Is there a way to make the map size bigger?

[Meatball0311]

Have you noticed that sound travels pretty far in OFP(how big is one grid in OFP?).  Is there any way to make the map size bigger or make the grids to be a 1000m by 1000m?

[456820]

maybe by editing the config.bin but it may still be quite hard im not sure though just a guess

[yankme]

the best i can tell is the grids are 130m , i dont know why its not 100 but this was my test on the desert Island

[KTottE]

128 meters, you can change it in config, look at WGL (they have 100 meter small squares and 1000 meter large squares).

[Meatball0311]

ok, i understand..... how do you open the CONFIG.bin file?  And once i do open it can i change the grid to a 1000m grid?

[Planck]

I don't understand what you hope to gain my changing the grid size on the in-game map.

The larger grid lines are 1.28 km X 1.28 km, because the whole playing area is 12.8 km X 12.8km in size.

Dividing this into 10 X 10 grid lines gives you the 1.28 km main grid lines, further division of each of these main grids gives you 128 metre X 128 metre grid squares.

Changing the main grid to 1000 X 1000 metres will result in you having 12.8 X 12.8 main grid squares.

Apart from changing the grid square sizes on the in-game map this will have no other effect on the game.

In fact if you do edit the games config.bin to reflect this change, you will probably not be able to play Multiplayer online on many servers which will kick you off because you have an edited config.bin........Unless you save the default config.bin and replace it when going online.

As I said, apart from changing the grid size on the in-game map, there is no other benefit gained from doing this that I can think of.  


Planck

[General Barron]

As I said, apart from changing the grid size on the in-game map, there is no other benefit gained from doing this that I can think of.  

Well, that is the benefit: you get a more realistic map. And a more useful map (We are all used to thinking in terms of 100, so judging distances on the map would be much easier).

Another thing the WGL mod does is it changes the map's grid coordinates into the 6-digit military style (eg: Ab49 -> 153693).

[macguba]

Meatball,

Welcome to the forum!

Have you noticed that sound travels pretty far in OFP

Yes.     There is an imperfection in the engine:  sound decays linearly rather than logarithmically, or something.   Nothing you can do.