[wip] British Periscope view

[keltos01]

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What the Officer in the Submarine sees through his periscope in War Inventions and How they were Invented

http://www.heritage-history.com/www/...s_greatwar.php


allright this is from the Great War (for you Iambecomelife)

I need the WWII equivalent..

keltos

[keltos01]

Originally Posted by Hitman

The excerpt from that book that deals with how the target solution was built is the web I linked to

That should work, IIRC sergbuto did it long ago and it was fine

Interestingly, the fruit machine worked like the current SH4 TDC (Which is in turn hugely inferior to the real US thing): You made an input of AOB, bearing and speed based on estimations, and then started the "simulation". If the next time you raised the scope the target was on the same bearing as the Fruit Machine indicated, then the solution was probably correct.

Here is the view through HMS Safari's periscope (Note the protrusion on the upper part for the bearing repeater, like in the german periscopes. The reticle is in mils and looks exactly like the first one you did for the Jap subs based on the old film, keltos):



BTW since the british submarines fought from bases in India and Malaysia as well as later from US bases in Australia, I guess that adding the T-class to the campaign as another playable submarine should be easy and realistic.

thanks Hitman !

does anyone have a better picture taken through a WWII British/Dutch periscope ?

keltos

[keltos01]

As you can see from the above picture which shows you the center of the reticle, there is no horizontal line, only a vertical one

reticle measured as seen on the negative picture :


it looks a lot like the WWI periscope but for that vertical line...

keltos

[keltos01]

I guess we can safely assume that they didn't change their periscope reticles :


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here both WWII and WWI periscopes are visible on the same picture



here is the new periscope reticle :



with vertical line added :




this here above should be the final version of the British Reticle

keltos

[keltos01]

I edited the periscopeSH3.dds and added the new reticle to it :


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seen here above with alpha channel visible

download :

http://www.mediafire.com/file/l2znkunoy3t/Periscope SH3.dds

it's been such a long time since I modified a periscope view that I'm not sure it's the right file I did...

will make it a mod tonight and see

keltos

[keltos01]

New British Periscope View :






For the Class T boat for now

keltos