Hiding the UBoat on the Chart...

[Venatore]

mate this is an aswome idea.:hmm:

[don1reed]

Great find, Dan...

...if weather permits, to simulate a good sextant fix, placing the cursor in center of map and simul-pressing cntl/left mouse gives you your position, right? If so...neat. (have not tried it yet...about to.)

[kylania]

Or never press F5

[Notewire]

Wow, talk about challenging, I am totally adding this to my self imposed realism rules. Awesome.

Maybe someone on GW could add a "Real Life Navigation" mod option, that would be perfect.

Highest Regards,
Yarre

[Jager]

Originally Posted by Notewire

Wow, talk about challenging, I am totally adding this to my self imposed realism rules. Awesome.

Maybe someone on GW could add a "Real Life Navigation" mod option, that would be perfect.

Highest Regards,
Yarre

Not to forget a tutorial or something to show us how to do it. What would also be cool is if we had the grid squares broken down even more (for example, AM52-69 instead of simply (AM52). Still, a real life navigation mod will do just nicely

[antidotos]

Interesting discussion,
Just a question about navigation during WW2, I have read that at least some US subs had some early inertial navigation systems. Anything similar in any German sub ?

[don1reed]

both had very accurate gyrocompasses.

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrocompass

[Dantenoc]

Originally Posted by kylania

Or never press F5

wouldn't that be a kick in the head:rotfl:
Hardcore hahaha

No... that realy isn't feasible... better people have tried, and they have found that the SHIII world and celestial dome are way to flawed to be actualy used for real navigation methods. Besides, we don't want to kill the navigator, we just want to limit his incredible God-like precision

[Myxale]

Lo fellow Kaleuns!

Dan, i tried this approach, and i feel naked without it! But it so rules! And makes things extremly difficult!

Can you tell mewhere to look for the sunken ships icons! I wanna try something!


Anything new there?!

[don1reed]

Wish to report, Dantenoc, that it works. My findings are that the faintest trace of "compass with concentric range rings", aka spider-web, can only be seen when zoomed-in to the max...which I never use at any rate.

I use, Sale U-999's, mods for large slideout dials and TDC and so I have a good mental picture of the azimuth of my boat in relation to the target(s) relative position and/or to true north. Admittedly, it was becoming a crutch when one could actually see his boat's position on the F5 screen. It serves the notion of realism in that ships' positions do not move on real charts. Using this method, the player gets an almost blank chart accept for the "spawning" of radio contacts (depending on percentage of realism chosen at beginning of play.)



It's still possible to employ your brilliant method of target interception, although with a little more room for error, which is fitting and proper and definitely more challenging.

Well done, everyone.

[Immacolata]

Originally Posted by don1reed

Wish to report, Dantenoc, that it works. My findings are that the faintest trace of "compass with concentric range rings", aka spider-web, can only be seen when zoomed-in to the max...which I never use at any rate.

I use, Sale U-999's, mods for large slideout dials and TDC and so I have a good mental picture of the azimuth of my boat in relation to the target(s) relative position and/or to true north. Admittedly, it was becoming a crutch when one could actually see his boat's position on the F5 screen. It serves the notion of realism in that ships' positions do not move on real charts. Using this method, the player gets an almost blank chart accept for the "spawning" of radio contacts (depending on percentage of realism chosen at beginning of play.)



It's still possible to employ your brilliant method of target interception, although with a little more room for error, which is fitting and proper and definitely more challenging.

Well done, everyone.

What is that interesting compas rose thingy you have to the right? I would like that for my own game, never saw that before. And I really could use a precise compass for my scope.

Being a complete and utter landlubber by divine right (I get seasick for just about nothing to my sailing fathers great dismay) how would I get to figure out how to do manual navigation in SH3? Is there a tutorial that one can follow? I know there are various drawing tools on the nav map you can use, and I know from my math class that you can do lots of nice calculation with a pencil, a protractor and a ruler

[Dantenoc]

Originally Posted by Myxale

Can you tell mewhere to look for the sunken ships icons! I wanna try something!

It's the TGA file named:
"ShipDestroyed"
located in folder:
"C:\Program files\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\data\Menu\Gui\Units"

[panthercules]

Originally Posted by Dantenoc

It's the TGA file named:
"ShipDestroyed"
located in folder:
"C:\Program files\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\data\Menu\Gui\Units"

Hmmm - when I went to look at this file, all I saw was a blank white square (checked both my current GW install and my spare clean stock game install) - what's up with that? (Using PaintShop Pro 7). I've been thinking about mapping out all my sinkings for a while and the post above reminded me about it, so I was hoping to find a suitable sunken ship graphic. Is there some reason it's invisible?

[Myxale]

Originally Posted by Dantenoc

It's the TGA file named:
"ShipDestroyed"
located in folder:
"C:\Program files\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\data\Menu\Gui\Units"

Ta mate! Will tinker with that one!:hmm: