reported George has superhuman vision

[skypickle]

George finds targets very far away even though there are many closer.

[Tholozor]

AFAIK it's some kind of range problem with the TADS. If George is lasing, the line is normal, and jumps out when not lasing.

[BIGNEWY]

In the editor for the AH-64D you can change how George identifies targets, changing this option either for more realism or for simple identification will also affect the range he can spot targets. This is work in progress so please be patient while it is tweaked. 

Engaging targets at long ranges has been reported

thank you

[TZeer]

@skypickle

Do you actually have a target locked up there?

Or is it only the LOS line that is pointing in that direction? If George don't have a target he will be looking straight ahead. And I think (from memory) if you pop over a hill, or the nose of the helicopter points in upward direction, the LOS will move out, until it hits a surface. 

You can see this behavior close up as well if you start  tossing the apache around without a target locked. The LOS line will move over the terrain relative to where the copper is pointing it's nose.

[gav88888]

1 hour ago, BIGNEWY said:

In the editor for the AH-64D you can change how George identifies targets

I must have missed this, where in the editor is this as I would love to make him more realistic. It's not until you do CPG work yourself that you realize just how amazing George is compared lol

[BIGNEWY]

In the editor set George to realistic and he will only report what he can see, but he wont necessarily know if it is friendly or not so bare that in mind. 

This is W.I.P however and we are still tweaking 

thanks

[Floyd1212]

2 hours ago, TZeer said:

Do you actually have a target locked up there?

In the screenshot you are seeing a white line for the LOS of the TADS.  This would indicate that George has found an actual target, and is lasing in that direction, though you obviously won't have a good return at that range.

When he doesn't find a target, he continues to look in that direction and the TADS can appear to drift all over as you maneuver the aircraft, but he doesn't lase in that situation.

[gav88888]

4 hours ago, BIGNEWY said:

In the editor set George to realistic and he will only report what he can see, but he wont necessarily know if it is friendly or not so bare that in mind. 

This is W.I.P however and we are still tweaking 

thanks

 

Thanks I will have a play with that tonight, I assume he can still find and lock targets really quickly, it's just identifying them takes a bit longer?

If that's the case are there plans to make him less effective at finding targets and locking them so quickly? Might be good to time a human CPG vs George and tweak it so its more of a match. Just an idea

[BIGNEWY]

He will still see targets in realistic, but he wont sort friendly from hostile so be aware of that.

The plan is to have George scan for targets and report them independently. But that is for the future. 

thanks

[sirrah]

2 hours ago, BIGNEWY said:

The plan is to have George scan for targets and report them independently. But that is for the future. 

thanks

That'd be awesome!