How to flag whether a camera is obstructed or not?

[XanderF]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

You'd be introducing a bug there if you did that. Although it's true the forwarwd TBT could only rotate 180 degrees, it was also true that there was an after TBT, which could also only rotate 180 degrees, but would cover the after half of the bearings. As the after TBT is not modelled in the game as a seperate station, you'd be removing the ability to take accurate bearings from aft, which you would be able to do in real life and thereby removing options that existed in real life. Unless you plan to mod in a second TBT station, I wouldn't remove that functionality from the one TBT.

To change the position of the camera for the TBT, have a look in the conning tower dat files - \data\objects\conning_Balao_01.dat for example and in there, there is a node called Dummy_TBT_NSS_Balao_Tower01 which is the TBT's position on the bridge for the camera.

Aft TBT? On all boats? I don't seem to recall one on any of the subs I've been on - you sure about that? Where would it be mounted?

[Nisgeis]

It would be mounted between the air search radar mast and the rear AA gun and ideally it would be on the centreline, so it could be sighted for accuracy on the jack staff. The Bowfin has one on her website page virtual tour, the Cobia and Silversides both have one on them as well.

The Bowfin virtual tour of the aft end of the conning tower has a nice close up view with binoculars attached, but that one appears to have been installed off centreline.

EDIT: I don't know 100% about them being installed on all classes of boat, perhaps DaveyJ would be able to help out with that one?

[Fish40]

From the Bowfin:http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geu6YyFe...ms/TBT/tbt.htm

[XanderF]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

EDIT: I don't know 100% about them being installed on all classes of boat, perhaps DaveyJ would be able to help out with that one?

If so, how hard would it be, you suppose, to add a 'new' camera for it? IE., a second TBT? Rather trivial in the realism boost (having to move to the second one for 'aft' shots), but would be a nice touch if it didn't take a lot of effort.