Clicking on 5m will do nothing here, 6m is not selectable (at least the boat does not dive to) and 7m switches to electric engines and locks the hatch while most of the boat submerges (more than decks awash).
Ordering to surface the boat lets it dive to 8m - only possible to resurface by blowing the tanks.

Cheers!

What can be done until you get a boat with a Snorkel is to use this from commands.cfg;

[Cmd195]
Name=Snorkel_depth
Contexts=1
StringID=1033
Key0=0xBA,s,"Shift+;"
HasDelayedExecution=Yes
CommandClass=Depth

For your surface command and change the Snorkel depth to 5 or 6 meters (depends on sub type).

[Unit]
ClassName=SSTypeVIIA
3DModelFileName=data/Submarine/NSS_Uboat7a/NSS_Uboat7a
HumanPlayable=YES
UnitType=200
MaxSpeed=17.0
MaxSpeedSubmerged=7.6
Length=67.4
Width=5.3
RenownAwarded=130

[Salvo]
1=1,3,2,4
2=1,2,4
3=1,3,4
4=1,4
5=2,3
6=1,3
7=2,4

[Properties]
PeriscopeDepth=12;meters 12.5
SnorkelDepth=5;meters 12.5
CrashDepth=71;meters - is actualy 70, and will never reach 71, it will dwingle at ~70.5 - fix for updating interface. [Saitan Catalin]
MaxDepth=200;meters
DiveDepth=40;meters
SurfaceDepth=8;meters
TorpLaunchMaxDepth=20;meters
StormConditions=15,1.0;max wind speed [m/s], max rain intensity [0,1]

[EngineProperties]
AllStop=0.00
AheadSlow=0.20
AheadOneThird=0.30
AheadStandard=0.6
AheadFull=0.80
AheadFlank=1.00
BackSlow=-0.2
BackStandard=-0.40
BackFull=-0.53
BackEmergency=-0.66
; ************** THE END *************

To be clear now you use your surface command for 'Decks Awash' and your snorkle depth command for 'Surface the Boat'.

It seems that being able to open and close the hatch is tied into the surface depth and until that is unbound there isn't a great workaround.

Cdr

If you dont bother hexediting SH5.exe there is another possibility.

When you click a door, sh5.exe checks if you clicked the conning tower door. IF it is the conning tower door, the actual depth will be checked.

SH5 checks the clicked_door_name versus "Door_CT_EXT" which is a string hardcoded in sh5.exe.

If you now search "Door_CT_EXT" in sh5.exe with your hexeditor and change it to anything else (dont change length), f.e. "Door_CT_TTT", then sh5.exe wont match the door anymore.

The result is that you can handle the conning tower door as every other door and open/close it at any depth. The 2nd result is that the door wont be closed automatically anymore, when you dive.
It results in the ability to go from INT to EXT at every depth.
So you didnt need to chance the *.cfg files anymore.

If you want it so, you have to decide.

BR
Robert

Kptlt.Mahs wrote: wow! my imagination runs wild..... this means you have ultimate manual control of the sub access? so doing this implies that every dive sequence will require manually shutting the door? i like it. also, if in a storm with green water swamping the tower and lookouts, will water crash thru into the control room too?

now, if we could just get manual control of diesel/electric motors running.........!

Well, if you dont close the door and dive ... nothing happens. There is no water coming in or something. So this can be a little unreal, depending how you play it.
BR

Also much slower speeds and higher fuel usage. They didn't just run all over the Atlantic at 'decks awash'. It was usually reserved for attack approaches, and would be done with electrics anyway, as diesels are still noisy and still smoke.

Thanks for this mod, my navigater loves you!:yeah:

Hello gentlemen, can somebody please upload this mod again?

Hi,

I found a Mod on my HD called
Deck`s awash, Bad Weather Guns V1.0.7z

I hope it is the right one.

Greets,
Paco.

Hi Paco, thank you!:salute:

Is the copy above the original work? Looks like it is. I have uploaded to the File Bank.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=4741

Neal

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What textures are you using? They look amazing!

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