[REL] Charts Addon

[sublynx]

Additional pulldown / slide charts. Installation through JSGME if using GWX+Magui F or NYGM+MaGui F, otherwise manually editing menu_1024_768.ini.



Features:
Less clicking through the ship recognition manual

- ship identification can now be made using 12 pulldown charts. Some of the ships in Merchant Fleet Mod are also modded in

Easier or faster navigation map usage

- a table with values of sin and cosine for course and range calculations
- a maneuvering board for quick bearing, course, speed and range estimations



- clock figures that one can use in marking for example bearing times

Added visual weather assessment aids

- Beaufort Wind Scale and Douglas Sea Scale slideouts added to Bridge for assessing sea states. One can now edit the weather report out from the game or not use it at all, and see if one can make accurate enough weather reports by one's own visual assessment

Usage of Hitman Beta GUI style optics in non-Hitman GUI's

-Hitman's Gegnerfahrt table for quick speed assessment when using the fixed wire system and E-messtafel for quick range assessment as slideouts in UZO and periscopes



- a chart with a series of pictures at a ship at different AOB;s for quick aob assessment

Faster torpedo settings

- a chart giving the required bearings for straight shots (perpendicular shots with the torpedo settings set as 0 gyroangle, enemy speed 0, enemy aob 0)
- a chart giving the required depth for safe torpedo launches in different sea conditions (helps those people who play with a system that has H.sie;s and Stiebler;s torpedo failures modded in)

Faster fuel load assessment

- a new fuel gauge with numbers added to scale, so that it is easier to approximate how much fuel one has use

Ship speed assessment with the hydrophone

- three charts that help assessing the speed of a ship by counting the RPM’s one can hear in the hydrophone. The charts are based on NYGM 3.6A and IABLShipsforNYGM_New, but the chart should work at least partly in other supermods and vanilla SH3 as well

Download from: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=3675


EDIT:
The 8th of September, 2012: added a chart for helping in estimating when to shoot torpedoes to achieve simultaneous hits at different targets. More info here: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...=198016&page=2

The 22nd of January, 2013: a new version uploaded that corrects the folder structure that made it impossible for JSGME to work. Thanks to ninja turtle, brett25 and Anvar1061 for pointing the problem and finding the solution

The 23rd of January, 2013: a new version uploaded that corrects a typo from menu_1072_768.ini sometimes causing a crash when using Hitman's Gegnerfahrttable chart. Big thanks to Robin40

The 26th of March, 2013: a new version uploaded that corrects the AOB picture getting in the way of the dials in an annoying way. Thanks to Olsin for pointing the problem out



The 4th of August, 2013: I finally had some time to install NYGM. The mod installs ok, at least if the configuration is like the one pictured above.

The 8th of August, 2013: An updated version 1.3 with three new RPM/speed charts

The 30th of September, 2013: Version 1.4. released with charts for NYGM+IABLnew+TMT, maneuvering board instructions, attack disk instructions, Tycho's 4-grid scheme, etc

[DrJones]

HEy sublynx,

that's great...a realy good work...thanks a lot.

Best Regards

DrJones

[brett25]

I frickin love these kinda of mods....simple and so relevant.... really great stuff, mate, well done

[Sepp von Ch.]

Oh wow, looks really great! Lovely addition for my GWX installation! Many thanks!!!

[HW3]

Wow this is one nice mod, very well thought out and put together! Thank you for your hard work putting this together for us, and thanks for the templates for adding our own charts, nice touch.

[VONHARRIS]

@ sublynx
Congatulations on a job well done.

[Borgneface]

S! Very very well done!
Congratulations this will make a very nice and useful adds to the game

Merci

[sublynx]

Thank you for the nice comments

@VonHarris: It's me who should thank you since the idea came from your initiative in an earlier discussion in SH3 Mod Workshop

I edited the maneuvering-board.tga file a little bit to make it a little bit easier to see. Here's a link to the new version:

http://www.gamefront.com/files/22141...ering-board.7z

If the link does not work, the package in Subsim downloads now contains the newer tga.

I also found out while playing that the line tool in MaGui F was too big to my taste while using the maneuvering board. If you decide to change the line tool to a smaller version, edit mouse.cfg to this:

[Cursor 3]
Name=Line
XO=127;XO=282
YO=129;YO=283

The XO,YO gives the co-ordinates for the cursor. Play around with the values if your line tool pic does not fit the example I gave.

[sublynx]

bstanko6 pointed out a mistake in the positioning of aobpics.tga. As it is the picture covers a part of the attack periscope up and down dials.

Solution: edit the part controlling aobpics.tga in menu_1024_768.ini to look like this:

[G26 I6]
Name=aobslide
Type=1026
ItemID=0x2620F005
ParentID=0x26000000
Pos=50,768,100,800
VertSlide=768

The only changed part should be the Pos line.

[sublynx]

First post edited. Version 1.4. can now be downloaded from here:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=3675

The download version in Subsim has no relevant differences to the Beta version that could be downloaded from the link a few posts earlier

[sublynx]

A new version uploaded. The new one corrects the AOB picture getting in the way of the dials. A big thanks to Olsin for pointing the mistake out

[ninja turtle]

Originally Posted by sublynx

A new version uploaded. The new one corrects the AOB picture getting in the way of the dials. A big thanks to Olsin for pointing the mistake out

Hi sublynx

I'll try and use this new version once I'm back in Kiel (I'm presently sinking merchants on the coast of Canada)

I've been following the changes pointed out by Olsin. Looking good

Good hunting

[sublynx]

Olsin's ideas are not yet implemented but I'll try to get to that eventually...

[ninja turtle]

Originally Posted by sublynx

Olsin's ideas are not yet implemented but I'll try to get to that eventually...

Cool. I'll keep a look out for the latest version

[sublynx]

I had to reinstall SH3 and while doing that I decided to install NYGM. I'm happy to say that Charts addon can be installed through JSGME, at least if the configuration is like the one on the screenshot below: