View Full Version : What will first mod be?
bert8for3
03-09-07, 06:59 AM
Looking at the screenshots which all show small dials, I'll say a dials-mod.
Drebbel
03-09-07, 07:02 AM
I sure hope the first mod will change this awfully looking icon and change it into a more realistic map marker or note.
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/9531/547547544577xu2vc7.jpg
THE_MASK
03-09-07, 07:02 AM
The dials expand when you put the curser on them dont they . :hmm:
Mush Martin
03-09-07, 07:10 AM
I think its a safe bet that my very first mod for SH4 will be a Modders Fast Loading mod.
Skins for merchant ships.
Barkhorn1x
03-09-07, 07:38 AM
The dials expand when you put the curser on them dont they . :hmm:
Yes they do - no need for that mod.
Barkhorn1x
03-09-07, 07:38 AM
I sure hope the first mod will change this awfully looking icon and change it into a more realistic map marker or note.
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/9531/547547544577xu2vc7.jpg
Agreed. It looks like the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The General
03-09-07, 07:42 AM
To be honest the game is looking fantastic :up: and I'm struggling to think of a MOD, but I'll give'er a go. I think the first MOD should be the abillity do drive each engine independently (if not already a feature) and that includes being able to run the electrics on the surface. That or sort the flags out, get 'em blowing in the same direction as the wind etc.
flintlock
03-09-07, 07:51 AM
I have a feeling the first mod out of the gate will be a pink sub skin. :)
Buggins
03-09-07, 08:01 AM
I have a feeling the first mod out of the gate will be a pink sub skin. :)
What the...!
That is exact thing I was planning on requesting! :rock:
bert8for3
03-09-07, 08:04 AM
I sure hope the first mod will change this awfully looking icon and change it into a more realistic map marker or note.
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/9531/547547544577xu2vc7.jpg
Agreed. It looks like the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
With expanding dials (excellent), I'll go with this too. It just detracts from a great-looking map/chart.
Looking at the screenshots which all show small dials, I'll say a dials-mod.
Probably not the first mod, if it's at all possible, but I wonder if the SH3 models can be brought into SHIV so it's possible to have one game engine with the ability to play the Atlantic or the Pacific.
r.
Drebbel
03-09-07, 08:37 AM
The dials expand when you put the curser on them dont they . :hmm:
As stated by others they DO expand. This is what UBI wrote on the official site:
The resizing of items (for the dials in the HUD) is used to provide more information to the player when is needed. When changing the submarine’s course, the dial increases in size to clearly see the bearings written on it. This is even more useful when playing in HD resolutions:
http://silenthunter4.uk.ubi.com/images/image010.jpg
Buggins
03-09-07, 08:52 AM
I'd actually quite like a mod to rename my crew. I'm sure that will be fairly easy. Probably.
Drebbel
03-09-07, 09:03 AM
............ I wonder if the SH3 models can be brought into SHIV so it's possible to have one game engine with the ability to play the Atlantic or the Pacific.
r.
I read that skins/textures can be edited and saved but that extra units can not be added.
Source:
- http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=106044
- http://silenthunter4.uk.ubi.com/faq.php
TDK1044
03-09-07, 10:02 AM
The depth dial looks like it will be difficult to read even when it's expanded because it has a dark colored arm against a dark colored background. This is one reason that I hoped that SH 4 would allow us to use the number pad in order to enter a depth.
http://silenthunter4.uk.ubi.com/images/image010.jpg
The General
03-09-07, 10:44 AM
:rock: Ooh, ooh, me, me, I got it! The first MOD will be getting the forward dive planes to raise and lower as they should. In all the footage I've seen of the game the Gato class' forward dive planes are in the down position when surfaced. In reality didn't they retract when the boat was travelling along the surface? Like this:
http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/3653/0821235la7.th.jpg (http://img107.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0821235la7.jpg)
total conversion to atlantic to have SH3.5 :)
ReallyDedPoet
03-09-07, 02:35 PM
Some sound mods. The sound on the video posted here on the subsim main-page sounds similar to SH3.
sh3rules
03-09-07, 02:57 PM
............ I wonder if the SH3 models can be brought into SHIV so it's possible to have one game engine with the ability to play the Atlantic or the Pacific.
r.
I read that skins/textures can be edited and saved but that extra units can not be added.
Source:
- http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=106044
- http://silenthunter4.uk.ubi.com/faq.php
No extra units???!!! Oh, ****!!!
Ducimus
03-09-07, 02:58 PM
I am almost 100% positive the first mod will be
1.) Graphics in nature. Ppl love their eye candy.
or
2.) some removal of any renown system that may exist.
OneTinSoldier
03-09-07, 05:28 PM
Hi all, Well I am waiting to order the game, from Subsim's link, until I find out if it's supports Anti-Aliasing. With that said... The icons in the lower right(officer icons in shiii) look a little sterile for my taste. And although I don't know how well it will work out since they look pretty small too, I will attempt to do a 'Run Silent, Run Deep' Officer Icon set for SHIV. You know, like the 'Das Boot' Officer Icons that were done by Ailantd for SHIII. Cheers
THE_MASK
03-09-07, 06:53 PM
Anyone pick up on this yet . QUOTE "and we found a solution… the city and forest where spread automatically all over the landmass and the city tiles had a controllers of urbanism level on them that allowed to show/hide some buildings according with a RAW data file for urbanism and a controller in the editor." Is this good or bad for modding .
Mylander
03-10-07, 12:51 AM
Is it just me, or do the flags the surface ships are flying look huge? My vote is for smaller flags. Get closer or get better at recognizing ship types. The outsized flags look really silly to me in an otherwise gorgeous sim.
Andrew
OneTinSoldier
03-10-07, 01:53 AM
Is it just me, or do the flags the surface ships are flying look huge? My vote is for smaller flags. Get closer or get better at recognizing ship types. The outsized flags look really silly to me in an otherwise gorgeous sim.
Andrew
Well I for one would agree, from what I have seen so far I think they look awfully damn big too! With that said, it's really Off Topic for this thread and deserving of it's own topic/thread. You should go ahead and create a new topic concerning the flag size. If I don't see one from you soon then perhaps I will make it.
Regards
Von Hinten
03-10-07, 03:59 AM
The depth dial looks like it will be difficult to read even when it's expanded because it has a dark colored arm against a dark colored background. This is one reason that I hoped that SH 4 would allow us to use the number pad in order to enter a depth.
That was exactly my hopes too. I can imagine a captain asking the boat to be brought to a certain depth, instead of pointing to the numbers on the dials on his ship and saying 'take her there'.
Anti-Hummingbird mod keeping the boat from ´"hovering" in that unrealistic way SHIII did before modded.
;)
Per
nvdrifter
03-10-07, 08:22 AM
If SH4 turns out to be a decent game, I guarantee that I will release a Depth Charge Shake mod for SH4 like I did for SH3. Hopefully the file structures of the two games will be the same. Anyone here try my SH3 version of this mod? It will shake you up. :doh:
Jimbuna
03-10-07, 10:53 AM
If SH4 turns out to be a decent game, I guarantee that I will release a Depth Charge Shake mod for SH4 like I did for SH3. Hopefully the file structures of the two games will be the same. Anyone here try my SH3 version of this mod? It will shake you up. :doh:
I did and I'm still using it :up:
Ducimus
03-10-07, 02:22 PM
not 2 mins into a SH4 video on youtube and i already know what ill be looking to change.
The dive bell. Wasn't it more of a klaxon, and less of an acutal bell?
Sulikate
03-10-07, 03:09 PM
Some sound mods. The sound on the video posted here on the subsim main-page sounds similar to SH3.
That's true. SHIII's default sounds are, quite... annoying.
How about a mod with an RN t-boat in the Mediterranean as a playable?
Tigrone
03-10-07, 05:03 PM
It would be lovely to see an RN type, but the cost in time and developement would be like creating another version of Silent Hunter. It's not just the boat model, it's the entire crew and interface model that would need doing to make it realistic. Keeping to a few US types means crew and interiors can be largely cloned. Rmember, they had to delete about a third of the interior model from SH3 to get SH4 out the door.
I'd still hope that I might be wrong and that a RN boat would appear, as a major upgrade add-on, but we cannot expect it.
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