G36K sight is off.

[Psychomorph]

As I know and was discussed in this forums, the red dot (reflex probably too) is a lens system. They is no dot painted on the glass, which would require an exact lining up as ironsights, but it is a light, that is reflected by the lens you look through. That way the red dot works like a laser pointer that is only visible through the sight.
If you would hold a G36 not steady, where the weapon is pointed a bit lower and a bit to the left, you would see the dot atthe lower left too, but exactly where the barrel is pointed at (like a crosshair).
Of course if the barrels line is way to much on the right, the dot is not visible through the sight. But to reach this, you really have to look through the sight from the side.

The dot marks where the wepon is pointing at, but that is only visible inside the scope like sight.

Hope I´m finally correct on this (?).

 

[Beppo]

yes you are... so no matter where the red dot is visible within the circular sight while looking thru it, that's the point your barrel is aiming at. So there is no need to place it in the center of the sight and so there is no need for a 'fix' cause the sight is NOT broken or something alike. It could always be in the top right corner of the circular sight and it would still point at the correct spot the barrel is aiming at. You would only have a limited field of view if you would hold the weapon that way. So the miniminiminiminimal two or what pixels that the red dot is not displayed dead center is only nitpicking, nothing more and no need to 'fix' or to correct it at all.

Again, check out the numerous links to the AimPoint stuff if you still think that this is off... try out their 3D example and you'll hopefully understand that the circular sight itself is more or less irrelevant for aiming (you only need it for displaying the red dot). All that is relevant is the red 'dot' projected at the correct spot all the time.

 

[Psychomorph]

The only thing that I think about is, that the dot seems to move less when jogging. Not only the rearpart of the weapon is moving, also the frontpart is bobbing, the dot must bobbing a bit more.

I was jogging and shooting with the dot, the impact was way below the sight (not dot, but the whole sight), while the dot was moving only less.
Not sure if this matches the above described red dot lens function (?).

 

[yurch]

In infiltration, the point of aim doesn't move for weapon 'bob', just the camera. The point of aim is varied up somewhat for moving, but this varience isn't calculated by the aimpoint dot placement.
The aimpoint dot would then look much like the sig laser, which was deemed undesireable. (IE, very jumpy in a random manner)

 

[Psychomorph]

I personally would prefer having it moving like the sig laser. That problem also bothered me with the Eotech reflex sight in the mod team pack.

 

[Crowze]

Well better late than never, here's the G36K clipping bug you've all been waiting for. As I said this doesn't happen on my work PC (geforce 2) but dones on my own (geforce fx), I'll be comparing d3d settings soon to see if there's a problem there.

 

[Psychomorph]

Hehe, strange but definitely usefull.

 

[Burger]

and do you have a pic of the 'modifyed' G36K, crowze?

 

[AlmostAlive]

The problem does, as far as I've been able to determine, only happen when using D3D. It doesn't matter which GPU you have. It does not happen when using OGL.

 

[Specter]

Actually, the G36K does have the clipping problem using OpenGL. It may only be on the Mac OS X version of OpenGL though. I made posts about it on Pages 1 and 2 of this thread.

 

[Keganator]

Then it's probably an Mac-osx only issue. Chris's OGL renderer doesn't have a problem with it, but the original (Epic) OGL renderer did. So, until Chris or someone else (crac, what's his name?) gets around to doing a real port to OSX, you're kinda sol.

 

[flamingknives]

Or stuck with having a super-useful G36k that 'unfortunately' we can't do anything about.


As a side note, from a realism point of view, the G36k ought to have available a 100rd. Beta-C mag, as they are often deployed with such (By the German special forces). From a realism point of view only.

 

[Rostam]

I'd just wanted to say that nitpicking about 'change' and 'fix' is the same nitpicking about 'center' or 'just a little off center' that this thread was originally about. Both nitpicking to the same degree.

I like the G36 because it feels like you actually have to do something to get a kill. Also, I love the way this rifle feels when you fire it, feel the powah

 

[cracwhore]

His name is Ryan Gordon: The Lord And Saviour of Linux / OSX Gaming.

I might try installing INF under OSX.4 this week. Hopefully the updated OGL drivers do something for INF...