[REL]Lifeboats for SH3!(Update V4.0, Dec. 27, 2008)

[Venatore]

Bloody awesome modding matey :rock:the reflections as you have pointed out are flawless, this is really good stuff, congratulations :up:

I wonder if they grabbed the lantern, so at night someone would see them or they will just drift on through the night, little light at night, and your thinking to yourself what the hell is that ?

[Rubini]

Bloody awesome modding matey :rock:the reflections as you have pointed out are flawless, this is really good stuff, congratulations :up:

I wonder if they grabbed the lantern, so at night someone would see them or they will just drift on through the night, little light at night, and your thinking to yourself what the hell is that ?

You need to listem the sound - "ondulations sound...then "help", seconds latter "please"... With all together the feeling is really very reallistic.:up:

[GoldenRivet]

what would be really amazing is to fire flares into the air from random life boats :huh:

but on another not regarding the sounds... are we going to hear the sounds from 1200 meters away? or will it be more realistic as in we have to be pretty close to them?

PS. Release this bloody thing already!!!! hahaha

[Tango589]

This mod has gone from being very good to the frankly bloody jaw-dropping!! Excellent work Rubini! BdU orders you to not sleep until it's finished. ;)

[Rubini]

what would be really amazing is to fire flares into the air from random life boats :huh:

but on another not regarding the sounds... are we going to hear the sounds from 1200 meters away? or will it be more realistic as in we have to be pretty close to them?

PS. Release this bloody thing already!!!! hahaha
Of course, you will see. The mod is ready. I will release it today.

Isn't possible to have flares just because we don't have real triggers on Sh3 structure. If Sh3 had some, the modders already would made a lot of things for sure...the majority of things is just all or nothing in Sh3. The unique trigger are the waterinteraction and very few others, what isn't enough and also non applicable in all situations.:yep:

[JScones]

Of course, you will see. The mod is ready. I will release it today.
Woohoo, that means it'll be released within one hour. At least that's when the day ends here, LOL!

:rotfl:

[Schwuppes]

Rubini is God!

[Shakatan]

Of course, you will see. The mod is ready. I will release it today.

:rock: Thanks very much!

I have one question: The 'iambecomelife's wooden lifeboats from post #139 (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=841854&postcount=139) will be added too?

[Tuddley3]

I'm standing in line to download :up:

[Rubini]

I'm standing in line to download :up:

I'm at my work now...so expected it for 6 hours ahead.:up:

[Reece]

Originally Posted by Rubini
Of course, you will see. The mod is ready. I will release it today.

It's today!:yep::lol:

[LordNeuro"Serbia"]

Whean is theat foe europien time. :doh: I hope is soon. Gret work:up:

[Lapazeus]

People, you should demonstrate the same patience that you practise when you're ambushing a convoy.;)

Easy does it, fellow Kaleuns.

[McHibbins]

I'm standing in line to download :up:
I'm at my work now...so expected it for 6 hours ahead.:up:



Gentlemen ! Please start your engines ! :rock:

[Kitzbuell]

:yep:
:rotfl:
Only playing with you Mate.
:88)

There's a whole bunch of things being taken care of
in the background.

I'm sure you'll all get more info over the next few days.
;)

No problem! :up:

Im already working with Rubini on the "elegant" version of the mod.

You folks (Rubini, Privateer, Phillip T., et al I don't wish to offend any of the other imaginative and skillful MODders that contribute to this community by omitting their mention) add so very much to gameplay by your MOD's. It is a shame that the original developers failed to invest the same time and energy to detail that creates such a total environment of immersion. Look at the excitement and interest generated from one aspect of gameplay as small as (not small as can be seen by the response of the MODding community here) as the way "debris" may be realistically generated as a victim vessel slips below the surface. IMHO, you individuals are an awesome group! :up:

I can't wait to see this MOD in a GWX 2.1 version. Keep creating, pleeeeeeeeease?

[Phoenix3000]

I hope we see it here soon,

I'm travelling on business very early tomorrow morning and will not have access to SH3 for over a week! :damn:

I really want to see those lifeboats before I go - :rock:

Here's hoping :up:

Px3000

[GoldenRivet]

Drum Roll Please....

[iambecomelife]

DivingDuck, please check your PM.

[ViperU48]

All this time holding my breath has been doing wonders for my lung capacity! :arrgh!:


Great Job Rubini!!! Another awesome mod!

[GoldenRivet]

where is it? where is it? where is it?

:rotfl:

[Sailor Steve]

It is a shame that the original developers failed to invest the same time and energy to detail that creates such a total environment of immersion.
If the original developers had invested the same time and energy that the modders have, the game would still not be released today.

It's a fact that no matter how much work they put into it, there is always going to be more that could have been done. And don't forget; if not for those developers there would be no game to mod.

[HW3]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitzbuell
It is a shame that the original developers failed to invest the same time and energy to detail that creates such a total environment of immersion.

If the original developers had invested the same time and energy that the modders have, the game would still not be released today.

It's a fact that no matter how much work they put into it, there is always going to be more that could have been done. And don't forget; if not for those developers there would be no game to mod.

I think that half the fun of the sim is that we can mod it. If we couldn't mod it, how long would we have played SHIII?

[Rubini]

Uploading now!:up:

[iambecomelife]

Uploading now!:up:

Great.

I have a question for you. How do you add additional pieces of debris and people, using Silent 3ditor? I see that the Lifeboat&debris.dat file has a lot of different nodes, like the barrels and the rowboat - how do you create an entirely new one?

Thanks.

[Rubini]

Uploading now!:up:

Great.

I have a question for you. How do you add additional pieces of debris and people, using Silent 3ditor? I see that the Lifeboat&debris.dat file has a lot of different nodes, like the barrels and the rowboat - how do you create an entirely new one?

Thanks.

@For all: mod updated for the second version. See first post!:up:

@Iambe: nice to talk with you mate. I made all the files from scracth (exception the debris.dat where i only added some controllers). I didn´t used a HEX neither for one second for make this mod. All the work as made only using S3D and Wings3D. S3D don´t have cut, copy&paste yet...but it have the option to merge a entire .dat (or others sh3 files). So, is just a matter to prepar the files as you want with pieces here and there (or just adding directly any piece using the S3D add chunk option - a very powerful tool since 0.8x i guess). Always checking the ids and using the remap function. When you learn how to do this...well you can mess with any Sh3 file in minutes, testing, adding, deleting, renaming, re id, importing/exporting 3d objects, etc. It´s a Paradise for any Sh3 modder!:up:

By the way...can I ask to you for a better high resolution texture for the LB body?...the same that you made but just in high resolution (the botton part of that tga).:hmm:

Edited: i also just update the credits. :up: Thanks for all the help mate!

[GoldenRivet]

great work man!!!:rock:

[ViperU48]

Thanks Rubini! Downloaded n' loaded, great mod!



Hmmm, now is food distribution for the survivors on the update list? :p hehe

[GoldenRivet]

Thanks Rubini! Downloaded n' loaded, great mod!



Hmmm, now is food distribution for the survivors on the update list? :p hehe
raw fish eyes im told.

protien and hydration i believe is the reason

[iambecomelife]

Thanks Rubini! Downloaded n' loaded, great mod!



Hmmm, now is food distribution for the survivors on the update list? :p hehe
raw fish eyes im told.

protien and hydration i believe is the reason

Seriously, I could create water casks & ration boxes if you want. Most lifeboats and rafts had quite a few provisions on board - assuming, of course, that dockworkers hadn't stolen them in port. A handheld flare would also be a nice touch (but I don't know how to make luminescent textures).

[iambecomelife]

Wow - this is the epitome of immersion. No more robotic, crewless drone ships. :p

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d54/iambecomelife/r2.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d54/iambecomelife/r3.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d54/iambecomelife/r4.jpg

[iambecomelife]

Uploading now!:up:

Great.

I have a question for you. How do you add additional pieces of debris and people, using Silent 3ditor? I see that the Lifeboat&debris.dat file has a lot of different nodes, like the barrels and the rowboat - how do you create an entirely new one?

Thanks.

@For all: mod updated for the second version. See first post!:up:

@Iambe: nice to talk with you mate. I made all the files from scracth (exception the debris.dat where i only added some controllers). I didn´t used a HEX neither for one second for make this mod. All the work as made only using S3D and Wings3D. S3D don´t have cut, copy&paste yet...but it have the option to merge a entire .dat (or others sh3 files). So, is just a matter to prepar the files as you want with pieces here and there (or just adding directly any piece using the S3D add chunk option - a very powerful tool since 0.8x i guess). Always checking the ids and using the remap function. When you learn how to do this...well you can mess with any Sh3 file in minutes, testing, adding, deleting, renaming, re id, importing/exporting 3d objects, etc. It´s a Paradise for any Sh3 modder!:up:

By the way...can I ask to you for a better high resolution texture for the LB body?...the same that you made but just in high resolution (the botton part of that tga).:hmm:

Edited: i also just update the credits. :up: Thanks for all the help mate!

