Thank you VERY much gap! I'll try it now!:Kaleun_Periskop:

Thank you to Josef, let me know :)

OK.. realizing that English is not my native language, it's too complicated for my understanding today.. :D I will read/understand it tomorrow.. :salute:

Yes, they are working.
:Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:
Very good job.
This mod is very helpful :D
I thank you for your hard work.
Now what to do next? I might recreate the sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, Where Scharnhorst and Gneisenau sink HMS Rawalpindi because the captain of the ship didn't want to surrender to the Germans.
Maybe not, Ill keep looking for idea's.
Also, do the torpedo tubes on ships actually work? I have never seen then work, if they do.

My bad: sometimes I myself can't manage understanding my own english written texts :oops: :D

:up:

Thank you too my friend for your precious assistance, but the real work has yet to come: the previous patch was just a quick and dirty fix ;)

I hope to release today the next patch fixing the remaining buggy guns. I'll tell you what units have to be tested, if you want to keep helping me :)

I really don't know, but good question anyway! Can anyone answer it?

I would be happy to test more of your weapon fixes when you release them. :)

I am going to get some ships close enough to each other to see if they will use the torpedoes, but right now, one has sunk the other before they get close enough to use them :D

It's not your fault.. blame my sick head.. :D

:hmmm: Maybe it's just a decoration?

I believe now that the torpedo tubes are decorations, I placed a Konigsberg class light cruiser 400 meters (Minimum distance for the standard G7a torpedo to detonate) and the tube racks did not track the enemy ship, the ship just maxed the engines, moved to a safe distance, then the 3 turrets just tracked to the ships and sent it to the bottom by normal means.

I think, under my opinion, it is for decoration purposes only.

Good! I an not sure if I will be on time for releasing the next update today, but stay tuned anyway! :up:

Yes, I could hardly believe it, but lamentably you both are right... :-?

Unlike other ship armaments, torpedo launchers don't have a wpn_* controller assigned in guns_radars_01.sim. Even worst, after having a quick glance at the available SH weapons controllers, I couldn't find any special controller designed for working with the torpedo launcher. Here's the full list of them:

wpn_BoldsLauncher
wpn_Cannon
wpn_DCRack
wpn_Hedgehog
wpn_Kgun
wpn_Searchlight
wpn_SubTorpedoSys

As you can see, the closer we can get to a torpedo launcher is the wpn_SubTorpedoSys controller, which I doubt will work on ships.

Nonetheless, I remember that in SH3 or 4 they managed to mimic a working torpedo launcher by using a dummy gun which fired dummy shells. If I remember correctly, the trick was making it to spawn a torpedo in place of a flash effect every time it fired its armless rounds. This method had several limitations, but at least it worked. I'll try looking for this mod, and see if the same can be done in SH5. :yep:

In the meanwhile I would appreciate if someone could explain to me how deck-mounted torpedo tubes do work. I don't know anything on this topic: do they track their target like a normal gun do (train and elevation)? Are the torpedoes they fire equipped with gyroscopes? etc.

gap - armaments & equipments patch v 0.1
 

new alpha version of the patch available here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?927qswrl3urhwr2

What is new:

• fixed a wrong setting that prevented muzzle flash effects for the US 5" (12.7 cm) Mk. 12 gun (single mount Mk. 30), used on Fletcher class destroyers;
  
• fixed a wrong setting that prevented muzzle flash effects for the US 5" (12.7 cm) Mk. 12 gun (twin mount Mk. 28), used on North Carolina class battleships;
  
• fixed a wrong setting that prevented muzzle flash effects for the US 5" (12.7 cm) Mk. 12 gun (twin mount Mk. 22), used on Somers class destroyers;
  
• fixed a wrong setting that prevented muzzle flash effects for the Italian 152 mm (6") Model 1926/1929 gun (twin turret), used on Giussano (Bartolomeo Colleoni) and Montecuccoli classes light cruisers;
  
• fixed a wrong setting that prevented muzzle flash effects for the British 5.25" (13.4 cm) Mk. I gun (twin mount), used on King George V class battleships (including Duke of York), and Dido class light cruisers;
  
• fixed a missing setting that prevented muzzle flash effects for the British 6" (15.2 cm) BL Mk. XXII gun (twin mount), used on Nelson class battleships.

Previous version:

• added 3 new shell definitions for 11" AP, HE and AA ammunition, with intermediate damage, damage radius, and armour piercing settings between 8" and 14" shells of the same type;
  
• fixed a wrong ammunition setting that prevented from firing the German 28 cm (11") SK C/34 gun (three-gun turret), used on Scharnhorst and Deutschland classes pocket battleships; the gun is now firing the newly introduced 11" AP and HE shells;
  
• 14" AP and HE shells replaced with more correct 11" ammunition of the same type for the German 28 cm (11") SK L/40 gun (double-gun turret), used on Deutschland class battleships;
  
• fixed a missing setting that prevented muzzle flash effects for the German 10.5 cm (4.1") SK C/33 gun (twin mount), used on Bismark class battleships, Scharnhost and Deutschland classes pocket battleships, and Admiral Hipper class heavy cruisers.

The hedgehog mortar spigot? I have never seen that used before, I have only seen the depth charge racks and depth charge throwers used before. :hmmm:

Will there be cake?

I swear I saw something about those working in-game. humph, i shall try to find it.

From what I found, the tubes only track horizontally, then launch the torp out at the target. The firing controls appear to be accsessed on the tube itself. Also, it would appear the torpedos have their own gyros.

Check this very cool link out!!
http://www.hnsa.org/doc/destroyer/ddtubes/index.htm

By any chance, is it possible to disable the depth charge racks on the destroyers? Because I still have not managed to get any destroyers to use their hedgehog. I was thinking, if the ship cannot use it's depth charges, it would be forced to use hedgehog.

Also, the destroyer should use it's hedgehog above using the depth charges, because the hedgehog is a much more effective anti-submarine weapon. The hedgehog had a 25% kill rate, while the depth charge had a 7%, as we can see, these odds are in the hedgehogs favor, so the hedgehog might not actually work within this game.:hmmm: