[TEC] Modifying the watch crew's spotting range
 

Quite honestly, I'm really getting tired of this. Calm seas, a rested watch crew, and my watch officer tells me he can't see this: :roll:

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Frankly, this 8km visibility limit has got to go.

Like Sh3 then. :shifty:

Just add it to the very long list.

Just use the submarine sensors tweak file with Mini-Tweaker and set the crew spotting distance as far or a bit more than your horizon. I have horizon at 24000 yards and crew spotting range at 26000 yards.

We both see ships at the same time now:up:

26k yards??? what is the stock visibility range?

About 10000 yards, i.e. the same as the player can see rendered in screen in stock (I modded mine to see up to 24000 yards). But since the crew has been intentionally programmed to have a bit less ability than the player (To encourage the player to search himself with binoculars) it works better if they have a bit more visual range than the player :up:

Gotcha. Which sections of the file contain the spotting ranges I need to adjust? I'm guessing AI_Visual? For the horizon, is this in scene.dat?

Is there any way to do this without the mini tweaker? I havent been able to figure out how to work it....:oops:

Bump

Nobody??

Yes, there are three AI visual sensors. My wild guess is that they represent Periscope, Bridge lookout and high lookout, so you can realitiscally set different spotting and precision (Range where target can be locked in your view and data are more precise) ranges, yet I can't confirm that and I have no idea of which one is what.

Didn't want to waste time experimenting until I get patch 1.3 and see the final status of the game :hmm:


Yes, but it is even more complicated....you can hex-edit the files, but TT tweaker does that already through a nice interface, so direct hex-editing is a no-no for you if you can't understand the Mini Tweaker


Anyway, if you are interested I can upload for you the files already updated with whatever values you want:yep: :up: It's a matter of minutes:)

Is it possible to get the Watch Officer (crew) to call out the approx range to the target you're looking at through binnocs or locked onto via targeting binnocs ?

I think Trigger Maru implemented back the "Report nearest visual contact" key combo and when doing so, your IWO would tell you bearing and distance to closest target. But in stock SH4 it is not available AFAIK:hmm:

Thanks for reply Hitman, problem is that its not always the closest target I want a range estimate for. Just wondering whether its possible to get range for any target as long as its locked onto via target scope. This would allow me to sweep a convoy or task force and get fast approx ranges for each target without having to identify each ship manually and use stadimeter....makes sense I think ?

Isn't that option available already when you uncheck the realism option "No weapons officer assitance"? :hmm:

Speaking just out of my head, since I play 100% realism and never bothered studying what the realism options were for :88)

Thank you very much...:D Just make them what ever you think they should be..:)

Really?!! Cool if so, gonna check this tonight. Like you I play at 100% realism and haven't checked this either :oops:

Ummmm just discovered that it will not be compatible with RUB or TM if I use the standard SH4 files....

Do you want it to be compatible with one of those? If so, tell me so I can grab the proper files to start from. Give me an e-mail address per PM in that case so I can send it to you (I don't want to share publically as it would require permission from Beery and/or Ducimus). If you are using stock SH4 or mods that do not affect Scene.dat and US_Subs_Sensors, then I can make it public :up:

Sir I have RFB 1.28 installed...If its going to be a lot of work please dont bother and I can do without....:)

Got it. So, the only sensor values needed to be adjusted for AI units come from AI_Visual, correct? Is the horizon tweak the zmax value that has to be added to scene.dat?