Planetart POIs?
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You need to be above 2km from the surface. Once below 2000m the red POI zone circles fade away. Orbital cruise is too high.
Usually I'll fly at around 3-4km with my scanner distance at maximum. You'll see red circles appear eventually. As you get closer, reduce the scanner range until you're certain that you're inside the red circle. Simply land and use the wave scanner on your SRV to find the poi. I will usually cruise around at about 100m and try to visually find the poi once I'm in the zone. Less mucking around with the SRV.
Usually I'll fly at around 3-4km with my scanner distance at maximum. You'll see red circles appear eventually. As you get closer, reduce the scanner range until you're certain that you're inside the red circle. Simply land and use the wave scanner on your SRV to find the poi. I will usually cruise around at about 100m and try to visually find the poi once I'm in the zone. Less mucking around with the SRV.
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it's a blue circle if you use the default HUD colors.
things I've learned:
-its easier to find some of the artificial POI's (the kind with lights) on the dark side, or on icy planets
-land near the edge of the circle, jumping in your SRV and head towards the center of the circle (direction your ship is pointing) until you see signals on the wave scanner near the top, then focus on that direction.
-sometimes there is more than one object of interest in a single POI zone.
-on low gravity worlds, sometimes it helps to fly inverted and look "up" (which is now down) as it provides a better view of the ground.
things I've learned:
-its easier to find some of the artificial POI's (the kind with lights) on the dark side, or on icy planets
-land near the edge of the circle, jumping in your SRV and head towards the center of the circle (direction your ship is pointing) until you see signals on the wave scanner near the top, then focus on that direction.
-sometimes there is more than one object of interest in a single POI zone.
-on low gravity worlds, sometimes it helps to fly inverted and look "up" (which is now down) as it provides a better view of the ground.
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Hmmm. I use an altered palette for my DK2 (green) so who knows what colour they will appear as. I'll just zone in on anything that fits the profile regardless of colour!
Sometimes I'll fly to near the middle of the circle, then go into a stable hover at 1k or so. Then to simulate looking out of various windows, I'll activate the debug camera and look around to see if the POI is visible (not all are visible from the air).
But yeah, you need to be above 1.7k and in normal flight (not orbital cruise or glide) to see the POI circles.
But yeah, you need to be above 1.7k and in normal flight (not orbital cruise or glide) to see the POI circles.
Haha. My bad. I guess if one spends enough time using non-standard colours they may seem like default for that person.
I will admit, a light/whitish purple lends itself to space flight quite well. That'd be why my poi zones are red I gather.
I come from an Aircraft maintenance background so I recognise some of the symptoms here.
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BE AWARE your ships scanner isn't ROLL stabilised to the horizon but is stabilised on the horizontal axis of the ship - What this means is if you roll your ship your scanner rolls with you, this causes the POI to move about wildly, for instance if it is at your 3 o clock horizontal position and ROLL right to fly towards it your scanner is now scanning vertically not horizontally so that POI that was at your 3 oclock level position is now at you 12 oclcok high instead so it fly round to the front of your ship
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If the scanner was roll stabilised to the horizon then it would stay in position ie when you roll your ship the scanner would remain horizontal to the horizon and so would be easier to track
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If you can YAW to change direction chasing the POIs at distance Don't ROLL
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Aircraft Radar are roll stabilised to the horizon so that they give a much better representation
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Other bit of info for chasing POI's set your scanner to maximum range - in fact if you are a surface scanner buy A rated scanners for better range
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BE AWARE your ships scanner isn't ROLL stabilised to the horizon but is stabilised on the horizontal axis of the ship - What this means is if you roll your ship your scanner rolls with you, this causes the POI to move about wildly, for instance if it is at your 3 o clock horizontal position and ROLL right to fly towards it your scanner is now scanning vertically not horizontally so that POI that was at your 3 oclock level position is now at you 12 oclcok high instead so it fly round to the front of your ship
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If the scanner was roll stabilised to the horizon then it would stay in position ie when you roll your ship the scanner would remain horizontal to the horizon and so would be easier to track
.
If you can YAW to change direction chasing the POIs at distance Don't ROLL
.
Aircraft Radar are roll stabilised to the horizon so that they give a much better representation
.
Other bit of info for chasing POI's set your scanner to maximum range - in fact if you are a surface scanner buy A rated scanners for better range
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