Thanks for the response - I will work on this when I get the chance. I have managed to get a boat-shaped lifeboat to show up, but whenever I try to add sailors to the obj file it won't import correctly; I get that same error message in S3d about the vertexes. In other words, only the boat by itself will import. Would you like to take a look at it? If some sailors, ration boxes, barrels, etc could be put in the lifeboat, that would be quite nice.

[Venatore]

Congratulations on your mod, this is a superb bit of modding :up: :up: :up: :up: :up:

[Schwuppes]

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/1107/final1is2.jpg

http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/1010/final2zu6.jpg

I just creamed myself...

[Letum]

thankyou

[GoldenRivet]

another cool thing is that as long as you are on patrol, they stay there... so you can sail 100 miles away, and on the return passage if you happen to pass by a location where you sank a ship they will still be there.

also, i have noticed that sometimes there wont be any survivors. and the number of survivors in rafts seems to depend on ship size

I hit an oil tanker and it exploded BIG TIME and there were no rafts.

a few days later i hit a tramp steamer and a large merchant.

tramp steamer let out one raft.. but the large merchant let out 4 or more.

finally i submit this for your consideration. what happens if over the horizon, a ship is sunk by weather or another u-boat with its guns or whatever, you have no knowlege of the event until you pass by and on the one in a million chance see rafts :hmm:

although i think you have to witness the sinking for the debris to appear.

[Jimbuna]

Congrats on a great mod http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/thumbsup.gif

[Torp III]

Thanks for a great mod, this will make sinkings even more interesting!

[Ivan Putski]

Thanks for this great mod, adds that much more immersion to the sim. Puts:rock:

[iambecomelife]

I was wondering if you guys could help me. I am still having problems with adding human figures to lifeboats. Whenever I combine the men with the boat I get this error message in S3d:

"One or more vertices is not mapped to a coordinate texture." :damn: :damn:

I have tried deleting the unsued materials in Wings3d and cleaning up the object faces, but nothing seems to work. Do you know what the problem might be?

Thanks in advance.

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d54/iambecomelife/Error.jpg

[Rubini]

I was wondering if you guys could help me. I am still having problems with adding human figures to lifeboats. Whenever I combine the men with the boat I get this error message in S3d:

"One or more vertices is not mapped to a coordinate texture." :damn: :damn:

I have tried deleting the unsued materials in Wings3d and cleaning up the object faces, but nothing seems to work. Do you know what the problem might be?

Thanks in advance.



Iambe,

I don´t know if this reply will help you...
If all objects are already UVmapped then I guess that you will not have problems. My approach was to put the survivors on a separated file just because this way I can add/delete them, adjust their position on the boat and change their textures more easily and at any time. But if you combine objects on Wings3d that are already Uvmapped i guess that you will also not have problems. If they aren´t Uvmapped then you need to make it first.:hmm:

[Rubini]

another cool thing is that as long as you are on patrol, they stay there... so you can sail 100 miles away, and on the return passage if you happen to pass by a location where you sank a ship they will still be there.

also, i have noticed that sometimes there wont be any survivors. and the number of survivors in rafts seems to depend on ship size

I hit an oil tanker and it exploded BIG TIME and there were no rafts.

a few days later i hit a tramp steamer and a large merchant.

tramp steamer let out one raft.. but the large merchant let out 4 or more.

finally i submit this for your consideration. what happens if over the horizon, a ship is sunk by weather or another u-boat with its guns or whatever, you have no knowlege of the event until you pass by and on the one in a million chance see rafts :hmm:

although i think you have to witness the sinking for the debris to appear.

Yes, normally in the Sh3 engine the small ships have less debris and big ones more. As until now the LifeBoats are attached to few debris, then normally you will also have the same variation in quantity linked to the size of the ship.:up:

I yet don´t had the oportunity to test the above scenario...but I guess that the debris will only appears when the sunk ship is at 30km radius from your uboat, this is a magical distance for Sh3 engine. So, if it helps at this radius , yes, you can encounter debris and LBs without expect them, what is good IMO!:up:

[Rubini]

Thanks Rubini! Downloaded n' loaded, great mod!



Hmmm, now is food distribution for the survivors on the update list? :p hehe
raw fish eyes im told.

protien and hydration i believe is the reason

Seriously, I could create water casks & ration boxes if you want. Most lifeboats and rafts had quite a few provisions on board - assuming, of course, that dockworkers hadn't stolen them in port. A handheld flare would also be a nice touch (but I don't know how to make luminescent textures).

The flares isn´t necessary just becuase isn´t possible to add them correctly in the game. Sh3 don´t have triggers that we can work on (or only few and rudimentar ones) so, isn´t possible to use them (flares) on LBs. But ration crates and oars could be add to the scene and will be good!:up:

[Letum]

You couldn't add the same manner of flare that merchant ships currently have? Triggerd by spotting the player.

[ReallyDedPoet]

Nice work Rubini :yep::up:


RDP

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Wow - this is the epitome of immersion. No more robotic, crewless drone ships. :p

Ditto!

Good stuff Rubini, Privateer, and all.:rock:

[nautilus42]

Thanks Rubini, great work:up: :up: :up:

[LordNeuro"Serbia"]

U r the man Rubini and all athers involvd in thise project. Fantastic job. Now realy sinking the ship will not be the same. Thx for u hard work.:up:

[Murr44]

This looks like a wonderful mod but I can't get it. Every time that I type in an access code on that damn Rapidshare site I get an error message! I'm not buying one of their premium memberships as the sellers are all listed being in Eastern European & Third world countries & I'm not looking to be a fraud or identity theft victim...

[bigboywooly]

This looks like a wonderful mod but I can't get it. Every time that I type in an access code on that damn Rapidshare site I get an error message! I'm not buying one of their premium memberships as the sellers are all listed being in Eastern European & Third world countries & I'm not looking to be a fraud or identity theft victim...

Use the mediafire link
Works fine

[Murr44]

Well it's not working for me & I'm sick of trying to get it...

[sabretwo]

Man, talk about immersion! This fantastic! Big thanks to Rubini, Privateer, and all alse who worked on this! You guys are incredible.

[rik007]

Rubini! What a fantastic mod this is!!! A had a very big laugh when I navigated to the lifeboats and heard the help cries. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
:up: :up: :up:

[Kitzbuell]

I'm quite ok with that Bruce.
:up:
Now pardon me whilst I do my Silly walk to the fridge Bruce!
:rotfl:
I must get a drink and prepare for the Village Idiot Competitions!
:yep:
I lost out last year!!
I was only 2nd place!
:nope:

"How long is it?"

"That's a rather personal question!"

[Kitzbuell]

It is a shame that the original developers failed to invest the same time and energy to detail that creates such a total environment of immersion.
If the original developers had invested the same time and energy that the modders have, the game would still not be released today.

It's a fact that no matter how much work they put into it, there is always going to be more that could have been done. And don't forget; if not for those developers there would be no game to mod.

Kind of like "Pirates of the Burning Seas", eh Steve? I have seen your point made in other posts before and can't argue (note the SH3 enthusiasts panting away impatiently here for this MOD alone). If not for the absences in the original game software, I would never have become such an ardent viewer of these SH forums and acquainted with all of the skillful and talented MODders and gamers that contribute so very much here.

So, it isn't all negative (except for the lack of sleep it causes so many of us). :rotfl:

If only I had a fraction of their abilities ... I wouldn't object to being a demi-god in comparison to Rubini's status. :oops:

[Myxale]

Tested it earlier this day...and man, what a feeling!
I was torn between cheering (Sunk a Large Merchant) and weeping as i spotted them in the Periscope!:hmm:

Great modding there Mates!!:rock:

[Maverick30]

Fantastic mod! É uma pérola que se junta ao GWX. Excelente!

[KptLt Lindemann]

Man that was spooky:o

The elation after sinking a large freighter...and then spotting the bodies floating in the water and the survivors in the liferafts crying for help. Very mixed feelings...

Brilliant modding:rock:

[iambecomelife]

Well it's not working for me & I'm sick of trying to get it...

Did you use JSGME?

If you did, click on the folder named "LifeBoats&Debris_v2_A".

You should see a folder marked "Data" and another one called "Optional". Just enable the mod in JSGME and you're set.

