Rotating radar at operator's station

Zero Niner · 05-10-08, 06:55 PM

Are they any shortcut keys to rotate the radar whilst at the radar operator's station, similar to how one can manually rotate the hydrophone (using Home and End keys) whilst at the sonar station?

The Home and End keys also work but they also move the camera up or down, sometimes out of the sub interior.

I need to do this on the A-scope radar so as to get an estimate of range when focusing the radar beam.

CCIP · 05-10-08, 07:01 PM

What mod config do you use? My camera doesn't go up and down with home and end on the radar station, and those are supposed to be the right keys :hmm:

[edit] oh right, looking at your sig - huh. That's strange. Again, mine doesn't do that.

Zero Niner · 05-10-08, 07:03 PM

The sonar works ok, but radar is strange.
perhaps I could remap the keys?

akdavis · 05-10-08, 08:43 PM

Sure you aren't using PE3 also?

Zero Niner · 05-10-08, 08:55 PM

Nope, just as my says. Plus latest patch for RSRDC. And I made some minor modifications (key remppings) to Duci's layout in TMO - just a few keys.

akdavis · 05-10-08, 09:49 PM

Well, this happens with PE3 because of changes to the camera, so the same changes must be in TM. I don't think there is any way around it for the time being.

gimpy117 · 05-10-08, 09:50 PM

click the radar screen...

akdavis · 05-10-08, 10:03 PM

I know that works with PPI, but I don't know about A-scope.

Nisgeis · 05-11-08, 01:58 AM

Yes, it sounds like you have a 'free camera' in the radar station instead of the necessary fixed camera. You can look sideways at the PPI scope and click on the bearing you want the antenna to point to as gimpy/akdavis say, or you can switch to the PPI scope and click on it there and switch back to the 'A' scope, or you can use the middle mouse button scroll wheel. Each click on the scroll wheel is equivalent to one fifth of a degree.

Zero Niner · 05-11-08, 05:11 AM

Yes, it is like a free camera at the radar station.
I know I can click on the PPI. but it's frustrating trying to rotate on the A scope so that I can get a range estimate.
Anyway I've found a workaround of sorts. Since its a free camera I shift it until both scopes are present then I click on the PPI.

05-10-08, 06:55 PM	#1
Zero Niner Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,033 Downloads: 69 Uploads: 0	Rotating radar at operator's station Are they any shortcut keys to rotate the radar whilst at the radar operator's station, similar to how one can manually rotate the hydrophone (using Home and End keys) whilst at the sonar station? The Home and End keys also work but they also move the camera up or down, sometimes out of the sub interior. I need to do this on the A-scope radar so as to get an estimate of range when focusing the radar beam.

05-10-08, 07:01 PM	#2
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	What mod config do you use? My camera doesn't go up and down with home and end on the radar station, and those are supposed to be the right keys :hmm: [edit] oh right, looking at your sig - huh. That's strange. Again, mine doesn't do that. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

05-10-08, 08:43 PM	#4
akdavis Samurai Navy Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 597 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Sure you aren't using PE3 also? __________________ -AKD

05-10-08, 09:49 PM	#6
akdavis Samurai Navy Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 597 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Well, this happens with PE3 because of changes to the camera, so the same changes must be in TM. I don't think there is any way around it for the time being. __________________ -AKD

05-10-08, 09:50 PM	#7
gimpy117 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Kalamazoo, MI Posts: 3,243 Downloads: 108 Uploads: 0	click the radar screen... __________________ Member of the Subsim Zombie Army

05-10-08, 07:03 PM	#3
Zero Niner Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,033 Downloads: 69 Uploads: 0	The sonar works ok, but radar is strange. perhaps I could remap the keys?

05-10-08, 08:55 PM	#5
Zero Niner Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,033 Downloads: 69 Uploads: 0	Nope, just as my says. Plus latest patch for RSRDC. And I made some minor modifications (key remppings) to Duci's layout in TMO - just a few keys.

05-10-08, 10:03 PM	#8
akdavis Samurai Navy Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 597 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I know that works with PPI, but I don't know about A-scope. __________________ -AKD

05-11-08, 01:58 AM	#9
Nisgeis Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2,909 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 11	Yes, it sounds like you have a 'free camera' in the radar station instead of the necessary fixed camera. You can look sideways at the PPI scope and click on the bearing you want the antenna to point to as gimpy/akdavis say, or you can switch to the PPI scope and click on it there and switch back to the 'A' scope, or you can use the middle mouse button scroll wheel. Each click on the scroll wheel is equivalent to one fifth of a degree.

05-11-08, 05:11 AM	#10
Zero Niner Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,033 Downloads: 69 Uploads: 0	Yes, it is like a free camera at the radar station. I know I can click on the PPI. but it's frustrating trying to rotate on the A scope so that I can get a range estimate. Anyway I've found a workaround of sorts. Since its a free camera I shift it until both scopes are present then I click on the PPI.