Flags on subs in SH4

[fitzcarraldo]

Is there a mod for put US flags to subs in SH4? (I use SH4 plus TMO plus RSRDC). A mod similar to Flags and pennants for SH3 (activated by SHIFT/CTRL + F).

Many thanks and regards.

Fitzcarraldo :salute:

[fitzcarraldo]

No comments? Is it impossible put the flags in the boats of SH4? (as SH3)...:wah:

Regards.

Fitzcarraldo :salute:

[Jan Kyster]

Is it impossible put the flags in the boats...?No, it isn't...
http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/8179/38630354.jpg

If that's what you mean? :hmmm:

Posted here... http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1494557&postcount=777

[fitzcarraldo]

No, it isn't...


If that's what you mean? :hmmm:

Posted here... http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1494557&postcount=777

Yes, but in US boats...

Many thanks.

Fitzcarraldo :salute:

[Jan Kyster]

Let's ask the "jap-gang"! :D

Two questions:
- where to find the flag node??? :88)
- can it be made to be enabled (show/hide) by a command? :hmmm:

[rein1705]

"Beast Below" had some Fleet Boats with flags not too long ago if i remember correctly. (If I'm mistaken on the author don't shoot me!)
Now the T-Class British boats have flags I'm sure of.

[keltos01]

Now the T-Class British boats have flags I'm sure of.

Yep, was mine too ;)

it's a node in the .dat

keltos

[TheBeast]

I did have a mod that added Hull Numbers, Ship Logo's, Diesel Smoke and Flags. I ended up removing the flags because I was not able to figure out how to Show/Hide on demand and many users didnt like it.

[fitzcarraldo]

I did have a mod that added Hull Numbers, Ship Logo's, Diesel Smoke and Flags. I ended up removing the flags because I was not able to figure out how to Show/Hide on demand and many users didnt like it.

Can you upload this mod? I like to try it (with flags, if it´s possible).:yeah:

Many thanks!

Fitzcarraldo :salute:

[aanker]

Hondo's Valor at Sea website has a nice (but small) graphic showing the US Flag mounted high on the aft AA deck in his header which looks similar to real B&W photo's I have seen. On his website banner the graphic is slightly larger:
http://www.valoratsea.com/main.htm

I would like to see a mod that positions the Flag there instead but am perfectly happy without the Flag because I don't think they ran up the colors except upon returning to base, etc. I don't think they would be displayed while on patrol, nor were the large hull numbers.

Happy Hunting!

Art

[Jan Kyster]

...I don't think they ran up the colors except upon returning to base, etc. I don't think they would be displayed while on patrol, nor were the large hull numbers.Indeed no hull numbers, but Fluckey used to hoise the flag (in periscope iirc) when approaching fishingboats.
Would like very much to simulate that, hence the request for a command key to raise the old rag... :D


Can you upload this mod?Check his FileFront-link in signature. :up:

[aanker]

Indeed no hull numbers, but Fluckey used to hoise the flag (in periscope iirc) when approaching fishingboats.
Would like very much to simulate that, hence the request for a command key to raise the old rag... :D
Yes, Eugene Fluckey is an exception and probably my favorite submarine commander. I can visualize him ordering the colors raised so the fishing junks on picket duty would know who is coming - and their likely fate! I would like that key command very much as well now that you reminded me of that.

I try every rare opportunity I can to use his method of night surface attack on a convoy. It is not so easy in SH4 as in the old SHCE where the escorts were at the four corners with maybe one leading and one trailing.

Happy Hunting! - (and hopefully we'll see that mod )

Art

[fitzcarraldo]

Check his FileFront-link in signature. :up:

Many thanks!! :up:

Fitzcarraldo :salute:

[ShoCkwaVe]

TheDarkWraith made this possible in sh5 @ this post: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=167037


I tried converting his Sub Flags over to sh4 by simply edit/changing his files
from the VIIA -over to- VIIB however the only changes that actually showed up in game was his flagpole cylinder model part of the conning tower the flags themselves didn't show up at all probably because there is no
submarine parts folder dir tree in sh4 that some file is referencing to..

owell i tried.. any rate hope someone figures this out as I would like this
in sh4 as well.

[Ducimus]

I was looking at the possibility of adding flags to conning towers the other day. It seems like a simple operation of extracting the proper flag/model from the dat it currently resides in, cloning it, and importing it into the Conning tower dat file, and positioning it. After that, it'll need a visibility controller so its not visible underwater.

I might do it later, but not right now, i think its out of the scope of a "patch" (which is all I'm working on right now) and more in the realm of being part of a full update, given the number of conning tower objects and cumulative file size's involved. Besides that there's another item i was considering for conning towers, so if i do it, ill do both at once. Later....MUCH later.

[Jan Kyster]

...it'll need a visibility controller so its not visible underwater...And instead of coupling it to the "submerged-status"-thingy it could just as well be linked to a key?! :D

[tomoose]

Wasn't there a tradition about lashing a broom to a sub 'mast' to indicate a successful patrol (i.e. a clean sweep)?

If the flag appearance can be modded, can the same be done for a broom? Just curious.
:salute:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WahooBroom.jpg

[Sepp von Ch.]

Is there please a mod for put german flags to U-Boats in SH4 (OM+OMEGU)?

[Prine]

hi all

[chrysanthos]

how can i change the tga flag into something else for example from japan to british?

[CapnScurvy]

how can i change the tga flag into something else for example from japan to british?

Just swap them out.

Take a copy of the British.tga flag (or whatever it's called), put it into the folder/file the Jap.tga image is in. Delete the Japanese flag......rename the British.tga to whatever the Jap flag was named.

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This is quite an old thread, I'm assuming Fitzcarraldo has found by now that yes, flags can be put onto subs. Many mods have this feature.

Funny about the Broom.......there is one modeled in-game. The model is in the Sensors_sub_US.dat file (along with the radar covers that were never implemented in-game). The trouble with both, a script has to be made in order to tell the game what to do with them. Since we don't have access to the hard coded files........no script will be made. Thus, no use of the models of a broom, or the radar station covers will occur. Well, the broom could be made to stand up in the corner of the conning tower, but that's about all we can do with it.