BetterPingDistance

BetterPingDistance / Better marker display distance

Reliable on-screen distance (and optional short name) for player pings in PEAK.

Stable display of distance for markers in PEAK (optional player initials).

Maintainer / Maintenance release: youxia173

Chinese alias / 中文名: Better marker display distance

Version / Version: 1.2.0

Client side only / only passenger plane

Credits / Acknowledgments

This release is a maintained fork based on LucydDemon's BetterPingDistance.

This release is a maintenance branch based on LucydDemon's original work.

• Original original author:

• Original GitHub / Original author GitHub:

Please support the original author if you like the idea.

If you like this idea, please support the original author.

Also builds on the idea of PingDistance by boxofbiscuits97.

For ideas, please also refer to boxofbiscuits97’s PingDistance.

What this fork improves / What this branch optimizes

English

• Reliable teammate pings: distance UI is created in a Harmony Postfix after the ping exists (Prefix exceptions used to skip distance UI while the vanilla ping still appeared)
• GhostPing compatible: works when GhostPing still spawns a ping without line-of-sight
• Safer UI init: canvas/font creation with try/catch and delayed init if GUIManager is not ready
• Stable multiplayer keys: tracks markers by PhotonView id instead of fragile Character refs
• Skin color fixes: restores readable distance color for vanilla skins; falls back to white for broken mod-skin colors
• Optional short name: ShowPlayerNameShort — Chinese first character / Latin letter / first char
• Distance scaling: text scales down at long range so it covers less of the view
• Bilingual config comments (ZH / EN)

Chinese

• Teammate markers are more stable: create a distance UI in Harmony Postfix after the marker is generated (originally, when the Prefix is ​​thrown incorrectly, it will be swallowed, resulting in only the marker but not the distance)
• Compatible with GhostPing: GhostPing can still generate markers when there is no line of sight, and the distance can be determined
• Safer UI initialization: Canvas/font creation with exception protection, initialization can be delayed when the GUIManager is not ready
• More stable connection: Use PhotonView ID as dictionary key to avoid Character reference exceptions

-Skin color repair: The original skin returns to readable color; when the module skin color is abnormal, it returns to white

• Optional name abbreviation: ShowPlayerNameShort — Chinese initial / Latin letters / initial character
• Long-distance zoom: The farther away the text is, the smaller the text will be, so it will less block the field of view.
• Chinese and English bilingual comments on configuration items

Install / install

• Install BepInExPack PEAK
• Install this mod (manager) or put youxia173.BetterPingDistance.dll in BepInEx/plugins/

Do not run together with the original LucydDemon BetterPingDistance (same feature, different GUID).

Do not install at the same time as the original LucydDemon BetterPingDistance.

Suggested categories: Client Side · Quality Of Life · Mods

Config/Configuration

Path / path: BepInEx/config/youxia173.BetterPingDistance.cfg

Launch once to generate / Launch the game once to generate configuration after installation.

| Key | Default | English | 中文 |

|-----|---------|---------|------|

| DisplayDuration | 3 | Seconds the distance text stays (0.1–30) |

| ShowPlayerNameShort | false | Append short player name after distance | Show player name abbreviation after distance |

Edit the file, save, restart the game.

After saving the changes, restart the game to take effect.

Changelog / update log

See CHANGELOG.md.