HelldiverSquadron wrote in Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:19 pm:mirrors are great to have. as for a leading recticle, i am lost. canvas is not my thing. just wondering if anyone is working on it.
I was mostly pointing out that the building blocks for a fully functional lead computing gun sight are already in place. I was not saying that you should be doing the work. But I also think that at this point this could be setup by someone who minimal programming/Nasal experience.
Setting up a new computing gun sight is non-trivial but it is not a huge undertaking at this point (FG3) as all of the hard work, IE. creating the lead computer algorithm, has been done and is setup to be leveraged for adding new computing gun sights. All of the hooks are through the property tree and the lead computer code is FDM type neutral.
At this point most of the work would involve (from most to least time consuming):
1. Doing the research to understand how the new gun sight behaves.
2. Setting up the radar ranging code.
3. Doing the reticle animation.
4. Integrating this into the aircraft FDM.
Hopefully whoever does the first computing sight with radar ranging puts the radar ranging code in a shared location so that this can be leveraged by others. FG has a significant number of aircraft that should have computing gun sights (dozens on git) and as far as I know we currently only have one aircraft with a fully functional computing gun sight.