Check your current sector elevation position (SY) relative to the object's. Chances are you, you are 1 or more sectors above or below it, so when you zoom in on the ecliptic, the object seems to disappear.
From post: 105140, Topic: tid=7461, author=Vice wrote: Check your current sector elevation position (SY) relative to the object's. Chances are you, you are 1 or more sectors above or below it, so when you zoom in on the ecliptic, the object seems to disappear.
But its everything in the area (on the nav map ) is that normal?
Sometimes you click on an object, or think that you do, and you're clicking on the wrong sector, especially when the object is close to a sector line. Try just clicking on the sector, it'll zoom up everything in that sector.
Evochron is 3-dimensional. On the navigation map, those three dimensions are represented by two views:
The Top View, displaying X-Z in two dimensions.
The Rear View, displaying X-Y in two dimensions.
When you click on either map, you set your destination for the two corresponding sets of cooredinates ... either X-Z (when in Top View) or X-Y (when in Rear View). If you're attempting to target something either above or below, you need to switch to the Rear View in order to set the Y coordinate.
Right-clicking on the Nav map always zooms in. But, if the target is above or below your current Y position ... and you forget to set Y by left-clicking while in the Rear View ... you will be zooming in on a sector (usually empty) at the correct X and Z coordinates ... but the wrong Y coordinate.
Well this issue is random and sadly nothing to do with my X-Y as I can click on something get info on it and without changing anything click on it again and nothing will show up.
I might reinstall in the off chance its a corrupt file or something, but again thanks for trying to help.
From post: 105164, Topic: tid=7461, author=Aria wrote:Well this issue is random and sadly nothing to do with my X-Y as I can click on something get info on it and without changing anything click on it again and nothing will show up.
I don't understand what you are expecting to "show up"?
First right-click zooms in.
2nd right-click sets the jump marker to that location.
Mouse over gives you information about that item.
Maybe I'm getting you wrong here?
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a. Use the nav map to navigate and/or target an object.
b. Jump in and out of a sector where, during the first (and only the first) jump, your science officer tells you of containers.
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Aria, then that ahppens click on the Rear View button then click on the up or down arrows at the edge of the nav map few times. That will move the sevtor you are viewing up or down. The planet or whatever will show up with a little experimentation.
I found a work around but let me explain what is going on (hopefully in a less confusing way then I have been)!
First off I turn all texts on the nav map off for the simple reason they tend to block what I am trying to see, however when you zoom in and mouse over the station, gate or whatever you still get the needed info.
Now lets say I right click on the Olympus gate and zoom in so I can mouse over it and confirm it is in fact the Olympus gate, well that works fine that time however for whatever reason should I need to do that again odds are it won't even if its from the exact same location.
But for now I just use the scroll option thats available once you zoom all the way in..I just count how many sectors I need to scroll up/down etc to get to whatever I am trying to ID, its a pain but it works.
Again I think this might just be a corrupt file since I appear to be the only one with this bizarre issue.
It can be confusing cause you never know what sector your right clicking on. When you move your mouse cursor over the map to right click on a gate for example you might be clicking on a sector or several sectors right in front, back, top or bottom from the gate which is ussually an empty sector. Make sure the Sector coordinates the Gate is in matches the coordinates of the sector your clicking in.
You can check the coordinates in the Nav Map left hand panel as you move the cursor on to an object in a particular sector.
And when you right click on an object you can check the destination coordinates of the waypoint set to see if it matches those of the object. You can display the objects coordinates in the Nav Map.
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From post: 105178, Topic: tid=7461, author=Aria wrote:Now lets say I right click on the Olympus gate and zoom in so I can mouse over it and confirm it is in fact the Olympus gate, well that works fine that time however for whatever reason should I need to do that again odds are it won't even if its from the exact same location
Sometimes, I get that too. But it isn't anything I can duplicate with any degree of regularity. Nonetheless, your method of "locking in" a waypoint by using the scroll arrows is, as you say, a pain. It's much easier to set your coordinates on a zoomed out map (so you can see your target without scrolling) by using both the Top and the Rear view maps.
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Aria, you have a very strange computer. It does things (or seems to do things) that nobody else can get their computer to do. I wish it were possible to be glancing over your shoulder as you:
