[TEC] Sonar ranges AI_sensors.dat [Archive]

Sniper297

04-03-19, 10:58 PM

Been trying to go the opposite way Ducimus went in this thread;

www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=119272

To try and lower the psychic destroyer effect where they hear you from 2 miles away when you have the motors stopped. My thinking was to increase the active range and decrease the passive range, but near as I can tell there's no data in any individual IJN destroyer saying which sonar that particular class uses, or when?

Found the type 3 (1, 3, and 5) and type 93 (1 and 2) A and P, but I notice there's also a type 3 M1P and M2P, are those for merchant ships?

I'm setting up some test single missions in 42 and 44 to trial and error my way through what uses what, but if someone else has already done a list it would save me a lot of tedious testing. :ping:

JapLance

04-04-19, 02:06 AM

Been trying to go the opposite way Ducimus went in this thread;

www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=119272

[...] as I can tell there's no data in any individual IJN destroyer saying which sonar that particular class uses, or when?

.sns file in every ship folder will give you this information. You can open it with notepad.

Here is Fubuki .sns file as an example:

[Sensor 1]
NodeName=O01
LinkName=Escort_Visual
StartDate=19380101
EndDate=19451231

[Sensor 2]
NodeName=H01
LinkName=Type93-1P
StartDate=19380101
EndDate=19420331

[Sensor 3]
NodeName=H01
LinkName=Type93-3P
StartDate=19420401
EndDate=19440731

[Sensor 4]
NodeName=H01
LinkName=Type3-1P
StartDate=19440801
EndDate=19451201

[Sensor 5]
NodeName=N01
LinkName=Type93-1A
StartDate=19380101
EndDate=19420331

[Sensor 6]
NodeName=N01
LinkName=Type93-3A
StartDate=19420401
EndDate=19440731

[Sensor 7]
NodeName=N01
LinkName=Type3-1A
StartDate=19440801
EndDate=19451201

[Sensor 8]
NodeName=R01
LinkName=NULL
StartDate=19380101
EndDate=19440601

[Sensor 9]
NodeName=R01
LinkName=Type13
StartDate=19440628
EndDate=19440701

[Sensor 10]
NodeName=R01
LinkName=Type22
StartDate=19440702
EndDate=19451201

[Sensor 11]
NodeName=D01
LinkName=NULL
StartDate=19380101
EndDate=19451231

[Sensor 12]
NodeName=C01
LinkName=NULL
StartDate=19380101
EndDate=19451231

Sniper297

04-04-19, 04:31 AM

Gracias! That helps a lot, apparently also includes radar and the dates they get it. :salute:

CapnScurvy

04-04-19, 07:43 AM

Your going to be getting into a CAN OF WORMS before you're done!

I've just been looking/modifying this for Ultimate and you're going to be surprised to find some things.

For one thing, you're going to find the Hydrophone and Sonar "ID's" in it's .dat file are backwards.....Sonar means Hydrophone/ Hydrophone means Sonar. Don't bother to change them, just know that's how the game looks for them (some newby must have coded it wrong and it was left like that...let's call him "Wayne", and Wayne did a lot of stuff like that throughout the game files!?!).

You're going to find the Sonar "Pings" are actually in the Hydrophone controller, not the Sonar parameters. Why? Well, if the far reaching Hydrophone parameters detects your sub it, immediately begins it's "pinging", letting you know it's detected you (so should the warship start turning towards your position). It's not until the smaller Sonar "cone of detection" comes up over your position will it begin the faster pinging which indicates the Sonar parameters have gotten into the detection process.

By the way, use the Stock game map icons to help in seeing when/where the lines are drawn to help in determining what's going on with a detection. TMO, RFB remove them.....you'll need them to know what's going on during testing. You're also going to make sure no other sensors are interfering with your testing. Turn off the test ship's Radar and Visual capabilities and work on just one Hydrophone or Sonar sensor at a time. On that same thought, you're also going to see the large circle representing the Visual Sensor does not get turned off on the Nav Map after disabling it?!? Why? Let's ask Wayne!?

Just a few "tid bits" from days of working on this very thing.

Sniper297

04-04-19, 10:52 PM

Odd thing I found browsing through some of the destroyers SMS files, all of them list LinkName=AI_Visual for the visual range - so change that and the visual range ring changes for all. I had noticed the screwup between hydrophone versus "sonar" (actually the pinger is called the transducer, sonar = both hydrophone and transducer), you'd think with a 50-50 chance of getting it right...they did the same thing with radar A scope versus PPI scope, exactly backwards.

Their math is rather weird too, I'm guessing the rings are average range, for example the type 21 radar max is 14000 yards, the outer ring around the Akizuki (has type 21 in 44) is exactly 8000 yards. Change the range to 7000 in the AI_sensors.dat file and the ring is 4000 yards, so it changes proportionately, halve the range and halve the circle.

What I'm playing with right now is doubled active sonar so the semi circle is twice as big, with the passive halved. That cuts way down on the apparent psychic effect where you're creeping along at 2 knots five miles away and one of them suddenly makes a beeline straight for you, but it may be a little too much because they get really stupid and charge off in weird directions sometimes. Doubling the active seems to work well because you hear pinging all the time when you're inside the task force or convoy, really keeps you on your toes.

As for cans of worms, right now I just have all the passive sonars adjusted for the same max range, for testing purposes it really doesn't matter what which ship had in October of 1943 if I'm testing in 1942. Eventually I'll start with the backup copy of the original and use the calculator to increase or reduce everything by whatever percentage balances the difficulty best. That's pretty much what I did with the "Bang for your Buck" mod, take the default min/max blast and radius values for each torpedo type, multiply by 125, 135, 150 percent or whatever. If I do eventually upload this it will probably be similar with a choice of difficulty levels.

Sniper297

04-05-19, 02:27 PM

Update. Before I start, main thing that caught me in a trap several years ago was opening the AI_sensors.dat file with S3D and jumping to a conclusion. First four datablocks in the file;

Node_AI_Radar
Node_AI_Visual
Node_AI_Hydrophone
Node_AI_Sonar

Well, this will be easy, just edit the first four. :doh: Nope. NONE of the IJN warships I've looked at so far use 1. 3. or 4, ALL of them, from the Yamato to the small gunboat, use number 2. Silly, considering distance to the horizon is dependent on your height above the water, but every SNS file starts with LinkName=AI_Visual.

After that they differ depending on class and year, and the rings (circles pies half circles wedges whatever) you see are an average of the actual range - math seems to indicate the max range is about 1.72 times the radius of the ring you see on the chart view. Here's an Akizuki in June 1944;

https://scontent-msp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/56262374_2333200926724174_3428702744930680832_n.jp g?_nc_cat=107&_nc_ht=scontent-msp1-1.xx&oh=3356d9192623d3d816b854f1e34dbec8&oe=5D0A6923

Lower right corner numbers are the actual max range followed by the measurement of the ring in the game, for example VISUAL 9500 5600 indicates the number in the file for max range followed by the measured number. (Again never changes, all vessels all dates use that one datablock.)
The wedge cut out of the passive sonar is the "baffles", can't hear anything but your own propellers and machinery noise behind you. So if you're in that cutout wedge you can speed up, the evil villains can't hear you in that wedge.
The half circle in front is the way WWII ship sonar transducers (the actual "pinger") were designed, mounted under the bow and capable of sweeping beam to beam but not aft of the beam.

Main thing for those who aren't modders to be aware of, being outside the ring is NOT a guarantee of safety, the actual detection distance is about 175% of the ring distance. Difference is aspect and crew quality, if you're facing directly toward/away from a destroyer with a novice crew they might not detect you inside the ring, if an elite crew is on your beam they could detect you outside the ring. Only way to find out how good their crew is would be the hard way, so doubling the distance is the best bet.

Sniper297

04-05-19, 04:07 PM

Testing, 123...

https://scontent-msp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/56622489_2333326176711649_6537756916838301696_o.jp g?_nc_cat=106&_nc_ht=scontent-msp1-1.xx&oh=3ee4f8d4d1aab1dba88b85c134d1f96f&oe=5D4CBC11

On the right is the original Fubuki in 1942 (no radar), on the left with visual and passive sonar reduced to 75%, active sonar increased to 150%. Going to play with these values in a campaign for a while, see how weird it gets. :up:

KaleunMarco

04-07-19, 06:38 PM

sniper, my friend, thank you for the graphics and explanations.

i encountered a differently config-ed DD while playing OpMonsun.
the A&B class DD seems to have three systems working. i am reading the .SNS file and guessing here.

