[REL] OLC GUI v1.2.7

[Wilcke]

OLC,

Comments! Its fine the way it is...my own opinion of course. It is very intuitive and it sinks ships in an astonishingly fast manner. If you add the diagonals can the horizontal element still be used to calculate AoB?

[Hitman]

Don1reed wrote:

These are very useful ideas; however, I would prefer that "yellow" be changed to "black" as the "yellow" washes out in bright sun light. (being an old fart, my eyesight isn't as good as all these young fellers. )

Abt von Mumit wrote:

It looks a bit like Christmas tree when I use it for night attacks

While sadly I have been unable to get a picture of what was seen exactly through an attack scope, I have readed a description of it by a commander, and he stated that there were several scales visible in red, green, yellow, black and white.

green and red are for the AOB port/starbord

white over black background is for the bearing to target

black lettering is for the graded scale in the crosshair (The one with the "10" numbers)

So....that leaves yellow for the distance to target, and that's the reason why it was chosen for the masthead heigth. From what I can deduct, the estimated mastheight was set with a handwheel, and teh current setting was visible in the numbering I have circled in yellow in the picture below.



Then, when the stadimeter was used to measure the angle between images, that would move a synchronized wheel to show distance through the eyepiece in a yellow scale.

:hmm:

[don1reed]

Super photo, Hitman.

...perhaps then, the shade of yellow...more to the orange end of the spectrum for contrast rather than to the bright white end???

please forgive me, I really don't know what you modders have to go through for your masterpieces.

[cuervo111]

Wow! I've been a few days out and now I see the mod has been updated. Great job OLC!!

[onelifecrisis]

@cuervo
Thanks again

@Hitman
Thanks, as always, for the info!

@AvM
You want lines that are thinner than 1 pixel!? Sorry, but I'm only human!

@Pisces, don1reed, JC, ejhawk
Thanks guys for the comments and feedback and suggestions. Regarding the stock-SH3 movable horizontal line (stadimeter) - after giving this some thought I think it can be done in the way you want. Personally I like that the mod (as it is now) simulates both functions of the split prism stadmieter in the same way, rather than simulating what was one thing done twice IRL in two different things done two different ways in the game. On the other hand, the additional functionality you suggest would be optional - users would not have to press the button that activates the horizontal line - and it would certainly solve the problem you guys have without messing with anything else in the mod (at least not from the users point of view, but some re-arraging would have to be done behind the scenes ). I only just read your posts an hour ago so I'll sleep on it (always a good idea ).

@Wilcke
Heh, mine too! As for the blue line... if added, wouldn't really change anything. You could pretend it wasn't there and use the GUI exactly as you do now. It's just an alternative set of marks which some people might find easier to use than the existing yellow/green/red ones.

[joegrundman]

You can have the stadimeter function so that all you get is the angle subtended by the target, while still compelling you to use the AOB finder and recognition guide to convert that to range (which is how it actually worked, right?)

However this angle is always given in degrees whereas the AOB finder is in a different scale. However you can use the AOB finder to make the conversion in a calculation that takes all of 0.5 seconds. Check the U-jagd 1.3 manual for how to do it.

Anyway, with this you can use the stadimeter moving level for obtaining the angle alpha without rendering the whole range finding procedure irrelevant.

what do you think?

joe

[onelifecrisis]

@Joe

Angle subtended is marks in my mind. They're not necessarily 1-to-1 but they're always directly proportional. As for displaying the angle subtended, it seems to me that if that angle is given as an exact number then one might as well simply display the range numerically.

Perhaps I just like the slight inaccuracy inherent in the current OLC GUI method :hmm:

[ejhawk56]

OLC

If you can just incorporate the old rolling stadimeter line on a switch, I personally think that would be the ideal solution.

Those of us that would like it can just use it as a reference line to better read from were it crosses the vertical and it won't clutter the view the rest of the time.

Eric

[Abd_von_Mumit]

Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

@AvM
You want lines that are thinner than 1 pixel!? Sorry, but I'm only human!

****, didn't realize they are that thin. So... maybe shorter? :rotfl:

I just switch the thing off when I don't need it, have it back on for measuring and then switch it off again, so it's ok. The tool is great, by the way, and now it would be really hard to live without it! (thank to you both, guys: joegrundman and you [and Hitman too, by the way!]).