How does sonar work?

[Woober]

Seems like there is some confusion about the sonar.

The first part to the right on the sonar, is straight under the boat right now, while the red area behind the green area, is your history, what area you passed with your boat. There is a sonar beam under the front of your boat, that reads the fish right under the boat. Hope that makes more sense!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2264610057

[MdM]

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[Woober]

Sorry, got it fixed now!

[Banditoz79]

Sry but this system....no words.. how shoul i react so fast if something pop up on the right side? tell me or show me in a Video

[iBee]

Thanks for the info Woober.

[Pranne]

Do you recognize crabs and lobster in midwater and surface? some fishes seems to be under the bottom too...not that bad but sometimes hard for the eyes to indentify them:-)

[Banditoz79]

Did i understand this, the 50,100,250,500,1000m are the passed Area only?

[Darkspear]

quote from the discord channel:

> well you dont need to get it 100% to catch fish, it shows that there is fish in the area, that should be good enough, if not you can turn your boat around :slight_smile: @Spidie#7014
@Disturbed#5288

if i spot a swordfish sailing at 5knots right below my boat, i drop the line and i get catch. from i spot to the line is in the water, the sonar ping has moved to about 25 meters behind my boat.

just dont sail 20 knots :)

[Banditoz79]

aha ok....

[Reddinkill]

Originally posted by Woober:

Seems like there is some confusion about the sonar.

The first part to the right on the sonar, is straight under the boat right now, while the red area behind the green area, is your history, what area you passed with your boat. There is a sonar beam under the front of your boat, that reads the fish right under the boat. Hope that makes more sense!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2264610057

Just might be an ideer to inc. this info in the wiki. So newcomers know how the sonar work. Seens there are so mush confusion as you say

[iBee]

Originally posted by BanditozBro:

Did i understand this, the 50,100,250,500,1000m are the passed Area only?

Yes. What you see on sonar screen is the area behind you unless the vertical bar at the right side which represents your boat and where the sonar is located.

The sonar sends echoes and when these interact with a surface, echoes are sent back, It's like taking pictures. When it contacts a fish, the echo is sent back and it is shown at the vertical bar. This is the first picture.

Then a new echo is sent and the same process happens again. A new picture is created with what's below the boat (seabed, more fishes, whatever). The previous picture, in which the fish was contacted, now has been moved to the left a certain distance because it is no longer under your boat, it is already behind you. And the current picture you have taken with the sonar is located next to the vertical bar at your right side (this is what is below the boat now as we said).

So graphically:

Picture 1:


- - - - - - - - - - - FISH 1 (boat/sonar).


Picture 2:


- - - - - - - FISH 1- - - - - (boat/sonar)


Picture 3:


- - FISH 1- - - - - FISH 2 (boat/sonar)



Picture 4: (fish 1 is already far away behind you, not shown anymore).


- - - - - - -FISH 2- - - - - - (boat/sonar)


So now, if u make a montage of the pictures following the timeline you get what we see in the sonar screen, fishes and seabed moving from right (what's below u) to left (what's falling behind you). It's more or less like a CT Scan in medicine, series of single pictures taken at different timestamps which gives you an idea of the whole when displayed consecutively.


Hope it helps.

[sep_79]

Havn't seen a single fish yet on sonar with this sonar update, and seems like the bottom deepth don't changes to, just stays at 100m even when i go to deeper and deeper waters.

[Banditoz79]

Originally posted by NeCLiaH:

Originally posted by BanditozBro:

Did i understand this, the 50,100,250,500,1000m are the passed Area only?

Yes. What you see on sonar screen is the area behind you unless the vertical bar at the right side which represents your boat and where the sonar is located.

The sonar sends echoes and when these interact with a surface, echoes are sent back, It's like taking pictures. When it contacts a fish, the echo is sent back and it is shown at the vertical bar. This is the first picture.

Then a new echo is sent and the same process happens again. A new picture is created with what's below the boat (seabed, more fishes, whatever). The previous picture, in which the fish was contacted, now has been moved to the left a certain distance because it is no longer under your boat, it is already behind you. And the current picture you have taken with the sonar is located next to the vertical bar at your right side (this is what is below the boat now as we said).

So graphically:

Picture 1:


- - - - - - - - - - - FISH 1 (boat/sonar).


Picture 2:


- - - - - - - FISH 1- - - - - (boat/sonar)


Picture 3:


- - FISH 1- - - - - FISH 2 (boat/sonar)



Picture 4: (fish 1 is already far away behind you, not shown anymore).


- - - - - - -FISH 2- - - - - - (boat/sonar)


So now, if u make a montage of the pictures following the timeline you get what we see in the sonar screen, fishes and seabed moving from right (what's below u) to left (what's falling behind you). It's more or less like a CT Scan in medicine, series of single pictures taken at different timestamps which gives you an idea of the whole when displayed consecutively.


Hope it helps.

Dude i understand how it works but , why the Hell on this planet they dont do just a Simple Boat icon in the MIDDLE and thats it ? Who cares waht is behinde a boat? should i turn arround every single time? i mean okay whit fish its not that Big problem but whit lubster and crab`? no words ....the Designer of this Game got no Hearth for his Job by the way....horrble Ui Horrible lovelss icons....everything look love and heartles for me ...even the Old system in BSEA is bether than this...sry for my ♥♥♥♥♥ english

[iBee]

Originally posted by BanditozBro:

Originally posted by NeCLiaH:

Yes. What you see on sonar screen is the area behind you unless the vertical bar at the right side which represents your boat and where the sonar is located.

The sonar sends echoes and when these interact with a surface, echoes are sent back, It's like taking pictures. When it contacts a fish, the echo is sent back and it is shown at the vertical bar. This is the first picture.

Then a new echo is sent and the same process happens again. A new picture is created with what's below the boat (seabed, more fishes, whatever). The previous picture, in which the fish was contacted, now has been moved to the left a certain distance because it is no longer under your boat, it is already behind you. And the current picture you have taken with the sonar is located next to the vertical bar at your right side (this is what is below the boat now as we said).

So graphically:

Picture 1:


- - - - - - - - - - - FISH 1 (boat/sonar).


Picture 2:


- - - - - - - FISH 1- - - - - (boat/sonar)


Picture 3:


- - FISH 1- - - - - FISH 2 (boat/sonar)



Picture 4: (fish 1 is already far away behind you, not shown anymore).


- - - - - - -FISH 2- - - - - - (boat/sonar)


So now, if u make a montage of the pictures following the timeline you get what we see in the sonar screen, fishes and seabed moving from right (what's below u) to left (what's falling behind you). It's more or less like a CT Scan in medicine, series of single pictures taken at different timestamps which gives you an idea of the whole when displayed consecutively.


Hope it helps.

Dude i understand how it works but , why the Hell on this planet they dont do just a Simple Boat icon in the MIDDLE and thats it ? Who cares waht is behinde a boat? should i turn arround every single time? i mean okay whit fish its not that Big problem but whit lubster and crab`? no words ....the Designer of this Game got no Hearth for his Job by the way....horrble Ui Horrible lovelss icons....everything look love and heartles for me ...even the Old system in BSEA is bether than this...sry for my ♥♥♥♥♥ english

Because it does not matter where you locate the boat, the mechanism will be the same, fishes will always get behind you unless you completely stop the boat. So if you draw the boat in the middle of the sonar screen, you are losing an entire half.

[Banditoz79]

Originally posted by NeCLiaH:

Originally posted by BanditozBro:

Dude i understand how it works but , why the Hell on this planet they dont do just a Simple Boat icon in the MIDDLE and thats it ? Who cares waht is behinde a boat? should i turn arround every single time? i mean okay whit fish its not that Big problem but whit lubster and crab`? no words ....the Designer of this Game got no Hearth for his Job by the way....horrble Ui Horrible lovelss icons....everything look love and heartles for me ...even the Old system in BSEA is bether than this...sry for my ♥♥♥♥♥ english

Because it does not matter where you locate the boat, the mechanism will be the same, fishes will always get behind you unless you completely stop the boat. So if you draw the boat in the middle of the sonar screen, you are losing an entire half.

lol no ? why should you lose something, if you see the fish before your ship ? and can drop everything exactly to there location dude sersly come on....

[Banditoz79]

First SOnar doesnt Work. i must Reload my Save Game every Time and than it Works. Second i got a 1000 m Sonar so Explain me plz this Pictures

@woober

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1671358508666788502/1DEF5FAAA7CFF5F3EEEF04849985F40283DD455A/

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1671358508666789004/C5696F3003C6C5A8E6BD612C111926164D98AB7D/

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1671358508666787984/39140B99B5C4ECEBB4A7E4D260EE1BB531F36ABC/


1000 meter Fish sonar , workin just 100 -125 meters WTF woot??????