[REL] Depth charge water disturbances

[S.Jaszczak]

I been thinking a little about this, when you look at the historical facts about the hedgehog, with the 15 min. of disturbance, we all agree it is to much, could you in any way make the time like 3-4 min, and set separate timers, so the first 3-4 min its harder for them to pinpoint you, and then the next 3-4 min make it easier and then again after a set time put it back to normal?

gonna try to explain in another way

time 0:00 depth-charge goes of..
difficulty to track sub goes up to 95% difficulty

4:00 difficulty to track sub 60%

8:00 back to normal?

would to a certain degree simulate the noise of the water bubbles fading?

don't know if I make any sense ??

[0rpheus]

Originally Posted by S.Jaszczak

I been thinking a little about this, when you look at the historical facts about the hedgehog, with the 15 min. of disturbance, we all agree it is to much, could you in any way make the time like 3-4 min, and set separate timers, so the first 3-4 min its harder for them to pinpoint you, and then the next 3-4 min make it easier and then again after a set time put it back to normal?

gonna try to explain in another way

time 0:00 depth-charge goes of..
difficulty to track sub goes up to 95% difficulty

4:00 difficulty to track sub 60%

8:00 back to normal?

would to a certain degree simulate the noise of the water bubbles fading?

don't know if I make any sense ??

Just to echo this: I'm not sure what the current duration and effect of the water disturbances is (and as it's a dat file I can't check), but a second version about 50% of the strength of this one would be awesome. As it stands it makes things far too easy, but I want to keep the mod for the realism factor as DCs should have some effect on sonar & hydro! Hoping for your indulgence TDW

[Sartoris]

Originally Posted by 0rpheus

Just to echo this: I'm not sure what the current duration and effect of the water disturbances is (and as it's a dat file I can't check), but a second version about 50% of the strength of this one would be awesome. As it stands it makes things far too easy, but I want to keep the mod for the realism factor as DCs should have some effect on sonar & hydro! Hoping for your indulgence TDW

TDW is there any chance you could make these changes to your mod? Maybe create another version of 50% strength.

[gap]

Originally Posted by Sartoris

TDW is there any chance you could make these changes to your mod? Maybe create another version of 50% strength.

You can easily customize this mod by yourself: just open the dat file with s3d, and look under the amun_Bold controller. The relevant parameters are life_time (duration of the disturbance, in minutes), and noise (strenght of the disturbance?).

If you get out finetuning the mod for having a realistic effect don't forget to report back here with the results of your testings!

[Sartoris]

OK, thanks for the quick reply! I'll try doing that, because I feel like this could be a good addition to the realism of the game. I know I need every bit of help I can get, heh.

[Sartoris]

I can see that life_time is set to 0.75, so I'm not sure what amount of time in minutes this translates to. Surely it can't be 75 minutes? I think someone said the time is 15 minutes, so if one wanted to halve the time, one would have to set the life_time to, say, 0.38 (approximate value)? EDIT: Silly me, I just realized this probably refers to 45 seconds, and found the formula on the first page.

[gap]

Originally Posted by Sartoris

EDIT: Silly me, I just realized this probably refers to 45 seconds, and found the formula on the first page.