Sense confusion

[Vorsch]

Just trying to build a sonar using character with HD

Heres the thing

If i pick active sonar i dont get 360 under the Hearing group???

Hearing is 360 sight isint, well mine isint.

what am i missing

Anyone else have this kind of problem, similar issues etc

[Sean Waters]

Just trying to build a sonar using character with HD

Heres the thing

If i pick active sonar i dont get 360 under the Hearing group???

Hearing is 360 sight isint, well mine isint.

what am i missing

Anyone else have this kind of problem, similar issues etc

Normal hearing has 360 degree arc of perception but the hearing group does not. Weird eh? Page 350 of 5ER.

[Hugh Neilson]

Is sonar generally 360 degrees, or is it in the arc that the sound waves generated by the sonar user are sent out in? I don't think bats have 360 degree sonar, do they?


Echolocation works somewhat like a sonar made by an animal. Ranging is most certainly done by measuring the time delay between the animal's own vocalization and any echoes that return from the environment. Unlike some sonar which relies on an extremely narrow beam to localize a target, animal echolocation relies on multiple receivers, the two ears, to perform localization. In sonar when a target is detected the narrow beam is oscillated around the target direction to maximize the echo return. The direction of maximum echo return is the target direction. Echolocating animals have two ears positioned slightly apart. The echoes returning to the two ears arrive at different times and at different loudness levels, depending on the position of the object generating the echoes. The time and/or loudness differences are used by the animals to deduce direction.

Sounds like both natural and artificial sonar are generally directional, and not 360 degrees.

[Sean Waters]

The thing to remember is that you can't assume that simulated senses have all the bits you would use to build the flagship sense of the group - you need to lookl it up every time. You get the modifiers associated witht he sense GROUP for free- not necessarily the ones associated with the particular sense.

It is not weird. I take that back.