Calculating AOB with OLC Gold

[Sea Hawk]

Originally Posted by BenG

What modification is this screen shot from?
What are the 3 coloured scails inside the chronometer for?

[Pisces]

Originally Posted by Sea Hawk

What modification is this screen shot from?
What are the 3 coloured scails inside the chronometer for?

Well, you could have figured that out by reading the thread title, and the rest of the messages in it. (atleast a bit)

Sorry, I'm grumpy as my PC died on me today.

Those things around the periscope view are sliderulers to mimic/simulate the real-life german (attack) periscope optics that could determine both range and AOB in almost one go. Onelifecrisis made that mod you see here (it appeared in various editions, but his latest is OLC Gold Mk2b). They are also in the U-jagd tools by Joegrundman, and some derivative mods by others.

Those colored scales around the chronometer are scales to determine speed of a target, as they pass the line of your periscope. The full procedure is a bit more involved than just looking at the target though. (you need to eliminate the effect of your own speed) The colored circles represent a certain length of the target. After the needle has moved X seconds it points to the appropriate speed for the length of that color (100m, 150m or 200m). If the actual ship has a different length you need to chose the color that best fits, or multiply/divide appropriately. But I found a way to (ab)use that range/AOB finder wheel in calculating the speed for any length of ship. See that crooked mark next to the 60 degrees in the inner (AOB) scale?

Watch those videos in the link OLC gave above to see how they all work.


BTW, Does that mean we can start to corrupt you into the wonderfull world of manual targeting?

[tmdgm]

ben,

did any of this help? I have had the same problems multiple times. some ships are ok, others aren't, but always the exact same, AOB >90. I posted the same question in the mods section, never figured it out.

[onelifecrisis]

makman94 explained the problem. Its old news. Some modded ships have the wrong mast and length values. Would be nice if someone could be bothered to correct them all!

[tmdgm]

is there a list of ships with wrong mast values?

[Sea Hawk]

I downloaded "OLC's Video Tutorials"
Then exported then to a file in "my documents" using Winzip
"Video Tutorial Supplement for OLC 'Gold'.avi" played perfectly on windows media player.
"Original OLC GUI Video Tutroial.avi" only played the sound.

I therefore attempted to delete them inorder to redownload them.
Each time I try to delete them I get the message:-

Cannot delete OLC's Video Tutorials.rar: it is being used by another person or program. Close any programs that might be using the file and try later.

If when I get this error message I press ctrl-alt-delete then the only programs listed as running is windows explorer. I do not know how to stop the program that is stopping me from deleting these files.

I have since been able to delete "Original OLC GUI Video Tutroial.avi"
but I cannot delete "Video Tutorial Supplement for OLC 'Gold'.avi"

Now when I double click on "Video Tutorial Supplement for OLC 'Gold'.avi" it opens windows media player and playes the video but also brings up a second error message:-
Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close......Send error report.
It then either closes windows explorer, or closes it and my computer showes only my desk top pictire without the program short-cuts and without the start bar at the bottom.

Please help me.
How can I get rid of these downloads.


I also tried removing from my computer my instalation of winzip, and a few other downloaded programs that I do not use, but I could still not delete these video tutorials.

How about you do a reboot of your PC and then delete ?

[makman94]

Originally Posted by tmdgm

I posted the same question in the mods section, never figured it out.

did you try what i told you there Tmdgm or not ?

ps: oh,there is not such a list you are asking for

[Sea Hawk]

Sorted.
Dont know how I did it.
Closed as many applications as pos. that were running in the background.
The next time I lookrd the files I was trying to delete had gone.

[harryt8]

Those colored scales around the chronometer are scales to determine speed of a target, as they pass the line of your periscope. The full procedure is a bit more involved than just looking at the target though. (you need to eliminate the effect of your own speed) The colored circles represent a certain length of the target. After the needle has moved X seconds it points to the appropriate speed for the length of that color (100m, 150m or 200m). If the actual ship has a different length you need to chose the color that best fits, or multiply/divide appropriately. But I found a way to (ab)use that range/AOB finder wheel in calculating the speed for any length of ship. See that crooked mark next to the 60 degrees in the inner (AOB) scale?


Pisces,

Can you advise me where I can download a plain chronograph similar to the chrono used by Friedl9te's video on OLC attach solution?

Thank.

Harryt8

[Pisces]

Originally Posted by harryt8

Pisces,

Can you advise me where I can download a plain chronograph similar to the chrono used by Friedl9te's video on OLC attach solution?

Thank.

Harryt8

Sorry, I have no idea what you mean with Friedl9te's video. Or I forgot about it if I ever saw it. I also do not know of a place where you can find such a plain chronograph (I presume you mean without those colored scales). But I do think someone made them before. Maybe there are links in the oldest threads (huge page counts; started around 2007 or so) about the OLC gui or Ujagd tools. You'll have to use the search function of the forum. I just woke up and need coffee first. (@ 11:36 in the morning )

[Pisces]

Originally Posted by harryt8

Pisces,

Can you advise me where I can download a plain chronograph similar to the chrono used by Friedl9te's video on OLC attach solution?

Thank.

Harryt8

Allright I did some deep digging in old threads and found something you probalby meant. But it isn't a video by Friedl9te. It's a walkthrough showing the stopwatch you want (or so I understand).

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...&postcount=207

Here is the post with a link to the file. But it is a rapidshare link, and it is dead now. Your best bet in getting it is asking Freidl9te by private message.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...&postcount=169

[harryt8]

Pisces,

Thank you for the time and trouble you have gone to research this.
Yes, it was a "step-through" on the OLC attack routine.
I found it useful.
Again, thanks.

Harry