[REL] Rik007: SH-3 Night surface attack project [REL]

[rik007]

I feel I'm not 20 anymore. So I'm a slow modder and for years SH-3 didnot have my attention anymore but everything came back a year ago when I upgraded my video card...
On an average I now worked a few hours per week on this project which delivers an enabler. Basically it could be a breakthrough or a failure: who knows?
For me it is a breakthrough and I hope it will be the same for you all. I create some movies this week to explain it and some demo's.

First I explain the project itself and my experiments into night surface attacks and what I think of it:



Then an example of a night surface attack in 'Otto Kretschmer-style', unprecedented I think:



Then a sample of the wheather transition bug which is in most environment mods. The wheather will suddenly switch around 00:26:



And the version with a correct - smooth wheather transition:



Then a demo with Northern Lights and detection:



I want to thank:
- Hsie for his exellent hardcode mod. If you read this: a few of your discoveries in your assembly files I re-used!
- hughesjr for his basic voice attack profile (unreachable on Steam)
- Jerry Mason and crew

Here you find the site with the u-boot journals:

https://www.uboatarchive.net/

Go to U-boat KTB for the logs.

Update 1-2-2024: Release 1.19 has arrived
This is what has changed compared to 1.18:

SH-5 Water for SH-3 20 Km Atlantic V1000:
Made all the cloud images the same size. There is no impact on the gameplay.

SH-5 Moon mod settings (SH-5.cfg) for OneAlex:
A small change to the overcast setting.

SH-5 Volumetric Clouds for Moon mod:
- Better clouds images have been added which more suits the popular Volumetric clouds mod.

Of course I like to thank Fubar295, Dieselglock & Mister_M again for their help during the testing!

Please find below the link to the project which contains instructions how to install or upgrade. Please read the installation instructions carefully.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/bnjdk...v1.19.zip/file

For people who switch from 1.18 to 1.19:
You do not need to patch and reinstall everything so my suggestion is to replace the mods that have been changed:
- SH-5 Water for SH-3 20 Km Atlantic V1000
- SH-5 Volumetric Clouds for Moon mod
- SH-5 Moon mod settings for OneAlex

So disable them in JSGME, replace them with the new 1.19 versions and enable them again.

Of course for the new installs: do not forget to patch your sh3.exe first and then enable the moon mod as per instructions that come with the mod.



Regards,

Rik007