Bearing Distance?
seycyrus
Traveler
I opened up another users map, (Mystara.fcw) from another thread and wanted to measure the distance two points. My normal method is info>distance then click and click. The result is usually a distance in (for instance) meters. On this map it gives me a "bearing distance" and "distance XY". Is there a way to to set it up so it gives me the distance in my preferred style? I don't want to have to apply pythagoras.
Comments
If you want the old tool, simply switch toolbar sets, for example by clicking the DD3 button.
If you like, you can also type the command directly on the command line, the old command is DISTANCE, while the new one is DIST2.
My probelm seemed to resolve itself when I manually typed in the command "distance". Now it works even when i use the info>distance method.
In the post in which you introduce the map, you say the hex distance is 8 miles, but I don't get that scaling. When I use the distance command from face to face on a hex, the result is ~ 145 "somethings". Any idea how I re-calibrate that?
Have you done any other Mystara maps?
The distance tool seems to be correct now, although I notice that the snaps are much larger.