I've been watching sinkings through the periscope lately. Really what I've been doing is looking at Dave's ocean and sky and taking screenies of my own boat, although I can do that with the free deck cam too.
@littlealx: that's what the attack map is for. Here! Wear this dunce cap for the next 15 minutes.:rotfl
uci, have a pink girlyman dunce cap?
Right now I'm playing with Rubini's nHancer settings for my graphics card trying to tease out the last 10% of rendering excellence from my graphics card. I added some fps too, going from 25 to 38 in bridge and external camera view.
But mostly the external view is how you tell the story of an attack sequence. Unless you just depend on the attack and nav maps, how else are you going to do it? A shadow puppet show?
Call me a journalist.
In the bottom screenie you can pick out the constellation Sagittarius right at the nose of Kraken and just to the right, the hook of Scorpius, the brightest and first-recognized constellation for those living in the southern hemisphere. Were this a real sky you would be able to pick out the bright Milky way rising out of the spout of Saggitarius. almost obscuring the stars in front of it and making the stars of Sagittarius very difficult to pick out.
Taken from the Florida Keys just after sunset. You can see some sky glow on the bottom of the picture, but Sagittarius is in the lower middle of the shot. Just TRY to pick it out. This is not much brighter than it would appear to the naked eye at sea with no artificial lights to destroy your amazement. Ok, call me an astronomer. Or call me crazy!
