Map reading improvements

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RE: Map reading improvements

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ORIGINAL: exsonic01

Great work, looks much better. It seems that it shows the information of elevation for tiles outside of LoS, right?

Yes, if the target is not visible then there's the red dashed line instead of the green one.

But I'm curious about the elevation amount in histogram: Are these elevation expressed in relative terms according to the LoS target tile? Or are these showing the absolute elevation value from map?

The minimum elevation between the two points is in the bottom, where the horizontal white line is. So it's relative. The vertical height of the columns is scaled so that the longest column is about 25% of the graph's horizontal size.

We've decided to call this LOS feature 'Profile'.
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These are great. The real time los overlay is great improvement.
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I would love to have the ability to use the preview map, with the different levels of transparency, that is currently available in the Beta Map Editor. It’s a great look when the Preview map is a high resolution satellite image.

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Since there are already alternate viewing modes (height), how about similar mode for some other parameters such as cover, concealment, etc?
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