[TEC] SH5.exe patches to fix bugs and add functionality

[volodya61]

Originally Posted by Sjizzle

i have question

somebody will try to calculate his position with this new sextant ?

joke of the day?

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by Sjizzle

i have question

somebody will try to calculate his position with this new sextant ?

I'm almost done with it. I've noticed that if you don't take your readings with the star/celestial body right in the middle of the scope (vertical crosshair) the readings are distorted. Has to do with how game projects 3D scene onto 2D surface (monitor)

[Sjizzle]

Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

I'm almost done with it. I've noticed that if you don't take your readings with the star/celestial body right in the middle of the scope (vertical crosshair) the readings are distorted. Has to do with how game projects 3D scene onto 2D surface (monitor)

i am waiting to test it with that new UZO option i need to make a mission with calm sea no wind and waves cos with waves it's damn hard to make a good mesurement

[Sjizzle]

when i mesure the moon with 0.5, 0.8, 1 pass 100% then must pass also by stars ( i think so )

for a better res. here and here

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by Fifi

EDIT:
Back with your latest patcher version, none of my others missions are crashing. So i'm sure it's coming from this special lifeboat mission.
As i said, probably too many sounds involved when hearing via the hydrostation, and my sound card can't handle them all (i guess).

I love the accuracy of your new hydro patch, so you did a fantastic job on that!
I keep the latest one finally...
Maybe you could tell me more about the lifeboat mission, and find out what is making this one crash...

Has nothing to do with amount of sounds and/or units. The problem is, err was, dead units. I've adjusted the Broken hydro patch to account for dead units. I'll be releasing new test version here soon. Just a couple more things to code in.

[Fifi]

Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

Has nothing to do with amount of sounds and/or units. The problem is, err was, dead units. I've adjusted the Broken hydro patch to account for dead units. I'll be releasing new test version here soon. Just a couple more things to code in.

Hey, that's good news
At least it helped find an other hydro bug, about those dead units

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by Fifi

Hey, that's good news
At least it helped find an other hydro bug, about those dead units

That hydro bug was caused by my code. I was bound to get a bug somewhere. At least it was easy enough to find.

What makes me happy is the bug was not due to my new code that uses recursion It was the old-new broken hydro code.

[TheDarkWraith]

v1.0.142.0 released. See post #1

Starting with v1.0.142.0 Added new commands to the game. Added patch to SH5.exe that allows submarines and environmentals to be 'heard' on the hydrophone (Submarine and Environmental will show in hydro box). Fixed CTD that could happen in the Broken hydro patch for SH5.exe when the hydrophone needle passes over a dead unit.

Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

v1.0.142.0 released. See post #1

Starting with v1.0.142.0 Added new commands to the game. Added patch to SH5.exe that allows submarines and environmentals to be 'heard' on the hydrophone (Submarine and Environmental will show in hydro box). Fixed CTD that could happen in the Broken hydro patch for SH5.exe when the hydrophone needle passes over a dead unit.

Hello Dark!
Bug report to the nearest contact is fixed in the latest version?

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=3600

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=3602

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by Captain73

Hello Dark!
Bug report to the nearest contact is fixed in the latest version?

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=3600

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=3602

Still pondering how to determine if contact closing/retreating from player's sub

Originally Posted by gap

Good point. But this brings another topic: if we got to trust the following sources, in real life neither the UZO nor the obs scope had any stadimeter:

QUICK NOTES ABOUT GERMAN WW2 U-BOAT OPTICS (pdf document)
post by Frederf on this forum

Would be cool if TDW could get rid of them

v1.0.143.0 released. See post #1

Starting with v1.0.143.0 Added a new patch to the sh5.exe: Stadimeter can only be used at Attack scope or UZO (as Sextant)

[gap]

Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

Still pondering how to determine if contact closing/retreating from player's sub

Can't you set three volatile variables, and store in them unit ID, exact range and estimated range of the last target whose range was estimated?

- For each new range estimation compare the stored unit ID with the new unit ID;

if they are matching:

- If new exact range > stored exact range, min new estimated (random) range = stored estimated range

- If new exact range < stored exact range, max new estimated (random) range = stored estimated range

Moreover I wonder if you could implemet the below idea by Sartoris idea as an option of your patch:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=3603

Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

v1.0.143.0 released. See post #1

Starting with v1.0.143.0 Added a new patch to the sh5.exe: Stadimeter can only be used at Attack scope or UZO (as Sextant)

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by gap

Can't you set three volatile variables, and store in them unit ID, exact range and estimated range of the last target whose range was estimated?

Yes I could but everything will get screwed up if player chooses one contact, bounces over to another, comes back to first contact, etc.

That still doesn't help with contact either closing/retreating in respect to player's sub.

In order to make this 100% correct I need to add new variables to the units of the game (increase the amount of memory requested for each unit). That will be HIGHLY experimental because if I fail to find every place where a unit is created then I could be trampling on memory unrelated to the unit

It might be best just to convert that patch into returning short range, medium range, and long range.

[Sartoris]

Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

Yes I could but everything will get screwed up if player chooses one contact, bounces over to another, comes back to first contact, etc.

That still doesn't help with contact either closing/retreating in respect to player's sub.

In order to make this 100% correct I need to add new variables to the units of the game (increase the amount of memory requested for each unit). That will be HIGHLY experimental because if I fail to find every place where a unit is created then I could be trampling on memory unrelated to the unit

It might be best just to convert that patch into returning short range, medium range, and long range.

Yes, I think that would be best.

[pelucho25]

Hello captains, one can climb a snapshot of TDW GenericPatcher? It appears that the link is not working Sober.

[Sjizzle]

Originally Posted by pelucho25

Hello captains, one can climb a snapshot of TDW GenericPatcher? It appears that the link is not working Sober.

take a look at my how to use generic patcher thread

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=205620