Taxi Arrows Need Complete Re-Work

[updated for v1.7.3]

If you want to experiment something yourself, it is really easy with any hex editor:

Edit this file:
OneStore\fs-base\scenery\Global\Asobo_UI\Asobo_UI.BGL

I’m highlighting the values I’ve changed here:

  1. the 4 numbers after baseColorFactor are the RGBA values for the color
  2. the 3 scale numbers are XYZ scale (meters)
  3. the 3 translation numbers are XYZ translation (meters)

My edit as shown above transforms the blue arrow into green, translate it down very close the ground (instead of floating above) and make it much smaller. With these settings it will not draw more than about 4 arrows in front of you and 4 arrows behind!

NB: I’ve changed alpha but it doesn’t seem to show through. I don’t know which of the alpha or the scale values are actually the ones responsible for limiting the number of arrows displaying but in any case this is a neat property because they are less obtrusive now and you can keep the setting always on for now, until they properly add a keyboard shortcut (an accessibility feature) to toggle the display of the taxi ribbon (an accessibility feature)


You can now download a mod with a few variations here:
[UPDATE 1.2.0] Small Taxi Helpers (3D/VR) | Reality XP

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