The external camera is...
 

Friday night fun thread.

(choose what you feel is the most correct answer to you)

I voted life's blood.

I love watching the wake's of the fish heading for the target! it's ten times better when you take a look and it looks like your calculations are about to pay off :arrgh!:

occasional. I rarely watch the action nowadays actually, I prefer to concentrate on the attack and not spoil the immersion in the role of the captain. I use it a lot when nothing is happening but I just want to watch my boat cruise through the waves, though. I also use it sometimes to watch sinking ships when an attack is over and finished. Otherwise... not so much.

You girlymen! :rotfl:

Life`s blood!

I voted for movie ticket,love watching the action as it happens. Maybe if there where more going on inside the sub i wouldn't use it as much, but right now the crew dosen't seem very real. Besides how can i enjoy Leo's ROW from inside the sub?

Well thay do call me Davina at the weekend:rotfl:

Well I voted for number 3 but...
 

I've been watching sinkings through the periscope lately. Really what I've been doing is looking at Dave's ocean and sky and taking screenies of my own boat, although I can do that with the free deck cam too.

@littlealx: that's what the attack map is for. Here! Wear this dunce cap for the next 15 minutes.:rotfl:Duci, have a pink girlyman dunce cap?:cool:

Right now I'm playing with Rubini's nHancer settings for my graphics card trying to tease out the last 10% of rendering excellence from my graphics card. I added some fps too, going from 25 to 38 in bridge and external camera view.

But mostly the external view is how you tell the story of an attack sequence. Unless you just depend on the attack and nav maps, how else are you going to do it? A shadow puppet show?:up: Call me a journalist.
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...200024_977.jpg
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...5844_137-1.jpg
In the bottom screenie you can pick out the constellation Sagittarius right at the nose of Kraken and just to the right, the hook of Scorpius, the brightest and first-recognized constellation for those living in the southern hemisphere. Were this a real sky you would be able to pick out the bright Milky way rising out of the spout of Saggitarius. almost obscuring the stars in front of it and making the stars of Sagittarius very difficult to pick out.
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...n/SAGGITAR.jpg
Taken from the Florida Keys just after sunset. You can see some sky glow on the bottom of the picture, but Sagittarius is in the lower middle of the shot. Just TRY to pick it out. This is not much brighter than it would appear to the naked eye at sea with no artificial lights to destroy your amazement. Ok, call me an astronomer. Or call me crazy!:-j

This :roll::up:


RDP

When I'm doing "paperwork" at home (actually working on the work laptop), I often fire up SH4 with ROW, and let the boat putt across the Pacific in real time with the external view on. Something soothing about the wave action, colors and sounds in the background while WWII era music is playing over the radio.

http://www.kickinbak.com/posts/pacific.jpg

Color me 'occasional'. In SH3 I always tried to stay inside, but I really love looking at the harbor traffic, and looking at my sub from other viewpoints - especially looking down from the plane's view. It's a hard one to give up.

I imagine it will be the same for SH4; that ocean sure is pretty.

For Stabiz, no doubt about that!

Why would you say tha...

Oh, yeah, "Mr. Video".:rock:

My vote went to Movie Ticket too...for the same reasons Q3ark mentioned.

I never use it anymore, as running a low end computer forces the frame rates down to 2-3fps in external view, and 5-7 in periscope view. Besides I like the suspense that TM 1.7.5 gives me watching a DD bear down on me through the periscope (and the crash diving that proceedes).