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Offline vafiii

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GV Commander View
« on: March 02, 2012, 11:48:00 AM »
While in the commander's position and switching to zoom mode have view appear as if you're looking through field glasses (binoculars).
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Re: GV Commander View
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2012, 12:36:52 PM »
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Re: GV Commander View
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2012, 12:41:31 PM »
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Re: GV Commander View
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2012, 12:47:39 PM »
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Re: GV Commander View
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2012, 06:14:56 PM »
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Re: GV Commander View
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2012, 01:58:46 PM »
+1. IIRC, they were issued as standard to officers and tank commanders even if they were NCO's.
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Re: GV Commander View
« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2012, 03:42:56 PM »
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Re: GV Commander View
« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2012, 03:50:40 PM »
Quote from: vafiii on March 02, 2012, 11:48:00 AM
While in the commander's position and switching to zoom mode have view appear as if you're looking through field glasses (binoculars).

It does.  Binocs give you a circular image.
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Re: GV Commander View
« Reply #8 on: March 03, 2012, 05:07:52 PM »
Quote from: colmbo on March 03, 2012, 03:50:40 PM
It does.  Binocs give you a circular image.

Um...

...huh? :headscratch:
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Re: GV Commander View
« Reply #9 on: March 03, 2012, 05:28:24 PM »
Quote from: colmbo on March 03, 2012, 03:50:40 PM
It does.  Binocs give you a circular image.

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Offline Karnak

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Re: GV Commander View
« Reply #10 on: March 03, 2012, 05:56:07 PM »
Looking through binoculars does not produce a ∞ shaped view like shown in cartoons.  It produces a O shaped view.
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Re: GV Commander View
« Reply #11 on: March 03, 2012, 06:05:29 PM »
Quote from: Karnak on March 03, 2012, 05:56:07 PM
Looking through binoculars does not produce a ∞ shaped view like shown in cartoons.  It produces a O shaped view.

No that is wrong!  For instance when I look around without any thing on I see two circles becuase I have two eyes.  Duh.  How does it combine when you put on binoculars?
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Re: GV Commander View
« Reply #12 on: March 03, 2012, 06:26:15 PM »
Quote from: curry1 on March 03, 2012, 06:05:29 PM
No that is wrong!  For instance when I look around without any thing on I see two circles becuase I have two eyes.  Duh.  How does it combine when you put on binoculars?
Your eyes are weird.  I see an ovalish field of view.

The reason binoculars produce a circle is because each eye is seeing through a circular lens.  The brain does not overlap them to produce a ∞ shaped view.  Seriously, go use a pair of binoculars.
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Re: GV Commander View
« Reply #13 on: March 03, 2012, 06:31:18 PM »
Right, but the wish is to simulate a view through binoculars. I think regardless of whether its a O or a OO
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Re: GV Commander View
« Reply #14 on: March 03, 2012, 06:46:30 PM »
I've been torn with this idea for a while, in one way I'd like to see more realism being that if a commander is in a commanders view he's using binoculars to view outside the tank, for any reason he's strafed and killed you are stuck in the gunners position.

That being said I have to go back to balancing the arcade and realism for the sake of making things enjoyable and the learning curve not so steep to new players, however just like real commanders of tanks - if you are in a "green area" then you can unbutton and view with binoculars, however in a hot zone - you'd be lucky we don't have the million other things that killed tank commanders that were unbuttoned (snipers, mortars for example).

To make it simple - if you are in a commanders position and get strafed, you have the chance of having him killed, if you are in the gunners position you'd be buttoned up.

Just more fuel for thoughts, +1 on the idea, its a VERY good idea.
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