Navigator ChartTracker HUD

Charttracker is a mapping HUD that can use arbitrary maps supplied by the user (such as the ones often sent out with race and cruise announcements). The hud comes with road maps of the continents. It can also get maps of the current sim and web maps of blocks of 4, 16, and 64 sims.

To add new maps to the hud, it needs to be configured with the global coordinates of the southwest corner of the map, and the dimensions of the area covered by the map.

These should be in the HUD's "configuration" notecard, in the following format:

texturename=<globalcoordinates> <area-covered>

e.g.:

Egyptian Museum Area=<291718, 279552, 0> <200, 200, 1>

In the above example, the lower left (SW) corner of the map is at global coordinate <291718, 279552, 0> and the map covers a 200m x 200m area.

z coordinates must be present but are ignored.

The map texture needs to be added to the hud's inventory..

"Load Maps" is at the top center, and will bring up a dialog of the configured maps.

"map.secondlife.com" displays a map of 1, 4, 16, or 64 regions including the current region. 4, 16, and 64 require Secondlife Viewer 2 or a 3rd-party viewer that supports Viewer 2 http-on-a-prim functionality. 1-region display works the same way as in previous versions (despite the way the button is now labeled) and will still work with Viewer 1. "Transparency" controls the transparency/opaqueness of the map display, as in the other HUDs. The button with the U-turn arrow resets the HUD. The button with the man on it is avatar radar. Click there and it will drop oranger markers on the map for any avatars within 96m, tagged with the name of the avatar. Click on the orange marker to bring up the profile for the avatar. The radar does not run continuously, but only scans when you click it. You can also scan for specific objects (see below).

Click on the map to get parcel information for the location clicked on. An slurl will appear in the chat window for more info. If the viewer supports media-on-a-prim, a "Places" tab for the location will be opened. You can teleport from that tab. (This way you know what you are teleporting into, unlike when you teleport by clicking the regular viewer map).

Dragging the map will move it on the screen. Dragging the handle in the bottom right corner will resize it, but maintain aspect ratio. Dragging the up-down arrow to the left of that will resize the y dimension only.

You can drop landmarks onto the map. They will be displayed with their names. To allow the marker for a landmark to be re-used, click on it for 1 second or more. It will not be removed immediately, but will be returned to the pool of available markers for re-use. Resetting the HUD currently removes all landmarks dropped on it (this may change in a future release).

To do a single scan for a specific object within 96m, chat on channel 11 the characters ?& followed by the name of the object, or ?&& followed by its key. This interface is experimental and will likely change.

The butterfly icon is flight assist. A short click turns it on or off, a longer click brings up a dialog to allow the strength of the assistance to be adjusted.

Some distributions may come with addditional maps.