[TEC] TDW Journal

[THE_MASK]

[TEC] TDW Journal
Now that the game is how i like it its time to start using the journal .
U021 TheDarkWraith Wednesday, 11 October 1939 7:09:00 AM
07:09 Navigator: Current nautical time zone is 'A' (GMT+1)
07:09 scapa raid under way:unfortunately because of time constraints we will have to proceed at ahead flank for a lot of the trip to make scapa by the deadline
07:09 the fuel situation will be critical in completing the mission
07:09 leaving kiel:crisp morning:some harbour traffic:
07:09 full complement of torpedoes:fuel at full capacity
07:09 Standard propulsion
07:09 Ahead standard
07:09 Ahead full
07:09 Clouds Clear, Precipitations None, Fog None. Wind Speed 4 meters per second, direction 0.
07:09 Navigator: Calculated position is Lat: 54° 19' N Long: 10° 9' E
07:09 Navigator: Calculating our current position...
07:10 New course 357 degrees!
07:26 passing the kiel canal gates:marked by 2 danger bouys
07:27 Navigator: Calculated position is Lat: 54° 22' N Long: 10° 7' E
07:29 New course 001 degrees!
07:31 Navigator: Current nautical time zone is 'A' (GMT+1)
07:31 Standard propulsion
07:56 Navigator: Calculating our current position via dead-reckoning...
07:57 New course 069 degrees!
07:57 Ahead flank
07:58 Clouds Clear, Precipitations None, Fog None. Wind Speed 2 meters per second, direction 0.
07:59 Navigator: Calculated position is Lat: 54° 28' N Long: 10° 10' E
07:09 Navigator: Calculating our current position...
07:09 Navigator: Calculated position is Lat: 54° 19' N Long: 10° 9' E
07:10 New course 357 degrees!
07:26 passing the kiel canal gates:marked by 2 danger bouys
07:27 Navigator: Calculated position is Lat: 54° 22' N Long: 10° 7' E
07:29 New course 001 degrees!

[TheDarkWraith]

Do we need a special forum thread to view journals ?

Don't understand what you're asking :06:

If I can get working what I really want to do with the journal it will be awesome....ability to add pictures to it in game....

[THE_MASK]

What i meant was does the forum need a new sub heading called SH5 journals .
So there would be
Silent hunter 5
SH5 Mods workshop
SH5 captains journals

[TheDarkWraith]

What i meant was does the forum need a new sub heading called SH5 journals .
So there would be
Silent hunter 5
SH5 Mods workshop
SH5 captains journals

ah, ok. Something to propose to Neal and the moderators I would assume.

[THE_MASK]

Don't understand what you're asking :06:

If I can get working what I really want to do with the journal it will be awesome....ability to add pictures to it in game....That would be good . The way it is now is absolutely fantastic . Easy to use , love it . I will be using this all the time now . cheers .

[THE_MASK]

would it be possible to have a choice that the journal editor when exporting to text could change the long lat coords to the format that google earth can search .
For example
07:09 Navigator: Calculated position is Lat: 54° 19' N Long: 10° 9' E

You can search google earth using
N 54° 19' E 10° 9'

People might like to copy and paste the coords into google earth to see where the area is .

[TheDarkWraith]

would it be possible to have a choice that the journal editor when exporting to text could change the long lat coords to the format that google earth can search .
For example
07:09 Navigator: Calculated position is Lat: 54° 19' N Long: 10° 9' E

You can search google earth using
N 54° 19' E 10° 9'

People might like to copy and paste the coords into google earth to see where the area is .

Sure can. I'll make the change and send to you for testing :up:

[THE_MASK]

thanks mate :salute:

[Sailor Steve]

ah, ok. Something to propose to Neal and the moderators I would assume.
It sounds like a good idea to me. I expect the likelyhood of getting it approved will hinge on the number of people who will want to use it. If a large number want it, it should happen. If there are only eight or ten, maybe not.

That said, the Enigma Flotilla forum for SH3 is still there, and I don't think it's getting used very much. I could be wrong about that, of course.

[TheDarkWraith]

thanks mate :salute:

Just finished coding and testing it. That took some effort to do but it was fun :up:

Under View there is a new entry: Google Earth coordinates. If checked then map coordinates will be displayed in the Google Earth style. When exporting a single day or saving the journal as txt file and Google Earth Coordinates is checked then they will be written in this format to the file also.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=526&pictureid=4766

[THE_MASK]

If i tick the google earth box The google earth box is unticked if i leave the journal and return to it later . thanks , apart from that it works fine .

[THE_MASK]

While opening the journal ingame , is there a way to grab an existing line add add text after the text that is already there . I know the edit one is there but i have to rewrite the whole line .

[ETsd4]

[TEC]
07:09 scapa raid under way:unfortunately because of time constraints we will have to proceed at ahead flank for a lot of the trip


In the real world this is never going to happen ;)
4 and more hours with "ahead flank speed" will completely crash and kill your diesel-engine. And i assume you are talking about several days to travel with ahead flank-speed, right?

