Originally Posted by Wolfstriked (Post 1862145)

Great stuff Rubini.A question I have is about the blind spots of a hydrophone.Could you explain the arc better.Is it dumb to submerge and do a 360deg turn to ensure the blind spots are not a hindrance?

Originally Posted by Rubini (Post 1862177)

IIRC,an arc is just a amount of a circular degree that is covered in a presetted time and with a probability to make a contact. It seems to me, a better option than the no arc sensors exactly because arcs have probability.

On some SH5 scripts the boat do a full stop, listen a bit, then a 45 degree turn and full stop again just to cover the blind spots. Well, this is the more realistic way, no doubt. But I didn't used this approach on my script mod at first, as this will be done in high TC and players will never noted it...I guess.

Originally Posted by Wolfstriked (Post 1862179)

Originally Posted by Wolfstriked (Post 1862324)

Where can I learn about the blind spots for various equipment.Also Rubini,I seem to be getting readings on surface with your mod.It might be mod soup though so tommorow I will try it loading it last and see what happens.

Originally Posted by Leitender (Post 1862353)

May i assist you, Rubini? :salute:

Wolfstriked

There were 3 passive sonars used in german U-Boats: GHG, KDB and Balkon.

The early GHG sensors were attached to each side of the boat near the front dive plane. That´s why one could only hear along the side and had blind spots at bow and stern. The commanders always did a 90° turn, to discover these blind spots in reality, btw. normally at a depth of 30m to get a maximum range.

Later rotatable KDB was mounted on top of the foredeck which led to a blind spot only at the stern because of the connning tower. That system was quite sensitive but had a minor range compared to the GHG and also was very vulnerable against depth charges. So it soon was cut off.

Finally Balkon followed the GHG principle, but was mounted below the keel at the bow of the boat, which reduced the blind spot to the stern and made spotting possible when surfaced. Also range was increased.

If contact was lost, the operater could estimate the target´s course for little time and give these estimates to the kaleun. If the target´s course was more or less perpendicular it was possible to bridge this gap.

Bearing accuracy was not accurate enough to get firing solutions irl (different than ingame). So it was only used for tactical / surveillance purposes.

So far so good. All the blind spots, resp. bearings are given in the sensors.dat file and the values were more or less ok. Beyond, there is a "always tracking bonus time" within the sensors.cfg wich exactly simulates the update of bearing without contacts. This is a very fine and well functioning system in SH3. But this only concerns the crew.

You yourself are able to hear contacts at the hydrophone without any restrictions in geometry, loudness, speed etc. That´s much easier, but not realliy realistic. So if you trust only your sonar operator, you will gain realistic results. To support your operator turn your boat after a few minutes 90° as irl and you will get the biggest immersion.

Originally Posted by Leitender (Post 1862353)

May i assist you, Rubini? :salute:

Wolfstriked

There were 3 passive sonars used in german U-Boats: GHG, KDB and Balkon.

The early GHG sensors were attached to each side of the boat near the front dive plane. That´s why one could only hear along the side and had blind spots at bow and stern. The commanders always did a 90° turn, to discover these blind spots in reality, btw. normally at a depth of 30m to get a maximum range.

Later rotatable KDB was mounted on top of the foredeck which led to a blind spot only at the stern because of the connning tower. That system was quite sensitive but had a minor range compared to the GHG and also was very vulnerable against depth charges. So it soon was cut off.

Finally Balkon followed the GHG principle, but was mounted below the keel at the bow of the boat, which reduced the blind spot to the stern and made spotting possible when surfaced. Also range was increased.

If contact was lost, the operater could estimate the target´s course for little time and give these estimates to the kaleun. If the target´s course was more or less perpendicular it was possible to bridge this gap.

Bearing accuracy was not accurate enough to get firing solutions irl (different than ingame). So it was only used for tactical / surveillance purposes.

So far so good. All the blind spots, resp. bearings are given in the sensors.dat file and the values were more or less ok. Beyond, there is a "always tracking bonus time" within the sensors.cfg wich exactly simulates the update of bearing without contacts. This is a very fine and well functioning system in SH3. But this only concerns the crew.

You yourself are able to hear contacts at the hydrophone without any restrictions in geometry, loudness, speed etc. That´s much easier, but not realliy realistic. So if you trust only your sonar operator, you will gain realistic results. To support your operator turn your boat after a few minutes 90° as irl and you will get the biggest immersion.

Originally Posted by Leitender (Post 1860917)

LGN1:

You must also create a new sensor (e.g. R02 for a Radar system which differentiates in range between planes and ships) to the ship´s sns-file AND create a new cfg-node to the ship´s dat-file. Compare it to the existing sensors an you will see.

Originally Posted by Rubini (Post 1851300)

Leitender have noticed that the player only can listen from one of the layers (seems the more deep one, the other two are deaf for the player).
Anyhow, the sonarman and the game works normally on the hydro contacts and dinamics, as intend.
So, be adviced, until we find a solution, that this mod is not suitable for players that like to listen contacts by theirselfs

Originally Posted by gap (Post 2011479)

Hi Rubini,

I suggest you to go through the last posts of Repaired Equipment MOD's thread: it seems that I and volodya61 managed to fix the above issue, making hydrophone contacts audible along the whole sensor's depth range.

Hopefully our method will work for SHIII as well :up:

Originally Posted by Rubini (Post 2011812)

Hi guys,

After made more tests i can say that the gap fix really fixed the problem! Now the mod is complete!!
I will make a new updated version and will post for download until tomorrow!

Thanks gap!:salute: