[REL] Unit damage from smoke and/or fires

01-21-19, 05:25 PM

I've unzipped your downloaded file, to find a DAT file in this path: data/Library/TDW_Ship_Plane_Fire_Damage_v1_4_SH3.dat

Is this correct. Most mods I've seen replace files by other files to work while yours just adds a file under Library. Just curious to know before I try it.

With all due respect, how does this file trigger or work to add damage by fire, enough to sink a ship, as you've described?

I hope I'm not off-base somehow by asking; just curious.

Mad Mardigan · 01-21-19, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by von Zelda

I've unzipped your downloaded file, to find a DAT file in this path: data/Library/TDW_Ship_Plane_Fire_Damage_v1_4_SH3.dat

Is this correct. Most mods I've seen replace files by other files to work while yours just adds a file under Library. Just curious to know before I try it.

With all due respect, how does this file trigger or work to add damage by fire, enough to sink a ship, as you've described?

I hope I'm not off-base somehow by asking; just curious.

IIRC, with dropping the unzipped file, into your mods folder (in the main folder for SH3) then added into SH3, through jsgme... jsgme, will then drop it where it needs to go & will replace the appropriate .dat file... Others can cross verify, if I remembered all of that correctly... but I believe I did... hope this helps.

01-22-19, 04:36 AM

M-M, you're 100% correct on the installation procedure with JSGME. Generally it will replace existing files with new files from the mod.

My question is more specific to the "TDW ship plane fire" dat file which is in the Library sub-directory of this mod. It doesn't (as far as I can tell) replace an existing file of that same name, JSGME would just add this file under data/Library/*****.

So then, how does SH3 know how and when to use this new file (or data) during the game? I'm just curious to know.

Jeff-Groves · 01-22-19, 07:33 AM

SH reads all dat files regardless of it's name.
That allows Modders to create all kinds of stuff.

Mad Mardigan · 01-26-19, 10:20 PM

Downloaded, installed & have to say.... am loooovvvviiinnngggg this mod. Major kudos to TDW...

Left port, got a couple of days out & came across a small convoy, unescorted... was like... yeee hawww.... let slip the dawggggssss of war.!!! Sank 2 of the 4 out right.. 3rd, just hung there, not sinking yet dead in the water, little small fires here & there across the length of it, small cargo ship... 4th, I popped with a torp, yet looked like it needed a bit more coaxing to give up the ghost, so I surfaced & went to deck gun. Had the crew pump a couple of shells into her, an boom, up she went in a fire ball... sweeett... turned my attention to the last ship afloat & before I could get the crew on it with the deck gun she began blazing like a viking funeral barge... so I had the deck gun crew stand down and just watched... as with the 3rd.. that one went up in a massive boom & slid beneath the waves... was soooo satisfying watching them go down like that...

01-21-19, 05:25 PM	#1
von Zelda Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	regarding your download I've unzipped your downloaded file, to find a DAT file in this path: data/Library/TDW_Ship_Plane_Fire_Damage_v1_4_SH3.dat Is this correct. Most mods I've seen replace files by other files to work while yours just adds a file under Library. Just curious to know before I try it. With all due respect, how does this file trigger or work to add damage by fire, enough to sink a ship, as you've described? I hope I'm not off-base somehow by asking; just curious.

01-22-19, 04:36 AM	#3
von Zelda Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Qustion about the DAT file, not installation procedure M-M, you're 100% correct on the installation procedure with JSGME. Generally it will replace existing files with new files from the mod. My question is more specific to the "TDW ship plane fire" dat file which is in the Library sub-directory of this mod. It doesn't (as far as I can tell) replace an existing file of that same name, JSGME would just add this file under data/Library/*****. So then, how does SH3 know how and when to use this new file (or data) during the game? I'm just curious to know.

01-26-19, 10:20 PM	#5
Mad Mardigan Admiral Join Date: Sep 2016 Location: Grand Rapids, Mi. Posts: 2,327 Downloads: 491 Uploads: 0	Re: Ship/Plane fire damage... Downloaded, installed & have to say.... am loooovvvviiinnngggg this mod. Major kudos to TDW... Left port, got a couple of days out & came across a small convoy, unescorted... was like... yeee hawww.... let slip the dawggggssss of war.!!! Sank 2 of the 4 out right.. 3rd, just hung there, not sinking yet dead in the water, little small fires here & there across the length of it, small cargo ship... 4th, I popped with a torp, yet looked like it needed a bit more coaxing to give up the ghost, so I surfaced & went to deck gun. Had the crew pump a couple of shells into her, an boom, up she went in a fire ball... sweeett... turned my attention to the last ship afloat & before I could get the crew on it with the deck gun she began blazing like a viking funeral barge... so I had the deck gun crew stand down and just watched... as with the 3rd.. that one went up in a massive boom & slid beneath the waves... was soooo satisfying watching them go down like that... __________________

01-22-19, 07:33 AM	#4
Jeff-Groves Village Idiot Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 5,394 Downloads: 131 Uploads: 0	SH reads all dat files regardless of it's name. That allows Modders to create all kinds of stuff.