Even if it is installed correctly you will only see survivors about 50-60% of the time, it seems. From my limited testing, sometimes I will have about 3-4 sinkings in a row with no rafts or debris. Ships that are broken in two will never release debris, and ships that explode or sink quickly seem less likely to have survivors. Just like in real life, strangely enough.

[iambecomelife]

Rubini! What a fantastic mod this is!!! A had a very big laugh when I navigated to the lifeboats and heard the help cries. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
:up: :up: :up:

"HEEELP!" "HELP ME!" :lost:

That was a very nice touch.

[Uber Gruber]

Just sunk two small merchants after a long surface battle. This is a great mod for immersion, the scene after the ships sunk was just brilliant. I even stopped to interrogate the captain, then gave them some food, water, a compass and a bearing back to blighty.

Thanks lads from one very happy bunny :yep:

[iambecomelife]

Just sunk two small merchants after a long surface battle. This is a great mod for immersion, the scene after the ships sunk was just brilliant. I even stopped to interrogate the captain, then gave them some food, water, a compass and a bearing back to blighty.

Thanks lads from one very happy bunny :yep:

On my installation, small merchants almost always break up when they are torpedoed. The ship halves don't release any debris, when they sink, which means no survivors. Perhaps the files could be modified to change this.

[Rubini]

Just sunk two small merchants after a long surface battle. This is a great mod for immersion, the scene after the ships sunk was just brilliant. I even stopped to interrogate the captain, then gave them some food, water, a compass and a bearing back to blighty.

Thanks lads from one very happy bunny :yep:

On my installation, small merchants almost always break up when they are torpedoed. The ship halves don't release any debris, when they sink, which means no survivors. Perhaps the files could be modified to change this.

Yes, you are right. I forgotten to put a warning about this: if the ships breaks in two, then in 95% of times you will not see nothing after it sink. This is another Sh3 engine stock bug. But when we make the elegant version of the mod (the one where the LB will appears before the ship sinks0 this will be also solved automatically because they will be not more attached to the debris itself, but to the ship body itself .;)

[skwasjer]

Good job Rubini. :up:

@iambecomelife: if you send me the problematic obj-file I will have a look. I don't think it's a problem with S3D, I suspect it's a small bug in the character model(s) (invisible/tiny face(s) or something like that).

[iambecomelife]

Good job Rubini. :up:

@iambecomelife: if you send me the problematic obj-file I will have a look. I don't think it's a problem with S3D, I suspect it's a small bug in the character model(s) (invisible/tiny face(s) or something like that).

Thanks!

Here is a screenshot of the boat, still empty for the time being - basically, a naval launch swiped from the SH4 "Clemson" class and modified. Like the rest of the debris it seems to respond very well to the SH3 wave physics. I don't like the skin & will try to re-UV map it later.

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d54/iambecomelife/Smashup1.jpg

[iambecomelife]

Good job Rubini. :up:

@iambecomelife: if you send me the problematic obj-file I will have a look. I don't think it's a problem with S3D, I suspect it's a small bug in the character model(s) (invisible/tiny face(s) or something like that).

http://files.filefront.com/Lifeboat+5+4rar/;10092599;/fileinfo.html

Here it is.

[Shakatan]

Here is a screenshot of the boat, still empty for the time being - basically, a naval launch swiped from the SH4 "Clemson" class and modified. Like the rest of the debris it seems to respond very well to the SH3 wave physics. I don't like the skin & will try to re-UV map it later.

Great:up:
I've been waiting for your wooden life boat!
That mod is major motivation for sinking ships! :D
Splendid work guys!:rock:

[Wolfehunter]

If you are going to make the survivors animated will that hit the FPS rates on the game for those with low end systems? :hmm:

If so you should make an option add-on folder for those to have limited animations or none at all for the sake of saving system resources on those systems that can't handle the heat, Rubini.;)

Thanks,

WH

[Letum]

Animation should not take up a lot of recources.

[Madox58]

So far Thunder has sent me 7 or so animation sequences I need to
resize and import.
They are not huge and have minimum frames so I doubt they will
eat FPS in any major way.

Thunder has done an outstanding job putting these together!
I think it's time he post you all some of the avi's he's shown me.

Now it's time for me to get them imported.
Real Life and other important things have kept me from
getting the final steps done.

I'm sure when all is said and done you'll understand the delays.

Take it away Thunder!
Show everyone what you have done!!
:rock:

[Rubini]

So far Thunder has sent me 7 or so animation sequences I need to
resize and import.
They are not huge and have minimum frames so I doubt they will
eat FPS in any major way.

Thunder has done an outstanding job putting these together!
I think it's time he post you all some of the avi's he's shown me.

Now it's time for me to get them imported.
Real Life and other important things have kept me from
getting the final steps done.

I'm sure when all is said and done you'll understand the delays.

Take it away Thunder!
Show everyone what you have done!!
:rock:

Very good mate!
Those animations will rock!;)

[CptGrayWolf]

Woa, this is some serious eye candy! :rock:

[STEED]

DL the new version today. :)

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOWHOOOOOOOOO. :D :up:

[Thunder]

Hey guys, cheers for all the excitement:oops:
But truth be told i did only a small part , the actual working of the stuff into the game, i leave, to not necessarily older, but definatly wiser heads.
I was lucky in that i work with animation everyday, on films and the like,and the
chance to add to a game thats given alot,came up. I'm looking foreward to it too:rock:

For those who want a sneak preview of the animations
http://hosted.filefront.com/Thor7223/
BTW,The avis are xvid and don't stream:shifty:

[balto63]

Hey guys, cheers for all the excitement:oops:
But truth be told i did only a small part , the actual working of the stuff into the game, i leave, to not necessarily older, but definatly wiser heads.
I was lucky in that i work with animation everyday, on films and the like,and the
chance to add to a game thats given alot,came up. I'm looking foreward to it too:rock:

For those who want a sneak preview of the animations
http://hosted.filefront.com/Thor7223/
BTW,The avis are xvid and don't stream:shifty:
Beautiful work.
With your animation this mod :rock: :rock: :rock: :rock:

Hi to all Kaleuns

[Madox58]

If you click on the streaming icon they work for me.
:up:

[Thunder]

must be my bandwidth...

[Uber Gruber]

Very cool:up:

Now if you could just re-animate the entire sub crew :lol:

[Madox58]

The Animations for Sub crew work just a bit differently.
With abit of work they could be changed now.
Or new animations for Sub crew added.
You never know who is working with who on what now a days!
;)

[Samwolf]

Just sunk 3 cargo ships and a Southhampton class cruiser out of a convoy. Weather was atrocious but it let me get in close. What a difference seeing the debris and lifeboats in the water, as the rest of the convoy sailed on, brings to the immersion of SH3!!

Great job guys!!:up: :rock:

[Reece]

Hope you don't mind Rubini, I uploaded to Filefront for those who are having problems with Rapidshare & Mediafire::yep:
http://files.filefront.com/LifeBoatsDebris+v2+Arar/;10098984;/fileinfo.html

[Kitzbuell]

Hey guys, cheers for all the excitement:oops:
But truth be told i did only a small part , the actual working of the stuff into the game, i leave, to not necessarily older, but definatly wiser heads.
I was lucky in that i work with animation everyday, on films and the like,and the
chance to add to a game thats given alot,came up. I'm looking foreward to it too:rock:

For those who want a sneak preview of the animations
http://hosted.filefront.com/Thor7223/
BTW,The avis are xvid and don't stream:shifty:

Great addition, Thunder!!!!!!

[mkubani]

Privateer/Thunder,are you guys doing animation only for the men sitting in the lifeboats? Or are you going to make some men "swimming" in the water and maybe waving occasionally for help? :)

[Jimbuna]

If you click on the streaming icon they work for me.
:up:

Same here.....really cool work guys http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/9026/wolfthumbsuprw5.gif (http://imageshack.us)

[Uber Gruber]

The Animations for Sub crew work just a bit differently.
With abit of work they could be changed now.
Or new animations for Sub crew added.
You never know who is working with who on what now a days!
;)

I go all gooey with anticipation when Privateer winks:hmm:

[999-Jay-999]

Quite a funky Mod... Adds so much raw feeling to the game....

[CptGrayWolf]

I'm sorry, so what is new with the latest version? Are the survivors animated now?

[Letum]

I'm sorry, so what is new with the latest version? Are the survivors animated now?

Not released yet.

[JScones]

How rude of me; I d/l the latest version a few days ago without thanking those involved in making it possible. Well done Rubini et al for a mod that is now gracing both my GWX 2.1 and S-Boot installs. Much appreciated. :up: :rock:

[Murr44]

It's a very well done mod & thank you for releasing it.:up: It was kind of creepy trying it out for the first time. Fortunately SH3 is only a game, otherwise I'd feel pretty guilty about leaving those men to die out there...

[Madox58]

I'm sorry, so what is new with the latest version? Are the survivors animated now?

Not released yet.


Correct.
We have not released them yet because they must be tested to insure
no CTDs.
Animation work and importing new animations to SH3 is not a given.
If we just dumped the first animations without testing?
And people hit CTD's?
I'd never hear the end of it.
You get them when I say they are good to go.
:yep:

[Rubini]

How rude of me; I d/l the latest version a few days ago without thanking those involved in making it possible. Well done Rubini et al for a mod that is now gracing both my GWX 2.1 and S-Boot installs. Much appreciated. :up: :rock:

Thanks Jaesen and also thanks to all you guys...sorry for my absence...between some RL duties...I´m cooking some goodies...:arrgh!:

The last news?

Well, now the lifeboats really appears from few to several minutes before the ship sink (depends on ship damage...). Some minutes ago my LBoats appeared 17 min before the ship go down and all worked very well without any flaw, any premature LB release, etc. Very good!
I guess that this new more realistic way to LB appears and some others goodies will be ready in some few days ahead!!:up: :up:

[Reece]

I wait in anticipation, the mod so far is excellent, many thanks.:yep:

[Hartmann]

Great work !!

i´m waiting for the animated version :up:

i torpedoed one ship of a small convoy of two ships and the destroyer ignores the lifeboats because was too busy in a depth charge attack :roll:, i had to use the camera to see the lifeboats :nope:.

[Jimbuna]

How rude of me; I d/l the latest version a few days ago without thanking those involved in making it possible. Well done Rubini et al for a mod that is now gracing both my GWX 2.1 and S-Boot installs. Much appreciated. :up: :rock:

Thanks Jaesen and also thanks to all you guys...sorry for my absence...between some RL duties...I´m cooking some goodies...:arrgh!:

The last news?

Well, now the lifeboats really appears from few to several minutes before the ship sink (depends on ship damage...). Some minutes ago my LBoats appeared 17 min before the ship go down and all worked very well without any flaw, any premature LB release, etc. Very good!
I guess that this new more realistic way to LB appears and some others goodies will be ready in some few days ahead!!:up: :up:

Great news Rubini....looking forward to it http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/9026/wolfthumbsuprw5.gif (http://imageshack.us)

[Uber Gruber]

I wonder......would an escort steam through a group of lifeboats to press the attack ?

[Captain Nemo]

My thanks goes to those involved in the development of this great mod. Just one question though, once I have decided whether or not to use the mod with dead bodies, can I delete the optional folder before placing the mod in my MODS folder in the SH3 directory? I assume yes, but would like to make sure.

Nemo

[NAZ2222]

I love this mod!! the imersion is awsome when you see the boats out there!!
I just have one question, can we use this mod with RBsh4 effects recently update mod by asanovic7?

thankx

[Jimbuna]

I wonder......would an escort steam through a group of lifeboats to press the attack ?

Apparently it has been known to happen and has actually been depicted in a classic movie of the era

[Jimbuna]

My thanks goes to those involved in the development of this great mod. Just one question though, once I have decided whether or not to use the mod with dead bodies, can I delete the optional folder before placing the mod in my MODS folder in the SH3 directory? I assume yes, but would like to make sure.

Nemo

Yes, as long as it is before insertion.

[Captain Nemo]

My thanks goes to those involved in the development of this great mod. Just one question though, once I have decided whether or not to use the mod with dead bodies, can I delete the optional folder before placing the mod in my MODS folder in the SH3 directory? I assume yes, but would like to make sure.

Nemo

Yes, as long as it is before insertion.

Thanks Jimbuna:up: .

Nemo

[ssconvert]

Just loaded this into my current campaign and sank a few ships. This mod is awesome.

[Catfish]

Hello,
thanks for this great mod. I am currently using version 2.A and it looks real - very atmospheric, almost have pity with the survivors and the dead, and feeling ashamed for what you have done :-?
Thanks and greetings,
Catfish

[Hellraiser]

Hey, War is Hell....even for us armchair Kaleuns! :arrgh!:

[mr chris]

Yet another top quality mod released while i was away.
Great work once again Rubini

[Stev1]

What is needed now is to have the availability to send debris ect through the torpedo tube while trying to get away from being depth charge like they do in the films

[Sailor Steve]

I wonder......would an escort steam through a group of lifeboats to press the attack ?

Apparently it has been known to happen and has actually been depicted in a classic movie of the era
And the book it was taken from.

On the subject of the dead bodies: I don't mind a few, but it would be nice to also see some live ones in the water.

[Dowly]

On the subject of the dead bodies: I don't mind a few, but it would be nice to also see some live ones in the water.

Agreed. :up:

[Kpt, Otto]

I wonder......would an escort steam through a group of lifeboats to press the attack ?

Apparently it has been known to happen and has actually been depicted in a classic movie of the era
And the book it was taken from.



"The cruel Sea" . Book and film classic. I dont know if it was a true to life event though.

[Catfish]

Hello,
they did indeed. Even threw depth charges between swimming survivors when a U-boat was expected there. This was observed by allied crews and german U-boats as well. Survivors were often not helped - not by the other merchants because they had the order to press on, not by the escorts because they were supposed to hunt the U-boats, and also were afraid to be torpedoed dead in the water while picking up survivors.
In the first generation of U-boat commanders such an action would have been considered loathsome, but the de-humanizing propaganda of all sides had already done its work.
Later in the war there sometimes were some merchants following the convoy and ordered to pick up survivors, but this was more a helpless gesture in the ice-cold waters of the atlantic.
Greetings,
Catfish

[iambecomelife]

Hello,
they did indeed. Even threw depth charges between swimming survivors when a U-boat was expected there. This was observed by allied crews and german U-boats as well. Survivors were often not helped - not by the other merchants because they had the order to press on, not by the escorts because they were supposed to hunt the U-boats, and also were afraid to be torpedoed dead in the water while picking up survivors.
In the first generation of U-boat commanders such an action would have been considered loathsome, but the de-humanizing propaganda of all sides had already done its work.
Later in the war there sometimes were some merchants following the convoy and ordered to pick up survivors, but this was more a helpless gesture in the ice-cold waters of the atlantic.
Greetings,
Catfish

IMO a lot of the rescue ships did pretty good work, especially towards the end of the war. By 1944-45 there were dedicated rescue ships (like you mentioned) and better survival gear. A sailor in convoy had a fairly good chance of surviving a sinking as long as there wasn't severe weather or a dangerous cargo involved.

I read about several ships that were torpedoed while rescuing survivors, such as the Havbør and Godafoss (links below). To sink the Havbør the U-Boat commander submerged near the lifeboats of a previous victim and waited for the rescue ship to arrive. The men in the lifeboats tried to warn the rescue ship but it persisted in the rescue & was sunk:

http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/654.html

http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/3374.html

[Catfish]

Hello Iambecomelife,
thanks for the links, there is so much hearsay that it is good to see some real evidence. And while in one link the sinking was 1944, the other already happened in 1940. Hmm for what i have read most commanders would have refrained from sinking a ship executing a rescue, but certainly not all.
What i meant is that at a temperature of the atlantic, in any other than summer conditions, swimming survivors would be dead by hypothermia before they could be rescued - speaking of minutes here - even if there were rescue ships.
Greetings,
Catfish

[iambecomelife]

Hello Iambecomelife,
thanks for the links, there is so much hearsay that it is good to see some real evidence. And while in one link the sinking was 1944, the other already happened in 1940. Hmm for what i have read most commanders would have refrained from sinking a ship executing a rescue, but certainly not all.
What i meant is that at a temperature of the atlantic, in any other than summer conditions, swimming survivors would be dead by hypothermia before they could be rescued - speaking of minutes here - even if there were rescue ships.
Greetings,
Catfish

Agreed. I don't consider it to be an atrocity or anything; they were legitimate targets unless they were displaying Red Cross or other protected insignia.

[Rubini]

On the subject of the dead bodies: I don't mind a few, but it would be nice to also see some live ones in the water.

Agreed. :up:

@Dowly, SSteve,

The motive that I didn´t put they there is about that bad floating behaviour problem...they don´t looks well...but isnt a close matter obviously.:up:

[Jimbuna]

Hello Iambecomelife,
thanks for the links, there is so much hearsay that it is good to see some real evidence. And while in one link the sinking was 1944, the other already happened in 1940. Hmm for what i have read most commanders would have refrained from sinking a ship executing a rescue, but certainly not all.
What i meant is that at a temperature of the atlantic, in any other than summer conditions, swimming survivors would be dead by hypothermia before they could be rescued - speaking of minutes here - even if there were rescue ships.
Greetings,
Catfish

That is very true....and my source is my father who witnessed such terrible events.

