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Old 04-14-10, 02:44 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Hitman View Post
I had already thought if this would be possible, but I can't think of a way to implement it. The sextant you mention for the Real Navigation mod was IIRC just a ruler to measure heigth of sun/stars, not a stereoscopic device.

For a stereoscopic one you need two cameras at different points, separated by some distance (In this rangefinder you showed it was 70 cm) to be able to produce two different images and link them together to determine the angle. This is currently impossible to do in SH3.
Let us pretend then mate! Just a nice graphic mod linked with (or triggered from) the nearest visual contact range command. Lets have at least the sense of calculating the range! What do you think?
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