Hiding player on map

[Kammak]

Any way to hide the player's marker (and his men too) on the in-game map?  I want to make the player do some land nav work to determine his location, which requires access to the map.  So the no map option isn't what I'm after.  Is this possible?  Is there setting I've overlooked that allows this?

[Marvin]

If you dont want unit to be shown on map, the only way to do this is play on Veteran mode, or you can Hide the map, like remember in the Cold War Crises - Escape mission!

[macguba]

It's nasty, but at the start of the mission you can check whether the player is in Veteran or Cadet mode:   if he is in Cadet give him a hint saying what's going to happen, then end the mission.     (I think the command is cadet, not sure - look it up.)    Remember to say in the Overview that the mission can only be played in Vet.

If the player is part of a group he will still be able to get his loons to report their status, which inclues their position which is obviously the same as his if he is close to the loon in question.    The only way you can force the player to do map work is to have him solo.

[Kammak]

Thanks for the hint!  The difficulty option "Extended map info" is what determines this.  Never knew that.  I've always kept it on Cadet and just changed some of the settings, but I had never toggled this particular one!

So by Disabling that setting (in Cadet or Veteran) the player is not shown on the map in any mission...learn something new every day with this!

Thanks

[h-]

Maybe a entry in description.ext would do:

showGPS false;

 

[Kammak]

?

That only determines if the GPS receiver is shown...AFAIK it always defaults to false (0)  anyway.

[Jezuro]

So by Disabling that setting (in Cadet or Veteran) the player is not shown on the map in any mission...learn something new every day with this!

The biggest problem is how to force the player to disable that option now  

[Loup-Garou]

Maybe a entry in description.ext would do:

showGPS false;

 

HateR_Kint is right  , but the entry is : showGPS =  0

[Kammak]

showGPS *always* defaults to 0 (false) - all that controls is whether the GPS receiver is shown on the map screen.  (The GPS receiver gives you the map coords of the player).

It doesn't control whether the player is shown on the map or not, which was my original query.

However, the difficulty option "Extended Map Inf" DOES control whether the player is shown on the map.  If disabled, the player is hidden from the map and must determine his position using land nav, or "cheating" by getting a pos report from his buddy.  Good enough for my purposes!

[h-]

Yes, quite...
Its for the receiver only...

Luckily I had the 'maybe' in my post so no-one can accuse me of anything  ;D ;D

If you want to make it harder still, just disable the radio use from the player and drop him somewhere in Ia Drang jungles without the GPS...