View Full Version : Lit up units at night
gazpode_l
03-22-11, 07:01 PM
never before seen this, but during my patrol, I was off northern spain somwhere on my way home I discovered a small 4 unit convoy, consisting of medium cargo's and a large tanker. It was night and they were showing navigation lights.
I am guessing if they are showing light's, then it means in GWX that they are friendly/neautral units and that I should not attack these?
Gargamel
03-22-11, 07:06 PM
never before seen this, but during my patrol, I was off northern spain somwhere on my way home I discovered a small 4 unit convoy, consisting of medium cargo's and a large tanker. It was night and they were showing navigation lights.
I am guessing if they are showing light's, then it means in GWX that they are friendly/neautral units and that I should not attack these?
Yup!
Fish In The Water
03-22-11, 08:29 PM
I am guessing if they are showing light's, then it means in GWX that they are friendly/neautral units and that I should not attack these?
Indeed, or risk a corresponding loss of renown...
desirableroasted
03-23-11, 04:51 AM
never before seen this, but during my patrol, I was off northern spain somwhere on my way home I discovered a small 4 unit convoy, consisting of medium cargo's and a large tanker. It was night and they were showing navigation lights.
I am guessing if they are showing light's, then it means in GWX that they are friendly/neautral units and that I should not attack these?
You have the flag pull-down. Use it.
BelegDraug
03-23-11, 09:29 AM
What is the "flag pull down"?
frau kaleun
03-23-11, 09:58 AM
At the Navigation station, when you are looking down at the map on the chart table... in the upper left hand corner of the GUI are several tabs which are actually the corners of additional charts you can pull down and look at.
One of them is a pictorial of all the flags of the countries in the game, with their names and dates of Axis/Allied/neutral affiliation.
This is in GWX mind you, I don't remember if it was there in stock but surely there was something like it.
BelegDraug
03-23-11, 10:15 AM
Yeap, you're right! Also, in GWX, you can use the F1 key and lok for the Enemies of Germany...
Thanls a lot!
frau kaleun
03-23-11, 10:18 AM
No problem!
And don't even ask me how many hours of playing time I put in before I found all the pull-down stuff in that screen. :oops: :O:
Herr-Berbunch
03-23-11, 10:54 AM
No problem!
And don't even ask me how many hours of playing time I put in before I found all the pull-down stuff in that screen. :oops: :O:
About as much as the rest of us, I'd imagine. I know it's there, but I still pull down the opposite one to what I want, every time! :damn:
maillemaker
03-23-11, 12:08 PM
I seem to have lost my flag pull-down. Don't know where it went. I've got a minefield, and a convoy map, and something else, but my flag sheet went away.
Anyway, if a ship has lights on, it is 100% always friendly/neutral. Now you may have a darkened ship that is also friendly/neutral, but if lights are on, it is always friendly/neutral. Never shoot ships with lights on.
Sailor Steve
03-23-11, 12:57 PM
It's not in the Nav station, it's in the periscope/UZO screens, so you can look at it while looking at the target ship.
As for your "lit/unlit" comparison, that's exactly what I was going to say. You not only stole my name, but my words as well. :O::rotfl2:
frau kaleun
03-23-11, 01:51 PM
It's not in the Nav station, it's in the periscope/UZO screens, so you can look at it while looking at the target ship.
D'oh! Steve's right, of course.
I guess I'm gonna have to get better at remembering where it is since I'm turning Contact Color off. :doh: :88) :O:
I can tell ya how long it took me to find the flag pull down, as well as all of the handy-dandy navigation pull downs.
As long as it took me to RTFM before I fired up GWX for the first time.
:D
Sailor Steve
03-24-11, 01:55 AM
Given the size of TFM in this case that could be a very long time indeed.
Gargamel
03-24-11, 03:23 AM
Given the size of TFM in this case that could be a very long time indeed.
Took me abouts a week to read it, off and on. A lot of the tech details can be skimmed.
It's not in the Nav station, it's in the periscope/UZO screens, so you can look at it while looking at the target ship.
As for your "lit/unlit" comparison, that's exactly what I was going to say. You not only stole my name, but my words as well. :O::rotfl2:
Hi
I checked the periscope/UZO stations and could not locate the flag maps.
Can someone post a pic maybe, and show where to find it, I found the other maps no problem.
Also F1 shows a help guide for button shortcuts and not the Enemies of Germany.
