I use the ext cam to pass the time when there isn't any action and to take snaps for my daily change of wallpapers.


RR, liked your astrophoto. I know what Sagitarius looks like but I couldn't pick it out. Just a sense that I know that patch of sky.

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Thanks! That's my point. An easy constellation we might be able to spot in a second on land becomes impossible to find at sea hundreds of miles from any light. I've heard stories from astronomers who observed an eclipse from Ayers Rock in Australia that the Milky Way cast a shadow there! Imagine: something most people who live in a city have never seen so bright it casts a shadow!

I'm afraid the sky at sea would look very different from what we see in SH4 and the more we know about the sky the less we would recognize it. As the sky gets darker and clearer away from land the star colors become much more apparent, especially the red giants, which are suddenly easy to spot everywhere! Another thing that happens when there is no light pollution and the air is very clear is that the stars look much more the same brightness. It is difficult to separate a 2nd magnitude star from a 4th magnitude star, even though one is four times brighter than the other. And you see literally thousands of stars so dim that you've never seen them before. That makes it difficult to pick out the constellations that are outside of the Milky Way too. It's a humbling but wonderful experience if you're supposed to know the sky.

I've never seen an oil slick come out of a ship like that! I get the feeling a lot is going wrong with the graphics in this game though, not much of a surprise.

BTW, you said "Take the external camera aboard the DD". How did you do that, since the unit selector doesn't go very close and the normal freemove camera won't go close either?

Ah, that's because you don't have ROW, I guess. Get to this here thread, download the mod, and enter a whole new SH4 experience ;)

exactly, plus oil slicks and starshells....it is astonishing...

This sim is just too beautiful (especially with ROW, thanks Dave) to stay inside the sub or on the bridge all the time. It's better than a movie ticket. I get to be O'Kane, Morton or Gene Fluckey for a while, and then get to watch it all in living color.

Respectfully Submitted;
CDR Resser

Sue Grafton fan, eh?:sunny:

Aha! Mr. Ducimus. Your Mk-14 torp you sent out made a 180 degree and sank ya!:yep::lol:

I have to say it's my Life's blood now. I may even enable them in my next career mode. The cameras lets me see Leo's wunderbar work, besides who wants to stay indoors looking at a bunch of smelly guys anyway when you can look outside other than the tower thinking about Maggie Thatcher (erm, that didn't come out right).:nope:

Who ya callin' girly man!:/\\k:

DJF.

Florida Primarys...
 

Ohh Ohh I get to vote again !!!

Uhhh dunno why but Im gonna do it :p

Love to watch the sinking ships............:help:

eye candy is the prize of the game

I take a peek outside from time to time to watch torps impact or ooh and ahh over the sinking hulk of a ship. :up:

the external camera is berry seck see.

love watching planes whiff after a crash dive and hard 90 to port.

:rotfl: on me. I had to read that three times before I got it!:sunny:

"For the girlyman":arrgh!:
I really enjoy seeing my boat ride the waves in all it`s visual glory and I had a self imposed rule of not using the camera to spy on enemy ships. Unfortunately I couldn`t resist the urge to f12 that DD that was about to drop on me, so in my current career I play with externals off.