744964

German aiming rectical...

October 17th, 2003 02:32 AM

This is a small suggestion concerning the German tank aiming recticals, the actual "Zeiss" sight that was pretty much standerd on all of their tanks looked something like the pictures I have attached. I do not know if changing the rectical on the German tanks will mean making them all like that, but maybe its worth looking into (adds some authenticity I guess). Also check out these links I found while looking into the "zeiss" sight, they may be of some interest: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconVall...iss_Optics.htm and http://www.wwiitech.net/main/germany/vehicles/pzkpfw5/ . -Calen.

745601

Re: German aiming rectical...

October 17th, 2003 05:42 PM

Sounds good to me, know if a Mod Member could see this...

745702

Re: German aiming rectical...

October 17th, 2003 08:39 PM

Looks like an interesting idea, i'll post it on the mod team forum and see what everyone thinks about it. Im all for the idea, of course this is extra work.. and extra kb/mb added to the patch it would be applied to.

Might be neat tho

745752

Re: German aiming rectical...

October 17th, 2003 10:27 PM

I don't understand the "tickets". What do they represtent?

I've got it does something with distance, but is it easily explained how it works?

745757

Re: German aiming rectical...

October 17th, 2003 10:41 PM

-If your a referring to the whole "strict/nills" thing when you say tickets, the only thing I can say is that I've read that page a few times over now and I am still not exactly sure how it works either. I don't think that in game if you made that particular rectical the standerd German Panzer aiming recitcal, that it would actually function like it did on the real thing. But, if the Dev team took some time with it, it may actually wind up working like it was supposed to, I mean, the real-life counter part is not much more advanced then it would be in FH, so who knows...?

787100

Re: German aiming rectical...

November 25th, 2003 04:20 PM

Definitely looks like a promising idea. Don't know if they'd have to overlap it over the normal crosshairs or not.

A great suggestion.

787295

Re: German aiming rectical...

November 25th, 2003 07:40 PM

Yes, the much flamed Beast of War knows......

The room between the stacheln ( piramids shapes if you will ) stand for a metrical value at a certain distance. For instance,
the room between two stacheln is 4 m at 1000 m. Knowing how large the enemy tank is, for example 6 m long, you can compare
that to the room between the stacheln it takes in the view, and take a reasonable guess what distance he is. At 1000 m a 6 m long
T34 would be one and a half stacheln wide...... In the picture you see a T34 taking up 3 spaces between the stacheln. 3 spaces between
the stacheln would mean it would be 3 x 4 m at 1000 m = 12 m wich is not correct......you know it is 6 m long, so it is at half of 1000 m = 500 m.


They had a slack of 200 m and still hit, so it wasn't very hard.

A smaller stachel is also 2 m high at 1000 m, ( the big one 4 m ) so you could guess hight.

787743

Re: German aiming rectical...

November 26th, 2003 06:18 AM

Good idea!