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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
I know it's only one picture and you've probably got a lot more, and you've probably done your research, but I have to ask the bad question: is Skipjack's periscope fully extended in that picture?
I do agree that the hulls while surfaced are definitely odd-looking. On the other hand of course external views are hardly realistic either.
Not arguing, and I'm looking forward to your progress with interest. I just had to ask.  |
That picture represents what I saw in movies and in pictures, not all were the same but all were similar. I don't really know what is exactly right, but absolute correctness was not the true aim. The real aim was consistency. Every sub in the stock game and other mods has a different height above water, ranging from 1.25 Feet higher than my mod to over 2 feet lower. I wanted each sub's periscope to be the same height above the water. When we hit the PD button we will always know how much periscope can be seen in every class. However I am still searching for a engineering reference that explains the parameter of periscope depth.
Well the S class is not modeled very well buth the fleet boats seems to be pretty good. When I resized my screen shots and layered them on to the official photographs the matched up decently. They got the basic shape right and some skilled 3D modders are making them loook even better.