I'm happy to be here. :)
Some plans for the weekend, if I can manage them:

I'd like to record a demo soon. I’m still refining the Lua stuff bit by bit—I’ve built a few commands I can run from the console to handle things that are otherwise hard (or flat-out impossible) for me to do via the standard ...

Hi all,

Just wanted to drop a thank you to rvseydlitz for pointing out the editor gameplay functionality—that’s been a huge help. I've now been able to interact meaningfully with reference points, plot courses, create missions, and more.

The challenge now is figuring out how to balance using Lua ...

Wait. I didn't know one could do gameplay in the editor. That will hopefully solve 90% of my problems.

Thanks so much for mentioning it.

rvseydlitz,

My best wishes to you. I can only imagine how disorienting that must be. I’m genuinely glad if anything I’ve shared helps even a little.

In terms of game stuff, I’ve been thinking a lot about areas where I don’t yet have a great solution.
Reference points are one of the big ones. I ...

Further experimentation 🙂

I've been mucking about with the strike tutorial. As far as I can tell, the main method for manually selecting multiple targets is by holding Shift and dragging with the mouse. That’s a perfectly reasonable mechanism for sighted users, but it’s tricky to do reliably with a ...

I will look into that. :)

For the moment some of the major areas of frustration revolve around getting range information to contacts. Some of it is shown in the unit info but it's not 100% reliable. My current technique is to select a contact, move the mouse around to find it, and go back to the ...

Hi all,

I wanted to share something unusual that I’ve been working on with Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations. I know this title is no longer under active development and that most players have moved on to the sequel—but I thought this work might still be of interest to the community and possibly ...

It would help if the forum let me know I had a reply :)

I currently own Red Storm, which I know is slightly older UI-wise, though I think a lot of the principles are similar.

Basically at the moment the hex info in the status line and/or unit display is the primary way of getting information to me ...

Hi All,

I'm creating this topic to keep track of ideas on how to improve the game accessibility for the blind/visually impaired, such as myself. A lot of the current UI is already at least partially readable, including components such as the event diary and various reports.

The most important ...

Hi there,

I've also been playing DW2 with OCR for the past while. I tend to agree that the ship design screen could use a little help. In general, anything that is identified by color alone is a little hard for us to deal with.
In the longer term, one of the areas I wonder about is a way to get a ...

<r> Hi ALl,<br/>
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So I'm trying to understand how sea areas work, particularly concerning convoys and related matters. I'd appreciate it if anyone could tell me whether the below is accurate.<br/>
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Sea areas are named, Hawaiian Islands, or Red Sea, for instance. They are made up of hex ...

<r> Paul,<br/>
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Thanks for the reminder. I think I saw the explanation of those files at one point but forgot about it. I'll certainly give it a read as I continue to explore the game.<br/>
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If nothing else, so far exploring the game map has given me an appreciation for geography. It's ...

<t> Hi ALl,<br/>
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As a new player who's primarily interested in solitaire play, I'm wondering about playing version 3.0 as compared to 4.0. I wasn't able to find an obvious description of the changes anywhere, but I may have missed something on the forum.<br/>
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Is 3.0 still fairly ...

<t> Hey All,<br/>
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It's been ages since I was last on this forum, but I thought folks might be interested to know that I haven't forgotten about this game. It's been nagging at me off and on for a while, and I finally decided to do some more explorations this past few days. This is what I've ...

<r> Hey,<br/>
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Thank you for the good wishes and humor. <E>:)</E><br/>
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The game is definitely still challenging. I intend to try and do some more exploration this weekend and see if I can figure out a predictable way to handle unit movement at the moment.<br/>
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Textractor helps ...

Understood, and thanks for checking. I'll do some more experiments myself.

<r> Yeah. <E>:)</E> I was playing around with it last night, and while it was hard to consistently get text all the time, I did get it most of the time..<br/>
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The keyboard accessibility is the other piece I'd love to get working, but we probably can't do that without help from Vic. Until I ...

<r> YEah. <E>:)</E><br/>
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The art of game accessibility for me is in many ways just throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks. I'm a huge fan of strategy games in general but until I discovered OCR was unable to do much of anything with them. I just wish more had better keyboard ...

<r> Hey,<br/>
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Okay, the Textractor program is really cool from what I can see thus far. I'm not sure how to start customizing it to do what I need, but it's amazing just not having constant OCR typos and missing information. I was looking at all the unit data for instance, it was awesome to ...

<r> Hey,<br/>
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Thanks so much for confirming that. <E>:)</E><br/>
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I'm going to download textractor and give it a look, hopefully it will ease my dependence on OCR, at least. <br/>
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THe key piece missing for now is easy navigation of hexes, and unit movement. If I can get that ...