Tutorial: Work out your precise coords in SH3

[Svonne]

This is great! Thanks for this tutorial (and the program).

I tried to get screen shots of trying this in my game but every time I hit print screen my game crashes...

[Pisces]

Originally Posted by Svonne

This is great! Thanks for this tutorial (and the program).

I tried to get screen shots of trying this in my game but every time I hit print screen my game crashes...

Either you are using a widescreen resolution mod.


Or you have Windows Vista/7/8 and the game is installed into the Program Files folder somewhere, and the game is not run using an administrator useraccount.

[Karl Heinrich]

Wow, that's bloody brilliant ExFishermanBob... downloading it now! I'd considered doing that myself, but as I do "paper nav" it was handy to have the sums. Plus I'm a rubbish programmer

Glad you found it useful Svonne, hope you get the issue fixed, would love to see that it actually works when others use it

I'll have to give that a try Danzig

[ExFishermanBob]

You might find some slight differences due to rounding by the program - I tried it with the two examples but could only get one OR the other answer exactly, not both.

[Svonne]

Originally Posted by Pisces

Either you are using a widescreen resolution mod.


Or you have Windows Vista/7/8 and the game is installed into the Program Files folder somewhere, and the game is not run using an administrator useraccount.

Thanks so much! I had the widescreen mod. LOL now I have a new problem: hitting print screen or shift-F11 only copies my background.

Originally Posted by Karl Heinrich

Wow, that's bloody brilliant

Glad you found it useful Svonne, hope you get the issue fixed, would love to see that it actually works when others use it

I'm going to see if I can get a decent pic w/ a phone when I get home from work. Not only do I plan to see the google maps but I will be eager to use this Kriegsmarine grid calculator from this thread as well.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=201376

http://grid.nylle.de/find

BTW, from your first post, according to link above your grid is AN9814

[Pisces]

Originally Posted by Svonne

Thanks so much! I had the widescreen mod. LOL now I have a new problem: hitting print screen or shift-F11 only copies my background.
...

It's the widescreen mod that causes those screenshot-CTDs. Consider letting your graphicscard settings scale the game to max screen resolution. It may be not good quality, and might produce black sidebands, but it would prevent crashes.

[Svonne]

Thanks again Pisces. I took out the mod and reset my computer to play the game. It doesn't crash when I hit print screen anymore, but it doesn't take a screen of my game either. When I paste in paint, its just a picture of my desktop.

Oh well, hopefully these cell phone pics pass. This is a convoy's location reported to me.





and ta-da! here is same location on google maps!





and the grid square. My math may be off, but I'm happy its in the ballpark. I noticed my game reported position as AN42.

[Karl Heinrich]

That's fantastic Svonne, your maths looks fine to me.

I'm not sure how accurate the grid squares are in SH3, particularly with the projection used - and that convoy is right on the edge. Did you take the measurement's at 07:22 game time? I'm only asking as any data on navigation is hugely useful for me.

Also I'm not sure whether the game reports convoy locations accurately via the radio - if anyone more knowledgeable can answer that would be brilliant.

My system was intended to give you a corresponding real position including compensation for SH3's "larger Earth"

[Svonne]

Originally Posted by Karl Heinrich

That's fantastic Svonne, your maths looks fine to me.

I'm not sure how accurate the grid squares are in SH3, particularly with the projection used - and that convoy is right on the edge. Did you take the measurement's at 07:22 game time? I'm only asking as any data on navigation is hugely useful for me.

Also I'm not sure whether the game reports convoy locations accurately via the radio - if anyone more knowledgeable can answer that would be brilliant.

My system was intended to give you a corresponding real position including compensation for SH3's "larger Earth"

Nope, sometime between 7:22 and 9:58. Not sure exactly what time I took it.

That would be interesting to know. I have assumed that the historical radio messages are accurate from GWX.

Thanks to this game I've developed an interest in real navigation and I'm glad you shared your system. I actually have wondered 'where would this really be'.