Deadly accurate stadimeter rangefinding.

[makman94]

Originally Posted by Neutrino

I understand that the funnel height experiment was just for one training mission. No I haven't tried that but I have tried getting fixes on ships funnels in the dark from ahead and astern and it wasn't easy which is one of the reasons why I said I wasn't keen on that approach.

When you said that 'my mod is using the mast heights' do you mean that in your mod you've already modified the ship recognition manual to use the correct masthead height for all or some ships?--no, i didn't touch the mast's heights of gwx 2.1 or gwx 3.0 BUT i setted different the stadimeter (angular angle)and if you touch this angle you must change the mast values also.thats why i said that mast heights need tiny fixes also(but as it is now is more acurate) I uninstalled OLC for now and did my testing with the stock (GLX3) stadi, it was just easier because in stock you can pause the sim(you can do that in olc gui also,press del key on numpad) while taking readings, and tbh I prefer the GLX ui.--remember that stock and gwx3 are different things at this point (stadimeter)...other angular angles,other mast values....

In a previous post you said 'also i had adjust the angular angle in order the stadimeter to work correct'. What did you do here? Did you make the stadimeter more accurate by more closely replicating the correct formula, or did you tweak the stadimeter formula with a constant in order to make it get the range more accurately without having to change the ship files, or something else? What I really want to know here is, if I use the stock SH3 stadi to more accurately measure the masthead height, will that counteract the improvements in your stadimeter or will it compliment them?

You also said that 'of course some tiny adjustments must be made at mast's heights but this is a huge work to be made by one'. But is it really that much work?--yes ,is huge work...not so simple I created a custom mission that contained all the merchant ships lined up in a row stationary in a dead calm, and then just cruised past them at 3000m and ranged them at different points using the stock stadi. That was how I discovered that the stock stadi uses the height of the heightest point on the ship rather than the masthead height.---how do you measure the EXACT REAL range? It wasn't that difficult and only took an hour or so, I could just as easily have calculated the correct masthead height and changed the ship recognition manual and config files. I'm not saying you're wrong but just wondering if there is something else you know that I have overlooked?

hmmm, a lot must be said now but i really believe that you must do your 'own' trip in that research first and then we will communicate easier.