Chebawookee
10-03-10, 08:15 AM
Authentic Navigation Units
Silent Hunter 5 uses like Silent Hunter 3 kilometers (km) as a mesaurement unit in authentic mode.
This is not correct, because the Kriegsmarine used seamiles (sm) of course.
Source:
Lehrbuch der Navigation - Für die Kriegs- und Handelsmarine, Teil 1 (1943)
§ 2. Seemeile und Abweitung
Als Maß der Entfernung auf der Erde dient in der Nautik die Seemeile.
§ 2. Seamile and Departure
As the unit for distance on the earth in navigation the seamile is used.
http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/5310/anum.jpg
Usage:
Copy the executable file 'Authentic_Navigation_Units.exe' into your Silent Hunter 5 installation folder where the Silent Hunter 5 executable 'sh5.exe' is located.
Open 'Authentic_Navigation_Units.exe' and click 'Patch It!'.
You have to set units in game to metric to see the changes.
You can change the text 'nm' to 'sm' as well. It has the string-id: '1992' in '\data\Menu\menu.txt'.
To undo the patch simply click 'Unpatch It!'.
By the way UBI uses the factor 1853.9948 to calculate seamiles from meters.
The patch programm ist only tested with Windows XP!!
Please post feedback bugs and suggestions in this thread.
Very Important:
The patch is for Silent Hunter 5 - 1.2 and only for version 1.2!!
Perhaps i will add a version check.
Sorry for that.
Version history:
----------------
0.1.0.13
First public release
0.1.0.15
Added messageboxes to give some feedback about the patching success.
Download:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/downloads.php?do=file&id=2847&act=down
Silent Hunter 5 uses like Silent Hunter 3 kilometers (km) as a mesaurement unit in authentic mode.
This is not correct, because the Kriegsmarine used seamiles (sm) of course.
Source:
Lehrbuch der Navigation - Für die Kriegs- und Handelsmarine, Teil 1 (1943)
§ 2. Seemeile und Abweitung
Als Maß der Entfernung auf der Erde dient in der Nautik die Seemeile.
§ 2. Seamile and Departure
As the unit for distance on the earth in navigation the seamile is used.
http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/5310/anum.jpg
Usage:
Copy the executable file 'Authentic_Navigation_Units.exe' into your Silent Hunter 5 installation folder where the Silent Hunter 5 executable 'sh5.exe' is located.
Open 'Authentic_Navigation_Units.exe' and click 'Patch It!'.
You have to set units in game to metric to see the changes.
You can change the text 'nm' to 'sm' as well. It has the string-id: '1992' in '\data\Menu\menu.txt'.
To undo the patch simply click 'Unpatch It!'.
By the way UBI uses the factor 1853.9948 to calculate seamiles from meters.
The patch programm ist only tested with Windows XP!!
Please post feedback bugs and suggestions in this thread.
Very Important:
The patch is for Silent Hunter 5 - 1.2 and only for version 1.2!!
Perhaps i will add a version check.
Sorry for that.
Version history:
----------------
0.1.0.13
First public release
0.1.0.15
Added messageboxes to give some feedback about the patching success.
Download:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/downloads.php?do=file&id=2847&act=down