[REL] Royal Netherlands Navy mod v0.1

L3TUC3 · 04-10-07, 05:00 AM

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Royal Netherlands Navy mod v0.2

I was put off a little by the lack of Dutch naval presence in the game and decided to kitbag some models to at least give them some cruisers and destroyers; an armed trawler will simply not do for our brave sailors. Right now they're one on one copies of American ships with a Dutch flag waving from it. I hope to eventually recreate the vessels and support planes properly and add them to the world map until their demise in march '42.

Code:

Changelog:

v0.2 April 13 2007

-Added Battle of the Java Sea Quick Mission

    Background by Vincent P. O'Hara
    
    You start submerged between the IJN Java convoy and the IJN escort group intercepting Doorman's ABDAFLOAT group. You can either go and sink the convoy to the north or go watch the spectacle of the battle in progress to the south. Your choice. The battle ends relatively fast but you have a good 14 hours to sink any remaining IJN ships. They dissappear after that. Dock at Surabaya to end the mission.

-Fixed a problem with some the Admiralen class ships decommision dates being on the battle day and therefor unable to initialize
-Changed Djakarta to Batavia in Campaign_LOC.mis
-Changed the initializaton dates of Jap coastal batteries in Jap_CoastalBattery.mis around Java to a later date in March/April to better represent the invasion (they spawned a good two weeks too soon).

v0.1

-Added Java class light cruisers (1 on 1 Cleveland class clone)-Added Hr. Ms. de Ruyter (she's not truly a Java class though she is derived from it, just put her in here for now)
-Added Hr. Ms. Java
-Added Hr. Ms. Sumatra
-Added Admiralen class destroyer escorts (1 on 1 Fletcher class clone)-Added Hr. Ms. Evertsen
-Added Hr. Ms. Witte de With
-Added Hr. Ms. Kortenaer
-Added Hr. Ms. Van Ghent
-Added Hr. Ms. Piet Hein
-Added Hr. Ms. Van Nes
To do:

-Model Java Class Cruisers
-Model Admiralen Class Destroyers
-Add K and O series submarines
-Rename Djakarta to Batavia (Batavia was changed to Djakarta after the japanese invasion)
-Add patrol duty waypoints for the ships
-Add ABDACOM strike force
-Add Dutch East Indies radio station
-Model C11 Fokker W floatplanes
-Add PBY Catalina Searchplanes ( I have a hunch UBI will add these)
-Add Tromp class light cruisers/flotilla leaders (thanks AntEater)
-Add Dornier Do.24 searchplanes/bombers (thanks JScones)
-Add Buffalo Brewsters fighters (thanks OddJobXL)
-Add Dutch Sailors

Install Notes:

1. Extract the data folder to your SHIV folder.
2. Open names.cfg found in data\roster with your favorite editor.
2. Add "DEAdmiralen=Admiralen Destroyer" to the list of ships (without quotations)
3. Add "CLJava=Java Light Cruiser" to the list of ships (without quotations)

I know the DOC's are off, the ships don't even look like what they're supposed to represent and the armaments are not accurate, but the top speeds and crews are accurate to the best of my knowledge. I didn't change anything to the drafts and measurements because of incompatibility fears. All you can do for the moment is view them in the museum and add them to a mission in the editor: it doesn't add anything visually.

If anyone wants to take this as a base or reference, please, feel free to use it! Just let me know and I'll try to help you out. While I do have some photoshop experience I'm no modeller and any help, suggestions or comments are appreciated!

Download v0.2: *deleted by filefront*

Jan 29th 2014:

I still receive notifications from subsim once in a while from people interested in the mod. I'm very happy that after all this time it continues to be a popular topic! Unfortunately I gave up SHV modding years ago and I no longer play it. All my work on it has been unfortunately formatted years back and FileFront deleted all my uploads some time ago. I tried salvaging some but unfortunately all I could find was an early v0.1 version I doubt anyone is interested in.

But, if there is still interest I'll upload it.

Thanks for all the support of everyone involved! It was a fun ride for a while with some good memories!