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Originally Posted by Lanzfeld
1. Does changing the water clarity in SH3 Commander have any effect in the game besides eye candy? Does it effect the AI?
2. Is there a way I can get the flag recognition chart into NYGM?
Thanks to anyone who takes the time to help me.  |
1) AFAIK, it's just eye candy. (If soneone knows differently, please correct me!)
2) It isn't hard to do
provided you know how to mod the menu_1024_768.ini file. The flag recognition chart, called "Flaggen.tga" is already in NYGM. And it is loaded by menu_1024_768.ini. But the modders apparently ran out of real estate. It should appear on the three scope screens (attack scope, Observation scope, and UZO). But there is just no room for it along the crowded top edge, which has a whole series of "hot spots" for slideouts. So it has been moved waaay off-screen to the right, where you literally can not get to it. Worse yet, it is behind everything else on those screens, including the background. There is a tiny bit of space between the slideouts to the right of center where it could be placed That would be just a matter of changing one line in the menu_1024_768.ini file. (Well, OK, three lines. One for each screen.) But the chart still wouldn't show, because it is behind the background. The only way to fix
that is to renumber all three of the screen groups. In other words, you would have to manually change the item numbers for 100+ items - for each of the three screens. There is a small program that h.sie made which will do the renumbering for you. But I wouldn't recommend anyone tackle this project unless they had a pretty good idea what they were doing beforehand.
Or you could put the Flaggen chart on another screen. But again, that would require knowing how to mod the menu_1024_768.ini file. This too would not be hard if you know how to work with the menu_1024_768.ini file. But a big learning process if you don't.
As an alternative, how about a printed, hand-held copy? Go to the folder <SH3 game folder>/Data/Menu/Gui/Layout. You will find a file there named Flaggen.tga. Left-click on it to open the file in Picture Viewer. Then click on the File menu, click on Print, and you will have a paper copy to use during play. Not as satisfactory as having an in-game pull-down chart, but a lot easier and faster.
I'm sorry I can't be more helpful. I could give you detailed step-by-step instructions for how to make the changes to menu_1024_768.ini. But those instructions would either have to be pages long, or assume a certain amount of background which you may not have.
If you want to be able to do this sort of thing, there are several tutorials around which give an intro to modding menu_1024_768.ini. You might want to look them over and see if this kind of work appeals to you. Knowing how to work with the menu_1024_768,ini file opens up a lot of possibilities for changing the game to suit your own likes. (It also takes away time you could spend
playing the game....
YMMV
)