Convergence confusion, please help.

[lonewulf]

Thanks Farber. Yes I did see your post and I did watch the video and yes both were helpful. And I don't necessarily disagree with the approach taken in Ataros' diagram where the guns are adjusted to be effective over as broad a range as possible. This is often done when sighting in a hunting rifle, for example. Instead of adjusting your sights so that your projectiles group right in the middle of the target at say 100m, it is better to have the rifle shooting about 3-4cm high (depending on the caliber) at that range, so it will still hit the vital organs of something like a deer at 300m. (Please excuse me if I'm currently in the process of telling granny how to suck eggs.)

However, it still seems to leave me with an unresolved problem. How can you seemingly assign arbitrary values to both hor. and vert. convergence in the game? Once you have determined what one or other will be, the other value is surely predetermined I would have thought???.

[MadTommy]

Thanks lads.

Need to look to see if these convergences can be edit via an ini file rather than the GUI which is painful...

[5./JG27.Farber]

Originally Posted by lonewulf

However, it still seems to leave me with an unresolved problem. How can you seemingly assign arbitrary values to both hor. and vert. convergence in the game? Once you have determined what one or other will be, the other value is surely predetermined I would have thought???.

The ground crew would have looked it up in a book I suppose. You never heard a fighter pilot say my guns were set to 200/400 this is what your saying right? I get it now. Yea but it is what it is and we have the option so we have to set it. I wonder how much control over convergence pilots really had?

Originally Posted by MadTommy

Thanks lads.

Need to look to see if these convergences can be edit via an ini file rather than the GUI which is painful...

Yea the reversal twists your melon... but is it gonna be reversed in the conf.ini aswell? Best off just writing, V and H on a piece of paper and then in put your values, then exchange symbols. - at least thats what I did.

[MadTommy]

Originally Posted by 5./JG27.Farber

Yea the reversal twists your melon... but is it gonna be reversed in the conf.ini aswell? Best off just writing, V and H on a piece of paper and then in put your values, then exchange symbols. - at least thats what I did.

No its not that.. its just there are so many inputs to setup all fighters, it would be really a lot easier to edit the file directly. But I can't find the file where these are located. Its not in the conf.ini, unless I missed it.

Do you know where this data is stored?

[5./JG27.Farber]

user.ini

[MadTommy]

Originally Posted by 5./JG27.Farber

user.ini

Do you mean confUser.ini ? If so i've searched through this and cant see it. I've found no user.ini anywhere.

Thanks for you help

[5./JG27.Farber]

C:\Users\farber\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\user.ini

np