[REL]Search Pattern Mod For Sh4

[CaptainCox]

http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/6880/subsiguscopyna9.png

SEARCH PATTERN MOD
Made by
CAPTAIN COX
Based on an Idea and Inspired
by
MUSH MARTIN

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/CaptainCox/post_navy_ww2_where-it-hurts.jpg


Unlocks 2 more "Search Patterns" and adds 3 new ICONS in the
Orders Bar


http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/CaptainCox/SEARCHPATTERNS.jpg

Additional features
"Distance to Course End Button"
"Weather Report (not sure, but might have missed it in the 1st release)
"Green Button Fuel, Battery etc" Credits to Jimimadrid and DarkShip

http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/3092/icon2bg2.jpg


http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/4125/icon1kj0.jpg


I added these as they are all using the same texture!
"WEATHER REPORT"
"ALL STATIONS CRASH DIVE"
"ALL STATIONS BATTLE STATIONS"
to the Orders Bar
Also included
Green Button MOD by JIMIMADRID!

CREDITS TO:
MUSH MARTIN
JIMIMADRID

Install:
Simply use with JSGME
If you don't have it get it here:
http://www.users.on.net/~jscones/software/products.html (http://www.users.on.net/~jscones/software/products.html)


DISCLAIMER:
This mod can be included or used with other mods or mod packs
under the condition that CAPTAIN COX is mentioned as the creator
in the readme as well as in any release forum post related to the mod or mod pack
that includes it.
Enjoy!


Update 1.3.1FIX
Some small fixes:
Some ICONS that appeared 2 times is Fixed
The Weather Report Help Text is Fixed
Corrected the Gramophone ICON

Or Download the "STAND ALONE SEARCH PATTERN MOD" here:
http://files.filefront.com/SEARCH+PATTERN+MOD+v131+FXrar/;8083005;;/fileinfo.html (http://files.filefront.com/SEARCH+PATTERN+MOD+v131rar/;8079514;;/fileinfo.html)

ALTERNATIVE DOWNLOAD LINK:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4ybdfzumyiy (http://www.mediafire.com/?ejzjzztz3nz)

[Mush Martin]

Congratulations CC well done.:up::up::up:


Evasives next ? or in this one ?

[CaptainCox]

Evasive next sir....with some help of my friends ;)

Sneak peak:p
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6379/evasive1ad0.jpg

[mercury_marauder]

What if someone also has the mod that adds the green lights to the O2 Battery Fuel indicators?

BTW on your other Mod list page I added the fix for the problem I was having for the Battle stations and silent running on all stations. The problem was on Station #9

[CaptainCox]

Well thats a problem...I might add that if who ever did that (Jimimadrid?) aproves.

[mercury_marauder]

the bright boarders of Jimimadrid and a few others.

[CaptainCox]

Ah ok, i will PM then in the morn. Off to bed here.

[mercury_marauder]

BTW thanks for all the mods you make for everyone.

[Uber Gruber]

Nice one Capn Cox....really looking forward to the evasive maneuvers button:up:

[Mush Martin]

It will likely have some of the limitations of the current version for sh3
but if you master its quirks its totally useful in surface combats.

M:up:

[Bear]

Captain, There is a merged mod of the green lamp and green ISI stations. Will you search pattern mod over ride the status stations mod? OR can it/they be incorperated into your mod? Redwine did the merge, but makes no claim to the mods.

You do great work Captain, please hang in there. Oh, yea is there one of your uniform/rank mods that has it all? Right now I am only using the hats mod. I love them. The stock hats really were terrible.

[CaptainCox]

Uploading a revised version of this mod in a min. Its incorporated +some new features. I also just updated the "PULL DOWN PACIFIC MAP MOD" it also has all the new changes. So this will be more of a standalone if you dont want the whole package using the "PULL DOWN MAP MOD".

[CaptainCox]

Updated the "SEARCH PATERN MOD" with some new features as per request

As you can see in these pics

Additional features
"Distance to Course End Button"
"Weather Report (not sure, but might have missed it in the 1st release)
"Green Button Fuel, Battery etc" Credits to Jimimadrid and DarkShip

http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/3092/icon2bg2.jpg


http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/4125/icon1kj0.jpg

I also incorporated this mod in to my "PULL DOWN PACIFIC MAP MOD" found here
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=112750

Or Download the "STAND ALONE SEARCH PATTERN MOD" here:
http://files.filefront.com/SEARCH+PATTERN+MOD+v11rar/;8070353;;/fileinfo.html (http://files.filefront.com/SEARCH+PATTERN+MOD+v11rar/;8070353;;/fileinfo.html)

ALTERNATIVE DOWNLOAD LINK:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4q2mxc34mt0 (http://www.mediafire.com/?4q2mxc34mt0)

1st Post Updated!

[mercury_marauder]

And always come through with great stuff. Thanks for everything you did and do and for handling my little request as well.

[Salty Longshanks]

Looks fantastic Capt. I'm looking forward to trying this out. Thanks for this, and all your other efforts. They are much appreciated, and add a lot to the immersion/enjoyment of the game. Cheers Capt! :up:

[buzzinbill]

I enjoy your work , and I thank you for the passion you show for this sim... You and the other guys (you know who you are) make SH4 worth playing and make the game worth buying ...... Three cheers for the Captain ..... I say !!! :rock:

[Uber Gruber]

Bring on the Captain Cox mod pack compatible with RFB:up::up::up:

[Fearless]

Updated the "SEARCH PATERN MOD" with some new features as per request

As you can see in these pics

Additional features
"Distance to Course End Button"
"Weather Report (not sure, but might have missed it in the 1st release)
"Green Button Fuel, Battery etc" Credits to Jimimadrid and DarkShip

http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/3092/icon2bg2.jpg


http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/4125/icon1kj0.jpg

I also incorporated this mod in to my "PULL DOWN PACIFIC MAP MOD" found here
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=112750

Or Download the "STAND ALONE SEARCH PATTERN MOD" here:
http://files.filefront.com/SEARCH+PATTERN+MOD+v11rar/;8070353;;/fileinfo.html (http://files.filefront.com/SEARCH+PATTERN+MOD+v11rar/;8070353;;/fileinfo.html)

ALTERNATIVE DOWNLOAD LINK:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4q2mxc34mt0 (http://www.mediafire.com/?4q2mxc34mt0)

1st Post Updated!

Awesome CC :up: I just need to look at it though because mine is showing 2 "Crash Dive" Icons and the Weather Icon Text is referring to Search Pattern :hmm:

[buzzinbill]

I was just about to report to the Capt. the same thing .... Battle Stations x2 , but I never did see the weather report button show up ..... Still a killer mod ,though. But I'n sure your fingers are danceing across the keyboard (like a rat on decon) to fix it.... thanks again .... :rock:

[DiveMonkey]

Hey Captain, whats the patrol radius of your patterns? Can they be reduced?

Reason I ask is sometimes on patrol the vanilla SH4 pattern takes me outside the 100 nm patrol zone...I think until I return to within that 100 nm pattern the clock on my patrol stops.

Making what should have been a 48hr patrol into 60, 72 hr patrol...

Great work by the way :up: thank you!

[CaptainCox]

I basically used what was already in the game but not used. To tweak that might need some serious tinkering as its all "Coordinates" and stuff. Have not really looked in to it yet.

[CaptainCox]

I was just about to report to the Capt. the same thing .... Battle Stations x2 , but I never did see the weather report button show up ..... Still a killer mod ,though. But I'n sure your fingers are danceing across the keyboard (like a rat on decon) to fix it.... thanks again .... :rock:Weather report is in station 4 and you have to be on the surface for it to work.

I will look in to the text stuff and upload a fix later today.

[Mush Martin]

Hey Captain, whats the patrol radius of your patterns? Can they be reduced?

Reason I ask is sometimes on patrol the vanilla SH4 pattern takes me outside the 100 nm patrol zone...I think until I return to within that 100 nm pattern the clock on my patrol stops.

Making what should have been a 48hr patrol into 60, 72 hr patrol...

Great work by the way :up: thank you!



Once you have the buttons working you can make custom search
patterns using Mission editor. the "Pattern"mis files are under

Data/Menu/gui/Patterns I think check with CC though as I dont
have sh4 installed at the moment.
M

@CC Wow Nice expansion.
M

[Digital_Trucker]

They are in data\menu\patterns.
Thanks much for that info, Mush. I see a whole world of search and evasive action paths opening up :sunny: Now I also see a good use for that 11th station on the HUD that I added. Maybe there's room for a 12th station, too! Buttons, buttons and more buttons!

Oops, spoke too soon. When I try to open the pattern files up with the mission editor, it crashes. Is there some kind of trick to editing the pattern files, or is it something that must be done manually?

Re-edit:Because the boats in the patterns were German, I got the idea to reinstall SH3 and use its mission editor. It was worth the effort since it will open the pattern missions. Now to create one and see if it can be used in game.

Re-re-edit:No joy adding a search pattern (even if you change the .cfg file for the patterns), but you can edit the patterns with the SH3 mission editor to change them to your liking.

[Mush Martin]

I forgot to tell everyone about that sorry my bad.

the original single search pattern in sh4 is the original 1st pattern
in sh3 its a leftover

if you try then to open any of the sh4 patterns with the sh4 editor
it will crash as the sub doesnt appear in sh4

so the solution is either make one from scratch using the sh4 mission editor

or

use the sh3 mission editor which is what I did during proof of concept.

regards
MM

[CaptainCox]

Update 1.3.1
Some small fixes:
Some ICONS that appeared 2 times is Fixed
The Weather Report Help Text is Fixed

DOWNLOAD LINK 1.3.1:
http://files.filefront.com/SEARCH+PATTERN+MOD+v131rar/;8079514;;/fileinfo.html

ALTERNATIVE DOWNLOAD LINK:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ejzjzztz3nz

1st Post updated!

[LukeFF]

CaptainCox, which lines in menu.txt did you modify/add for this mod? I already have a highly modified menu.txt file, so I'd like to add in your modifications without undoing the other work I've done to the file.

[Fearless]

Update 1.3.1
Some small fixes:
Some ICONS that appeared 2 times is Fixed
The Weather Report Help Text is Fixed

DOWNLOAD LINK 1.3.1:
http://files.filefront.com/SEARCH+PATTERN+MOD+v131rar/;8079514;;/fileinfo.html

ALTERNATIVE DOWNLOAD LINK:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ejzjzztz3nz

1st Post updated!

Cool, but somehow the Gramophone Icon is no longer on the Hud either.

[CaptainCox]

Ahhhh DUBBLE CRAP! :p
I did this to fast yesterday. I used the same texture as for the "Pull Down Pacific Map"...:nope:

Coming up in a few...

[CaptainCox]

Fixed! 1st post updated

Update 1.3.1FIX
Some small fixes:
Some ICONS that appeared 2 times is Fixed
The Weather Report Help Text is Fixed
Corrected the Gramophone ICON

DOWNLOAD LINK: (http://files.filefront.com/SEARCH+PATTERN+MOD+v131+FXrar/;8083005;;/fileinfo.html)
http://files.filefront.com/SEARCH+PATTERN+MOD+v131+FXrar/;8083005;;/fileinfo.html

ALTERNATIVE DOWNLOAD LINK:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4ybdfzumyiy

[mercury_marauder]

Nothing like doting all the i's and crossing all the T's but great work as always.

[andy2007]

Hi Cap cox, great mod !!! really missed these search patterns from SH3 . Only bug i found was the new icons tooltips dont work for met. Apart from that nice work :D especially like the weather button !!!

: edit : fixed it , would help if i replaced the menu txt file :D

[gg5056]

I activated Search Mod in Mod Enabler. does not work.
What will it conflict with.

thanks

[CaptainCox]

Did you get a conflict warning when you activated?

And have you checked that the next folder down in the mod in your "JSGME MOD Folder" is called "Data"?

If there is another folder in the next folder down with the same name as the mod, then it will not work (this can sometimes happen when you unrar)

[gg5056]

No Conflict message! I have SI mods from Oakgrove would one of these conflict.
also have Tele 8* marks in preiscope.

[CaptainCox]

Actually yes...as its using the "Hud.dds"...I wonder why JSGME did not give you a warning there.
But I talked to OakGroove some week ago and he said he would not mind me "merging" some stuff of hes with mine.
I sent him a "test" mod, but he never came back to me on that one. I guess he is busy holidaying or RL job or what have you.

[jaketoox]

Hi CC.

Is there some way to fix this....if i knew how to do it, i can do it myself, only need some advice...

http://www2.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/7aa5b9bc65bba940b71d27931889c5b85g.jpg (http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=7dktaml1v0d&thumb=4)

This happens only in "periscope" and "Nav Map" tabs,the last button is overlapped by the box containing fuel etc. buttons, and 1152x864 is best what my old CRT can do...don't know if it happens on bigger resolutions....I was wondering if it can be fixed by changing button spacing,maybe 1-2 pixels less/button ,and took a look on menu.ini....and i can honestly say that it is like jungle to me....sooo... i thought if someone knows more about it.......:know:

It's not big deal and i'm not in hurry with this, but sometimes it is like a stick on my eye..:damn:

jake

[CaptainCox]

That is certainly a rare case :p Ok I tell you what. I think the best solution here would be to drop one of the icons in the OrdersBar.

To make them smaller and what have you would require some serious tinkering in the .ini

If you decide to drop one of them this is how you do it.

Unload the mod using JSGME before you do this!

1. Go to the JSGME MOD folder in your main SH4 Dir and open the Mod. Navigate to
Data\Menu\cfg Open the OrdersBar.cfg with Notepad

2. Locate
[Station2]
Name=5611
Tooltip=5611
CommandWhenActivated=Navigation_2D_map
IconIndex=2 This is where your problem is I believe

3. Lets say you want to drop Silent running (maybe most likely candidate)

Button12Type=Checkbox
Button12CommandWhenClicked=Toggle_silent_running
Button12CommandToCheckIfIsChecked=Is_Silent_mode_A ctive
Button12CommandToCheckIfIsEnabled=Is_Underwater
Button12IconRowColumn=1,9
Button12Tooltip=5610

3.1 There are two ways to do it
Delete the whole code group or put ; in front of each code line, like this
;Button12Type=Checkbox
;Button12CommandWhenClicked=Toggle_silent_running
;Button12CommandToCheckIfIsChecked=Is_Silent_mode_ Active
etc etc...


4. Then you have to renumber
Button13Command=Crash_dive
Button13IconRowColumn=1,2
Button13Tooltip=5602
with 12, like this
Button12Command=Crash_dive
Button12IconRowColumn=1,2
Button12Tooltip=5602


I know its probably not what you want :(...
But to recode the .ini to make those icons in the OrdersBar smaller would need a lot of tinkering, believe me.

[jaketoox]

....that .ini file is really a jungle of numbers,and i was guessing that you would say just what you said about that...

....anyway your solution for this sounds to be best what i can get,and i can go with that...there really is no need for SR button,it can be done with keyboard...

Big Thanks!! for advice...next thing i do is to open that .cfg and give it some surgery..:hmm:



jake

[CaptainCox]

If you want to get in to the .ini and I mean really get in to it, read this thread, its brilliant and some what complex to start with, but if you try and read and try again, you will get it in the end.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=111832
zAmboni is an amazing guy with this stuff, picked the .ini to pieces!

[jaketoox]

hmmm...looks like "have to" reading for me...at least when i have more time for it...but your advice worked (like your mods which i'm using)....except that i got rid of "crash dive" buttons of those two stations,and did it because of 4 reasons:

1) easiest way

2) you are already doomed, if you are happily plotting course when Akizuki is steaming towards you @34kts on 400ft >>>> :damn:

3) you are already doomed,when after plotting course you go to periscope view,and you spot Fubuki, steaming towards you @34kts on 400ft >>>> :damn:

4) i always hit Ckey when it's time to run@notsosilently...:rotfl:

Cheers!!!


jake