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Separate AA tank gunner camera & turret
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Description

The AA tanks (Cheetah and Tigris) are great and don't need much changing, however there is one thing that could be changed with the way the AUTO ranging works (visually).

The way it is now, the bullets come out of the cannon barrels at odd angles (to account for drop/lead etc). Functionally it works great. But it looks a little odd if seen from up close or the gunner's view.
A better thing to do would be to have a commander-like camera setup which sits on top of the turret.
The cannons would be normally locked to the gunner's camera view. When the zeroing of the guns was increased, the guns would increase in angle as compared to the gunner's line of sight (as would be expected in real life).

The interesting stuff begins when the Auto-ranging is used:
When the gunner locks onto a target, the turret swivels and raises independently of the gunner camera's line of sight. This way, instead of the bullets coming out of the barrels at odd angles, the barrels swivel to compensate for the drop and lead. Works just as well, looks amazing.

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Legacy ID
3052874578
Severity
None
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
N/A
Category
Visual-Vehicles
Additional Information

Ideally, this idea would be applied to all vehicles that have auto-ranging capabilities; however it is most important to the AA tanks as they are required to lead and compensate a lot, making it obvious.
However, most (if not all) of the armor have gunner optics that are fixed to the turret. A possible solution would be to have a HUD element that moves ahead of the target, showing where the gunner must aim to hit the target.

I don't know how these things work in real life, and if anybody knows how it works and/or what the gunner sees (for example, the view through a ZSU-23-4 Shilka's optics) please write it below.

Event Timeline

the_Demongod edited Additional Information. (Show Details)
the_Demongod set Category to Visual-Vehicles.
the_Demongod set Reproducibility to N/A.
the_Demongod set Severity to None.
the_Demongod set Resolution to Open.
the_Demongod set Legacy ID to 3052874578.May 7 2016, 7:02 PM