[REQ] To OLC, Mikhayl, Joegrundman and other GUI modders

dertien · 03-26-08, 01:51 AM

Hello fellow Kaleuns,

As I am not an expert on SH3 modding, I call out to those who are more experienced in the field of GUI modding such as OLC, Mikhayl and of course the GWX members who have done a great job so far.

So what is this about ?

- Maybe I have found a workaround to enable a sextant like tool to work successfully ingame, dependless of the celestial body positioning in relation to the horizon.

Let me explain a little more in detail:

As mentioned before, with particular cameras.dat files, Polaris cannot be 'shot' with Vanjast's sextant accurately and celestial navigation is a PIA in SH3.

What do we NEED to make a sextant?

1) A rotating scale ( from 1-90°) this can be easily made as we transform Kaleun Freddie's (vanjast) draggable vertical linear sextant into a rotating disk like the one OLC created to find the AOB.

2) A station to implement the sextant in: OLC has made a very nice uncluttered and usable observation periscope, where we can implement the disk nicely.The observation persicope is also stabilized, which makes it useful for celestial body shooting without being swung up and down by the waves. Hence more accurate readings. A cameras.dat file can be easily modified to have a different zoom level. Maybe we could even get a different disk loaded at the two different zoom levels to even have greater accuracy, as to read not only degrees but also minutes.

3) We have 2 dials on the TDC that follow our periscope view when we move the mouse horizontally; those are Bearing and AOB.
Furthermore OLC has the outer disk of the Attackdisk that follows the heading of our boat automatically.

It is hence possible to convert mouse motion (and thus view) in a scope to a rotary motion, and a valid reading on a dial.

If we were able to convert this available HORIZONTAL motion reading to a VERTICAL motion reading and 'attach' this reading to the new disk and make it rotate accordingly in the observation scope we would have a working sextant close to the one in RL.

What do you guys think ?

Doable ?

03-26-08, 01:51 AM	#1
dertien Lieutenant Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Antwerp Belgium Posts: 259 Downloads: 130 Uploads: 0	[REQ] To OLC, Mikhayl, Joegrundman and other GUI modders Hello fellow Kaleuns, As I am not an expert on SH3 modding, I call out to those who are more experienced in the field of GUI modding such as OLC, Mikhayl and of course the GWX members who have done a great job so far. So what is this about ? - Maybe I have found a workaround to enable a sextant like tool to work successfully ingame, dependless of the celestial body positioning in relation to the horizon. Let me explain a little more in detail: As mentioned before, with particular cameras.dat files, Polaris cannot be 'shot' with Vanjast's sextant accurately and celestial navigation is a PIA in SH3. What do we NEED to make a sextant? 1) A rotating scale ( from 1-90°) this can be easily made as we transform Kaleun Freddie's (vanjast) draggable vertical linear sextant into a rotating disk like the one OLC created to find the AOB. 2) A station to implement the sextant in: OLC has made a very nice uncluttered and usable observation periscope, where we can implement the disk nicely.The observation persicope is also stabilized, which makes it useful for celestial body shooting without being swung up and down by the waves. Hence more accurate readings. A cameras.dat file can be easily modified to have a different zoom level. Maybe we could even get a different disk loaded at the two different zoom levels to even have greater accuracy, as to read not only degrees but also minutes. 3) We have 2 dials on the TDC that follow our periscope view when we move the mouse horizontally; those are Bearing and AOB. Furthermore OLC has the outer disk of the Attackdisk that follows the heading of our boat automatically. It is hence possible to convert mouse motion (and thus view) in a scope to a rotary motion, and a valid reading on a dial. If we were able to convert this available HORIZONTAL motion reading to a VERTICAL motion reading and 'attach' this reading to the new disk and make it rotate accordingly in the observation scope we would have a working sextant close to the one in RL. What do you guys think ? Doable ? __________________ If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea, and I have an idea and we exchange ideas each of us will have two ideas. G.B.Shaw Last edited by dertien; 03-26-08 at 02:55 AM.