[REQ] Possible to stabilize only the UZO ?

[Vanilla]

Originally Posted by Trevally.

I have been thinking about how this could work.

When you are standing on the deck of a boat travelling forward, there is a lot of motion up and down as the boat pushes through a wave. (more so than side sway)

Now if I am used to standing on this deck (sea legs) I can sway with the movement of the boat. So my head is always parallel to the sea. If I had a stick in front of me that was free moving forward and back and fixed to deck, I could hold this against myself and continue my sway. So I become the stabilizer. If this was binos and could also pivot at the head - perhaps a steady view could be achieved.

Try this with binoculars when in a car. It is impossible to make it level. I tried. Of course cars 3d movement is much more chaotic, so I guess on a U-boot one could keep it level to some extent, but defenitely not exactly stabilized. My thinking is that looking through binoculars as it is now in Sh5 gives you exactly the effect one would see through UZO - it is not level but you can make it level to some extent manually (using mouse).

Regarding cushinong - it doesn't affect stabilization at all, just remember that regular binoculars are also cushioned - by your hands and body, they are soft, remember? So: neither UZO nor scopes/gun were stabilized in U-boats. The scopes are, however, naturally more 'stable' since the boat is submerged when using scopes and hence much more stable.

Regarding split-image stadimiter - AFAIK neither scopes nor UZO had it in the U-boats. You had to use mil marks and your best judgement from experience.