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Originally Posted by CapnScurvy
There are no other files that contain height/length ship data but the individual ship .cfg file. In SH4 the only data that's revealed to the player is the "Height" data found in the Recognition Manual. The SH4 RM doesn't display the Length. If you're using the Auto Targeting feature, the "Height" value is just for show....it's not used to calculate the firing solution. A completely different way of gaining the same result is used. Simply put, the games knows where every unit is placed on the map, the firing solution is based off that information.
On the other hand, Manual Targeting relies on an accurate "height" figure when calculating a firing solution when using the Stadimeter. The only trouble is making sure the visual resolution is accurate to begin with so when a measurement is made, a yard is actually a yard.
So too should the target ship model be accurate......a yard needs to be actually 3 feet! There's no reason to believe the modlers of the various game pieces actually have it accurate...….the Stock game doesn't have the actual view within the periscope accurate, so why should the model's be accurate??
This leads to one thing that needs to be done, having an accurate "view" of the game world that the players can use; then having each target ship unit "measured" accurately so it's height/length can be used for Manual Targeting purposes. No small task when the Ultimate mod has twice the number of ship units when compared to the stock game.
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Thanks CapnnScurvy I don't like to play with "Auto-Tdc" will mean I'll use "contact map update" off ... or I'll learn to use hydrophone + sonar better ... How do you do it? the stadimeter also seems unreliable ...