For more realistic gameplay we need a little program that increases the probability to destroy/damage the diesel engine the longer we use ahead-flank speed at a time.



[TEC]
07:09 Navigator: Calculating our current position...
07:09 Navigator: Calculated position is Lat: 54° 19' N Long: 10° 9' E

In the real world this is also never going to happen
Below, at entry "2033" you can see how much time it takes to calculate a position-fix (out of 3 stars) for the U-483 navigator. It took him 20 minutes.

"2033, 3-star shot with sextant at twilight (= abendbesteck) with stars REGULUS, SPICA, DUBHE"
"2053, the drift (= Versetzung) from DR-Position to the 3-star-fix was 9,2 sm with arc 269°"

http://www.uboatnet.de/Artikel/Kriegstagebuch%20U453/Texte/KTB_U453%285%29.jpg




The diary-possibilities, created by TDW, are awesome. I use it always. But i think it is not necessary that we need an extra sub-forum like "SH5 - captain logs".
Just give us what SH3 has, a thread named "Tell us what you are upto in your current campaign"
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=151090

[THE_MASK]

In the real world this is also never going to happen
Below, at entry "2033" you can see how much time it takes to calculate a position-fix (out of 3 stars) for the U-483 navigator. It took him 20 minutes.

"2033, 3-star shot with sextant at twilight (= abendbesteck) with stars REGULUS, SPICA, DUBHE"
"2053, the drift (= Versetzung) from DR-Position to the 3-star-fix was 9,2 sm with arc 269°"
The diary-possibilities, created by TDW, are awesome. I use it always. But i think it is not necessary that we need an extra sub-forum like "SH5 - captain logs".
Just give us what SH3 has, a thread named "Tell us what you are upto in your current campaign"
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=151090

Those 2 lines are misleading you .
It actually takes some time to do a celestial plot in game .
I guess it should say
07:09 Navigator: Has calculated our current position...
07:09 Navigator: Calculated position is Lat: 54° 19' N Long: 10° 9' E

[aergistal]

If anyone is interested I can update my SH4 report widget that nobody used to work with this :D. I can make it generate a historical look-alike type of document on the fly, based on the contents of a post.

See the links in my signature to see what I mean.

[0rpheus]

Gotta give this a try... aergistal those reports look cool, great idea!:D

[TheDarkWraith]

While opening the journal ingame , is there a way to grab an existing line add add text after the text that is already there . I know the edit one is there but i have to rewrite the whole line .

The edit box in game won't let me 'add' text to it. You have to type it. Now what I can do is place a checkbox on the edit window that when checked will automatically add the text above to whatever you type. How's that :06:

[mia389]

If I can get working what I really want to do with the journal it will be awesome....ability to add pictures to it in game....

That would be really cool. I had a heck of time after being in game for a few hours and taking lots of screen shots, trying to figure out what screen shots went with what days. Be nice to take a screen shot and have it put a ingame time stamp on it.

I love the journal! Its adding a new element of game play. :up:

[aergistal]

Gotta give this a try... aergistal those reports look cool, great idea!:DThanks. I need someone to point me to a hi-quality scan of an actual german report.

Maybe TDW could add it as a plugin in order to work offline For the online version, the on-the-fly conversion seems more suitable, as you don't have to upload anything and just use your own post.

[ETsd4]

Thanks. I need someone to point me to a hi-quality scan of an actual german report.

You probably know all these photos ...

http://4.hidemyass.com/ip-2/encoded/Oi8vd3d3LnVib2F0YXJjaGl2ZS5uZXQvS1RCTm90ZXNGb3JtYX RQR0NvdmVyLmpwZw%3D%3D



http://4.hidemyass.com/ip-2/encoded/Oi8vd3d3LnVib2F0YXJjaGl2ZS5uZXQvS1RCTm90ZXNGb3JtYX RQRzkuanBn


Format-Rules:

Date DD.MM.YYYY
Example:
9 May 1942 is 09.05.1942

Time HH.MM.SS on the 24 hour clock
Examples:
01:30PM is 13.30

Grid position always in the form of AA 1234

Other links:
http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/1323/ptrlrpt.png

and

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=151090&page=217


By the way. Your diary-tool for SH4 and your Google-tool for SH4 looks fantastic. Have not figured out how the diary tool works in detail though.

[aergistal]

By the way. Your diary-tool for SH4 and your Google-tool for SH4 looks fantastic. Have not figured out how the diary tool works in detail though.
Thank you for the photos and link! I will try to use them for BdU Online.

The basic idea of the diary formater:
1. Post your patrol log on the forum, in a somewhat standardized way.
2. Get the number (id) of your post.
3. Access a special link with the previous id which in turn reads back your post and generates the formated document.