I second that momo55!

Great to hear Dave will be home for Christmas and hopefully on the road to recovery:up:

geen nieuws is goed nieuws
 

In dutch we have a saying: geen nieuws is goed nieuws. (no news is good news). But the message: LV is going home is great news. I do not know Dave (Leovampire) and probably never will. But there is something funny going on here. When i come home after a long days work, there is the daily routine: walking the dog, watching news, spending time with my family and checking the e-mail. AND now since I play SHIV checking the SUBSIM radio room forums, to see how the mods are doing. And suddenly LV is not there anymore (again). not for a day but for many days, and strangely: i get worried. What's going on? So glad he is home, but I cannot wait to get into port to install the new version. Because then i'll know. He is not only home, but alive and kicking!! For all you out there. Have a nice christmas and a very good 2008 for you and your loved ones. Now going down to kill a few more merchants! Aniuk

Hello everyone I'm home or I mean here well ya this is home!
 

:sunny:

Thank you everyone for your kind thoughts and wishes that I heard about from Francisco while I was in the hospital. Torps sent an e-mail to my address that posted all the things you guys were saying and he printed them and gave it to me.

So thanks Torps for that it was nice of you and you all helped to chear me up!

I figured you would have moved on by now and forgoten about me ;) .

Just kidding of course! :D I know you guys and this comunity better than that.

For Christmas Francisco got me a lap top for the times I am in the hospital if he didn't tell you about it. A Dell XPS Extream Gamer lap top so I could play the game and work on it.

So I have been hard at work on the mod to say the least and getting a lot done on it.

I will be uploading some of it and posting it soon.

You will find a lot of new work as well as making the mod not only 1.4 compatable but also 1.4 capable seeing there is a new graffics engine that can do more.

I will explain what has changed and what is new with each of the downloads when I post them.

Anyways it is good to be home to say the least! Had a hard to find blood clot in my heart and because the pain got to bad for me they decided to do a catherization on short notice. This is when they go into the Femeral Artery in the crotch area and thread a wire up into your heart with a full time xray running so they can see it all as it happens. Because I was not off my blood thinners recovery time is very long to make sure I do not bleed out interneraly and or externaly.

Oh well I came through it and here I am anyways!

You and this comunity are the best friends a man can have and your thoughts helped me out a lot!

Dave

Great to see a post from you!!! As you can see, we all miss your presence here. Congrats on coming through and also on what must be an awesome laptop! Merry Christmas!:)

Nice christmas gift!! :)

Welcome back Dave, glad to hear you're okay!
I'm relieved to see your post. Be safe, and take it easy.

Its good to have you back onboard.

-Kevin

Glad to see your back at home Dave, take it easy :yep:


RDP

Um with being out of touch with the forum my work is just stock compatable
 

I took stock game files while I was in the hospital and worked with them.

So for the time being there will only be a stock special effects folder for ROW.

I am for the time being leaving the ship reflections out of the mod. I could not find a reason for the reflection problems with them so instead what I did was gave the ocean a better capability to show the reflections of objects.

The same goes for land based objects but what I did do is reworked and enhanced the search light work for the ships and land based objects. But left the signal reflector alone to advoid the problem that was around before. Also due to the new game engine that shows land masses and their color changes sooner distance to sub and camera wise I have increased the min visable distance settings of all land based objects to work with the new game capabilities. Originaly almost every object in the game was set to 1 to 10 in minvisdim now they are all at 500 every tree and building in the game now become visable close to when the ground colors are visable in the game.

Due to an old promise I made about working with the sub's wakes and foam effects I have encorporated new work in the sub reflection and roll pitch part of the mod. Only the subs are done working on the conning towers now as well. All subs will now have duel kick up from the props if they have duel props. The subs wake will now look and work much better in the game with smoother transitions.

I have worked on the ocean more to give the subs and ships in the game more stormyier effects and get more reaction out of them but to do this I had to lower all of the subs surface running height by a foot to keep them from doing the occastional flying sub routine.

So in the sub reflection work you will find 2 new files in there a val file and a cfg file.

The cfg file has the fallowing changes:

All the subs sit 1 foot lower in the water on the surface.
I added my telegraph speed mod to the cfg's as well so ahead 2/3rd's will be a good fuel conservation setting in your game. And Ahead 1/3rd and back 1/3rd will be silent running speeds when submerged. Also changed snorkel depth to 30 feet for a good radar depth.

I hope the changes will be acceptable to everyone it was the best way for me to create new and better ocean effects people seemed to want according to the poll Pantherclies did with what he was working on before the patch.

So in conclusion this is what you will have:

A new sub reflection download

A new sky and ocean control download

New texture download due to some new smoke textures and all textures will be in TLowRes and TNormal to make sure no one has any problems what so ever.

A new special effects download for stock only

A new Object reflection / search light download.

For now while I work on the rest of it.

Uploading stuff today and then will post them.

Welcome back Dave! Glad to see you're still in one piece my friend. Be well:up:

Glad your home bud..I sent you an email dont know if you got it..Merry XMAS...:sunny:

Just going through all the e-mails now Clayp thanks
 

BTW havn't forgoten you I have some stuff I will be sending you for the radio. A radio station set up file and a ton of radio stations.

I will get you the download links as soon as they are ready! You will have a total of 10 new radio stations to use in game.

That is if you still need help with it let me know okay buddy?!

Dave

Dave,

Welcome back man! Here is wishing you much good health!

Take it easy!:up:

Welcome back to Homeport! Happy to hear you had a successful patrol! :up:

Damn it Dave! I was reading your post just fine unit this part:

I told you what they did to me and well......that ruined that post thinking back to that day with the good old doctor....:nope:

Anyway, glad you are back and you sound like you are in good spirits!!! That is all that matters:up: Looking forward to the drug induced mods you created in the hospital:rotfl: pyscodelic skys or is that marmalade skys?:hmm:

LMAO sorry couldn;t remember how to spell growen or is it growin area?
 

Actualy I am not fond of pain killers at all so it was not fun. When they do this proceedier you have to stay absolutly still in the bed with a clamp and a 15 pound weight placed over the area where they go in and because of the blood thinners I could not move in the bed for almost 5 days :down: :doh:

SUCKS BIG TIME!!!

But I am here now at least.

Glad to know that you're back, Dave !! CHEERS !!!!!!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TAKE CARE, MATE !!!!!!!!!!