Hydrophone128
Sonar128A (?) (N0x nodes?)
Radar286

so...would the longest range (circle) indicate visual or radar?
assuming the shortest two non-circles would be hydrophone and sonar, what is mystery-guest number #4?
https://i.ibb.co/pvKYvLp/SH4-Img-2019-04-07-17-37-30-558.png

Sniper297

04-07-19, 07:35 PM

Don't have 1.5, so don't have OpMonsun, so no Brit destroyers or Underzee Boots. I recall reading somewhere that on some of these supermods they disabled the visual range ring, I would guess that's what you have there - no visual range ring, outer is radar, second largest with the wedge cut out astern is the standard passive (hydrophone, something ending with a P), the semi circle is the standard active. The one shaped like a 1/3rd slice of pie is possibly another type of active sonar, no idea how they pulled that trick off.

What I got at the bottom of the Akizuki SNS file;

[Sensor 11]
NodeName=D01
LinkName=NULL
StartDate=19380101
EndDate=19451231

[Sensor 12]
NodeName=C01
LinkName=NULL
StartDate=19380101
EndDate=19451231

The "NULL" means it's not used at all, ever. What the D and C stand for I have no clue, so take a look at the SNS file for this A&B class and see if one of those is active. Toward the end of WWII the US was experimenting with a new type of sonar called FM, which was a separate system for detecting mines. I've also read a few references to the Japanese playing with MAD (Magnetic Anomaly Detector) but only in aircraft. So wild guess it's a different kind of active sonar, don't know what else it could be with that shape. Again, keep in mind the visible rings only show the average, the max range of whatever system you see the rings for is actually a little bigger depending on the AI crew - which there's no way of knowing.

Here's a little synopsis of the FM sonar carried by some US subs in 45;

https://www.historynet.com/uss-wahoo-vengeance.htm

JapLance

04-08-19, 01:45 AM

C01 and D01 are the nodes for Radio Direction Finder and Radar Warning Receiver.

Not sure if they've ever been used in AI ships. I've never found any using them.

@KaleunMarco: since the situation you're displaying there is at night, I'd assume the longest radius circle is from radar.

KaleunMarco

04-08-19, 09:42 AM

Don't have 1.5, so don't have OpMonsun, so no Brit destroyers or Underzee Boots. I recall reading somewhere that on some of these supermods they disabled the visual range ring, I would guess that's what you have there - no visual range ring, outer is radar, second largest with the wedge cut out astern is the standard passive (hydrophone, something ending with a P), the semi circle is the standard active. The one shaped like a 1/3rd slice of pie is possibly another type of active sonar, no idea how they pulled that trick off.

The "NULL" means it's not used at all, ever. What the D and C stand for I have no clue, so take a look at the SNS file for this A&B class and see if one of those is active. Toward the end of WWII the US was experimenting with a new type of sonar called FM, which was a separate system for detecting mines. I've also read a few references to the Japanese playing with MAD (Magnetic Anomaly Detector) but only in aircraft. So wild guess it's a different kind of active sonar, don't know what else it could be with that shape. Again, keep in mind the visible rings only show the average, the max range of whatever system you see the rings for is actually a little bigger depending on the AI crew - which there's no way of knowing.

i should have posted the .SNS values with the graphic. what can i say....
listed below are the Sensor definitions for the DD-A&B for the time period of the graphic, which is Jan-Feb 1943. i removed the other definitions in an effort to keep some control over the length of this post. as you can see, there are four related definitions, so it possible that visual is included even though it is mostly-dark at the time of contact.
[Sensor 1]
NodeName=O01
LinkName=Escort_Visual
StartDate=19380101
EndDate=19451231

[Sensor 3]
NodeName=H01
LinkName=Type128P
StartDate=19420601
EndDate=19430601

[Sensor 6]
NodeName=N01
LinkName=Type128A
StartDate=19410601
EndDate=19440101

[Sensor 9]
NodeName=R01
LinkName=Type286
StartDate=19410301
EndDate=19430301

i wonder where are the Visual and Radar definitions stored?

Sniper297

04-08-19, 05:08 PM

Answer to that is fairly simple, you need Silent 3ditor (was made for SH3 but also works for SH4);

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/downloads.php?do=file&id=4489

Using that, open the \Data\Library\AI_sensors.dat file. Where it says something like LinkName=Type128P in the SNS file, scroll down the list until you come to that one, then open the subdirectories until you get to the "sensor" that has the data you can edit. Example;

https://scontent-msp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/56457738_2337958402915093_7625766605015744512_o.jp g?_nc_cat=104&_nc_ht=scontent-msp1-1.xx&oh=f618d10522ffc4cb55dda91bdeb9bfd1&oe=5D47855C

Even if you've never used a game editor before this one is pretty easy to learn, but don't forget to make backup copies of any files you're going to try editing just in case. Saves a lot of reinstalls if all you have to do is copy and paste the original file from a backup to overwrite the one you wrecked. :/\\!!

