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geosub1978 · 01-02-16, 04:42 PM

For those who want to experience manual plotting from periscope bearing - range, while keeping the bearing lines plotted when periscope is retrackted, do this:

You have to open the *.shp with photoshop or paint.net and erase the drawed symbol of the ship. This will present a simple "nothing" when the periscope is raised or when the submarine is surfaced while map contacts are turned on! Thus you can plot the position of the target by yourself and determine its course and speed. Disadvantage: You have to do this for every ship that you are interested in...this means that if you want every ship not to be seen by God's Eye, you have to do it for all ships in your SEA folder...
Anyway its fun and adds realism...I think...

Remember: The distance between two plots of 3 minute interval, gives you the speed of the target. (700yds in 3 minutes = 7 knots). Of course the game gives you meters... If you want to be more accurate then, you have to divide the distance in meters by 0,914... (alt-tab to your desktop and use the calculator then!)

Don't turn the image into transparent color, because it will display a dot on target's position!

01-02-16, 04:42 PM	#1
geosub1978 Samurai Navy Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Salamis Base Posts: 567 Downloads: 229 Uploads: 0	PLOT For those who want to experience manual plotting from periscope bearing - range, while keeping the bearing lines plotted when periscope is retrackted, do this: You have to open the .shp with photoshop or paint.net and erase the drawed symbol of the ship. This will present a simple "nothing" when the periscope is raised or when the submarine is surfaced while map contacts are turned on! Thus you can plot the position of the target by yourself and determine its course and speed. Disadvantage: You have to do this for every ship that you are interested in...this means that if you want every ship not to be seen by God's Eye, you have to do it for all ships in your SEA folder... Anyway its fun and adds realism...I think... Remember: The distance between two plots of 3 minute interval, gives you the speed of the target. (700yds in 3 minutes = 7 knots). Of course the game gives you meters... If you want to be more accurate then, you have to divide the distance in meters by 0,914... (alt-tab to your desktop and use the calculator then!) Don't turn the image into transparent color, because it will display a dot on target's position! __________________ Last edited by geosub1978; 01-02-16 at 04:59 PM.*