Author Topic: Lead computing sight in movies? (Read 578 times)

Scherf · « **on:** June 22, 2006, 08:32:41 PM »

Hmmm:

Other thread got me to thinking - it would help me enormously, as Founding Member and President For Life of the My Gunnery is teh Suxxor Club, to have a lead-computing gunsite available in the film viewer.

Even with tracers on, it's pretty difficult sometimes to figure out how and where I missed, and what I should have done better. Having a lead-computing site in the film of my (almost inevitable) failures would give an in-cockpit feel of how and where to improve.

I dunno, I guess the dot (dots? one for cannon one for mgs?) would have to be set to show path of fire at convergence distance.

Abject apologies if it's already available in the viewer and I just have'nt RTFM.

Saxman · « **Reply #1 on:** June 22, 2006, 10:53:53 PM »

There's a manual for the film viewer?

SMIDSY · « **Reply #2 on:** June 24, 2006, 02:47:51 AM »

training arena, forgot how you do it, but you can lock on to people and press a button to calculate just this thing. ask around, there must be somebody who knows how to do it.

OOZ662 · « **Reply #3 on:** June 24, 2006, 03:45:46 AM »

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Originally posted by SMIDSY
training arena, forgot how you do it, but you can lock on to people and press a button to calculate just this thing. ask around, there must be somebody who knows how to do it.

I'm sure he knows about that since he already knows what it's called. He means having one available for recorded films, like the "Icons" and more importantly "Trails" checkboxes in the film viewer.

Martyn · « **Reply #4 on:** June 24, 2006, 07:02:07 AM »

One of the problems with trying to guess where your shots went - is the fact that we can't see in 3D. We got a 2D representation on a screen.

Wouldn't it be cool if we could have a 3D version of AH? Red and Blue superimposed with those funny glasses. I guess the framerate would be halved, and the resultant image would be monochrome.

Still, close fly-bys would have you ducking under the seat!

Saxman · « **Reply #5 on:** June 24, 2006, 09:42:50 AM »

Saw a story last year or so that several film developers (Lucas included) are working on developing TRUE 3D films. Would be very interesting to see how that develops, and how gaming makes use of the technology if it becomes practical.