Map Settings

The Map Settings button on the toolbar allows control of the map interface, with which you can customize and declutter your display.

Range Ring Options

The top three blocks of options are toggles - if they are clicked, they will display a checkbox, if clicked again, the checkbox will be removed.

Sensors Block

By checking or unchecking these boxes, you can toggle on or off the display of Air, Surface and Underwater Sensors range rings.

• Air Sensors
• Surface Sensors
• Underwater Sensors

Weapons Block

By checking or unchecking these boxes, you can toggle on or off the display of Air, Surface and Underwater Weapons range rings.

• Air Weapons
• Surface Weapons
• Underwater Weapons

Misc Range Rings

with these options you can toggle on or off the display of non-friendly range rings, and toggle merging range circles that overlap.

• Show Non-friendly Range-symbols
• Merge Range-symbols

Vector Options

This block contains the following options:

• Illumination Vectors
  • Selected Unit
  • All
  • None
• Targeting Vectors
  • Selected Unit
  • All
  • None
• Datablocks
  • Selected Unit
  • All
  • None
• Datalinks
  • Selected Unit
  • All
  • None
• Contact Emissions
  • Selected Contact
  • All
  • None

Datablocks

Datablocks are a display on the current status of a unit - its name, its heading and speed, among other things. You can display them for the currently selected unit, for all units, or for no units.

Datalinks

Datalinks between newer weapons and their launching platforms are crucial for weapon accuracy. You can display datalinks for the currently selected unit only, for all units, or no units.

Contact Emissions

Contact Emissions is your way of tracking SIGINT (Signals Intelligence). When a unit picks up an emission from another unit which you do not control, the data is tracked, and can be displayed on the map. You can display Contact Emissions for the currently selected contact, for all contacts, or for none.

Additionally, you can select a contact and click on the Contact Emissions button in the side panel to see a list of all emissions from that contact - which you can use to attempt your own identification on that contact.

Misc. Options

This block contains the following options:

• Map Lat/Lon Grid
• Relief Layer
• Borders + Coastlines
• Custom Layers

These final options are toggle options - you can click them once to turn them on (and display a checkbox next to their names) and click them again to turn them off (and remove the checkbox).

Map Lat/Lon Grid

This option toggles the display of a variable resolution, indexed, latitude and longitude grid. Highly useful for finding specific coordinates.

Relief Layer

This option toggles the display of the relief layer - a default custom layer which displays altitude by color change - useful for littoral combat as well as planning ingress and egress for strikes.

Borders + Coastlines

This option toggles the display of the Borders and Coastlines feature - a yellow overlay which shows, borders and coastlines.

Custom Layers

This option lets you toggle on and off Custom Layers.