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Posted by TimWJ Posts 4 Registered at 2013-12-28 20:16:01	2014-01-03 00:00:00 - A few boats invisible at night
	At night I have been running with a distance limited list and ticked to show only these boats. This gives the boat shape rather than just a dot. In this mode a few boats appear invisible. After the change to day colours they become visible. I have taken a screen grab and looked in an image editor and they are there but the colour is almost identical to the background and invisible to the eye on my laptop. I have tried, but think failed, to attach cropped screen grab with 2 boats in the image, one in dot mode one in boat shape mode. I think it just needs this colour excluded. Best regards Tim Attachments images.zip (15.4 KB) Image2_1.jpg (9.7 KB) Image3.jpg (9.7 KB) Image2.jpg (9.7 KB)
Posted by captjack1942 Posts 239 Registered at 2008-01-18 03:24:03	2014-01-03 02:05:41 - Re: A few boats invisible at night
	This was one of the things that Aaron was working on, but he never got to finish. I have tried playing with display settings to bring out the colors that are hidden in the dark screen. All to no avail. Yes I agree with you, Tim, those colors should be removed from the palate.
Posted by TimWJ Posts 4 Registered at 2013-12-28 20:16:01	2014-01-03 11:44:45 - Re: A few boats invisible at night
	Many thanks for your swift reply. I am a newbie around here so I am unaware of the history, except that I have heard good things about Aaron, it looks as if he is badly missed. I wonder if an alternative approach might be to have a user option to stay in day colours. Although I am a software guy I have never had anything to do with flash, so don't know how it works or how much work that might be. Anyway, thanks for all your work. Tim PS apologies for the multiple file uploads.

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