I would love to see these so maybe a kind soul could help me out here.
Thanks
john
:salute:
frau kaleun
03-24-11, 11:14 AM
There should be a little tab or button looking type thingy up in the top left corner, I think it says "Flaggen" or some such.
Sailor Steve
03-24-11, 12:41 PM
Are you using GWX?
Are you using GWX?
Hi,
yes I am... but am using hitmans optics mod as well...would that have something to do with it??
I will take a screen shot of it and post it...maybe I am just missing the tab...
john
Here is a screen shot of the periscope,
The only thing that pops up in the left hand corner is the command posts etc
I just cannot locate the tab for the flags...is it because of the hitmans optics
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/3553/sh3peri.png
And the UZO
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/1425/sh3uzo.png
frau kaleun
03-24-11, 02:34 PM
Hitman's optics may have moved it to somewhere else in the GUI, I can't imagine it's not included. :hmmm:
If there's a manual for the mod you might want to double-check there, or in any documentation that came with it... or ask in the Mods Workshop, there might be a sticky thread for that mod, I can't remember.
Just to finish off my part in thisthread. I got this reply from Hitman in the Mods section:
Yes they are no longer there, but theoretically could be added back. In any case, that is an old mod and was superceded by my GUI, with many more features and which you can download here at subsim.com :up:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=167126
maillemaker
03-25-11, 10:50 AM
Well, that explains why I lost my flag pull-down. I thought I was mis-remembering.
I also am using Hitman Optics. I use them because if you use the Hi-Res mod, when you click out of the periscope/uzo the mouse will land on the fire button and launch a torpedo. I needed a mod that moved the fire button, and Hitman did the trick.
Looks like you loose the flag pull-down though.
Guess we cant have it all ;) but the optics are exactly what I want in the game as I like to have the solutions to hand rather than going to another screen, maybe one day Hitman will redo this and add them in :hmmm: or write a block of script we could add in ourselves....time to start praying :D
JOhn
Well, that explains why I lost my flag pull-down. I thought I was mis-remembering.
I also am using Hitman Optics. I use them because if you use the Hi-Res mod, when you click out of the periscope/uzo the mouse will land on the fire button and launch a torpedo. I needed a mod that moved the fire button, and Hitman did the trick.
Looks like you loose the flag pull-down though.
frau kaleun
03-25-11, 01:04 PM
There's got to be a way to add it back in, it's just a graphics file that needs to be in the proper folder and (I'm assuming) referenced correctly in the menu ini file. There may be more to it, but surely it's doable. If it can be taken out it can be put back in. :yep:
A workaround would be to find the flaggen.tga (I think that's the filename) and open it in a graphics program where you can print out a nice copy to keep on hand when you play.
desirableroasted
03-25-11, 01:40 PM
A workaround would be to find the flaggen.tga (I think that's the filename) and open it in a graphics program where you can print out a nice copy to keep on hand when you play.
Or print page 95 of the GWX 3.0 Gold manual ;-)
frau kaleun
03-25-11, 01:45 PM
Or print page 95 of the GWX 3.0 Gold manual ;-)
True, is it in color in the .pdf file? I printed mine out in B&W so I never think of that as a source for flag IDs, I tend to look for colors first and emblems second.
Or print page 95 of the GWX 3.0 Gold manual ;-)
Yeah but it is more cool to have a drop down on the screen isn't it..:yeah:
Maybe I will ask Hitman if it can be done...or does he know the block of script that needs to be added.
desirableroasted
03-25-11, 02:06 PM
True, is it in color in the .pdf file? I printed mine out in B&W so I never think of that as a source for flag IDs, I tend to look for colors first and emblems second.
Yes, it is in color.
Madox58
03-25-11, 04:59 PM
I tend to look for colors first and emblems second.
Why does that just sound so Female?
:haha:
frau kaleun
03-25-11, 05:34 PM
Why does that just sound so Female?
:haha:
It sounds more like somebody who spends way too much time peering into a monitor, lol. I can see colors real good even without squinting! :haha:
desirableroasted
03-25-11, 06:11 PM
Yeah but it is more cool to have a drop down on the screen isn't it..:yeah:
When you are in a mixed convoy, erhh.. no. Laminated copy beside the keyboard works well.
Gargamel
03-25-11, 06:37 PM
When you are in a mixed convoy, erhh.. no. Laminated copy beside the keyboard works well.
In a mixed convoy, everbody is fair game.
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