hi,
I finally made my own hardcopy with version 1.1 of this neat tool too. Indeed, it was alot easier than I thought. But I made sure I was well prepared. I used A4 sized sticker sheets to print on and stuck that onto old thin cardboard pizza boxes (about 1 mm thick). Cutting them out along the edges before covering them with sticky transparent (book) cover foil. It's not completely rigid, but good enough. I expected the foil to be statically charged so it would lift itself up in the air, to attach itself to the disks in the most annoying and 'unremovable' way possible. But it didn't.
It stayed dormant on my working area. Unlike some previous attempts with this kind of foil on books.
The transparent pointers didn't come out very good. I printed them on inkjet transparencies that have one rough side for the ink to stick to. I also laminated them with that sticky foil but that led to unavoidable air bubbles, making them a bit blurry. I am not sure how this is going to work out when playing in 'rig for red' situations. As I like to keep it as dark as possible. Am I right in thinking that laserjet/copier transparencies are smooth on both sides? So this could be avoided with that?
Yesterday I asked in the KM Angriffscheibe manual thread about how to interpret the 2 ship symbols on the (scope)bearing pointer. Joegrundman said today the ship symbols were displaced outwards on the pointer in his version (to be used with the small fat red/green 60 degree pointer) compared to Hitman's original version. But this change does not seem to be included in the latest release (1.1) of Hitman's disk images. It appears joegrundman's mod (maybe OLC too), the final flash executable, and the version at the beginning of this thread all have slightly different pointers. Also, a centerline is missing making it difficult to align degrees on that 60 deg pointer. Further I noticed the center cross on the Lage wheel (same side) is a bit out of center. I drew lines between the degrees to check. And this causes the disk s to be sometimes 1 degree out of alignment. Not much (but very annoying once you know), and easily fixable in the image I think.
Some more cosmetic things (if I can persuade Hitman for an update of the files):
- There is a small white square on the yellow 'Strecke rad' disk between 6.0 and 6.5 knots.
- Between 3.1 and 3.3 on the knots and aswell as both km scales there are some irregular marks.
- The red line (the unity-mark) on the 'Zeit' (time) disk is not exactly above 1 minute 40 seconds. (which is 100 seconds and so they should be aligned)
And my final remark, the angle/distance/speed/time side could use a free pointer-tool. If you need to bridge time (i.e. on the seconds scale, the orange ring) or knots to an angle this is not possible without one. If you want to calculate angles smaller than 5.7 degrees on it this is even neccessary. See the in Angriffscheibe manual thread where I explained it. My solution:
