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DragonKing1990
02-09-09, 09:09 PM
Can all ships be split in 2? Or just a few?
Red Lord of Chaos
02-09-09, 09:19 PM
In stock it seems to be most if not all of them, (though I haven't seen a sampan split...). Some of the mods change this so it doesn't happen.
DragonKing1990
02-09-09, 09:22 PM
ok here is another question how do I edit the torpedo settings? I try to open them with notepad but I get a jumbled mess. Are there any tools?
Sledgehammer427
02-09-09, 09:51 PM
S3D, in the mods workshop
miner1436
02-09-09, 10:04 PM
For some reason battleships can't be split.
tater
02-09-09, 10:23 PM
Large warships don't split. It's easy to tell in S3D, if the main ship node has two daughters, one labeled B(ack?) and one labeled F(ore?) then it splits.
DragonKing1990
02-09-09, 10:24 PM
Does that include cruisers? And Aircraft carriers?
tater
02-09-09, 10:25 PM
Yes. DDs have fore and aft parts, and maybe some of the CLs. Maybe. Open them with S3D, if they are subdivided inside, then they split.
DragonKing1990
02-09-09, 10:25 PM
okay what folder contains the ships?
tater
02-09-09, 10:32 PM
Data/Sea/

There is a folder for each ship name. Open the Dat with S3D, and have a look. Don't save, though. Better to make a copy of the sea folder first, and work on that in case you break something.

It is realistic for the large ships, particularly warships, not to split. It didn't happen that I know of. Also, the way splitting works in SH4 is very deterministic. Once you know where to hit a ship that CAN split, it WILL split, every single time you hit that spot.
DragonKing1990
02-09-09, 10:39 PM
Well the BB HMS HOOD was split i two.
tater
02-09-09, 11:15 PM
By a torpedo?

;)
tater
02-09-09, 11:16 PM
Seriously, though, you can make ships NOT split, easily. Making them split requires making the fore and aft hull sections in a 3d modeling program. It's non-trivial.
DragonKing1990
02-09-09, 11:20 PM
By a torpedo?

;)

deck gun from the Bismarck and I get your point
tater
02-09-09, 11:25 PM
It was a magazine explosion, right? I suppose a fish might do that, but wasn't it a failure vs plunging fire? Still, I don't think spliting was common in major combatants except for just that sort of catastrophic event.
Torplexed
02-09-09, 11:55 PM
The most dramatic submarine torpedo hit on a battleship I can think of is the HMS Barham's demise from a salvo launched from the U-336. But she rolled on her port side and capsized first. A Royal Navy Court of Enquiry ascribed the ship's final magazine explosion to the detonation en masse of 4-inch anti-aircraft ammunition stored in wing passages adjacent to the main magazines, which would have detonated the contents of the main magazines.

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