: Historical brass compass

HTH <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
 
Houm, thanks for explaining. I was quite frustated after checking the whole buildsettings file (although shifted some things, I'm about to give a try to the "brass" compass rose as soon as I can get with the game).

And, as you may have noticed, I'm not friend of finding annoyances whenever I re-take POTC. Usually after months without playing, with all my abbilities rusty... and then find myself furstatingly struggling to bear into fire a damned pirate ship with a piss poor sailing ability and the radar screen clogged with red ships, no clue where is my ship under the red chaos, and my tiny 468 paces fire arcs AWOL. IS-NOT-FUNNY. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whippa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":whipa" border="0" alt="whippa.gif" />

Then I read the build 13 .txt and the buildsettigns.h and nothing, nada, no solution. So I re-load the game and again try to struggle out of he mess.... and eventually come here pretty upset about why nobody warned of the interface change and why it's concealed out of buildsettings.
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/poet.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":hmm" border="0" alt="poet.gif" /> you'll have to come here more often!
Lots of post about Buildsettings.h and Internalsettings.h,
where all the settings can be changed to your liking!! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bookish.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":mm" border="0" alt="bookish.gif" />
 
why don't you look into those two files yourself? that should help. making a summary of all the posts about it would take ages!
 
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Houm, thanks for explaining.
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You are welcome <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" /> An info in the readme is indeed a good proposal.

Sorry if we can't always provide all the information that players would like to have, but modding is extremely time consuming, so we are always undermanned.
 
If you open BuildSettings.h, you will find explanations on all settings in the file itself. You can enable/disable most of the major mods.
 
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