[Enhancement Request] Colour code fuel bars?
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2017 7:17 pm
Hello,
I've been playing Gunner98's massive "The Longest Battle" scenario (download it here if you're looking for a month-long whole-ocean ASW challenge), and one of the features that comes into play more than usual is refuelling ships. When you have to cross whole oceans several times, the fuel gauge becomes very important!
At the moment Unit Fuel is shown as a blue dotted bar for all units, but (as I discovered to my embarrassment)not all ships use the same fuel, and not all oilers carry all types of fuel. Single ship units have their fuel type written under the fuel bar, but you don't get this information for all ships when the ships are assembled into a group. Currently, if you want to see what sort of fuel your group uses you need to individually click through the ships in the group, which can become slow and cumbersome when you are trying to sort through dozens of ships in multiple groups in a very large scenario like this one.
Would it be possible to colour code the Fuel bars depending on what type of fuel they represent? For example, Aviation Fuel in blue, Diesel Fuel in brown, Oil Fuel in black, and Gas Turbine Fuel in orange. Then you would get a group fuel display that looks something like this.
You can immediately see that your group is going to need all three types of ship fuel, and you can see that your one fuel-hungry gas-turbine ship (the orange one) is getting low on fuel.
This sort of colour coding would also be very helpful for oilers which carry multiple different types of fuel. At the moment the only way to see how much of each fuel type they currently have on board is to use the Lua Script Console. However, if the fuel bar were colour coded you could quickly get an indication of the remaining fuel at a glance.
In this case you can see that the oiler only carries a very small amount of fuel for that gas turbine ship. Best not to rely on it for a long journey with multiple Perry's. (Can't imagine how I discovered that! [:D])
Anyway, certainly not a high priority item,just a thought for a UI tweak. Thanks!
I've been playing Gunner98's massive "The Longest Battle" scenario (download it here if you're looking for a month-long whole-ocean ASW challenge), and one of the features that comes into play more than usual is refuelling ships. When you have to cross whole oceans several times, the fuel gauge becomes very important!
At the moment Unit Fuel is shown as a blue dotted bar for all units, but (as I discovered to my embarrassment)not all ships use the same fuel, and not all oilers carry all types of fuel. Single ship units have their fuel type written under the fuel bar, but you don't get this information for all ships when the ships are assembled into a group. Currently, if you want to see what sort of fuel your group uses you need to individually click through the ships in the group, which can become slow and cumbersome when you are trying to sort through dozens of ships in multiple groups in a very large scenario like this one.
Would it be possible to colour code the Fuel bars depending on what type of fuel they represent? For example, Aviation Fuel in blue, Diesel Fuel in brown, Oil Fuel in black, and Gas Turbine Fuel in orange. Then you would get a group fuel display that looks something like this.
You can immediately see that your group is going to need all three types of ship fuel, and you can see that your one fuel-hungry gas-turbine ship (the orange one) is getting low on fuel.
This sort of colour coding would also be very helpful for oilers which carry multiple different types of fuel. At the moment the only way to see how much of each fuel type they currently have on board is to use the Lua Script Console. However, if the fuel bar were colour coded you could quickly get an indication of the remaining fuel at a glance.
In this case you can see that the oiler only carries a very small amount of fuel for that gas turbine ship. Best not to rely on it for a long journey with multiple Perry's. (Can't imagine how I discovered that! [:D])
Anyway, certainly not a high priority item,just a thought for a UI tweak. Thanks!