[REL] Realistic TBT view for US boats
 

From the README:

Instructions to custom change the TBT view in the cameras.dat if desired are provided, including a screenshot of Silent 3ditor.

Real TBT view, USS Bowfin:

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/6199/bowfintbtview.jpg

New in-game TBT view (Picture taken at the same place, also with an Iowa BB as target:D for better comparison):

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/9083/tbtshot.jpg


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Have fun and happy hunting! :salute:

Notice how, in your second screenshot, you can still clearly see the waves and terrain in the "black" areas of the TBT? Any way to fix this?

I've seen this with the scopes, too, and it seems the problem is that there is no "black" that the game honors as "completely opaque" - you have to use other colors. I think that's why the obs scope in TMO has that metalic look to it - but a complete, new set of scopes and TBT that fixed this would be really welcome.

For knuckleheads like me, can you make a JSGME version that also changes the apetures you speak of for stock, TMO and RFB?

Wow Hitman, you've done it again! Ever since your manual targetting for SH2, you've been at the forefront of accurate scope and UZO (TBT) views!

Thanks for this one, too!:rock:

I don't see that :-?


If I do that I would then need to continuously check each time RFB or TM is updated, and update the mod correspondingly :doh: Sorry mate, but in this case I think it's easier when DIY.

This is really cool - thank you!

:salute:

Completely understand:D

i sent you a PM

Errrr...try increasing your monitor's brightness/contrast? It's fairly clear that the 'black' part isn't completely opaque - you can still easily see the waves through it.

This is hardly the fault of your mod, btw - stock game does this, too. Just seems like, if you were already working on something to improve the stock game, that's something that could also use improvement.

Had not thought about it, will do (I play will low light and high contrast, because I like black to be black) and see what happens :hmmm:

But I must warn you that what is transparent or not depends not on the black background but on the mask in the Alpha channel. The mask is correctly opaque as far as I can tell, so it might be a problem of the game's 3D engine or of the use of DDS extension files for graphics (Compression at the probable cost of quality...)

Alternatively, you could try to lower you light level and increase contrast, like I do :D

Given how widespread this problem is in the game, this is exactly what I've ended up doing in the last few days (lowered gamma in-game to something like 33%). Took some getting used to (everything seemed so DARK), but once I adjusted to it, have been doing fine. It's nice not being able to see through the 'sides' of the periscope again (compared to Sh3). :yeah:

Hmmm, that picture that Hitman posted, I had a look at that and at the sides, there's only a top value of something like 2 or 3 (out of 255) for the black parts of the mask on that screenshot, so I take it that you have a problem whilst running the mod and not looking at the actual screenshot posted at the start, Xander?

Any chance you can post a screengrab from your PC showing the see throughness?

By this do you mean AngularAngle? I'm looking at RFB's camera file and can't find that value. I've tried to make sure the mod's camera values are correct, but I may have made an incorrect assumption somewhere.

Oh sorry you are right :damn: I had aperture in mind, yet in the file cameras.dat it is AngularAngle. I'm sorry, but hope the screenshot in the Readme made it easier to identify it :dead:

No, it's the screenshot (well, it's in-game, too, but you can see it in the above screenshot). If you edit the screenshot in Photoshop (or whatnot), and do a 'sample' of the black areas around the view, you can see that there are different levels of 'black'. Increasing the brightness and contrast will show you that the different areas of black correspond to the waves, sky, ships off-'camera', etc.