Real Navigation Mod files - FINAL

Wolfstriked · 07-24-11, 12:18 PM

Thanks Postal,I found it.Having a hard time downloading the real nav files though.Gets to 90% and then stops.

Either way I think I will have problems with it since I have altered my FOV while on deck.What sucks is the babysitting of the heading when in high seas.I have tried upping the drag stats on the sub.sim files with no such luck of lowering the severity of the deviation off course.And if you put the L/R drag very high then the uboat slows down so much in turns it feels like an ocean liner.

Anyone know what file would adjust the amount that heading changes due to the wind speeds?

postalbyke · 07-25-11, 10:57 PM

I just used the obs. scope (running Magui and NYGM) to shoot some stars, and checked them against an electronic almanac of stars at that position at that time on that night (midnight, 31 Dec 1939 passing into 1 Jan 1940)
(haven't fixed my sextant (topside view) in my game yet :P)
and found values within 1 degree (pretty good for the time errors I introduced by finding then shooting the stars)

postalbyke · 07-26-11, 10:50 PM

update:
fixed sextant, repositioned 43 degrees to the west.
stars in same position.
so!
the stars are fixed at what they would be at/near the prime meridian...

damn.
guess i'll have to check the sun next...

ETsd4 · 07-29-11, 06:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by postalbyke

and found values within 1 degree (pretty good for the time errors I introduced by finding then shooting the stars)

A sextant-error during a polaris-shot of 1 degree is a distance-error of 111.2 km (60 nm).

postalbyke · 07-29-11, 08:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ETsd4

A sextant-error during a polaris-shot of 1 degree is a distance-error of 111.2 km (60 nm).

have you run this mod? with the "quality" of the map and the measurement devices, you'll be lucky to know which box you're in...
I wasn't going for super-accuracy, I was just seeing if the stars are in the right place for the longitude

Wolfstriked · 07-29-11, 01:19 PM

Postalbyke,can you make it more precise?

postalbyke · 07-29-11, 07:55 PM

I'll have to look around for the location of the night sky after my daughter goes to bed... and my wife gets home from work lol

edit: haven't found the night sky yet, but I have found the sky...it looks like the sun and the moon live in the center lol

postalbyke · 08-02-11, 08:50 AM

update: Still haven't found it... and no hints yet from anywhere else... *sigh*
think it's in the exe...

edit:
I'm sorry guys, I'm giving up for now...

07-24-11, 12:18 PM	#1
Wolfstriked Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 756 Downloads: 237 Uploads: 0	Thanks Postal,I found it.Having a hard time downloading the real nav files though.Gets to 90% and then stops. Either way I think I will have problems with it since I have altered my FOV while on deck.What sucks is the babysitting of the heading when in high seas.I have tried upping the drag stats on the sub.sim files with no such luck of lowering the severity of the deviation off course.And if you put the L/R drag very high then the uboat slows down so much in turns it feels like an ocean liner.Anyone know what file would adjust the amount that heading changes due to the wind speeds?

07-25-11, 10:57 PM	#2
postalbyke Chief Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: In the past... Posts: 321 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 1	I just used the obs. scope (running Magui and NYGM) to shoot some stars, and checked them against an electronic almanac of stars at that position at that time on that night (midnight, 31 Dec 1939 passing into 1 Jan 1940) (haven't fixed my sextant (topside view) in my game yet :P) and found values within 1 degree (pretty good for the time errors I introduced by finding then shooting the stars) __________________ God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -Voltaire

07-26-11, 10:50 PM	#3
postalbyke Chief Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: In the past... Posts: 321 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 1	update: fixed sextant, repositioned 43 degrees to the west. stars in same position. so! the stars are fixed at what they would be at/near the prime meridian... damn. guess i'll have to check the sun next... __________________ God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -Voltaire

07-29-11, 07:55 PM	#7
postalbyke Chief Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: In the past... Posts: 321 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 1	I'll have to look around for the location of the night sky after my daughter goes to bed... and my wife gets home from work lol edit: haven't found the night sky yet, but I have found the sky...it looks like the sun and the moon live in the center lol __________________ God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -Voltaire Last edited by postalbyke; 07-30-11 at 08:01 PM.

08-02-11, 08:50 AM	#8
postalbyke Chief Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: In the past... Posts: 321 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 1	update: Still haven't found it... and no hints yet from anywhere else... sigh think it's in the exe... edit: I'm sorry guys, I'm giving up for now... __________________ God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -Voltaire Last edited by postalbyke; 08-04-11 at 08:04 AM.

07-29-11, 01:19 PM	#6
Wolfstriked Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 756 Downloads: 237 Uploads: 0	Postalbyke,can you make it more precise?