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Old 12-16-17, 02:24 AM   #31
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My back is paining me bad, so my worst friend insomnia is visiting... sheesh... Anyway, the skins go with the conning towers, and those are listed in the Gato.upc file like this:

IDLinkUnitPartIntervalDefault1= NULL, 1942-04-30, GatoConningEarlyWar
IDLinkUnitPartIntervalDefault2= 1942-05-01, 1942-12-31, GatoConningMedWar
IDLinkUnitPartIntervalDefault3= 1943-01-01, 1943-12-31, GatoConningLateWar
IDLinkUnitPartIntervalDefault4= 1944-01-01, NULL, GatoConningElite

so the #1 (early) tower runs until April 30th, 1942 and is "blank", like this:




The second sail, "MedWar" uses the T01 tex file from May 1 to Dec 31 1942, like this:



The LateWar goes from Jan 1, 1943 to Dec 31, 1943 using the T02 file in the tex folder like this:



and the "Elite" goes back to "blank"... In this particular skin, it is for any Gato boat, so should show up between May 1, 1942 to Dec 31, 1943. If it doesn't, be sure you have it activated with JSGME properly, and that you don't have a bad folder structure like "Game \ MODS \ SS238 USS Wahoo_FooBor's GATO Combo HI-RES \ SS238 USS Wahoo_FooBor's GATO Combo HI-RES \ Data"... You only want the one "SS238 USS Wahoo_FooBor's GATO Combo HI-RES" folder, not two of them... I should have rotated the conn around in S3D, and looked at the other side. I have no idea if it faces forward, or back, or if it's even there... - Edit: It is there, on both sides, and both facing forward - excellent stuff.

Of course, in the game, you should have the rest of your submarine, unless you do like I do, and get it blown out from under you all the time...
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Old 12-16-17, 11:28 AM   #32
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darn that looks beautiful it makes me more determined than ever to get it to work i have tried everything you said to do and nothing but all black no matter what the year but thank you again for all the work you did to try and help me hope the back feels better fast too
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Old 12-16-17, 12:01 PM   #33
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Let's go this route then:
1. Which folder is the game installed in?
2. Where did you purchase your game from, Steam?
3. What other mod(s) are you using?
4. Do they work OK?
5. Are you putting the skin mod in last?
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Old 12-16-17, 01:59 PM   #34
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1.c/silent hunter 4
2.a store not online
3.none when i use this skin
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5.yes as i said no other mod


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Old 12-16-17, 05:14 PM   #35
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So, you're NOT in a "Program Files" directory of any sort, but rather, a folder you made yourself for the install. Now, look in your MODS folder, and "navigate" (fancy-talk for "double-click on") into the "SS238 USS Wahoo_FooBor's GATO Combo HI-RES" folder. Do you see another folder of the same name, or a "Data" folder?
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Old 12-16-17, 06:25 PM   #36
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I have FooBor's SS-238 Wahoo skin with the headdress already on NSS_GatoTower_T01.dds and NSS_GatoTower_T02.dds if this is what you need.

As you know, NSS_GatoTower_T02.dds tower is lighter than NSS_GatoTower_T01.dds, or isn't this the issue.....

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Old 12-16-17, 06:30 PM   #37
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Naw, he's not seeing it in game. I also was using my FotRSU install as an example earlier, and there are four conning towers in it, but only two in Stock... sigh. That skin that you have is the one that he's been pointed at already. Might just be a bad activation in his install.
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data folder then a submarine and textures when i use mods or other skins they work fine its just this wahoo think its because its my fave lol
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well hallelujah finally got it to work i made a backup of my data and manually put the skin in game and BAM i guess JSGME was not enabling it properly anyhow im so happy i want to give a big thank you to all that helped great bunch of folks here
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well hallelujah finally got it to work i made a backup of my data and manually put the skin in game and BAM i guess JSGME was not enabling it properly anyhow im so happy i want to give a big thank you to all that helped great bunch of folks here
I didn't help, I wanted to, but couldn't figure out what the problem with JSGME was. All I could think of was to see what the JSGME 'snapshot' said, but that wouldn't have solved the problem. Glad to see you are up and running now!

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It was from FooFighters skins old website [ http://www.oldsmobile1958.com/silenthunter/ ]. For a while FooFighters with the help of Boris would provide skins for the major classes of fleetboats and skins with custom request kill flags (meat balls & rising suns) and battle flag mascots to apply to conning towers.

Here is a snapshot of what was available at one time:
I think you can still access the website on archive.org

I have a collection of some of the skins if they aren't here at Subsim.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...p?do=cat&id=76

The Narwhal skin was made for Ducimus' Trigger Maru Narwhal.

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Thank you aanker.. I will try that site and see if I can grab and re-host...
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Old 12-19-17, 09:22 PM   #42
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See how many are duplicated off the killflags copy at http://battleflags.us on the "Download a Boat" link.
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See how many are duplicated off the killflags copy at http://battleflags.us on the "Download a Boat" link.
Ok. i have downloaded all of them.

Some of these i already have, i'll sort them out and add to the collection.

Now do i use the Battle Flags.US as owners or FooBors ? what do you guys think ?
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Old 12-20-17, 08:49 AM   #44
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Man, that'd be tough... There was a Kill Flags team, and I remember reading through their thread quite a while back, and they did make a lot of skins, but I don't remember who was doing what. I'll try to read through that again later today for you s7rikeback... What did I just volunteer for?...
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Yes, the Kill Flags team would customize a players tower to reflect types of ships sunk; with meatballs & rising sun flags. They may have included aviators rescued and Special missions conducted like recons etc. too. At one time they had quite an operation going.

I suppose you could do the same if you wanted that kind of display on your tower using a graphics program to add the 'kill flags'. TGA is easier to work with than DDS unless things have changed.... they usually do - lol. Paint.net is a good program and is listed in one of the stickey's (it has a different url) and can work with DDS files.

These kill flags and mascots (like the WAHOO headdress) added to the tower are not historically accurate but this is a game and if you want them displayed, go for it. The main objective is to have fun, right?

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