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

[volodya61]

Originally Posted by bandongogogo

Quick question:
I've updated the .exe shsim and others with the latest patcher, my hyd officer seems to be deaf, i've got a merchant sound contact near 190° to port, i can hear ir, feel it, smell it, but my off keep saying, no sound contact and i'm at 13mts (below the 9mts hyd limit), when it detects the contact -after i dive to 35+mts i order follow and it says again no sound contact, i think my hyd off had being smoking pot on the engine room or is he just dumb? why can i hear the contact but my offi seems to ignore it?
Ok is not a quick question.

it's stock bug.. human player can hear everything at any distance..
read this thread - http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...184224&page=12
from the post #176 and the next couple of pages..

[TheDarkWraith]

v1.0.115.0 released. See post #1

Starting with v1.0.115.0 Added two new patches to SH5.exe: Disable UPlay browser and Show game messages. Disabling the UPlay browser will allow you to play single missions and test campaign only. Campaign progress will NOT be updated while this patch is active (copy protection of game). Show game messages is for Advanced Users and will show a dialog box every time the game adds a new entry to it's internal log.

[THE_MASK]

reinstalled the game
applied the 1.2 patch
opened the v1.0.115.0 patcher
tried to open the patches

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by sober

reinstalled the game
applied the 1.2 patch
opened the v1.0.115.0 patcher
tried to open the patches

redownload it. I had an error in the first one

[THE_MASK]

Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

redownload it. I had an error in the first one

thankyou .

[THE_MASK]

I found this file in this mod . Equipment_Upgrades_Fix_v1_4_byTheBeast .
I converted the dds to DXT5 and now the game loads without the error message .
It was 32 bit . I put the 32 bit dds as a mod and got the error message again .

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by sober

I found this file in this mod . Equipment_Upgrades_Fix_v1_4_byTheBeast .
I converted the dds to DXT5 and now the game loads without the error message .
It was 32 bit . I put the 32 bit dds as a mod and got the error message again .

That's a new one to me

Did you get a bunch of MenuIDs not founds at game start?

[TheDarkWraith]

some other interesting tidbits of info I've come across in the sh5.exe:

In the submarine cfg files the game looks for an Entry named Interior=. Never seen this entry in any of the sub's cfg files

If you start sh5 by sh5.exe -fast it will automatically skip over the ubi logo and movie at game start (makes my patches for this obsolete!)

Found remnant of SH4 code that verifies SH5 was built on top of SH4 code. The game checks to see if your current nationality is either German or American when you load a game.

Just about figured out how to use the game's FileManager class.
Learned how to allocate/deallocate memory using the game's kernel functions (needed for aircraft carriers to spawn aircraft)
Learned how to create/destroy IniFiles (related to game's FileManager class)
Learned how to read bools, ints, floats, doubles, etc. from files using the game's FileManager class
Found where units are created/added to the game and where they are deleted/removed from game (needed for aircraft carriers to spawn aircraft)
Currently learning how to add my own controllers to the game

Found where the OSA Ping thing is in the sh5 code. Now I can write a patch to disable it (this is the infamous one that causes game to stop when it fails to read packet from client)

[TheDarkWraith]

v1.0.116.0 released. See post #1

Starting with v1.0.116.0 Fixed bug in SH5.exe Disable UPlay patch that would prevent command line args from being parsed and if the language chosen for the game wasn't recognized the UPlay browser would still be shown

[divingbluefrog]

Woah! Was worth waiting you come back
By any chance, did you stubble upon somewhere in the code in a place where it looks for an entry Head= in the crewmembers.upc file?
This parameter seems to be locked on 12 values (0-11) which define the interactive characters. I try for more than a week now to find a way to by-pass it as it will allow a complete management of the whole crew, without any success so far.

[divingbluefrog]

Originally Posted by sober

I converted the dds to DXT5 and now the game loads without the error message .

Are not the dds files supposed to be in DTX3 format?

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by bandongogogo

Quick question: i like to put text on my destroyed marks, like type and amount of torpedos used, qtty of shells, detected or not etc, but when i load the mission the text is gone, only the "default" text of the destroyed mark is depicted, no destroyed mark is missing, just the added text, is that normal? if it is then i dont mind but just asking c: i'm using New Uis 7_3_0, maybe with 7_4_2 it the text remains, can anyone prove that?
Thanks in advance.

I changed how the destroyed marks are done. Before I would read/save the destroyed marks from/to the ship's journal file. Now I read the destroyed mark data from the campaign's destroyed units file. The game saves all the data for the destroyed unit's to this file - it doesn't save any extra text to it. This is why your 'extra text' isn't saved anymore. I was pretty sure that I completely disabled the ability to add text to destroyed marks starting in v7.4.2

When I figure out how to get to my new menu additions via game code I'll re-enable the ability to add text to destroyed marks.

[TheDarkWraith]

Just decoding the reading of the .eqp file's for units and ran across a neat little tidbit of info. Under each [Equipment x] header there can be an entry called CargoType= and LoadOut=. I can't recall seeing these being used in any of the .eqp files

EDIT:

here's why the numbering of the items in the .eqp and .sns files (and any other file that has numbered headers - i.e. [Equipment x]) is so important: if the game code doesn't read the next numbered item in sequence then it says done reading the file! That means all the other entries never get read in! Ensure to check your files with my SHValidator app

[TheDarkWraith]

Still decoding the reading of all the files for the unit (the game refers to the unit class as a platform ) and came across a point where in the SH5 code the game is reading the cfg file of a sea unit (ship) and it's looking for a header entry named [AirGroup x]. Whoa....maybe I should look at the cfg files more closely! Seems that the game already has a mechanism for launching aircraft from carriers (checked the carrier's .cfg files and they do have these entries) so now I have to figure out why it's not working

These [AirGroup x] entries could be added to other ships as well...

Looks like I need to update my SHValidator app also to check these entries

[gap]

@ TDW

have you seen my comments to post #2145 here?