[Madox58]

A little preview of WIP.
;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwyI6Js0Cds

[Jimbuna]

Coolio http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/thumbsup.gif

[Ivan Putski]

Very nice indeed.:up:

[Yorktown_Class]

:up:

[Myxale]

:up: It's really possible then! Kudos to you guys!:rock:

[Webchessie]

Great job. Love the "help me" . . .

[Madox58]

Here's a bit more progress.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCaC7LU_dao

[i_b_spectre]

Fantastic! Every update is more impressive than the last :rock:

[Madox58]

The animated men dat file is only 966 KB in size at the moment.
That's 4 animated men and 4 skins.
Impact on system resources seems negligable and I
run on a Notebook that is not top of the line.
:up:
Thunder is reviewing the animated characters now in game.
Should he feel he could tweak them a bit?
I'm all for it.

Although I have not built the files yet,
I'm positive I can get the guys in the boats
to turn in your direction as they wave.

Seems there is a character like that in GWX 2.X
;)

But you have to find him!!
:rotfl:

[Rubini]

The animated men dat file is only 966 KB in size at the moment.
That's 4 animated men and 4 skins.
Impact on system resources seems negligable and I
run on a Notebook that is not top of the line.
:up:
Thunder is reviewing the animated characters now in game.
Should he feel he could tweak them a bit?
I'm all for it.

Although I have not built the files yet,
I'm positive I can get the guys in the boats
to turn in your direction as they wave.

Seems there is a character like that in GWX 2.X
;)

But you have to find him!!
:rotfl:

Wonderful Privateer and Thunder.
Like I said me and PT are already working on adjusting all the ship .val files to spawn LBs a bit before ships sinks. The implementation of all this together is already guaranteed. Will be easy as cake to have also the animations on the end. So, go ahead and make your best on the animations!:up:

[Aleksandar the Great]

Excelent work!

[Jimbuna]

The animated men dat file is only 966 KB in size at the moment.
That's 4 animated men and 4 skins.
Impact on system resources seems negligable and I
run on a Notebook that is not top of the line.
:up:
Thunder is reviewing the animated characters now in game.
Should he feel he could tweak them a bit?
I'm all for it.

Although I have not built the files yet,
I'm positive I can get the guys in the boats
to turn in your direction as they wave.

Seems there is a character like that in GWX 2.X
;)

But you have to find him!!
:rotfl:

LMAO.....not a pretty site :lol:

[Madox58]

LMAO.....not a pretty site :lol:

Actually,
He's in 2.0
What your thinking of is in 2.1
And Yes.
It's not pretty!
:rotfl:
What was I thinking?
:damn:
:rotfl:

[Rubini]

The Lifeboat&debris mod will be updated in 2 days. After that Privateer and Thunder will give to us some new awesome goodies!

Stay tunned and maintain your crew in alert her Kaleum!:up:

[Samwolf]

The Lifeboat&debris mod will be updated in 2 days. After that Privateer and Thunder will give to us some new awesome goodies!

Stay tunned and maintain your crew in alert her Kaleum!:up:
:up: :rock: :up:

[Reece]

Wheeee!!:lol:

[dcb]

The Lifeboat&debris mod will be updated in 2 days. After that Privateer and Thunder will give to us some new awesome goodies!

Stay tunned and maintain your crew in alert her Kaleum!:up:

This looks like the second Golden Age in modding SH3! Things that initially were thought impossible to make are being released now. Keep them coming, guys. You're doing great:rock:

[rik007]

The Lifeboat&debris mod will be updated in 2 days. After that Privateer and Thunder will give to us some new awesome goodies!

Stay tunned and maintain your crew in alert her Kaleum!:up:

This looks like the second Golden Age in modding SH3! Things that initially were thought impossible to make are being released now. Keep them coming, guys. You're doing great:rock:

I think it is the Golden Age with GWX 2.1, OLC's, Rubini's and the updated Racerboy SH4 effects for SH3! What a great effort from these star modders.

[iambecomelife]

Still no luck getting sailors in lifeboats - I am having the same old S3d error no matter what I do. :damn:

I will try again in a few days.

[Kron161]

I've tried it and it's simply fantastic!!! apart of eye candy and realism, it gives a new dimension to sinking ships.

See those poor merchant mates adrift in a rubber boat in the middle of the ocean makes one think how terrible the atlantic war was.

Well done! and as they say in the radio messages.... Keep up the good work!

[Reece]

Any news?:D

[johan_d]

Am I the only one noticing severe stutters whit this mod?

[999-Jay-999]

No stutters here, could very well do with what graphics card and on board memory it has.


When is the update due.... eager myself to grab it ASAP... :D

[Captain Nemo]

Am I the only one noticing severe stutters whit this mod?

The only slight stutter I have noticed is when the lifeboats appear, but this is minor. Generally I think this mod is top notch stuff:up: .

Nemo

[Rubini]

Any news?:D

Sorry for the delay...probably on the beginning of the next week.:up:

[LordNeuro"Serbia"]

Realy no need too bee sorry Rubini> U aand all here gave as soo mouch too enjoy in sh3 so there is no need too bee sorry. It will be redy whean is ready and it will bee wurth the weit. Keep up the great work,:up:

[Jimbuna]

Any news?:D

Sorry for the delay...probably on the beginning of the next week.:up:


Looking forward to it mate http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/thumbsup.gif

[Hartmann]

I've tried it and it's simply fantastic!!! apart of eye candy and realism, it gives a new dimension to sinking ships.

See those poor merchant mates adrift in a rubber boat in the middle of the ocean makes one think how terrible the atlantic war was.

Well done! and as they say in the radio messages.... Keep up the good work!

Yes, it gives a new dimension to the game.

in my last patrol, i sunk a destroyer , and while i was next to the lifeboats taking screenshots , a plane come to a scene, i had to crash dive and the rockets missed the lifeboats only for a few yards :nope:.

[LGN1]

Hi,

this mod is really impressive. Thanks to all involved :up: :up:

I wonder whether you have plans to include wodden life rafts. I once read that using them was quite common because one could simply put them on the deck of the ship and when the ship sunk they just floated on the sea. Thus, they were available rather quickly (Probaly it would be the most realistic to put them in the debris because then they appear only after the ship has sunk). Unfortunately, my moddeling skills are too small to provide a nice model for a wodden raft :cry:

Cheers, LGN1

[Uncle Goose]

where can I get this mod??

[iambecomelife]

where can I get this mod??

http://rapidshare.com/files/110709060/LifeBoats_Debris_v2_A.rar.html

[Madox58]

Thunder has done a really great piece of work you all may enjoy.
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n12/privateer_2006/SCREENSHOTFINAL.jpg

Here's the full size file.
http://www.mediafire.com/?g2y3mddk0mj

[i_b_spectre]

Privateer, is that download link to something different than the one in Rubini's first post in the thread? A piece of artwork perhaps?

[Thunder]

Yip,it's a desktop wallpaper.Something i was messing with and asked Privateer to post for me.

[iambecomelife]

Very nice job. Where is the poetry from?

[Thunder]

It's from William Blake, but my first introduction to it was when it was said by "Roy Batty" in Blade Runner.
Kinda stuck with me ever since.:)

[i_b_spectre]

Exquisite work, sir, top notch :up:

[iambecomelife]

Rubini, you have a PM.

Great mod, but I'm trying to add a few things to it and Wings3d's driving me crazy!:damn:

[Fubar2Niner]

Superb screenie Thunder, thanks to both you and privateer for sharing. I already got it on my desktop. :up:

Best regards.

Fubar2Niner

[Madox58]

I guess by PM's some people don't read the whole thread.
So here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwyI6Js0Cds

And here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCaC7LU_dao

Yes, there are animated Survivors in progress!
Yes, some people are testing them.
Yes, as Thunder gets the time to finish more, there will be more added!
Yes, we can do other animations.
Yes, you will get them.
Sooner or later.
:lol:

[Philipp_Thomsen]

Yes, you will get them.
Sooner or later.
:lol:

Maybe not...
Maybe we'll keep this to ourselves... :arrgh!:

[Reece]

Yes, you will get them.
Sooner or later.
I opt for Sooner please!:lol:

[Madox58]

Yes, you will get them.
Sooner or later.
I opt for Sooner please!:lol:

:lol:
I hope for sooner myself.
Thunder has real life things to complete as we all do.
Try as I do?
I just don't have the hang of doing the base models down yet!
:damn:
This animation stuff is tricky work!!
:o
My guys legs are great!
But they have snake arms!!!
:hmm:
Freaking Bi-peds!!
:stare:

[Reece]

No problems, please take your time, I love to stir things up a bit, just ask Jimbuna!:yep:;)
Freaking Bi-peds!!
:stare:
:rotfl::rotfl:

[Graf Paper]

Yeah, ain't bilateral symmetry a bitch? :lol:

Maybe you could simplify your animations a bit by having a few sailors with some missing limbs that were blown off and these wounded were dragged aboard the lifeboats by their shipmates. Others might be lying prone in the boat due to exhaustion or injuries.