Hmmm, I have a sh3_missioneditor_v17.pdf that I got 6 years ago, can't find a current working link for where to download it, anybody know?

Meantime, here's the author's website;

http://s3d.skwas.com/docs.aspx

propbeanie

04-08-19, 05:28 PM

I have that SHIII Mission Editor Manual v17 here (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByHI54u9iyJ8dlhWanpHQ0lHVnM/view?usp=sharing), and have been waiting of someone of the group to reply to email attempts, but nothing yet, so I'll go ahead an put it to a site with better bandwidth than what I have, and change the link later...

The cover of it has:
Silent Hunter III
Mission Editor
Users Guide
Written and maintained by Dietrich on behalf of
17. Unterseebootsflottile »Nordfront«
http://nordfront.org/xvii/
Version v17
19 Mar 2010
It is probably the most comprehensive version there is, unless something is out there in the wild, but not just inside someone's grey matter...

It is a zip file, has a named folder, with the pdf inside of that. :salute:

Sniper297

04-08-19, 05:47 PM

Nice work. If SKWAS is still around someone might ask him if it can be uploaded here, would simplify things.

Forgot to say thanks, JapLance. I no longer have SH3 installed (StarForce copyguard screwed up my DVD drive to the point it's no longer usable for anything at all), but I suspect RDF and the radar warning stuff were leftovers from that.

KaleunMarco

04-08-19, 06:01 PM

Answer to that is fairly simple, you need Silent 3ditor (was made for SH3 but also works for SH4);

Using that, open the \Data\Library\AI_sensors.dat file. Where it says something like LinkName=Type128P in the SNS file, scroll down the list until you come to that one, then open the subdirectories until you get to the "sensor" that has the data you can edit. Example;

Even if you've never used a game editor before this one is pretty easy to learn, but don't forget to make backup copies of any files you're going to try editing just in case. Saves a lot of reinstalls if all you have to do is copy and paste the original file from a backup to overwrite the one you wrecked. :/\\!!

ok, cool. i am very conversant with Silent3ditor. :D
what i needed was the file where the values are hidden.
so, AI_Visual_Sensors.Dat is the place and Escort Visual is the node, yes?

so if i am reading this correctly, the visual parms for a DD are from 0 to 180 degrees which is a semi-circle. at least it was when i was in the USN. so why are we seeing a full circle? rhetorical question. so confusing!:damn:

https://i.ibb.co/PNnt8zp/Picture0008.jpg

Sniper297

04-08-19, 06:44 PM

Well, I was also in the USN, Aviation ASW tech in a heavy helicopter antisubmarine squadron, so the only real world sonar I have any experience with was the AN/AQS-13 Alpha in the SH3 Sea King.

https://scontent-msp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/1798536_689195187791431_918332513_n.jpg?_nc_cat=10 8&_nc_ht=scontent-msp1-1.xx&oh=e4c15fd9bb533deeb710be09d7d34f64&oe=5D37C9DF

The thing hanging down is the dip sonar being retracted, the barrel shaped part is the hydrophone, the long skinny thing below that is the transducer. Unlike surface ship sonar it was 360 degrees always, either active or passive, the circuits in the hydrophone automatically gave the range and bearing with no need to focus a transmitter or receiver. No moving parts.

From what I've read (again no real world experience, I was born 8 years after WWII ended) the destroyers in WWII could only "ping" beam to beam, so that's what that semi circle is.

Never served on a destroyer (thank god, our Sikorsky Sea Kings were too big for them bobbing seasick corks) but I served on a couple carriers, and they had lookout stations for 360 degrees as well - guys on platforms or sponsons all around the 08 level of the island or the 03 level catwalks. Can't imagine why any modern destroyer wouldn't have the same, wasn't there at least a fantail watch looking for drunks falling overboard? (HIC!)

LinkName=Escort_Visual is a new one to me, but the value shown in your pic is 50,000 yards. That's one way to disable the visual ring in the chart, the average of 50,000 would be somewhere around 29000 yards, so that ring would be way too big to show up on the chart. Whoever programmed the mod must have edited another file to reduce the range that the AI crew can actually see, otherwise they'd have no need for radar.

