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10-21-11, 06:18 AM

Crap, this is not going to work as I planned then

The thing is I got bored to play the old way so decided to try something new

I'm doing some sort of experiment: My Boat is U-642, I'm in second war patrol, that looks like this: http://www.uboat.net/boats/patrols/patrol_1916.html

Now that gives an option to track daily U-boat positions by cooridantes. I already made an analogical course by those coordinates in my Google Earth, but when I started to mark positions of waypoints of the game I see huge difference from what is in Google Earth (GE) and in the SH3.

I compared eguator lenght's from GE and SH3 and it gave me huge difference:

From my calculations I see:

SH3 equator length is: 43154 Km

GE -//- : 40000

Meridian had less noticable differences than equator.

So what I had in mind was to get the value of the difference and make adjustments setting up waypoints so that it would at least look close to reality as much as possible. However due to the fact that the map is plain and in whole width we have equatorial lenght I guess it's going to benot that easy to make, or even impossible:

10-21-11, 06:18 AM	#3
PapaKilo Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Crap, this is not going to work as I planned then The thing is I got bored to play the old way so decided to try something new I'm doing some sort of experiment: My Boat is U-642, I'm in second war patrol, that looks like this: http://www.uboat.net/boats/patrols/patrol_1916.html Now that gives an option to track daily U-boat positions by cooridantes. I already made an analogical course by those coordinates in my Google Earth, but when I started to mark positions of waypoints of the game I see huge difference from what is in Google Earth (GE) and in the SH3. I compared eguator lenght's from GE and SH3 and it gave me huge difference: From my calculations I see: SH3 equator length is: 43154 Km GE -//- : 40000 Meridian had less noticable differences than equator. So what I had in mind was to get the value of the difference and make adjustments setting up waypoints so that it would at least look close to reality as much as possible. However due to the fact that the map is plain and in whole width we have equatorial lenght I guess it's going to benot that easy to make, or even impossible: Last edited by PapaKilo; 10-21-11 at 06:36 AM.