Recognition book

[CapnScurvy]

Accurate ship lengths/heights are in Optical Targeting Correction.

Ship lengths are added into the Recognition Manual as well:



By following the use of the Omnimeter, measurements made from the Telemeter Divisions of the periscope lens will produce accurate Range and/or AoB determinations.

[hauangua]

Originally Posted by CapnScurvy

Accurate ship lengths/heights are in Optical Targeting Correction.

Ship lengths are added into the Recognition Manual as well:



By following the use of the Omnimeter, measurements made from the Telemeter Divisions of the periscope lens will produce accurate Range and/or AoB determinations.

Thank you so much CapnScurvy! That's exactly what I was looking for.
Can use your OTC version "1.5_Optical Targeting Correction 031312 RSRDCv502"
in FOTRS Ultimate Project ?

[BigWalleye]

(Sigh!)

Cap'n, I know you have been putting some of your great work into the FOTRS Ultimate project and are probably plenty busy with that. But some of us still prefer RFB. (At least one of us, by my count.) And, of course, there is no OTC version which compats with RFB. Maybe someday, please?

There is so much good stuff in OTC. I have pirated your Range dial into my personal mod soup. But I realyy wish I had access to the whole OTC package. The improved rec manaul is just icing on the cake.

[propbeanie]

That's more of that "wizardy" (black magic, even) in the menu_1024_768.ini isn't it?...

[CapnScurvy]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

That's more of that "wizardy" (black magic, even) in the menu_1024_768.ini isn't it?...

The addition of the word "Length" is indeed from adding it through the menu_1024_768.ini file. Placing it above the measurement figures in the Recognition Manual. Although, the actual figures of feet/meters comes from the Names.cfg file. As my image shows, the Taiho Fleet Carrier from the Names.cfg file looks like this:

Taiho Fleet Carrier <several spaces> 821ft / 250.3m

This is the only way I know of to get the length measurement of any ship to be displayed in the RM.

Funny thing about the menu_1024_768 file. There IS a parameter for "Length" to be read in the Recognition Manual section, however, unlike the "Height", "Draft", "Tonnage" figures that pick up these measurements from the ships.cfg file....the "Length" parameter is "inactive". It doesn't do anything! I can get it to display its name...."Length", but the Length= figure from the ships.cfg file means nothing to the game! Just another reason why a game "patch" would be in order to correct these short comings that only a hard coded patch can do.

[propbeanie]

Another one of those "variables" that are there, but never instituted... rodger on the "update"...