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Originally Posted by Sean C
If you need any help with the actual process, let me know!  |
Well, I took a look at your website, it seems indeed that you are involved about celestial navigation!
As for now, I checked the link FUBAR295 gave me here:
https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...hlight=RealNav
I wasn't able to download any material since links are very old, but this sent me to this:
https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...ght=stellarium
where I learnt about python script that sends your savegame coordinates and time to Stellarium, but this didn't work because both Python and Stellarium last versions being too much different.
Finally, I found this post
https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...ght=Stellarium about mods and charts needed for celestial nav in both SH3 and 4, with a more recent script. (Some links are working, and I still have to take a look at those files in case I find answers there before asking too many stupid questions, but it was very late then. Sub simulators really are time consuming, both playing and modding lol...)
I had better results with those scripts and with reverting to an older Stellarium version, but was only able to insert my savegame coordinates in it, whereas the time of day remains the actual IRL one. (There are some explanations, but they are more oriented about SH4, even if SH3 is also mentioned, since both games seem to have the same engine, and I assume those guys started their work with 3 and evolved it for 4, but there are maybe differences I am not able to identify).
So, this is where I'm stuck for now. I have a few questions though:
-Do you have any other method than Stellarium, maybe another program, or in-game itself to make your celestial readings? I do have an old sextant-like thing I managed to display in my GUI, but I don't know if there are any FOV issues I must check before readings, and more annoying for me, I find stars really hard to see because nights are very bright and they are very small.
-On the assumption I manage to make Stellarium displaying both my position and time in-game, how is it possible to make the readings in this program?
I certainly will have tons of questions about celestial navigation itself in the future, but for now I am looking for a way to make things work so I can start my educational course on that matter with the best foot forward.
Thanks.
EDIT: I just figured out that you have to manually input date and time with the script, and that you only have to point the celestial body in Stellarium to have some readings... Well, gotta read a lot of stuff about celestial nav and posts on subsim about it, now.