My custom ride
 

I dont really play online just solo My regular sub is a type IXB with a type VIIC/4 conning tower two 105's and two twin 37's this ship is modified in armour and fire power to equal (roughly) a super destroyer or Light cruiser in surface combat
(24/12.5 kts) guns and armour reduced to normal it would just about equal a JC Butler.

when campaigning I upgrade boats as available with a standard loadout and upgrades.

For me it is making it as close to real as I can get it to simulate what a real Kaleun had to deal with.
But, that is me.
The fact is, how you like it is the right way whether or not others agree.
I remember Charlie added 2 15ich guns to his type IXC mid 2005 but I could not figure how to model the 3-4 complete rollovers a U-Boat would do from the recoil!:rotfl:

Wulfmann

making it real
 

actually making it real is what correcting the Rivers is all about I campaign historically
and use scenarios for moddelling and simming MM.

First attempt
 

well as these things go it collapsed my museum and I replaced it with vanilla riverDE back into the sea file do I need to do roster simultaneously ??(Yes I went back and reread earlier post,will try again after cloning) also I havent been able to get the hang of cloning it yet it wont do the folder in total and stuff like the cfg file it says cant be cloned.

aside from redundancy what is the purpose of cloning as opposed to making copy?.

MM.:down:

Well I'm learning
 

just wanted to see how my signature displayed. MM.:|\\

GWX
 

Incidently I've never downloaded GWX where is there a good summary of the features?.

The GWX Manual is on this page. Just scroll down to find it.

http://www.users.on.net/~jscones/GWX/

gratitude dude
 

thanks fred I'm gone to get the wife, Later

Its only the dat file that gets cloned
If it isnt it will CTD as there will be an ID conflict with the parent ship

thats the ticket
 

thanks there wooly now it should start at least. MM.

Uh Oh
 

well I'm not sure exactly what I did wrong but now Im getting CTD about a third of the way through the initial gameloading screen all I had done was swap out the nderiver file in sea and taken directly from that file the cfg and put it in british and canadian folders in roster. I undid all this and replaced the file and the cfgs with vanilla versions and it didnt cure the problem. I assume at this point I didnt succesfully clone the dat file and oops although I have a back up of vanilla it seems Ive lost my back up of 1.4 I believe I'll be spending the next hour doing a reinstall and reload of mods.

update : am spending the next hour reinstalling arghh! oh well my bad for poor back up.

MM, I do a complete copy of the data file for each version installed. If I screw up I can simply swap back to the last good data folder. It is also good to back up areas you are working on and date them so how to find them.
I recently installed GWX and made a copy of all the folders in a new data folder so as I mod it I can be sure I have their clean files to revert to.
I am rebuilding all the convoys (RND.mis file)for that so you better believe I saved their original!
We all screw up and often when trying new stuff.
BTW, back in mid 2005, the firt thing I tried to mod was the River class to rename the model "A" class DE and did not know how. If Big was around then he likely would have walked me through it like he has many other things.
I could never have made my tweaks work so well without the help I get here even from guys I am basically saying I want to alter their work because it is not to my liking.
However, some are not alsways friendly like Big.
So, be prepared on occasion to crash dive ALARM!!!!

Wulfmann

What can I say
 

Oh well :damn: MM.

Have your file MM
Will look after work mate

speaking of work
 

whatever it was it was a major Foo Foo , problem survived uninstall forgot to remove latent folders and defrag, once more into the breech dear friends back on this evening MM.

MM you have PM

Warning to all
 

well as it turns out it wasnt my Foo Foo I believe my Lexmark printer was trying to use my Sh3 to communicate with headquarters and it Interfered with Loading , loading pages on this site and it wouldnt allow me to delete Ubisoft/SilenthunterIII/Data even once I emptied all files as it was using it, the printer was not Identified as the culprit but I have battled LXCats previously and detected the presence in processes and shut it down, subsequent to this I was able to freely delete data file and these pages loaded instantly again on my system. am proceeding with sweep and reinstall and reload and fully expect to be succesfull this time

Caution if you have a lexmark printer educate yourself on what is installed on your drive it runs deep and doesnt get detected by spyware I know of .

I really should take a computer course someday MM.

MM you have PM and a new ship

Well you will do when I have fixed something

regarding my question of the other day
 

does cloning just register the names internally within the file? does it make copy then? or does it do both ( first attempt didnt show an obvious copy) or is there another more mysterious and sinister function that I am unaware of like making a million copies of my sister? MM. :roll:

ps (again) is there a good public domain tutorial on cloning and or hexediting and skinning?.

Good Q in the cloning
I know it renames the cam file above that I believe it also changes the digital ID so as not to cause conflict
Sure some one more versed in that could give you an answer

Try a search for skinning - it should bring up something
I dont recall seeing anything on cloning and hexediting