I have a copy of the famous "Clean Sweep" photo with the broomstick of WAHOO returning to base displaying kill flags indicating two Warships and six Maru's sunk on that patrol. 2nd title; "SHOOT THE SUN ZA B*TCHES".

Roger Paine (was XO) is conning her into port if that helps narrow the time frame down. All dark paint scheme, and the tower has been cut down so I'm pretty confident it was later in the War.

Anyway, there is no headdress displayed on her tower if you want to be historically accurate.

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The headress would be found in the Data / Textures / TNormal / tex folder, so look in there... The one in the skin pack that cdrsubron7 pointed you at is painted in colors. I have no idea about the historical accuracy of the boat's display, but i'd trust aanker on that.:salute:

Easy tiger, I do also sleep ya know...

But no... This mod was missing from my database.

Who was the author, do we know?

It was from FooFighters skins old website [ http://www.oldsmobile1958.com/silenthunter/ ]. For a while FooFighters with the help of Boris would provide skins for the major classes of fleetboats and skins with custom request kill flags (meat balls & rising suns) and battle flag mascots to apply to conning towers.

Here is a snapshot of what was available at one time:
I think you can still access the website on archive.org

I have a collection of some of the skins if they aren't here at Subsim.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...p?do=cat&id=76

The Narwhal skin was made for Ducimus' Trigger Maru Narwhal.

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Well, if we can find the one for this thread, it's
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...674#post472674
"iblitz", but the one that cdrsubron7 and I linked to is "FooBor"... That post link there is to post #1 here, and has the picture that iblitz used...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...hoo_SS-238.jpg

http://oneternalpatrol.com/USS-Wahoo-pic-01.jpg

http://emackinnon.com/wahoo-ShootThe...Broomstick.jpg

OK, found it!

http://warfish.com/scrap5.html

http://warfish.com/battleflag.jpg

it's a "Battle Flag", hanging off the boat, along the conning tower, the colorful one is correct. I ~knew~ I'd seen it around...

that is one good site, btw. :salute: rest in peace Wahoo! :salute:

Typically some of the crew would sew these impressive battle flags that displayed the mascot, kill flags, aviators rescued, recons, awards, etc.

They were not displayed while on patrol but were made and added to by the crew on the long trip home to display the boat's accomplishments as they returned to base. Often the crew would pose for photographs with their flag.

It says Morton himself designed and made the Indian head. Nice site.

That it is. I have never seen it before. From what I can tell from that site, that patrol was the only one they used that particular battle flag, and only coming into San Fran, I guess - but there's a lot to read over there... :salute:

I've known Admiral Roger Paine's son since the 60's. He's about ten years older than I am and grew up with all these famous submariners and memorabilia in the house but didn't seem interested in much of it,

LT Paine missed the last patrol because of appendicitis... lucky, lucky.

I just read that story! The navy had fumigated the boat just prior to leaving for patrol, and he and another fellow apparently got too close to the application, or ingested the poison. Both of their apendixes were removed for 'just-in-case', so they both missed that fateful cruise...

yes propbeanie i found the gato tower dds in the tex folder and enabled but the whole sub still remains just black with nothing on tower frustrating but thank you all for info and great photos

My back is paining me bad, so my worst friend insomnia is visiting... sheesh... Anyway, the skins go with the conning towers, and those are listed in the Gato.upc file like this:

IDLinkUnitPartIntervalDefault1= NULL, 1942-04-30, GatoConningEarlyWar
IDLinkUnitPartIntervalDefault2= 1942-05-01, 1942-12-31, GatoConningMedWar
IDLinkUnitPartIntervalDefault3= 1943-01-01, 1943-12-31, GatoConningLateWar
IDLinkUnitPartIntervalDefault4= 1944-01-01, NULL, GatoConningElite

so the #1 (early) tower runs until April 30th, 1942 and is "blank", like this:

https://i.imgur.com/YeH0dTq.jpg


The second sail, "MedWar" uses the T01 tex file from May 1 to Dec 31 1942, like this:

https://i.imgur.com/74WyMGk.jpg

The LateWar goes from Jan 1, 1943 to Dec 31, 1943 using the T02 file in the tex folder like this:

https://i.imgur.com/O1qL0gl.jpg

and the "Elite" goes back to "blank"... In this particular skin, it is for any Gato boat, so should show up between May 1, 1942 to Dec 31, 1943. If it doesn't, be sure you have it activated with JSGME properly, and that you don't have a bad folder structure like "Game \ MODS \ SS238 USS Wahoo_FooBor's GATO Combo HI-RES \ SS238 USS Wahoo_FooBor's GATO Combo HI-RES \ Data"... You only want the one "SS238 USS Wahoo_FooBor's GATO Combo HI-RES" folder, not two of them... I should have rotated the conn around in S3D, and looked at the other side. I have no idea if it faces forward, or back, or if it's even there... :hmmm: - Edit: It is there, on both sides, and both facing forward - excellent stuff. :salute:

Of course, in the game, you should have the rest of your submarine, unless you do like I do, and get it blown out from under you all the time... :roll: :salute:

darn that looks beautiful it makes me more determined than ever to get it to work i have tried everything you said to do and nothing but all black no matter what the year but thank you again for all the work you did to try and help me hope the back feels better fast too

Let's go this route then:

1. Which folder is the game installed in?
2. Where did you purchase your game from, Steam?
3. What other mod(s) are you using?
4. Do they work OK?
5. Are you putting the skin mod in last?

1.c/silent hunter 4
2.a store not online
3.none when i use this skin
4.
5.yes as i said no other mod


hope your back is doing better

So, you're NOT in a "Program Files" directory of any sort, but rather, a folder you made yourself for the install. Now, look in your MODS folder, and "navigate" (fancy-talk for "double-click on") into the "SS238 USS Wahoo_FooBor's GATO Combo HI-RES" folder. Do you see another folder of the same name, or a "Data" folder?

I have FooBor's SS-238 Wahoo skin with the headdress already on NSS_GatoTower_T01.dds and NSS_GatoTower_T02.dds if this is what you need.

As you know, NSS_GatoTower_T02.dds tower is lighter than NSS_GatoTower_T01.dds, or isn't this the issue.....

Happy Hunting!

Naw, he's not seeing it in game. I also was using my FotRSU install as an example earlier, and there are four conning towers in it, but only two in Stock... sigh. That skin that you have is the one that he's been pointed at already. Might just be a bad activation in his install.

data folder then a submarine and textures when i use mods or other skins they work fine its just this wahoo think its because its my fave lol

well hallelujah finally got it to work i made a backup of my data and manually put the skin in game and BAM i guess JSGME was not enabling it properly anyhow im so happy i want to give a big thank you to all that helped great bunch of folks here:Kaleun_Cheers:

I didn't help, I wanted to, but couldn't figure out what the problem with JSGME was. All I could think of was to see what the JSGME 'snapshot' said, but that wouldn't have solved the problem. Glad to see you are up and running now!

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