Interesting idea DD
Yes please keep going mate

Very cool

Thanks for all the pleasant replies and encouragement. Other items are in progress.

...will be covered by pontius, a new modder from the German UBI forum. See a screen here. (Try again if you get an error message. We have some trouble with the forum actually)

Regards,
DD

Debris
 

If there were generic environmental entries (type 105) in the campaign, then you may get icebergs instead of debris. That might look odd in some areas of the Atlantic, or in the Mediterranean.:o However, if one could create a second 'merchant' entry for environmental objects other than icebergs, this could possibly work.:hmm:

Also, DivingDuck, are you planning to create other type of debris such as crates or planks?

Bloody Right! Amen to that Bro!:rock:

"It's the small things that make a world look big!":know:

Icebergs are covered differently in GWX AG
So they are now spottable

AFAIK there are currently no type105 entries in the GWX files so it wont be a problem to add generically

Just one q DD
Do they drift ? or do they need to be scripted as to show a drift

Moin,
yes I do. These are the next items to be released.

they drift, hopefully. Not tested so far. Presently they´re given a max speed of 1kt.

Regards,
DD

Amen to that brother :up:

Floating birds = Ducks [pun ?] and Swans [usually get 2 of them, Male and Female] around Harbour area's.

PS Is requesting the Loch Ness Monster too extreme ? :rotfl:

How about Bernard in a life raft? :88)

Keep it up, DivingDuck.

A Pelican would be a good bird, may an albertross??:hmm:

A floating mine would be fun:huh: Just as long as I can use my AA guns on it!:p

logs and planks are common item that floats around in a harbour. Packs of seaweed as well.

Would be cool to have 2 flags whit a fishnet between them in shore areas.

darn you have much work to do if you gona try and implant all the request :D

If you can spawn these when ships sink you could make some nice lifeboats :D

Nice work !

What happens when you run into it? Does it reduce hull integrity? Would be cool to make some floating mines.

That's a good question - IMO this debris should be a danger to small craft, maybe, but not a U-Boat or a ship.

Great job as usual, Duck, and I hope to see more. Someone mentioned bodies and survivors - this is a good idea. IIRC IL2/Pacific Fighters has downed pilots as units, complete with life rafts - why not in SH3? :hmm: For the life of me I can't figure out why the game's makers thought we needed to be protected from this aspect of war.:roll: The fact is that between 1939 and 1945 the typical seafarer would have a good chance of encountering them at one point or another.

Bodies and so on
 

You could create flotsam of bodies and then use code similar to the ship holes to darken them, especially in proximity to tankers...

Try a few Mae wests, inflatables, perhaps a pallet or two, single oil barrels, a mine, , single boards, how about damaged lifeboats with holes...


There's a whole series of macbre things to be done... Change the blue oil slick code to pink or reddish waters.... Parts of crews..... Feeding sharks..... Seagulls having a chum festival...

See if you can switch those dolphins into more toothful predators of the sea....

:hmm: