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Hey TD ..! Another is this doable post!
Hey is it possible to be able to toggle the icon distances to feet or meters? As it is now they are set at meters if I am not mistaken.. I don't know how doable that is though... Sort of like a variant on the speedbar toggle..
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If you need converting so much just mentally multiply by 3. If you want precision, after mutliplying, add 10%. You may also multiply by 3.3 If you want it in yards, just multiply meters by 1.1, or add a 10%. I agree that instruments on brittish and american aircraft are in imperials, but for using Icons, nowadays a mere offline activity, come on! Still, I guess that the answer to your question, is undoubtedly, YES!... but in two weeks... |
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While metric is ideal for me (unfortunately being stuck halfway between metric and Imperial and US) and that's how I play IL-2... from a historical standpoint since so many gunsights and cockpit systems use various measurement systems I think this is a pretty reasonable request.
If it were a modern day shooter then I think metric is the only way to go (and that tends to be represented in most if not all representations of those) but for a historical sim having distances on the icons show up in different measurement systems used at the time seems reasonable.
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Y'know, I've been doing the math in my head ever since the late 1960s when I was swimming competitively in pools measured by yards for my high school team and then swimming in pools measured in meters for my AAU team during the summers, but metric isn't really 'real' to me. I just never got the same feeling of accomplishment from doing a 500m Freestyle in under 5:30 that I got from doing a quarter mile Free in under 4:15... I can look at a piece of lumber and know instantly that it's an inch thick and about 6 feet long by about 15 inches wide, but I have to do the math in my head to get the metric equivalents--and even then, if I don't write them down, I'll have to do it all over again later. When I'm trying to do an acceleration comparison and noting the altitude variations between 10kph intervals, a climb or a drop of 30 m doesn't sound like much until I realize that hey, that's as high as a building at least eight stories high (no wonder I lost a second or two compared to the more level intervals in other runs)! Have a little compassion for us ignoramuses. cheers horseback |
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I have the same 'feeling' that horseback has but in the oposite, from meter to feet, yard, mile ...
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Well, until someone decides that 24 hours per day makes no sense and we should introduce new hour unit which will be 10 new hours per day, 100 new minutes per new hour and 100 new seconds per new minute. Of course, working hours will still be 8 new hours per day. So people can more easily adjust to new time measuring units.
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As to IL2, I'm another dumb American who's only semi-literate in metric measurements, but IL2 has helped me a lot! I find it helpful to think of the range icons as units of approximately 100 yards. Attested by my hand, Year 220, Decade 27, Prairal 25 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar Last edited by Pursuivant; 06-13-2013 at 06:44 PM. |
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To horseback, I'am used to change imperials vs metric all the time.
I have to, I work with machinery that when being made on the states, they have all screws in imperials, and when they are european or asian, they use metric instead. I hate that, because it forces me to have tools for both standards. Still I happen to calculate the conversions authomatically. Without thinking to much about it. I agree that the relations in between inches, feets and yards, could become very practical on a hex map deploy, because of their base 3 nature. But miles, knots, galons, and all else, are just pure caos. BTW to change the hours like someone else said, you must change the number of degrees defined for a circle, that is also base three... Somehow, putting a triangle into a circle is something very practical, and having a 10th base on degrees will become a problem for everybody. And in general I appreciates bearcats posts, unless he asks for correcting .50s dispersion... |
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Then you'd have to completely reprogram GPS so that ships bringing iPhones from China don't get lost, so that teenagers don't become (more) psychotic. Argh! |
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+1. I thought that this was already possible, but I guess that I was wrong.
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