[rik007]

Originally Posted by piri_reis

I've been using RIK's environment in my current patrol. During the day with 9km visibility, no rain, light clouds, my lookouts detect ships around 7-7.5km. And during the night when I was shadowing a small 2 ship convoy, from a distance of 5-6km, my watchmen kept calling out "ship sighted", which would mean around 6km is what their visibility range was.

Is anybody else having different detection/visibility behaviours then say, the Gwx 16km mod ?
I remember reading colors in the environment files effected the sensors or detection ranges, so that could be it.

Hi Piri,

I compared the ranges between GWX 16 Km and SH5 Water. I let a passenger cargo ship approach my surfaced type VII from a distance of 18 KM and then checked the distance when the ship was sighted (clouds=1, light clouds):

MOD : Windspeed : time detected : Distance
SH-5 : 0 Knts : 12:49 : 13,2 Km
SH-5 : 15 Knts : 12:49 : 13,6 Km
SH-5 : 0 Knts : 23:58 : 9,5 Km
SH-5 : 15 Knts : 23:47 : 12,7 Km

GWX-16 : 0 Knts : 12:47 : 13,7 Km
GWX-16 : 15 Knts : 12:48 : 13,2 Km
GWX-16 : 0 Knts : 23:56 : 10,1 Km
GWX-16 : 15 Knts : 23:52 : 11,5 Km

As you can see there is no significant difference. My crew is experience maybe that explains why your ships have been detected at 5-6 Km?