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Old 12-06-07, 03:22 AM   #5
Ducimus
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Just FYI, here's the summation of the changes i made to TMaru to the stock AI where underwater detection is concerned. These are the changes ive been using, up until this point:

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sim.cfg
Hydrophone-> Noisefactor from 1.0 to 0.4
Hydrophone-> Thermal Layer Attun from 3.0 to 2.0

Sonar->Enemy Surface Factor from 200 to 150
Sonar-> Thermal Layer attuen from 5.0 to 4.0


AI sensors.dat
Type93-1A -> MaxRange from 1000 to 1200

Type93-1A ->MaxElevation from 100 to 106
Type93-3A ->MaxElevation from 100 to 112
Type93-5A ->MaxElevation from 100 to 118

Depthcharge.zon ->MaxRadius from 40 to 14.5
Deptcharge.sim-> DepthPercision from 5 to 17
Deptcharge.sim-> Explosion_range from 40 to 50

Now, ive just made some adjustments to that, and the first test run looked promising, here is what ill most likely run with soon, although i wonder if its a TINY bit much, not sure. more testing is needed:

Quote:
sim.cfg
Hydrophone-> Noisefactor remains at 0.4
Hydrophone-> Thermal Layer Attun remains at 2.0

Sonar->Enemy Surface Factor remains at 150
Sonar-> Thermal Layer attuen from 4.0 to 3.0

AI sensors.dat
Type93-1A -> MaxRange remains at 1200

Type93-1A ->MaxElevation from 106 to 108
Type93-3A ->MaxElevation from 112 to 114
Type93-5A ->MaxElevation from 118 to 120

Depthcharge.zon ->MaxRadius from 14.5 to 20 (untested)
Deptcharge.sim-> DepthPercision from 17 to 10 (untested)
Deptcharge.sim-> Explosion_range from 50 to 55 (untested, not that it matters much)

If i still can't illicit a good response from the AI, next on my list is to lower the sonar surface factor in the sim.cfg from 150 to 125, and retest from there, but i dont think it will be neccessary.

One thing i havent done, is extend the maximum range of the active sonar. Doing so, will make convoys really hard (or rather harder) to approach.


edit: explosion range going back down to 50, subs starting to accelerate in speed, which isnt any good.

Sonar thermal layer attuen, i might bring that back up to 4.

With the new settings ive quoted above, i think i got my accuracy back, and im getting more pinging. I think either the min elevation adjustment was all taht was neccesary, or thermal layer.. im skeptical if both were needed.

Try it out, tell me what you think.

Last edited by Ducimus; 12-06-07 at 03:51 AM.
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