About stars and constellations...

Ryder7 · 10-18-22, 06:20 PM

Hi everybody,I'm an average Silent Hunter3 player, not used about maritime navigation irl, but as for other kind of simulators, I do enjoy a bit of realism and the fact that I have to learn things. Thanks to this forum, I've learned a lot about SH3 and about its main mods (personnaly I usually play with GWX3, MAgui, and a few other small mods) but I still have a lot to practice and learn.
Recently, I saw a very old YT video of a guy navigating only with compas and watch so I installed a mod from subsim that removes the real-time GPS alike icon of my sub on the map (also had to make blank files for the particular icons made by GWX for each type of sub). Now this is way more fun, but then, I've watched Alpheratz's excellent videos about real navigation in SH5 and had a total blast about coastal and celestial navigation, very fascinating and a bit difficult for me. Then I wondered if there is a way to have some sort of sextant for SH3, and found one here, that looks and works in fact much more like ancient navigation tools in terms of angular precision, but well, still better than nothing for a start I guess. (Apparently a ''realNav" mod for SH3 was mentionned but i wasn't able to find it anywhere, only a modification of the sextant provided with it. I managed to make it appear in my HUD by editting the menu.ini)

My questions are:

-How accurate are the stars positions in SH3 for that period of time?
-Is there a way to make the sky darker at night and stars a bit bigger/brighter?
-Do I have any chance that almanach and charts provided by Alpheratz for SH5 twos may work for SH3?

I'd be more than happy if I were able to make some sort of working celestial navigation for SH3, but my knowledges are far too much limited I'm affraid, so if somebody have piece of advices or knows about mods I don't, please tell me more.

(I do have a SH5 steam version, but never gave it a try because of my crappy computer, and being repelled by both the Ubi thing and loading times I gave up about that for now.)

Anyways, thanks for the excellent community you have here!

Ryder7 from France.

10-18-22, 06:20 PM	#1
Ryder7 Swabbie Join Date: Dec 2019 Posts: 6 Downloads: 58 Uploads: 0	About stars and constellations... Hi everybody,I'm an average Silent Hunter3 player, not used about maritime navigation irl, but as for other kind of simulators, I do enjoy a bit of realism and the fact that I have to learn things. Thanks to this forum, I've learned a lot about SH3 and about its main mods (personnaly I usually play with GWX3, MAgui, and a few other small mods) but I still have a lot to practice and learn. Recently, I saw a very old YT video of a guy navigating only with compas and watch so I installed a mod from subsim that removes the real-time GPS alike icon of my sub on the map (also had to make blank files for the particular icons made by GWX for each type of sub). Now this is way more fun, but then, I've watched Alpheratz's excellent videos about real navigation in SH5 and had a total blast about coastal and celestial navigation, very fascinating and a bit difficult for me. Then I wondered if there is a way to have some sort of sextant for SH3, and found one here, that looks and works in fact much more like ancient navigation tools in terms of angular precision, but well, still better than nothing for a start I guess. (Apparently a ''realNav" mod for SH3 was mentionned but i wasn't able to find it anywhere, only a modification of the sextant provided with it. I managed to make it appear in my HUD by editting the menu.ini) My questions are: -How accurate are the stars positions in SH3 for that period of time? -Is there a way to make the sky darker at night and stars a bit bigger/brighter? -Do I have any chance that almanach and charts provided by Alpheratz for SH5 twos may work for SH3? I'd be more than happy if I were able to make some sort of working celestial navigation for SH3, but my knowledges are far too much limited I'm affraid, so if somebody have piece of advices or knows about mods I don't, please tell me more. (I do have a SH5 steam version, but never gave it a try because of my crappy computer, and being repelled by both the Ubi thing and loading times I gave up about that for now.) Anyways, thanks for the excellent community you have here! Ryder7 from France.