Only mystery to me in your latest pic is the 1/3rd pie shape in front, have to ask the programmers of the mod what that is (got to be a second type of sonar) and how they pulled off the trick. Does the SNS file have more than one type of active sonar, or does the 128P have an extra sensor in it?

KaleunMarco

04-08-19, 07:45 PM

Well, I was also in the USN, Aviation ASW tech in a heavy helicopter antisubmarine squadron, so the only real world sonar I have any experience with was the AN/AQS-13 Alpha in the SH3 Sea King.

The thing hanging down is the dip sonar being retracted, the barrel shaped part is the hydrophone, the long skinny thing below that is the transducer. Unlike surface ship sonar it was 360 degrees always, either active or passive, the circuits in the hydrophone automatically gave the range and bearing with no need to focus a transmitter or receiver. No moving parts.

From what I've read (again no real world experience, I was born 8 years after WWII ended) the destroyers in WWII could only "ping" beam to beam, so that's what that semi circle is.

Never served on a destroyer (thank god, our Sikorsky Sea Kings were too big for them bobbing seasick corks) but I served on a couple carriers, and they had lookout stations for 360 degrees as well - guys on platforms or sponsons all around the 08 level of the island or the 03 level catwalks. Can't imagine why any modern destroyer wouldn't have the same, wasn't there at least a fantail watch looking for drunks falling overboard? (HIC!)

LinkName=Escort_Visual is a new one to me, but the value shown in your pic is 50,000 yards. That's one way to disable the visual ring in the chart, the average of 50,000 would be somewhere around 29000 yards, so that ring would be way too big to show up on the chart. Whoever programmed the mod must have edited another file to reduce the range that the AI crew can actually see, otherwise they'd have no need for radar.

Only mystery to me in your latest pic is the 1/3rd pie shape in front, have to ask the programmers of the mod what that is (got to be a second type of sonar) and how they pulled off the trick. Does the SNS file have more than one type of active sonar, or does the 128P have an extra sensor in it?
good questions....and no, i displayed all of the sensors from the .SNS file in my post.
maybe there is a second/supplementary sensor file. i don't know...
what i do know is that the A&B had four sensors rings displayed and there were four sensors defined. .-.-.-.-. (i'm connecting the dots)

Sniper297

04-08-19, 10:11 PM

Right. What I'm saying is radar, passive sonar, then two types of active sonar. The visual range ring can't be seen because it's too big for the chart. 50,000 yards would be about 29,000 yards for the ring, a radius of 14.5 nautical miles, a circle 29 miles in diameter. If you zoom in and out while a ship with range rings is selected, you'll find that when you zoom in as far as it goes then zoom out 5 times the ruler at top left shows 12.7 miles. Zoom out one more time and the ruler changes to 25.4 miles, and the range rings disappear. If they stayed visible at the 6th power zoom out, then you'd be able to see a 50,000 yard (29,000 yard average) range ring.

KaleunMarco

04-08-19, 10:39 PM

Sniper297

04-09-19, 11:47 PM

KaleunMarco

04-10-19, 05:20 PM

I looked at your pic in post #8, too small to read the ruler even after copying and pasting into PSP7 and sharpening it I can't make out the numbers.

In 1.4 if I zoom all the way in, then out five times, end of the ruler says 12.7 miles. Zoom out one more, it says 25.4 miles - and I can no longer see range rings zoomed out that far.

Don't know whether this is 1.5 or something in the mod, but it looks to me (again, pretty blurry) like you're out to 25.4 and the rings are still visible? If that's the case, the outer ring probably IS the visual, measured with the PSP grid assuming 25 miles on the ruler, it does come out to about 29,000 yards which would be about right for a 50,000 max range.

Finally figured out the formula BTW, whatever the max range is in the AI_sensors.dat file, multiply by 0.58 and that's approximately what the ring will be.
Example, ASVMarkIII radar shows a maxrange of 12000, times 0.58 = 6960, so the range ring will have a radius of about 7,000 yards.
ok...more graphics.

https://i.ibb.co/Pz9gLMg/SH4-Img-2019-04-10-10-14-08-084.png

the circle has a radius of 27km. that's a bit less than .58 of 50k. is there another explanation?

i also measured the 270 degree sensor at 1750 m.

here is Kent Class CA
https://i.ibb.co/zs03y3T/SH4-Img-2019-04-10-12-04-04-721.png

it has only one sensor with a radius of 5000m. the .SNS file shows only Visual and Radar available in this time frame. below that is the sensor data. i'm still confused.

