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Originally Posted by Mikhayl
LOL, thanks Joe  To be honest I don't know either about the doubling thing, I think it was because the scope marks in OLC were different than in U-Jagd tools or something like that. I remember OLC posted an explanation but I forgot  |
that's why OLC did, yes, but even so it was in fact so that the AOB finder could be open at the same time as the recog manual without the manual obscuring the lower numbers on the AOB finder
But now i look at the screenshot again, i note you have the same recog manual position. For me it's not a problem - i don't really use the recog manual anyway, I prefer to estimate length and mast height visually
but as you say it is partly to do with the scales OLC used
To get the aspect ratio you need to compare apparent height with apparent length
But in game terms the length is easiest to calculate by locking on the target and just measuring half the length
So with the scale that OLC used, he doubled the horizontal scale value so it was only necessary to measure half the ship's length
but he preferred the vertical scale be to the same scale to keep it looking neat - which it does! (in U-jagd i was less concerned with making the scales look symetrical)
This meant that using his new scales, the apparent length and height were both doubled, but you only measured half the length, so the height measurement was too times too big. So somewhere a factor of 2 had to be inserted into the equation and it was put in the form of doubling the mastheight for the reason above.
You could just as well have the same scale and simply remember to double the apparent length
if you only measured half of it
hmm, i'm not sure my explanation clarifies things
Anyway, the point being, since you have eliminated all the marks, there's no real reason to do the doubled mastheight, when you could instead emphasize that the full apparent length must be measured, not just half of it.
But then maybe i still don't get it and I'm wrong