Bearing in degree true?

[hoibazupfa]

What I loved in SH1 and missing in SH4 is to determine the boats bearing in degree true... e.g. if you're moving 045 degree true your boat points north-east. 180 degree true ... southward.

In SH4 I only have this stupid compass rose where I can only guess my exact heading.
Is there some mod which gives me this opportunity back? Would be great!

Thanks
Hoiba

[Mav87th]

When you set your course by clicking on the compas the Navigations Officer responses with "New course 333 degrees SIR" - that is compas heading true to north.

Then when you get a call from say the lookout - Ship bearing 020 degrees - you grab your wheel and convert it. Even my humble math level can figure that one out as 333+20= 353 true

or...

you go to the navmap and open the green compas then zoom in on the sub and draw a line from the boat in the correct bearing. Then you can read the true heading towords the ship on the line tools inverted compass. That one is accurate enough.

The bearings shown in the periscope, binocular and TBT (UZO) is relative bearings and needs to be converted to true if you need that as well.

[Rockin Robbins]

You mean the boat's heading, not bearing. Your bearing to yourself is undefined. Our compasses aren't large enough to read accurately. And unlike a real compass they don't have a lubber's line. I would love it if they replaced the digital rudder angle with a digital heading indicator. That would fix it as far as I am concerned.

Note that I didn't say digital course indicator. A boat on a heading of zero in reverse is proceeding on a course of 180º. I don't want to know that, I want to know which direction my bow is pointing.:up: