Radar Alignment Guide

by sakuro

Highlights chunks for placing radars without overlapping coverage.

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Radar Alignment Guide

Helps you place radars without overlapping coverage by highlighting placement chunks while you hold a radar, based on the coverage of a designated anchor radar.

Features

  • Anchor designation: the first radar built on a surface is auto-designated as that force's anchor. Point at any radar and press the toggle-anchor keybind (default Ctrl+Shift+A, rebindable in Settings > Controls) to make it the anchor instead, or clear it. When the mod is added to a save that already has radars, one radar per force and surface is adopted the same way.
  • Chunk highlight: while holding a radar item or ghost, chunks aligned with the anchor's coverage are tinted; the highlight color is configurable per player.
  • Wider-coverage warning: placing a radar — or a radar ghost, e.g. from a blueprint — that covers more area than the current anchor shows a flying-text hint to re-anchor to it, since its extra range is otherwise wasted against the anchor's tighter spacing. A shorter-range radar is not flagged — the gap it leaves is already visible on the grid.
  • Map tag (off by default): optionally marks the anchor radar's location on the map and remote view.