Always Visible Feature

[zwzsg]

Is there a way to make a feature always visible?

[KDR_11k]

I think there's either a SetFeatureAlwaysVisible or a tag in the featuredef, I know I had them set to always visible for a while in ColorWar.

[zwzsg]

I don't have any old Color Wars, I can only find the 3.

[ 3720] LuaRules::RunCallIn: error = 2, GameFrame, [string "LuaRules/Gadgets/colorwars.lua"]:123: attempt to call field 'SetFeatureAlwaysVisible' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
[string "LuaRules/Gadgets/colorwars.lua"]:123: in function 'GameFrame'
[string "LuaGadgets/gadgets.lua"]:926: in function <[string "LuaGadgets/gadgets.lua"]:924>
(tail call): ?

SetFeatureAlwaysVisible is either not existing or not spelt like that.

Good to know there's a way, not I just have to find the spelling of that Lua command or TDF tag.

I did try the TDF tags nodrawundergray=0; and fardraw=1; to no avail.

[[Krogoth86]]

I know of no way to keep them visible engine wise. The defense range widget makes things like DTs staying visible though so you may want to look up how he did it...

[zwzsg]

<[LCC]jK> and all features are always visible ...
<[LCC]jK> just features with a teamID set check los

[KDR_11k]

Yeah but I had CW use team-owned features that were always visible. I don't remember how I did it though, it did reduce the CPU use hugely AFAIK.

[AF]

features are subject to detail checks, features that are too far away arent drawn.

Prime exmaples ht elast tiem this ws brought up involved a map witha giant bridge feature that when you got too far away ti vanished, or aGorms tree map.

I submitted a patch which added a tag allowing this to eb fixed, however I do not remember the tag name.