Originally Posted by frau kaleun (Post 1715473)

By all means the game should look how you want it to look, given the limitations involved. I'm pretty sure there have been requests before for the greatcoats you have pictured or something similar but so far I haven't seen any mods that use them. That may be because nobody who knows how has felt the urge to do it yet, or it may be because it's not possible to create a .tga that will create that look in-game, I just don't know. Given the way the items that are rendered as clothing and accessories are laid out on the existing .tga files, it might involve far more than just changing the .tga files themselves - it might require changes to the 3D modeling of the figures as well. Again I don't really know.

Personally I can't see anyone working on a u-boat wearing a coat that long inside the boat as it seems like it would just get in the way or constantly be catching on stuff in the cramped environment. On watch I'm not sure, but I don't know how practical they would've been when getting down the ladder as quickly as possible (which often meant sliding down rather than climbing) was often a matter of life and death. Of course the s'westers were probably pretty cumbersome in that regard so... :hmmm:

Edit: the helmets IMO would not be realistic at all inside the boat, there's no reason for them. AFAIK the only time they would be worn above decks is when the guns are manned in a combat situation (i.e. engaging a target). Not sure about vanilla or unmodded GWX but I'm pretty sure in my game the guys on the guns do get helmets when they are doing their thing.

Originally Posted by frau kaleun (Post 1715421)

In the mod I use, the leathers worn by the watch officers and crew have the eagle emblem on them.

Originally Posted by Paul Riley (Post 1715868)

I once managed (as an experiment) to give identical clothing to some guys simply by copying the piece of clothing I was interested in,pasting it the number of times I wanted it and renaming it to whatever the recipient's file name was and overwriting,and it worked ok.

Originally Posted by frau kaleun (Post 1715998)

I would assume that would always be the case, if you find a .tga file that you like for crew clothing you could just copy and rename it and use it for whichever crewmen you wanted. I have played around with the .tga files like that to switch some off the officers' clothes around.

Originally Posted by Paul Riley (Post 1716029)

And it shouldnt really matter whether the file was designated OFF or POS,so long as the file name is renamed exactly how it was in the original OFF or POS folders?

Originally Posted by frau kaleun (Post 1716039)

That I don't know, but I would suspect that it does not matter in terms of whether the file will work... I'm guessing the clothes would "fit" okay however those .tga files contain not only the clothes but also some accessories which might only be appropriate for an officer but not an enlisted man or vice versa. But you could probably judge that just by looking at the .tga file itself. I don't know what different clothing mods have done with those files in terms of completely outfitting the intended crewman.

Originally Posted by Paul Riley (Post 1715863)

Also could someone kindly explain to me the exact positions for each of the officers and seamen? example:

OFFICERS (not sure if this is how it works)

watch officer - OFF 1
chief - OFF 2
nav officer - OFF 3
weps - OFF 4

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve (Post 1716300)

Looks like I came late to this discussion, but I'll add my two cents anyway.

First, no one ever, ever, EVER wears any kind of medal in a potential combat situation, and no sailor or officer wears his combat ribbons on the working uniform while at sea.


The whole "Watch Officer, Chief, Nav Officer, Weapons Officer" thing is one of the weirdest mistakes the developers made in the game. While there was an LI, or Chief Engineer, the other titles are game titles and have nothing to do with real life. In the game they are positions, not titles, and any officer can be placed in any slot, so OFF 1 is just a reference to one face, not the job he does. They could have created a specific 1WO, 2WO etc, and that's exactly what they did for SH5.

I personally move my guys around in a regular rotation, and I do consider each man to be a specific person. But then I also use the Das Boot Faces mod, so each of my Officers looks like one of the actors from the movie. And yes, I do use specific outfits for each one. My LI wears the black pants and black vest, my Obersteuermann wears Werner's sweater, and my 1WO wears a standard uniform. That said, I don't remember which one is OFF1 etc, and it doesn't really matter. I apply the uniforms first and then decide who is who and award skill accordingly.

As for the eagle, that was sewn onto uniform shirts when they were made, and should only appear on a regulation shirt, never on personal clothes.

Originally Posted by Paul Riley (Post 1716324)

So,say I wanted to sew the eagle on the blue overalls I issued everyone (the enlisted men that is) is there a way to do that? and if so,could you describe the process for doing that? if not,then never mind.I just wanted to make the overalls by Evan look like official KM property by adding the eagle.

:salute:

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve (Post 1716330)

I'm certain there is. I think if you take the .tga for the uniform into a paint of photo program you could transfer one from another uniform, but I'm not sure how to actually do it.

Originally Posted by privateer (Post 1716494)

I can edit that to a image with a transparent back ground if you want.
Then you only need to copy and paste it.
I can scale it down to proper size also if you wish.