This is a simple script that provides a virtual artifical horizon for Tribes
2 vehicles by setting 16 user waypoints on the distant horizon.
This is mostly useful when you are too high see the ground and are flying
something like a havoc transport or you are flying low in fog (i.e. Desiccator)
and want to keep level. A real artifical horizon line for vehicles was
once in the promised future features of Tribes 2 (to-do list), but it seems
to have gotten killed by the layoff of Dynamix people.
There is one keybinding you can set, "Artifical Horizon", which will toggle
the script on and off.
The artifical horizon points are activated when you jump in a vehicle, and
removed when you leave the vehicle. The points are set as North, East,
South, West, then NW, NE, SW, SE, then the eight points of NNE, NNW, etc...--this
is so that if you have other waypoints set by other scripts the most important
horizon points are set first. The points are set at the arbitrary absolute
altitude of 150 m, which is good for most maps, and at 9999 units distance
from the map center. The script will not delete points set by
other scripts, and there is a hard limit of 16 user waypoints at once.
Installation
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Place ArtificalHorizon.vl2 in Dynamix\Tribes2\Gamedata\base
Requires
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Requires Writer's support.vl2 -- get it from Tribes 2 Depot http://www.planettribes.com/depot
Credits
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Jsut (jsut@kabob.ca) for waypoint code.
Future wish list
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- Add options gui
- Add an option to remove current waypoints on activation and set entire horizon
points, then restore old waypoints on leaving vehicle
- Add an option to use 4, 8, or the full 16 points
- The current point altitude of 150 m works well for 0 to 300 m and provides
an approximate 0 degree pitch if you point at the horizon +/- about 3 degrees.
However if you go to 1000 m then the horizon is noticably below horizontal.
It is possible to obtain the current altitude, but this gives you distance
to the closest surface below you, so that if you fly over a mountain then
it gives a less than accurate value. It could be adjusted in real time, but
this would lead to the points jerking when you fly over terrain, probably
best to leave it as it is.
- Perhaps a pitch reticle to provide forward and side pitch angles.. might
not be that accurate though.
Revision History
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1.00 First release version, removed script activating with
non-air vehicles
