menu.txt file has nothing to do with it. The mast heights are extracted from the \data\Sea folders when the game starts. That information is stored in a dictionary data type. When you lock onto a ship the name of the ship is used as the key to look up the value in the dictionary for the mast height. That is how mast height is automatically set.
Would you be willing to run a debug version of the mod to help me see why you and others are not getting mast height set automatically?

You don't need to place the centre line on the waterline to get the correct range, as long as you drag the ghost image's down to the top of the mast. - It works.

This is due to SH5 using the Sh4 (Paciffic Boats) stadimeter with its double prism method. :nope:

While I have got the stadimeter working perfectly. It has not been released yet.
Fixing a few other things before I release. Not to long to go though:03:.

the stadimeter is huge requirement for gameplay IMHO. reaper, if yours is working then I'm all over it.

Hi,

could You tell me the fault(s) in the german menu.txt, please.
So I could fix it.

Thanks,
Paco.

who else is getting 0 for mast heights on the ships? I sent a debug tester out to the two here to get some feedback as to why they're having problems with it.

Hallo Paco - da gibt es so einige. Eines ist hier in den screenshots:

Hello TDW,

I have made some quick testing (dont have much time today) on a test mission with 4 ships in front (download from here at Subsim)

I am almost sure now it's bound to keyboard. (the mistake)

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/5943/bugtdw01.jpg

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/11/bugtdw02.jpg

Got the PM, will test it.

when you enter mast height you have to use the 'American' way of it: use the decimal point. It won't accept the comma. I see you're trying to use a mast height of 28,2...You have to enter 28.2 when doing manual entry. The icon you say 'locks' the target doesn't lock it per se. That is follow target which keeps the camera centered on the target. Locking/unlocking a target is done with the spacebar in game.

Ok just got your file, installed it. But I get no pop ups, nothing.

On "locking". Yes I know that: I first "lock" the ship with the space bar, then with the "follow lock" (which should say "Folge Ziel", not "Schadensmeldung" (damage report) I did that out of desperation, because nothing seems to help, lol.

On mast height: Yes I know, I tried both, "." and ",". Both are not accepted, mastheight of 28,2 will be "accepted" but display as "282,0". It's always the same.

That is why I think there is a communication problem keyboard layout to game.

ah yes, you won't get pop ups unless your main.cfg (\Documents\SH5\data\cfg) file is edited as follows:

[DEVELOPING]
Modding=Yes
MenuEditor=Yes
DebugScripts=Yes

Ok will try. Any idea about the rest of the mentioned problems ?

I need to see the results of what I sent you first.

Do you have the MOD installed correctly?:06: This sounds like problems with Stock game not the MOD.:hmmm:

Hi,

stimmt, der Eintrag ist falsch. :damn:
Der Fehler ist so schon seit Version 2.0.0 bei mir enthalten.

Sie fallen mir leider nicht so schnell auf, da ich bei neuen Versionen nur nach den Unterschieden zu der bisher gültigen Menüdatei schaue.

Ich werde noch einmal hergehen und die englische mit der deutschen Menüdatei vergleichen um ggfs. weitere Fehler zu finden. Wenn Du mehr Fehler hast, dann sag bitte Bescheid und ich korrigier sie.

Danke Dir.
Paco.


Ok,
after a look at the german menu.txt there is a fault in the file. #2873 was wrong.
So I will have a look over the file for fixing perhaps some more errors. :damn:


Paco.

No he has a valid complaint. There is/are unrecognized byte(s) that exist in their files....I have to find a solution for this :hmmm: Okay it's just me, I can't parse German files using American settings in the game......

Hi again -

Checked again and main.cfg was already set to

[DEVELOPING]
;Modding=Yes
;MenuEditor=Yes
;DebugScripts=Yes

But no pop up menus...

yeah but they're commented out. Remove the ; from each entry.

It looks like I've figured out why users of other than English (German seems to be more susceptible than others) are getting 0 for mast heights. I'm testing the German version now and was able to get mast height data.

Edited and saved like you said:

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/139...0620211105.jpg

No pop up menus. Nothing unusual happens in the game.

That sounds encouraging.