[REL] More realistic periscope

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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

could someone help me with the math, I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

I have the mod installed w. the 8:5 patch, since my res is 1920x1200.


I am using the mission that came with the BARF mod.

measured from the map, I am 1,500 meters from a Cimarron tanker and a Liberty Cargo.
At 6x, from attack scope, I read about 3.5 horizontal bars fom waterline to top of highest mast.

Using the enhanced recognition manual mod, I have a mastheight of 29.5 for the Cimarron, 27.5 for the cargo.

29.5 x 1,000 = 29,500, divided by 3.5 =about 8,500

The horizontal bars in the attack scope are in 2's. Not sure why he didn't add the same amount of ticks as the obs scope.

So 3.5 marks is actually 7. Also, if you are going to just divide by the tick marks, dont use "Mast Height x 1000".. use "Mast Height x 100" instead. If you use 1000 you have to multiply the ticks by 10 (each tick is 10 mils).

These two formulas give the same results:
(Mast Height x 1,000 ) / (TickMarks x 10) = Range
(Mast Height x 100) / TickMarks = Range

Also, for x6 zoom.. you have to multiply by 4.

( (29.5 x 100) / 7 ) * 4 = 1,685

So bascially you just drop the decimal and add enogh zero's so its 4 digits...
29.5 = 2950

(2950 / 7) * 4 = 1,6850


or you could do like was said earlier for high power and factor in the x4 in your first multiplier.
(29.5 X 400) / 7 = 1,685

pretty easy.