Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins (Post 1144382)

This smells like as lousy an idea as Ducimus' evil airplanes.:D I have to confess that when he announced that I thought it was the stupidest thing anybody ever thought of. And when I played with it I realized that it was genius, the best new idea in Silent Hunter 4 to date.
I agree !
I think this is another one of those game-changer ideas that will force us to operate with a little more fear and in a little less Rambo-like fashion.thus more realistically If we're setting up a surface attack and a fleet of six torpedo boats with two or four of these torpedoes charges us from two directions at 30 knots, what do you think our reaction would be?
dive dive dive !
Did the Japanese have E-Boats or the equivalent? yes but bigger, see below They certainly were good at destroyers and torpedoes, so something can be cooked up in any event. This promises to mess up our nice tidy game and introduce a little refreshing mayhem!:salute:

Originally Posted by peabody (Post 1144368)

Fantastic idea. Very clever.

Just a suggestion on the issue of stationary/slow moving targets. You have the Particle generator/object linked to the MK14. What about making one of the torpedos acoustic. (I know the cutie is already, but it is slow and underpowered for this use.) Wouldn't that solve the problem of accurate aiming for faster ships? You would still have to be "in the ballpark" or the acoustic wouldn't pick up the target. And then you could create missions with surface AI ships assisting an attack. Of couse I would put a rather small limit on the available ammo or it would keep shooting until everything is sunk.

Thanks for the great work.

Peabody

Originally Posted by DarkFish (Post 1144723)

You could fire any torpedo you want, just change the ID the object particle links to in the torpedospawnfx.dat file. But I don't think a modified cutie would work as it would simply go after the ship that fired the torpedo, I guess.
FYI, there are no custom torpedoes included, it just uses the stock ones. If you want a torpedo to go faster you would have to modify one of the already existing ones. Maybe cloning it, but I don't know what effect that would have on the 'playable' ones.

There is already a limit on the ammo, right now it has 4 torpedoes launching 20 seconds apart.

Also, I updated the file to fix problems with deep running torps, in the latest version (just uploaded to FileFront) even with 15m/s wind 2/3 of all torpedoes still hit the target. (depending on target draft of course, 7,5 ft in this case)
At longer ranges (from about 2500 m) the problem seems to cure itself with all torpedoes suddenly rising to their normal depth:hmmm:, but so far I didn't succeed in shortening this distance.

Originally Posted by DarkFish (Post 1144723)

FYI, there are no custom torpedoes included, it just uses the stock ones. If you want a torpedo to go faster you would have to modify one of the already existing ones. Maybe cloning it, but I don't know what effect that would have on the 'playable' ones.

Originally Posted by iambecomelife (Post 1161099)

Just so you know, I think I managed to make an improvement to the latest version. I reset the initial velocity to 0.25 from 1 and I changed the alignment to "Worldaligned" from "Motion Aligned".

Before making these changes, a group of Fletcher DD's attacked two Japanese battleships and scored a single hit, with most of the torpedoes being deep runners. Two destroyers were lost and I sank both BB's with my sub.

After making the changes, in the same test mission the Fletchers sank both of the battleships with no help, scoring at least five hits with no deep runners. No destroyers were lost.

Originally Posted by polyfiller (Post 1161211)

Yes - nice peice of tuning Iambecomelife.... I'll make these changes to the TSWSM code and see what happens. For those who haven't seen my "other" post .... I have been able to get a submerged AI controlled submarine to fire these little babies :D