Believe me, mate. There is ALL KINDS OF POTENTIAL for SH5 beyond what is currently available. SH5 is going to be an open field for the Silent Hunter Devs... and I can hardly wait to see what they've got planned.

In short... Yes it will work. IIRC, one of our exploratory / experimental GWX-SH4 development threads back in the Lair already has the matter sorted.

for those looking for a mod to "finish" sh4, a little while ago i proposed a mod to fine tune and solidify the game as it should've been when released. maybe this mod could work with the future GWX? check my posted threads.

God those are sexy pics.

Ref is being quite humble as well... That VIIC is NOT from SH3. It is a total reconstruction with a higher LOD made for GWX-SH4. Even in its current state of excellence, Ref still considers it a WIP.

Take a bow Ref. :rock:

Such as...?

Really now, since UBM's out, lets start an SH5 wishlist.:)

A few from me:

1. The Canals.
2. Plotting map that doesn't let you run into small islands (ie, you have a crew with a sense of self-preservation).
3. The ability to abandon ship.
4. More moddability - some things that are hardcoded are very bizzare things to hardcode...If we want to go to the effort of adding new subs, let us add without having to replace.
5. Strategic Control for all sides.
6. The ability to rest on the bottom.
7. Make it harder to die by running aground. Please.
8. See #7. Seriously.
9. For the first days of war in Pacific: Dignitary evac. MacArthur, Quezon, and others were all evac'd by submarine. Idea here would be to go undetected as completely as possible.
10. Spy/troops extraction.

Well, that would take things too far off topic I think, given that this thread is about implimentation on the SH4 platform.

Besides, I think some of those things can be addressed in SH4 in due time.

11. All interiors modeled and accessible - maybe even below decks (i.e. batteries, pump room, storage compartments).
12. Moving machinery.
13. Card games (jk)

Very good! I ventured into the Indian Ocean (when I was not sunk on my second patrol that plaqued my crew quite often using GWX:oops:)...I used one of the IXB boats. Well, that is good news the grid system will work in the Atlantic Ocean.

IIRC there may be some limitations concerning the strange shape of some KM grids... but nothing too terrible.

At the moment I don't want to say more concerning the grid system, to prevent making a false statement.:arrgh!:

Maybe the developers of GWX are interested in cooperation with our Aces of the Deep Community. We are working on a atlantic mod for a long time as you can see here:

http://www.aotd-flottille.de/wbb2/th...?threadid=8366

My e-mail is stephankrueger@hotmail.com

We would be pleased to receive a message.
Best regards, CaptainNemo

With this one you're lucky, I've studied the changes in the terrain files, with a little change to my terrain extractor we'll be able to tweak the terrain as in sh3.
I'll port the canals/scapa mod in sh3 to sh4 as soon as I can, probably by next weekend I'll make a release FREE TO USE BY EVERYONE, WITH NO EXCEPTIONS :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: .

Ref

COOL!!! :up: :up: :up:

...and so it begins. Liquid awesomeness redux! :rock:

I'm more or less up to my neck right now with RL work and for a couple of days but I'll be contacting you when I've more time.


Ref

Hi Ref! Great news! We will stay in contact!

Type VIIC (very early) interior WIP by Ref w/animated obs scope.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV8AqWH9u5g

Looks amazing
 

That interior looks great! How are you walking around inside?

shift+f2

Ref

Don't count on it.

*smiles*

:up:

The cultures are too different
 

It's a totalitarian police state against a Western democracy. It's Microsoft against Linux. It's proprietary against open source. Can't work. No cooperation is possible there, only coexistence. They bring out the best and sometimes the worst. in each other. You should duck when they start trading 5" shells though. :arrgh!: It's all in good fun, they just can't stand each other.

But kids who believe in sharing their toys cannot play with kids who would hoard all the toys because in the end one kid ends up with it all and the other kid goes home to mommy emptyhanded. Let them play separately and they can both have fun.