Moding Aircraft Visual Abilities i.e. Additions to the AI_Sensor.dat

[gouldjg]

DT,

I cannot really comment on aircraft ranges as I never seem to leave 1940 due to tweaking and thus never seem to deal with them.

What I can say is this,

I, pobably like many others are glad that you have taken serious looks into these areas and any improvement is better than no improvment.

As for ranges, damn thats a hard question so I am going to leave that to the educated.

I am wondering if you are able to get planes to spot sub a peri depth though. I think you said that visual cannot be used under the water.

[Der Teddy Bar]

Originally Posted by gouldjg

I am wondering if you are able to get planes to spot sub a peri depth though. I think you said that visual cannot be used under the water.

You can set the Minimum Height to be a minus figure. I do know that is does work with say a -1 or -2. I am unsure how deep you can go.

So in answering, yes it is possible....

Do you think people are ready for such a mod?

[Salvadoreno]

You know my answer teddy.. YES!!!! :rotfl:

[HEMISENT]

Originally Posted by Der Teddy Bar

You can set the Minimum Height to be a minus figure. I do know that is does work with say a -1 or -2. I am unsure how deep you can go.

So in answering, yes it is possible....

Do you think people are ready for such a mod?

I am, I am! Over here, Look, see, I am!

[gouldjg]

Originally Posted by HEMISENT

I am, I am! Over here, Look, see, I am!

I think you have your answer DT :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: . I too would like to see stories from players whom had just been bombed at periscope depth.

Imagine, your looking at a convoy on a nice clear day and then Boom. Surely that happened did it not?

[andy_311]

Originally Posted by gouldjg

I think you have your answer DT :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: . I too would like to see stories from players whom had just been bombed at periscope depth.

Imagine, your looking at a convoy on a nice clear day and then Boom. Surely that happened did it not?

That's already happened to me in GW loads of times 44 onwards hit one ship escorts none the wiser next the R.A.F turn up

[HEMISENT]

Originally Posted by gouldjg

I think you have your answer DT :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: . I too would like to see stories from players whom had just been bombed at periscope depth.

Imagine, your looking at a convoy on a nice clear day and then Boom. Surely that happened did it not?

Actually, something similiar had happened to me on a mission quite a while ago. Perfect visibility, cruising surfaced and decided to take the boat down for a sound check. Cleared the bridge for a standard dive, brought the boat to PD. Scope up and....BOOM, extensive damage to everything aft of the tower. Went to external view to see what happened just before we sunk.Turns out my watch crew never saw the Catalina that bombed us and he must have used the raised scope as an aiming point.

[Taurolas]

very interesting T...

Airplanes have the advantage of height so bearing in mind you can see calais from dover i'd say visual spotting at 25 miles+ or so for sub hunters if surfaced in favourable conditions or somewhere in that range (afterall they had a crew with binoculars scanning the sea) conditions will of course play a part, Haze, low lvl cloud, waves, surfaced or at periscope depth.

that in turn would of course scare the pants off any sub crew that see a plane as it will already be on an attack run. lets just hope the watchcrew with their or the radar man and his picks em up in time hehe.

Joking aside single engine i'd say 120 sounds good if flying lvl (afterall the wings get in the way especially for Hurricanes) and fighter based aircraft were generally preocupied with other aircraft jumping em so i doubt they would be to interested with ground lvl antics.

Catalinas on the otherhand well near as damnit to 360 as you can get, the pilot / copilot wont miss whats in front and if both pods are man'd then you just about have all angles covered.