[REL] Manual targeting Ship Centered, Accuracy Fix

[CapnScurvy]

By fireship4

You send the height of the mast (or whatever part) to the stadimeter using the numbers in the manual, before you do the split imaging. What im saying is there a way to manually input the height into the stadimeter, maybe through one of the dials on the stadimeter.

Ok, I'm a bit dense but I understand the question now. Yes, the Attack Data Tool (the dial that has multiple parts to it, one of which is the Stadimeter, in the right top corner) can have the mouse click & drag the outer marker to any height measurement you choose. So lets say in the game manual or someone else's historically accurate manual (or for that matter a fictitious manual) you read the measurement to the poop deck is 110 ft. You can move the Attack Data Tool dial to 110 ft. and take a Stadimeter reading of the poop deck (wherever that is), and a range to target will appear in the Position Keeper. Will this range be correct? Probably not, because the height must be calibrated to the ship at a known correct distance before it will be accurate. If I were part of the game engine design team I might understand the complete equation and match the correct figures together to get accurate findings. Since I'm not, the only part I can manipulate is the mast height figure and calibrate it to a known distance for a particular ship.