See
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=108863 for the development and background info on this mod.
Basically the idea behind this mod is to change radio Washington from one station that can be heard anywhere on the map to many smaller stations that will come on line as the war progresses. The content will be shared between the stations, think of it more or less as a rebroadcast of radio washington to the troops near the front. (If someone wanted to script separate events and gather different audio for each station, this mod could easily be changed to broadcast different content at the different stations)
In addition to the new stations, I want to add a lot of news event audio content.
This mod will be released in stages. The first will be just the framework for the new radio stations without any new audio content. The second will be adding the new audio content and scripting it to run on the correct dates. The third will be adding a very simplified radio Tokyo broadcasting scripted Tokyo Rose audio and music. A possible follow up or alternate version would be to even further sub divide the radio stations.
Stage 1 is already complete
Radio washington has been divided into 9 different stations.
Hawaii
Operational: entire war
Midway
Operational: entire war
Manila
Operational: start of war - January 2nd 1942
Australia
Operational: February 1st 1942 - end of war
Guadalcanal
Operational: August 20th 1942 - end of war
Saipan
Operational: June 22nd 1944 - end of war
Philippines
Operational: November 11 1944 - end of war
Iwo Jima
Operational: February 23 1945 - end of war
Okinawa
Operational: April 1st 1945 - end of war
And their approximate ranges are
You'll notice that Pearl Harbor and Midway's range look like a D , not a circle. That is because there seems to be a bug that does not allow a station's range to cross longitude 180, the international date line. If you set the station's range high enough, like the default range of radio washington, this is overcome because the station actually goes around the world in the other direction to the hit the date line from the opposite side. Stations not powerful enough to cover the map in both directions will die at the date line.
The stations themselves may not actually originate exactly from the place they are named for. This was done to maximize coverage and minimize overlap.
I would appreciate any suggestions on radio station names, dates of operation, different locations, ranges, etc.
Ok, now on to the meat. If you want to test this mod out, here's what you'll have to do:
1. Backup your radio.ini file located in \Data\Sound\Radio in case something goes wrong. Specially important if you already are using released radio mods.
2. Make sure you still have a Washington folder in \Data\Sound\Radio. Without that folder, these stations will not work.
3. Delete or comment out the [CHANNEL] for Name=Washington. If you want to comment it out instead of deleting it, just put a semi-colon ';' at the beginning of each line for the channel so it looks like
Quote:
;[CHANNEL]
;Name=Washington
;Folder=Washington
;Freq=22
;Antenna=01.01.2000.........
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4. Now copy and paste the following into radio.ini below the StartCh=1 line
Quote:
;radio mod begin
;-------------------
[CHANNEL]
Name=Hawaii RB
Folder=Washington
Freq=22
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:21.36,-157.96:6000
[CHANNEL]
Name=Midway RB
Folder=\Washington
Freq=32
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:28.00,179.00:2800
[CHANNEL]
Name=Australia RB
Folder=\\Washington
Freq=42
Antenna=01.02.1942-01.01.2000:-22.00,133.00:3400
[CHANNEL]
Name=Manila RB
Folder=\\\Washington
Freq=52
Antenna=01.01.1930-02.01.1942:14.40,120.35:1600
[CHANNEL]
Name=Guadalcanal RB
Folder=\\\\Washington
Freq=62
Antenna=20.08.1942-01.01.2000:-10.00,169.00:1100
[CHANNEL]
Name=Saipan RB
Folder=\\\\\Washington
Freq=72
Antenna=22.06.1944-01.01.2000:7.00,155.00:1500
[CHANNEL]
Name=Philippines RB
Folder=\\\\\\Washington
Freq=82
Antenna=01.11.1944-01.01.2000:12.50,124.50:2000
[CHANNEL]
Name=Iwo Jima RB
Folder=\\\\\\\Washington
Freq=92
Antenna=23.02.1945-01.01.2000:24.47,141.20:1500
[CHANNEL]
Name=Okinawa RB
Folder=\\\\\\\\Washington
Freq=102
Antenna=01.04.1945-01.01.2000:30.30,129.40:300
;-------------------
;radio mod end
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5. If you already have radio station mods, You'll want to pay careful attention to the Freq=XX line. You do not want to have two stations broadcasting on the same frequency, nor do you want to have them broadcasting within about +/- 5 to 10 frequencies. If you already have radio mods, I'd suggest starting these stations at 122 so they won't conflict with others - Freq=122, Freq=132, and so on up to Freq=202. Do not get them out of order numerically - that is do not have Freq=142 come before Freq=132.
6. Sail around and tune into the various stations!
Some important notes.
Every station, even when not within their operational broadcast dates will show up as you search for stations. So even after Manila falls and the station stops broadcasting on January 2nd, 1942, the radio will still stop at frequency 52 and display Manila RB. You will only hear static on that station after Jan 2, 1942, but the radio will still tune it in. This is how it works for radio stations that will come on line in the future too. I cannot find a way around this. Some more careful picking of the frequency numbers may help this some, I'll be playtesting for this.
Stations that you are not currently in broadcast range of will also tune in on the radio, but also only play static. As you get closer to the range of the station, it will slowly come in (that is of course if you are not in high time compression, then they will come in or fade quickly). EXCEPT for Midway and Pearl Harbor. If you sail west from Pearl tuned into it's radio station, as soon as you cross longitude 180, the station will instantly be lost. Same situation if you are to the west of longitude 180 sailing toward Pearl and tuned into Midway's station. As soon as you cross longitude 180, Midway's station will instantly cut out. If you lose Pearl's station because of this, just tune into Midway's or vice versa. This is because of the longitude 180 bug.
Since there is very little default audio content right now, all you'll really hear when tuned into these stations is that annoying and repeating music file. Every once in awhile you'll get a news report.
If you wanted to mod this mod into music stations rather than scripted news audio stations, you could move or rename the events.ini file found in \Data\Sound\Radio\Washington\Events to a backup location. DO NOT DELETE THIS FILE. Then you would place music files in \Data\Sound\Radio\Washington. Each radio station will then randomly play music from that folder.
EDIT:
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I just tested out the above in game and it actually works rather well just playing random music at different stations.
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I named the stations with RB at the end to signify ReBroadcast to give you an idea that any station with a RB in it's name will be playing the same content. I'm open to suggestions on the names of these stations, they just can't all be named the same. I would like the name to signify that the stations are all connected though.
I'll be play testing this more to see if ranges need to be adjusted or stations moved/added/deleted. After I'm pretty happy with things, I'll start digging into scripting the news audio events.