I've always wondered if u-boat crews ever benefited from scavenging the loose cargo from the debris of a ship that was carrying consumables, such as using a hoop net to fish out loose apples, bottles of whisky, tins of meat, and what have you. :hmm:

Sure would look rather nice if the cargo type of the ship had matching debris floating in the water for those items that would float.

Regardless of those finer details, you've all done a job already well beyond anyone's expectations. :rock:

I can hardly wait to see the finished results!

That reminds me. I need a plane ticket reserved to go visit Philipp, just in case he does carry through with his threat of keeping the Lifeboat mod to yourselves. :stare:

:p

[iambecomelife]

Yeah, ain't bilateral symmetry a bitch? :lol:

Maybe you could simplify your animations a bit by having a few sailors with some missing limbs that were blown off and these wounded were dragged aboard the lifeboats by their shipmates. Others might be lying prone in the boat due to exhaustion or injuries.

I've always wondered if u-boat crews ever benefited from scavenging the loose cargo from the debris of a ship that was carrying consumables, such as using a hoop net to fish out loose apples, bottles of whisky, tins of meat, and what have you. :hmm:

Sure would look rather nice if the cargo type of the ship had matching debris floating in the water for those items that would float.

Regardless of those finer details, you've all done a job already well beyond anyone's expectations. :rock:

I can hardly wait to see the finished results!

That reminds me. I need a plane ticket reserved to go visit Philipp, just in case he does carry through with his threat of keeping the Lifeboat mod to yourselves. :stare:

:p

Yes - they would loot cargo sometimes. There's one picture of a U-Boat loaded with rubber tires that they swiped from a sunken freighter. When they torpedoed a livestock carrier they would sometimes rescue a few of the animals for fresh meat.

And I would like to create different cargoes for the ships so that we could have an appropriate debris field depending on what was on board-just like you said. Sadly I don't really know how to do this.

[Madox58]

Several points.

I have somewhere, pictures of U-boats bringing tires back to port!!!
So yes, they did take booty!!!
Yarrr!!
:arrgh!:
And Phillip does NOT have the animations.
So how can he keep them?
:rotfl:
Thunder, Ref and I are the ones that made it possible.
Ref wrote the tool I use to import.
Thunder does his form of magic.
I do the final hex work.
It's a 3 man show as I see it.
I also see a great area for new animation work.
;)

[iambecomelife]

Several points.

I have somewhere, pictures of U-boats bringing tires back to port!!!
So yes, they did take booty!!!
Yarrr!!
:arrgh!:
And Phillip does NOT have the animations.
So how can he keep them?
:rotfl:
Thunder, Ref and I are the ones that made it possible.
Ref wrote the tool I use to import.
Thunder does his form of magic.
I do the final hex work.
It's a 3 man show as I see it.
I also see a great area for new animation work.
;)

Thanks for the file BTW.

[Reece]

I also see a great area for new animation work.
;)
Oh stop it ya big tease!:yep:

[Madox58]

:rotfl:
Actually,
Ref and Lt. Slacker (AKA DivingDuck)
got to play with animations for 2.0
and 2.1
I had other areas I had to finish.
Now I get to play with animation stuff!!
:rock:

[Madox58]

Thanks for the file BTW.

It's the alpha version.
It's really a beatch trying to get some timeing things
to look right.
I have to change some things so there is a timed pause yet.
We also have more animations in the works.
I had 3 more sent to me but we found they were bad.
:nope:
The that Real Life thing steps in and totally FUBARS all
time expectations!!
:rotfl:
But seeing as we have went 3 years to reach this point?
I don't think a few more days matter.
:hmm:
;)

[Jimbuna]

Still using the animations from The Lair.........and they work a treat.

Take it easy J, and let Rome build itself. ;)

[Jimbuna]

Yes, you will get them.
Sooner or later.
:lol:

Maybe not...
Maybe we'll keep this to ourselves... :arrgh!:

Oh, really http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1817/thinkbigsw1yo4.gif

I must be hallucinating with what I've just seen in-game http://forums.randi.org/images/smilies/crazyeyes.gif

[LordNeuro"Serbia"]

:rotfl:
Actually,
Ref and Lt. Slacker (AKA DivingDuck)
got to play with animations for 2.0
and 2.1
I had other areas I had to finish.
Now I get to play with animation stuff!!
:rock:
R we going too see a new magic. Is there going too bee same animation for the crew on the ships andmaybe a frendly u boots returning from patrol, and maybe just maybe same action in the bunkers of the boats. Like in the movie Das boot. Workers prepering the boots for patrol, oh may :rock:. My hart is jumping for joy:yep: Plz say is somthing like theat.

[Jimbuna]

:rotfl:
Actually,
Ref and Lt. Slacker (AKA DivingDuck)
got to play with animations for 2.0
and 2.1
I had other areas I had to finish.
Now I get to play with animation stuff!!
:rock:
R we going too see a new magic. Is there going too bee same animation for the crew on the ships andmaybe a frendly u boots returning from patrol, and maybe just maybe same action in the bunkers of the boats. Like in the movie Das boot. Workers prepering the boots for patrol, oh may :rock:. My hart is jumping for joy:yep: Plz say is somthing like theat.

Here's a sneak peek of some 'new magic'.

These two short clips are nearly a week old and there are more suprises in store before the completed version will be released.

A little taster :lol:

http://files.filefront.com/liferaft+1avi/;10217906;/fileinfo.html

http://files.filefront.com/liferaft+2avi/;10217835;/fileinfo.html

[rod_oil]

Here's a sneak peek of some 'new magic'.

These two short clips are nearly a week old and there are more suprises in store before the completed version will be released.

A little taster :lol:

http://files.filefront.com/liferaft+1avi/;10217906;/fileinfo.html

http://files.filefront.com/liferaft+2avi/;10217835;/fileinfo.html

Uhumm... Can anyone kick me?:lol: Its looks so fine that I cant believe that is possible in reality. :up: !!!Great!!!:up:

[Mud]

Uhumm... Can anyone kick me?:lol: Its looks so fine that I cant believe that is possible in reality. :up: !!!Great!!!:up:

<kick> :D
But you're right it looks absoloutely stunning , SH3 gets better and better and SH4 doesn't even come close ....... for now ;)

Mud

[rod_oil]

<kick> :D

Thank you, sir!:) OMG! Its reality!:)

But you're right it looks absoloutely stunning , SH3 gets better and better and SH4 doesn't even come close ....... for now ;)

Mud

I think after GWX for SH4 we all will have two great historical submarine reconstructions of events instead one. Yeah! Our future is bright!:)

[Madox58]

You ain't seen nothing yet!!
;)
The Alpha animations helped Thunder and I adjust to each other.
And get a system down that has, so far, proven flawless.
:rock:
Any glitches we have are due to file transfers and such.
But the import and attachment of the animations has
not caused a single problem that has been reported.

[Sailor Steve]

I think after GWX for SH4 we all will have two great historical submarine reconstructions of events instead one. Yeah! Our future is bright!:)
I disagree, but only because after we have a full u-boat campaign plus all the sights that come with GWX, plus SH4's graphics and crew management and other cool stuff, we won't be playing SH3 anymore.:sunny:

[Madox58]

I can agree with that Steve.

I went from Quake to Quake 2 then Quake 3 for the same reasons.
NeverWinter Nights also progresses.

[Madox58]

Rubini,
Open space in your PM box.
Most Important.

[Rubini]

Rubini,
Open space in your PM box.
Most Important.

Try again!:up:

[999-Jay-999]

I think after GWX for SH4 we all will have two great historical submarine reconstructions of events instead one. Yeah! Our future is bright!:) I disagree, but only because after we have a full u-boat campaign plus all the sights that come with GWX, plus SH4's graphics and crew management and other cool stuff, we won't be playing SH3 anymore.:sunny:

Not got SH4 myself...... even if I did I would miss the U-Boat German part of the war... SH4 cant replace Sh3 in my mind.... ;)

[mainexpress]

Rubini your a genius with this mod, thank you,im now officially a SH3 addict,cant stop playing the game with all these cool mods,been stayin up all night.:up:

[Sailor Steve]

Not got SH4 myself...... even if I did I would miss the U-Boat German part of the war... SH4 cant replace Sh3 in my mind.... ;)
Then limited your mind is. Release it you must.:rotfl:

SH4's crew management system is worth the price of admission all by itself. The better-looking crew and environment are just icing on the cake. The much shorter loading times don't hurt either. Mind you, I'll be playing SH3 until the change is complete, but after that SH4 will be the new SH3 and I won't miss it a bit.

