Stadimeter and Lock functionality

[Trevally.]

Originally Posted by finchOU

Or did I miss something?

To work out the adjacent of a triangle you need to know the angle A and the opposite.

So when you lock onto a ship (after ID) pressing the space bar sends the mast height (opposite) to the TDC where angle A can be measured to give range.

So yes you must lock onto the ship

Another thing.......with respect to accurate TDC range for employing torepdos......Gyro angle change is almost nill with change in distance...meaning you'll use the same gyro angle for a target at say 700 meters verses 2500 meters...so accurate distance really does not matter. I'll cavate this by saying I almost always shoot torpedos to impact when the target is 90 AOB and never use magnetic pistols at different AOBs. Any thoughts on this?

Yes this is correct

[finchOU]

Originally Posted by Trevally.

To work out the adjacent of a triangle you need to know the angle A and the opposite.

So when you lock onto a ship (after ID) pressing the space bar sends the mast height (opposite) to the TDC where angle A can be measured to give range.

No man...I know the trig involved...Tan (mast height angle)=mast height (oppisite) / distance (adjacent)....what I'm saying is...the real TDC did solve the the range componet. Think they used Trig tables of know angles then calculated what the distance on their own....then put that into the TDC as the Range to target....so mast height to the TDC makes no sense to me.

My bigger problem is...I HAVE to lock a ship to USE the stadimeter or the recce manual. This is a huge turn off to me....plus i think its more time consuming and SA sucking. Obviously i'm not using any MODS until i get my new computer....so that was my question....whether there is a MOD that separtes "Locking" a ship....with the fuctionality of the Recce Man and Stadimeter.

I would perfer a Stadimeter that just gives out an angle (or at least shows the angle)...to which a note pad would do the trig if you were allowed to manually enter mast height...vice....."selecting a ship" with the recce man. I personally dont like the way it is (what else is new). I guess I would perfer options.....vice one way to use the range finder.

[Trevally.]

Originally Posted by finchOU

No man...I know the trig involved...Tan (mast height angle)=mast height (oppisite) / distance (adjacent)....what I'm saying is...the real TDC did solve the the range componet. Think they used Trig tables of know angles then calculated what the distance on their own....then put that into the TDC as the Range to target....so mast height to the TDC makes no sense to me.

ah - ok

My bigger problem is...I HAVE to lock a ship to USE the stadimeter or the recce manual. This is a huge turn off to me....plus i think its more time consuming and SA sucking. Obviously i'm not using any MODS until i get my new computer....so that was my question....whether there is a MOD that separtes "Locking" a ship....with the fuctionality of the Recce Man and Stadimeter.

The mod I use to fix the stock stadi uses the space bar to mark the target and send mast height to TDC - no lock on required.

It also has an option to follow the target

I would perfer a Stadimeter that just gives out an angle (or at least shows the angle)...to which a note pad would do the trig if you were allowed to manually enter mast height...vice....."selecting a ship" with the recce man. I personally dont like the way it is (what else is new). I guess I would perfer options.....vice one way to use the range finder.

I'm sure this could be done - are you up for making it

[finchOU]

Originally Posted by Trevally.

I'm sure this could be done - are you up for making it

Yeah I'll put on my modding hat....its right next to my engineering hat and carpentry skillz hat. Oh wait...i dont own a hat! I wish I was code savy and mod able...but I dont work that way. I think is turely unbelievalbe that we have these kind of games at all...and the modders.... just awesome that someone cares enought...with the know how and free personal time to make it better.