[REL] 3D TDC and Radar Range Unit

[Nisgeis]

Originally Posted by razark

I've got a list of complaints with this mod:
-The drunken TDC view. There's my workaround, but it's a bit tedious to do it every time.

Thanks for the feedback.

There is a controller attached to the camera called something like Mech Shocks Pendulum, or words similar in cameras.dat. Remove that and it should remove the drunkenness - there may be another sub child of it too with damage shaking attached.

Originally Posted by razark

-Playing with map contacts off. If there were some way to distinguish air contacts from surface contacts, I would be a lot happier. I get a message that there is a radar contact, and I check the screen, and nothing shows, so I dive. Come up to radar depth later to find a surface contact just moving onto the screen. It seems the radar range is longer than the display can show.

There's two ways, first way is to make it so that you play with map contacts on, but all the ship icons are removed, leaving you to look at the map and see if its an aircraft, but not being able to see the ship. This has probelms with unexpected ships (e.g. new ships that you have added) and you'll also be able to see the aircraft's direction, which is not realistic.

The second way is to make the surface radar station switch to display the air search radar, but the radar station will only display if the currectly on radar can see ground units, so you'll get ground units on the 'air' radar as well as air targets. You'll also either get air targets on the PPI, before you get SV radar, or if I rig it the other way, you'll never get air on the PPI even if you do have SV radar.

Originally Posted by razark

-The lack of enhanced radar station/TDC on boats that aren't Gato/Balao. I'd love to see this on all the boats. (Except the TDC on S-Boats. If I recall correctly, these boats did not have a TDC.)

Soon (TM). The mod isn't finished yet, there's more to add, e.g. distance to track, digital readout of true bearing to radar target, reskin of the AoB dial, add a second triangle to the AoB, add some sort of DRT for manual estimate correction and possible add the TSAC to the top of the fuses over the gyro angle solver.