[Captain Nemo]

Not got SH4 myself...... even if I did I would miss the U-Boat German part of the war... SH4 cant replace Sh3 in my mind.... ;)
Then limited your mind is. Release it you must.:rotfl:

SH4's crew management system is worth the price of admission all by itself. The better-looking crew and environment are just icing on the cake. The much shorter loading times don't hurt either. Mind you, I'll be playing SH3 until the change is complete, but after that SH4 will be the new SH3 and I won't miss it a bit.

Ah, but when the change is complete as you put it, SH5 might be on the shelves (wishful thinking perhaps) but thats progress I suppose.

Nemo

[lutzow]

Rubini - Thank you for your super mod:up:

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Rubini - Thank you for your super mod:up:

Good to see you back Lutzow.:up:

[Laufen zum Ziel]

I drool everytime you modders get into a discussion.

Being impatient is not good for me. All good things
will come.

[999-Jay-999]

Then limited your mind is. Release it you must.:rotfl:

SH4's crew management system is worth the price of admission all by itself. The better-looking crew and environment are just icing on the cake. The much shorter loading times don't hurt either. Mind you, I'll be playing SH3 until the change is complete, but after that SH4 will be the new SH3 and I won't miss it a bit.


HAHA yeah , well.... I say this as I have hardley put a dent into the game play of SH3... I never last many patrols... going beyond 1940 would be something new.. :lol: .

You got me intrigued I must say and have been youtubing on SH4 material and the graphics are very nice.... game play I wont miss as I have never played it.. ;)

Still mods such as this are bridgeing the visual gap every day...

Long live LifeBoats.. and all who end up in them... :up:

[Madox58]

:cool:

http://www.mediafire.com/?jxoqomommyg

Still hammering away on a few things.

[iambecomelife]

:cool:

http://www.mediafire.com/?jxoqomommyg

Still hammering away on a few things.

Nice. Although if I was one of the rowers I'd tell the other guys to stop whining and help out.:-?

[Subtype Zero]

Very nice. Looking forward to this revision. :up:

[Rubini]

:cool:

http://www.mediafire.com/?jxoqomommyg

Still hammering away on a few things.

Excellent my friend!:rock: :rock: :rock:

[Philipp_Thomsen]

"Amazing touch of feeling on the sound, Rubini! You rock!"


:shifty:

[Rubini]

Oh yes! For the guys that don´t read the readme/manual: The LB sound was made by PT! Thanks mate! :up: ;)

[Jimbuna]

:cool:

http://www.mediafire.com/?jxoqomommyg

Still hammering away on a few things.

hehe....:lol: irresistable.

I see your still holding the best till the end ya bugga http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[rod_oil]

:cool:

http://www.mediafire.com/?jxoqomommyg

Still hammering away on a few things.

My: "Whoaw!" is long and loud.:up:
And this "whoa" echoed amidst plains and forests of Russia:lol:

[Tomi_099]

Very ,Very nice.http://www.1a-gifs.de/gifs/western/western023.gif Looking forward

[Fubar2Niner]

Yumpin Yimminy......... I cant freakin wait .........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :rock:

Best regards.

Fubar2Niner

[Jimbuna]

.....and at the risk of getting rapped knuckles over at The Lair....the best is still yet to come apparently :lol:

[Madox58]

Rubini,
PM's are full.

[Rubini]

Rubini,
PM's are full.
Sorry...it have space again!:D

[Red Heat]

Great job, i will try to install for the next time i came back to base in La Spezia, Italy...thanks, mate! :D

[Venatore]

Totally blown away by your efforts on this mod :o

[Uber Gruber]

Saving the best to last eh?.....Ok, here's my guess...

A) They will fire flares from the lifeboats?

B) They will strip to their pants and swim towards the U-Boat ?

C) They will take a sun spot reading and play with a compass ?

D) They will get eaten by sharks ?

E) After a while they start drinking sea water, go mad and jump in the sea ?

F) None of the above.

[rik007]

I repeat myself: I love the sound of this mod and the debris drifting around my victims. Rubini, great job and keep on going!

[FIREWALL]

Fantastic mod Rubini. :up:

Especially good when fellow DD run them over and depth charge them looking for me.

Also a great screenie of me lying beside the DD they came from I sunk.

Will try to post them.

[FIREWALL]

Need help in posting screenshots.

Any volunteers ?:D

[Jimbuna]

Saving the best to last eh?.....Ok, here's my guess...

A) They will fire flares from the lifeboats?

B) They will strip to their pants and swim towards the U-Boat ?

C) They will take a sun spot reading and play with a compass ?

D) They will get eaten by sharks ?

E) After a while they start drinking sea water, go mad and jump in the sea ?

F) None of the above.

You want to remember this post and refer back to it after the release http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/4030/winkbigid2zj6.gif

[Jimbuna]

Need help in posting screenshots.

Any volunteers ?:D

I presume your not using a screen capture programme.

Hit the Ctrl + F11 key and a bmp image will be saved in your SH3 folder.

Open it with an image viewing programme such as irfanview:

http://www.irfanview.com/ (it's free)

Now save it as a jpeg file.

Go to an image hosting site such as imageshack:

http://imageshack.us/

Click on browse and go to your jpeg. Open it and click on host it then the programme will upload it.

Click on hotlink for forums (1) and copy and paste into your SS messsage box.

That should do it http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/thumbsup.gif

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/4971/sh32008052016502628rc7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/1984/sh32008052016524581zn2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[FIREWALL]

Thx Jim :D Let's see if this works.


YIKES :eek: I guess I need to work on this a "little" bit.

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/4087/sh3img2152008111937671bc4.png (http://imageshack.us)

[Madox58]

Saving the best to last eh?.....Ok, here's my guess...

A) They will fire flares from the lifeboats?

B) They will strip to their pants and swim towards the U-Boat ?

C) They will take a sun spot reading and play with a compass ?

D) They will get eaten by sharks ?

E) After a while they start drinking sea water, go mad and jump in the sea ?

F) None of the above.

Interesting guesses.
:hmm:
On the next release F is the correct choice.
On further updates?
At lest one, maybe two of the guesses might be done.
;)

[Sailor Steve]

I think Jim made it harder than it needs to be. You can just use the onboard 'Paint' program to change file types.

Photobucket doesn't care; it converts to jpeg without being asked.

[Letum]

I dunno if it has been mentioned, but is it possible to make the crew's cries for help
audible over a longer distance?
As it is I only seam to hear them when I zoom in right next to them.

[Rubini]

Hi guys,

Excuse me by the long delay...we were fighting against some techinal problems to make a new step on the mod followed by a lot of tests...but now we have it done...so I promisse that before the weekend we will have a new version ready that will finally spawn LB before ship sink and also LB with animations!

A special mention needs to be made: the animations only becomes a reality after a hard work from Privateer and Thunder!:rock:

This upcoming version also will have some few others goddies on it from me and PT.

Anyway we will continue to work on the mod until we have that LB with movement ready and bug free, probably into a future update.

See you (very) soon!:up:

Rubini.

[Rubini]

I dunno if it has been mentioned, but is it possible to make the crew's cries for help
audible over a longer distance?
As it is I only seam to hear them when I zoom in right next to them.

Yes, it´s possible and easy to do...but this will bring some side effects too, then we need a compromisse and the actual adjust seems the best until now.:up:

[Madox58]

You shouldn't be able to hear them unless close to them.
The human voice does not carry well.
On land, it carries because of reflective resonance.
Water, when above it?
Does not reflect sound as well as land does.
But you should be able to hear them with hydrophones for a fair distance.
Not sure if this was modded correctly.

[popcorn2721]

Saving the best to last eh?.....Ok, here's my guess...

A) They will fire flares from the lifeboats?

B) They will strip to their pants and swim towards the U-Boat ?

C) They will take a sun spot reading and play with a compass ?

D) They will get eaten by sharks ?

E) After a while they start drinking sea water, go mad and jump in the sea ?

F) None of the above.

I would love to see the first two, but the last one...has to be the best. :rotfl:

[Jimbuna]

I dunno if it has been mentioned, but is it possible to make the crew's cries for help
audible over a longer distance?
As it is I only seam to hear them when I zoom in right next to them.

