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Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith
I'm using the naming scheme from the pdf document. I'm just going to make each 'dial' or disc independent. Someone who knows how this thing works can test it and tell me if it works or not. If you read the manual, part D (or pointer D - Bearing and Lead Angle) doesn't exist in graphic. I need this graphic to complete the attack disk.
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In general this works like that.
The only point of choice here is:
a) leave all rings moving independently all around, thus simulating a tool that one holds in his hands, in no way connected to the submarine and its equipment,
b) fix some rings so that at least the current course of the sub is indicated on the tool.
Option b) is easier in later use, as one doesn't have to check the course and manually set it on the wheels, this option was used by all the mods I know. This can be achieved by two ways, both equally intuitive in my opinion:
A) "A. Relative Bearing" fixed so that 0 always points up, "B. Compass Rose" moving to indicate current course, or
B) "B. Compass Rose" fixed so that N always points up, "A. Relative Bearing" moving to indicate current course.
The rest should be just moving around independently. Attaching them to any sub dials would be problematic, as one often uses the wheels to calculate this and that, and this would result in TDC being constantly messed up by the wheel settings.
A Flash version of the wheel:
http://www.filefront.com/8651549/Whizz-Wheel---German/