That video got me reminiscing. Worked up a thing.
That's the DFBHD(TS) G36 with the NovaHQ Widescreen mod, FOV set to 96 degrees, and a new version of the classic Hensoldt G36 reticle I drew that's scaled to 1.25x magnification, including an illuminated ring. I'm positioned 640m north of the closest edge of the 32m² concrete dock slab. A 32m span from 640m away is a confirmable 50 mrads, which is how wide I wanted the thin part of the horizon to be, and would you look at that! I think I got it. The baseline under the 'numbers' of the rangefinder is 17.5 mrads below the horizon. That's 1.75m at 100m. The footlines (?) under the baseline are each, from right to left, 1.75m at 200m, 400m, 600m, and 800m, or at least they're as close to 1.75m as I could math 'em up at this resolution. The inner diameter of the ring is also 1.75m at 400m, which turned out to be surprisingly close to 3 pixels, and the outer diameter is just two pixels wider.
It's tricky, y'know... drawing an 8, a 6, a 4, and a 2 that're 1×3 pixels. Not sure I manged it.
Look: large, clear, beautiful, useful targas are easy.
Tiny, slightly blurry, beautiful, useful targas are difficult. I'm fxxxing trying. Mostly succeeding. I think.
This was a good way to while away a Saturday afternoon. Playtesting commences soon, reports will be edited into this reply later.
Edit: Tweaked the targas a bit. They look a bit better, now. Uploaded a new screeny.
///////////- John Lydon "sings": This is not an HR! -\\\\\\\\\\
Another Edit: How 'bout this for a play on the original Team Sabre G36 sight:
Internally, it's
kind of to scale, according to the reference image I have, but it's way too large for the magnification. The inner diameter of the ring is dude-tall at 100m (four times too large), so it sort of works like an EOTech holographic reticle.
This one's more style than substance.
I also have this one:
Which is optimized in mrads with vanilla DFBHD(TS)'s 80° FOV.
The 32m wide concrete dock slab 640m away providing a scale for 50 mrads.
Still mostly style, but with a
little more substance.