Yes, it´s possible and easy to do...but this will bring some side effects too, then we need a compromisse and the actual adjust seems the best until now.:up:

I agree, it sounds (no pun intended) about right at the present setting.

I start getting the wobblies when I hear things like 'compromise'.....it sometimes means that some other part of the game has to suffer :o

:D

[Letum]

Hmm, well, I parked next to a life boat but could not hear them from the conning
tower. I could from the deck gun position because that was a bit closer to the life boat.

I was rather hoping I might hear them from several sub's lengths away....much like the
tanker scene in DB.

If it can't be done without problems, then that's that I suppose.

What settings would I need to look at if I wanted to tweak it my self?

Thankyou Very Much.

[bert8for3]

Hi guys,

Excuse me by the long delay...we were fighting against some techinal problems to make a new step on the mod followed by a lot of tests...but now we have it done...so I promisse that before the weekend we will have a new version ready that will finally spawn LB before ship sink and also LB with animations!

A special mention needs to be made: the animations only becomes a reality after a hard work from Privateer and Thunder!:rock:

This upcoming version also will have some few others goddies on it from me and PT.

Anyway we will continue to work on the mod until we have that LB with movement ready and bug free, probably into a future update.

See you (very) soon!:up:

Rubini.

Amazing work all of you have done :up: . And just in time for my new patrol to start in a couple of days :rock:

[predavolk]

Looks great!!:o I've skimmed about 50% of this thread, so I apologize if this has been covered- maybe it could be added to the first post?

1- What impact does this have on game speed? IIRC I read somewhere that it was a small 900kb addition.

2- Can you impliment it while on patrol or in an existing campaign?

3- Do you have to worry about saving near "permanent" sinking sites? Does it cause the dreaded Save Game Bug to treat the floating rafts like they were ships and thereby screw up your save?

Thanks.

[Captain Nemo]

Hmm, well, I parked next to a life boat but could not hear them from the conning
tower. I could from the deck gun position because that was a bit closer to the life boat.

I was rather hoping I might hear them from several sub's lengths away....much like the
tanker scene in DB.

If it can't be done without problems, then that's that I suppose.

What settings would I need to look at if I wanted to tweak it my self?

Thankyou Very Much.

Strange, I sailed close to some life boats earlier and could hear the occupants shout for help quite clearly from the conning tower. That was also in heavy seas with rain and wind. In my view the current sound level seems about right.

Nemo

[Sailor Steve]

Maybe the guys in that particular boat had a bullhorn.:rotfl:

I've only seen them once, and I used the free view to zoom in, so I don't really know how loud they are.

[Madox58]

Looks great!!:o I've skimmed about 50% of this thread, so I apologize if this has been covered- maybe it could be added to the first post?

1- What impact does this have on game speed? IIRC I read somewhere that it was a small 900kb addition.

2- Can you impliment it while on patrol or in an existing campaign?

3- Do you have to worry about saving near "permanent" sinking sites? Does it cause the dreaded Save Game Bug to treat the floating rafts like they were ships and thereby screw up your save?

Thanks.

I run on a system the just meets or is a tad below minimum specs for 2.1

1. I see NO impact on FPS. The animations are so slight, they don't even impact me.

2. I'd at lest return to base just to be safe. Should not effect current Campaign,
but back it up just incase.

3. They are not ships so in theory? Should not cause the Save Game Bug.
The few people testing the animations with the LBs have reported no problems.

[Rubini]

Third version released. See it on the first post.:up:

Rubini.

[Venatore]

Third version released. See it on the first post.:up:

Rubini.

Thank you so very much for this excellent mod. This by far is up in the top five of all SHIII mods ever made. I appreciate your hard efforts :up:

[Ivan Putski]

Just d/l ver.3, thank you for all your hard work, and dedication. Puts:rock:

[Tekawiz]

Not only is this a great mod, I really appreciate the communication to the rest of us - the updates, the screen shots and by telling all us when you might have it done.

Thanks!
Kurt

[SquareSteelBar]

Many Thanks from :rock:

SquareSteelBar

[jaxa]

Rubini, fantastic work. :up:

[Reece]

Many thanks to all involved, downloading now!:yep:

[Samwolf]

I agree with Venatore. One of the top five SH3 Mods, adds so much more to the sim.:up:

Congrats to the team.

[rik007]

Love this one. Outstanding job.

[bert8for3]

Just great, many thanks :rock: :up:

[McHibbins]

Thx m8 ! :up::up::up:

I don´t have the time to test it right now ´cause of RL :shifty:

But what do ya exactly mean with "the ships will have a more heavy feeling" ?

[Konovalov]

Third version released. See it on the first post.:up:

Rubini.

Fantastic. I have just been trialing your seond version over the last 24 hours and love it. Time to rollback and JGSME it. Thanks a million for your brilliant work on this with the help of Philipp Thomsen and Privateer. :up: Top work guys. It's turning out to be a good long weekend after all. :rock:

[Redbear]

Fantastic mod! Nice job - thanks!

[Sailor Steve]

Well, I hate to quote Homer Simpson, but...

WOO HOO!

[Jimbuna]

Nice one Rubini....just looking forward to the next one now ;)

[A6Intruder]

I agree with Venatore. One of the top five SH3 Mods, adds so much more to the sim.:up:

Congrats to the team.

I also agree!!
Thanks alot!:rock: :rock: :rock:
Kind regards

[rod_oil]

Every version of this mod got property of "must have mod" for me. Thank you very much Rubini, Philipp Thomsen, Privateer, IMBL, DD, Skwasjer, Thunder, Mkubani and GWX team!:rock:

[Letum]

I increaced the sound range to 1200 and removed most of the background noise/sea
sound from the boats to leave just the cries for help.

minsoundrange is small so the sound only carries a few U-boat lengths.

Much better IMHO

[Madox58]

I think all of the people involved feel kind of like me.
Thanks for the thanks guys!
:lol:

I remember the arguements before SH4 came out about
if we should or shouldn't do survivors.

Alot of us held off because of those arguements.
The Devs themselves solved that!

Thanks Guys!!
:up:

There's much more in the works.
And I believe it will be an evolving mod.
The more that is done to it?
The more new people will figure out and add.
A win, win situation in my eyes.
:cool:

[Rubini]

Rubini, fantastic work. :up:

Hi guys,

I will use the reply from my friend jaxa to say thanks to all you by your support and feedback. This mod is really a good example that we can make very good things, even small ones, when we join forces from a lot of modders from this community.

So, kudos to Privateer, Philipp_Thomsen, Thunder, DivingDuck, Skwasjer, Iambecomelife, Mkubani, GWx team and all you guys that makes this place a special place for all us.:up:

@jaxa: How are you and the family mate? Greetings from Brazil!;)

[Venatore]

So, kudos to Privateer, Philipp_Thomsen, Thunder, DivingDuck, Skwasjer, Iambecomelife, Mkubani, GWx team and all you guys that makes this place a special place for all us.

There is something wrong with the statement above, I just can't place my finger on it :hmm: :rotfl:

[Koondawg]

There is something wrong with the statement above, I just can't place my finger on it :hmm:

Its because my bro Ven it had the word special in it...:up:
and I dont mean short bus special...:lol:

koon

[Venatore]

Its because my bro Ven it had the word special in it...:up:
and I dont mean short bus special...:lol: :rotfl: toot toot :D

[Koondawg]

How u been bro...sending you a PM....

[Madox58]

@ Venatore

Ain't you supposed to be working on a new Ice Age mod?
:hmm:
:rotfl:

[Rubini]

So, kudos to Privateer, Philipp_Thomsen, Thunder, DivingDuck, Skwasjer, Iambecomelife, Mkubani, GWx team and all you guys that makes this place a special place for all us.

There is something wrong with the statement above, I just can't place my finger on it :hmm: :rotfl:

Excuse me ...my bad english...but what is wrong with the word "special"? In portuguese this means a rare, good thing, something difficult to find... What it means in english?:hmm: And if it´s not a "good" word in english what I may use on its place?:hmm:

[Bismarck]

As a native english speaker i see nothing wrong with the post except puncuation but thats allowed. :D I guess he means he isn't in your list of exceptional modders. :-?

[Rubini]

As a native english speaker i see nothing wrong with the post except puncuation but thats allowed. :D I guess he means he isn't in your list of exceptional modders. :-?

Ok! Now I understood! :D
Anyhow that is the list of the guys that have helped the lifeboat mod, nothing more.;)
Thanks Bismarck!

[EmeAzul]

Rubini & team, esta tem que ser uma das melhores modificacoes jamais feita 'a simulacao SH3. It's a terrific accomplishment and much appreciated. Abracos