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Zero Niner
05-10-08, 06:55 PM
Are they any shortcut keys to rotate the radar whilst at the radar operator's station, similar to how one can manually rotate the hydrophone (using Home and End keys) whilst at the sonar station?

The Home and End keys also work but they also move the camera up or down, sometimes out of the sub interior.

I need to do this on the A-scope radar so as to get an estimate of range when focusing the radar beam.
CCIP
05-10-08, 07:01 PM
What mod config do you use? My camera doesn't go up and down with home and end on the radar station, and those are supposed to be the right keys :hmm:

[edit] oh right, looking at your sig - huh. That's strange. Again, mine doesn't do that.
Zero Niner
05-10-08, 07:03 PM
The sonar works ok, but radar is strange.
perhaps I could remap the keys?
akdavis
05-10-08, 08:43 PM
Sure you aren't using PE3 also?
Zero Niner
05-10-08, 08:55 PM
Nope, just as my says. Plus latest patch for RSRDC. And I made some minor modifications (key remppings) to Duci's layout in TMO - just a few keys.
akdavis
05-10-08, 09:49 PM
Well, this happens with PE3 because of changes to the camera, so the same changes must be in TM. I don't think there is any way around it for the time being.
gimpy117
05-10-08, 09:50 PM
click the radar screen...
akdavis
05-10-08, 10:03 PM
I know that works with PPI, but I don't know about A-scope.
Nisgeis
05-11-08, 01:58 AM
Yes, it sounds like you have a 'free camera' in the radar station instead of the necessary fixed camera. You can look sideways at the PPI scope and click on the bearing you want the antenna to point to as gimpy/akdavis say, or you can switch to the PPI scope and click on it there and switch back to the 'A' scope, or you can use the middle mouse button scroll wheel. Each click on the scroll wheel is equivalent to one fifth of a degree.
Zero Niner
05-11-08, 05:11 AM
Yes, it is like a free camera at the radar station.
I know I can click on the PPI. but it's frustrating trying to rotate on the A scope so that I can get a range estimate.
Anyway I've found a workaround of sorts. Since its a free camera I shift it until both scopes are present then I click on the PPI.