Improved Church's Observation (maybe more realistic mod)

Greetings to all!!

When Church created the new observation perescope textures i worked hard and tryed to create a redmask for it, and finaly made a mod with more or less realistic observation scope. But my potoshop skills are not so good and sooner during hardware problems i lost all my data including the unfinish mod.

But not so long ago a user with nick name dmlavan created a red mask for it, and then i decide that my time to modding is come and finally i will finish what i started .

The goal of my mod is to delete all the firing solution functions from the Observation menu in the game. I belive that the observation scope not desined for a firing porpuses, (that the reason why is called like that) .

The progress of my work you can see in the picture




Its not ready yet, but i will finish it very soon (possible tomorow).

[TheDarkWraith]

a different idea but what if your attack periscope is not functional? I'll stick with having the solution data on the obs periscope as it can be used for that. The one drawback of the obs periscope is you don't have as good a zoom level as the attack periscope.

Racerboy

Maybe i`am wrong but i think if your atack periscope is not functional, you can`t do the solution (but you still can indificate ships ).

Just for a simple example, start the game - go to a room above command room and below watch bridge (sorry for my bad English). Now look at the structure of a atack and observation scope. I don`t think that the atack scope is mush biger for no reason. It seems logic to me

[TheDarkWraith]

the observation scope should be bigger to be able to let more light in and to be able to scan quicker. The attack periscope should be smaller to be less noticeable. At least that's what I understand. I don't think it has anything to do with firing solutions and all. Maybe there's someone who knows more than we do??

[caspofungin]

you're right -- the observation periscope is has a larger head, lets in more light (in the usn also known as the night scope), has a wider field of view and can tilt to look higher. the attack scope has a smaller head, narrower profile -- a smaller field of view but also less noticeable.

both scopes, afaik, had rangefinding equipment -- that and bearing (and a stopwatch) is all you need to calculate a firing solution.

caspofungin

Are you shure? O well i guest i was wrong affterall .