Just imagine an M-16 chambered in .280 British with the EM-2 optic mounted in the handle.
Got it?
Do you think it would look something like this:
Yeah. Me too.
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I'm not sure about this:
Firstly, I'm unsure I scaled the 1PN51-2 reticle correctly. It's basically a grid of 2.5 mrad subtensions, and I can confirm the 200m zero on the main chevron, so the '2' label is accurate, but I'm dubious of the '4', it is not 400m on the SVD-63. Subsonic ammo might be a fix, but I'm not messing with that today.
The glass targas have a neatish CRT effect, and they do boost brightness perceivably, but in a washed-out kind of way. The left side of the image shows the view of a window in a building on a dark map through the binoculars, with and without NVGs (adjust to level 3). The right side shows views of the same window through the SVD scope, with and without NVGs. Center shows a day map with the reticle aligned on a metal barrel positioned to show an acceptable ten mrad square from 100m away, and demonstrates the scaling, whether it's correct or not.
I have deactivated pixel shading support because it misaligns viewmodel iron sights with the NVGs on. I like aiming my sidearms, you know?
This feels like good experimentation, but I think it's not going to work.
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Edit: There is a point in my sleep — and I use this word loosely, under protest — schedule when I really should just stop and go lie down. Sometimes, things like this happen when I don't:
The reference image I adapted this reticle from is on the Wikimedia commons, and element sizes are described on that page. I just had to read up a bit. According to
the author of the photo there, the chevrons, from the main one down, are each 11.9 mils, 5 mils, and 4.8 mils tall. They also said these correspond with the height of an M1 Abrams (2.4m) at 200m, 400m, and 500m.
Are those russian mils (1/6000 of a circle)? Or milliradians (1/6283.1853 of a circle)?
* shrugs *
I went with milliradians. The math supports this. A circle with a 200m radius has a circumference of 1256.6371m. 2.4m ÷ 1256.6371 = 0.0019098. So an Abrams is about 0.19% of a 200m circle tall. 0.0019098 × 6000 = 11.4588 rumils. 0.0019098 × 6283.1853 = 11.999608 mrads. And for clarity: 11.9 mrads is 2.379945m at 200m.
This is probably not optimally a rifle reticle, it's for anti-tank weapons. The elements are not bullet drops, they are ranging guides.
Hm.
The new screenshot shows the reticle optimized for the 9x magnification I have on the SVD-63. I did this just to see how it would turn out.
The first version of the 1PN51-2 reticle I made is not scaled correctly for any available magnification level in this mod, but it's closest to 3x mag. Needs to be smaller for that, though.
Maybe I'll try a 5x version at some point. Or a 4x version for the RPG?
So anyway, I've stuck to my personal general method of operation on this one: Make
one mistake, make it early, and make it
huge.
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Edit again: Worked up a 4x 1PN51-2 reticle for the AT-4. No, I don't care how stupid you think that is.
I can accommodate none of your derision, I must Keep Calm And Draw Reticles.
Thank you.