I started this thread over in the PR forums and it has helped me figure out how these things work. It was not quite how people have explained it to me.

Originally Posted by privetB

generally you can say:
sniper = 600m
marksman = 600m
LMG = 350m
assault rifle = 300m
SMG = 100m
pistol= 50m

I think it is described in the manual at which range the guns are zeroed. But i am not sure at which range pistols and mps are ranged (those i wrote are from arma 2 lol)

This is not super helpful in lieu of some later posts explaining the PR physics.

Originally Posted by Jonny

Wrong.

They follow a parabolic trajectory whose starting velocity is parallel to the barrel of the rifle (discounting deviation). It is NOT a 'linear' drop.





I have attempted to add realistic ballistics into PR, along with help from Nedlands, CAS-117, Mosquill and Zangoo. We discovered that the tracer rounds start at a different velocity to the non tracer rounds, and that it is too much of a difference to be acceptable. The difference is so great that either one of the realistic gravity or quadratic viscous drag force make the tracers follow a noticably different trajectory to the non tracer rounds.

The DEVs do not approve of any of the workarounds that have been found to this day, and zeroing only some of the guns is not acceptable, apparently.




Some of the work we did went into the wookie sniper mod, if you want to see some decent ballistics.

This was referring to some preconceived notions about PR physics people had.

Originally Posted by [R-CON]nedlands1

Nope. The weapons in the game aren't really "zeroed" as such (see diagram below). The whole "zeroing" thing is an arbitrary way of saying that you need to take into bullet drop at that range. In general the deviation has much greater influence on hitting your target than bullet drop.

very helpful diagram

Originally Posted by [R-CON]nedlands1

Yes. Bullets drop for all distances unless the gravity modifier for the projectile is set to zero in which case the projectile doesn't drop at all (unless you shoot downwards of course). The only weapons with a gravity modifier of zero, that come to mind, are the guided missiles. Most weapons have a fairly low gravity modifier, decent muzzle velocities and lots of deviation which makes the drop hard to see. Bullets come out of the centre of the screen, for most weapons, and the crosshairs/ironsight have been aligned with the centre of the screen as well. I represented this on the lower part of the diagram. Both the point of aim (red line) and the path of the projectile (black line) originate from the same point.

The whole "weapon X is zeroed to Y meters" in PR has nothing to do with real world zeroing. It's just an opinion that the drop is negligible up to that range.

I hope I answered your question.

THIS. This made it click finally for me.

http://www.realitymod.com/forum/f10-...let-drops.html