Radar abilities in FSP

[madmel57]

Does anyone out there know of a way to adjust the radar settings? It would be fun to play around with, within the bounds of reason.
Mel.

[William Miller]

Hello,

If you mean can you change the default radar type for each ship class, yes you can -- this can be done by editing the "DataTable.txt" file (located in the "Data" subfolder in your main Fighting Steel folder) -- there are columns for radar type from 2-1939 through 2-1942 for each ship class. Radar types are "None", "Poor", "Average", "Good", "Excellent", and "Superb".

If you mean can you add new radar types, then the answer is no -- radar characteristics are hardcoded in the internal codeset.

[Richard Mortimer]

Two other ways to do this is either by using the scenario editor and then changing it under edit ship mode or to actually just hand edit the scenario file using notepad and changing the type.

Either way you do not edit the data file i.e. the abse file which is as historically correct as the guys at NWS could get it.

[madmel57]

Thanks for the information.