[Sensor 6]
NodeName=R01
LinkName=Type273
StartDate=19420901
EndDate=19451231
https://i.ibb.co/0fhPDFm/Picture0009.jpg

Sniper297

04-10-19, 07:24 PM

Well, something different between what I have and what you have, the ruler isn't even the same. Mine says 25.4, yours says 23.5, dunno if that's a difference in 1.4 versus 1.5 or something they did in the mod. Miles versus kilometers, meters versus yards could also be a factor - In WWII Britain and America used Imperial measures, Germans and probably their allies used metric. Game was created in Romania so I'm pretty sure the data in the files is metric (according to SKWAS they are), while the numbers in the game (again 1.4, USN only) are in feet, yards and nautical miles. Conversion factor for maxrange to range rings would be 58% for yards, 53% for meters.

In other words I'm converting 10000 meters in the file to 5800 yards, that would be 5300 meters. 50,000 times 0.53 = 26,500, close enough for rock & roll. :up:

Only real mysteries left to me are why you can see range rings zoomed out one more step than I can, and how they did the trick with the additional active sonar ring.

Sniper297

04-10-19, 07:35 PM

KaleunMarco

04-10-19, 10:28 PM

Got it. Mine says 12.7 at the furthest zoom out, 12.7 nautical miles = 23.5 kilometers, so your pics are actually zoomed out to the same as mine.

https://www.calculateme.com/length/nautical-miles/to-kilometers/

i like it. makes sense. take the rest of the night off.:D:salute:

now...just the last piece...why four sensor rings? rhetorical at this point.

Sniper297

04-10-19, 10:51 PM

Fifi

04-11-19, 01:09 AM

Marco, what is this GUI you have on pict above?
Traveller?

KaleunMarco

04-11-19, 07:16 AM

Marco, what is this GUI you have on pict above?
Traveller?
not sure what you mean. here is my OpM config. my system config is in my signature.
Generic Mod Enabler - v2.6.0.157
[C:\Ubisoft\SH4_OpMonson\MODS]

1OpsMonsun_V705
2OMv705_to_V720
3OMv720_Patch5

KaleunMarco

04-11-19, 07:23 AM

"take the rest of the night off" LIBERTY CALL! :Kaleun_Cheers:

Last one we'll have to hunt down whoever programmed the mod, get him drunk enough to spill the secret. :arrgh!:

Curious, any of you guys with stock 1.5 getting them heathen kilometers (dadblasted newfangled French furlongs!) instead of good old yards and nautical miles? Does it change according to which campaign you're playing?

yes.
i've played the stock u-boat campaign in the IO and the units shift from feet/miles to m/km.

yes, you have to use the brain to remember and calculate things like 14km is the safe interval to surface after an enemy contact. or 2000 m is the beginning interval for a torpedo attack. stuff like that.
things that i question are constants such as torpedo speed in the .SIM file. it indicates KTS but is sure SEEMS like german torpedos take longer to reach their targets than american torpedos (km/hr vs mph). yes, the system uses knots and a knot is a knot is a knot but it sure seems longer.
anyway, that's probably TMI.
:salute:

Fifi

04-11-19, 08:13 AM

not sure what you mean. here is my OpM config. my system config is in my signature.
Generic Mod Enabler - v2.6.0.157
[C:\Ubisoft\SH4_OpMonson\MODS]

1OpsMonsun_V705
2OMv705_to_V720
3OMv720_Patch5

Was meaning the order bar and dials...

KaleunMarco

04-11-19, 09:25 AM

Was meaning the order bar and dials...
ok.
that's entirely OpM material.

Fifi

04-11-19, 11:49 AM

:up:

Sniper297

04-11-19, 12:23 PM

I ripped mine from another mod (I forget which, one that has bigger dials for old eyes) by editing \Data\Menu\menu_1024_768.ini to replace the datablock [G3F I256] with the one from the mod. Took some searching, started with \Data\Menu\Gui\Layout and found Dials_us_imperial.dds, then compared what was different with an unmodified copy of SH4.
You could also rename then replace the DDS file or files, but don't forget to back up the original somewhere. I keep a pure original of the game plus a zipped backup of it on a different drive.