Benchmark test: AI's "SHIP SPOTTED" and TC

[Col7777]

"Like bureaucrats to glue. "

Are you trying to make this thread a sticky Avon?

[Twitchy]

Originally Posted by Col7777

If it wasn't for modders and tests like this we would be stuck with buggy games.

Buggy games like SH3?

[oRGy]

The ships aspect (ie angle of bow) also plays a role in spotting times.

Tests should also be repeated several times, as there is inbuilt randomisation to the spotting routine.

[_alphaBeta_]

Excellent work! I have long wondered about this, but never had the time to pull off a controlled experiment like this. Although the results do not surprise me, I'm glad to see some definitive evidence that TC plays a role in things like this.



Any update on your changes gouldjg?

[Curval]

Originally Posted by Kpt. Lehmann

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: HAIKU :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Not even close to a Haiku.

A Haiku is three lines of prose with each line having 5,7 and 5 syllables repectively in each line.

It should also include a "seasonal" element.

[Marhkimov]

My appologies... I have disrespected the gracious haiku...



And thank you Avon Lady. I will use your missions to test the atmospheric pack that we have going on... Thanks, you have saved me the trouble of having to create my own missions.


Too bad you won't be able to save me the trouble of testing...

[The Avon Lady]

/bump

Any mod makers run these tests with their relevant mods?

Post your results.

[kiwi_2005]

Great! Now my paranioa while on the surface has just trippled! :|\

[glenno]

TC is okay
sailing in the day
but TC at night
will give you a fright!

I think my
dark night
sailors delight
dark day
players dismay
was better.

[rulle34]

Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

/bump

Any mod makers run these tests with their relevant mods?

Post your results.

There are lots of these cinds of tests run with the visibility mod and later also with Atmospheric mod. Also a great deal of testresults that shows what factors affect visibility.
I will not torture you to read, or refer to all these >20 pages, but visibility is very difficult to get stable. Apart from weather and if it's day or night, it depends of AOB, size of the ship and also act different with different mods.
In a test I did, I got different spotting values with a clean install (only visibility mod enabled) than with all the other mods I usually have. A clean install with newly patched 1.4 and my ordinary mods enabled, gave more stable visibility values and to my mind also better colours in game. Both water and sky. Game engine also seem to ranomoze values. This is for the visibility and Atmospheric mod, but in general this will probaly go for stock values as well. Dfference is maybe smaller.

Anyway, if you want your spotting distances become better (and to my mind in a bigger perspective also more realistic) use the visibility mod, or even better, the Atmospheric mod. I have recently tweaked together a Atmospheric mod that is keeping RUb colours and water murkiness.

Links for DL:
Latest 16 km visibilty mod:http://rapidshare.de/files/6207495/1...water.rar.html

Atmospheric mod 2.0 different versions:http://www.subsim.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=44986

Atmospheric mod 2.0 with RUb colours and murky water: http://rapidshare.de/files/7395372/R...d_2.0.rar.html

[Marhkimov]

TC also makes a big difference in crew spotting, so we should set a control value for that.

[rulle34]

Originally Posted by marhkimov

TC also makes a big difference in crew spotting, so we should set a control value for that.

Absolutely right marhkimov. I just forgot to write it there