Omnimeter

[Admiral8Q]

Originally Posted by Gino

By popular demand...

Now you only have to figure out how the thing works...

Have fun...

Really cool device! I wonder if it could be added to the game as a "dial" on the overlay such as the stopwatch?

[Gino]

Originally Posted by Admiral8Q

Really cool device! I wonder if it could be added to the game as a "dial" on the overlay such as the stopwatch?

Now...what a great idea... I think you'll notice that some people are already working on something.

As for the device: I only know of it's existence, I held it in my hands once, and I have an idea of how it works ( I also know the source to go to if I don't...)

Groetjes,

[Gino]

OK,

so I have some more pictures. Although htey're not what you wanted, but I have some good news.

Somewhere this week I should receive scans/photos made from the front.
For this the Omnimeter that we have has to be disassembled.





Groetjes,

[tomoose]

Gino;
appreciate your efforts. Can't you just remove the two 'knobs' and lay the whole thing down in a scanner?
I'm not sure if it will be too reflective given the shiny surface. Good luck with that. I've got my little html application standing by and if the scan works then it should just be a simple cut and paste into the application.

[Hitman]

Hello,

how the omnimeter works is very easily, and can be used as substitute for a broken split prism stadimeter by using the marks in the scopes (At 6x zoom 1 big mark= 1 degree). You simply drag the sliding part and place estimated mast heigth opposite the measured numbers of marks in the scope at high or low power (thus the double scale) and read in the distance scale the resulting distance to target opposite the same mark but in the range scale. The Sine scale on the right allows doing the same with hull length instead of mast heigth, and the sine scale serves for correcting for the shortened hull size when the target is angled.

[tomoose]

The linked video shows what I've done so far using some html techniques. The actual movement of the 'slides' is very smooth compared to how it looks in the video. It's not much but it's all I can offer back to subsim at the moment. I've had this sitting on desktop and just alt-tab out to use it then alt-tab back into SH4. It works fine. The problem is that the images used have been taken from a distance and at a slight angle which throws off the graduations and lining them up thereby affecting the overall accuracy of the digital tool. If Gino can get a clear scan of the device and provide images then this will be a done deal and I'll make it available for all. Having said that, I'm not sure if the graduations on the actual scope are realistic in that they can be used with the omnimeter. I've used this rough version and what the omnimeter was giving me was close to what I saw in the scope graduations but not perfect.
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v6...=omnimeter.mp4