Understood, thanks. I'm surprised there isn't any texture/graphic file in the patch.
I looked in the .dat files, maybe I missed something in there.

What if you added a object with a pendulum controller?
Assign the flare zone to that and it should at lest be random.

What is the name of this mod for LSH?

Wow. Thats why i come here, to learn new things!
But this object is beyond my knowledge today and willingness to invest more time.
What we get here is an additional Material to an existing mechanism already integrated in the game-mechanics. I am not shure on which place a pendulum object can be injected.

But on two tests, which naturaly results into Game-crash, i learned with the Help of the ID-Finder from S3D, that i do not need the "flare.dat", these items are already integrated in my Materials.dat. This saves a little Loadtime, Diskspace and Memory.
So thank you for animate me looking into this deeper.

Some other working Pendulum objects can be found in AC4.dat and the two Submarine-Turms IIA-IID.

Greetings.

Yeah. I put those in for effects on the USS Cyclops Ghost Ship.
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Never could get this to work. No big deal.

Decided to again try H.sie's patch via post #10 of this thread. I inserted the "Effect1=#distress_Flare, 100" line via the instructions and also tried via Hebe's idea in post #16 of this thread.
Still no workee. Patch files added via JSGME, fyi. Does the Effect1=#distress_Flare, 100 line need to be edited somehow, i.e. the "#" symbol changed ?

It looks like the name of a particle effect called from the Zones.cfg file. If yes, the name must be exactly the same as the name of the effect contained in particles.dat (Library).

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I think this can be corrected without the use of any pendulum object, just by editing the particle effect.

Thanks for the reply. The mod includes two .dat files; distressflare.dat and flare.dat that both go in the library folder.
No particles.dat file. :hmmm:

The distressflare.dat file does have a node with the same name as the Effect line above.

Yes ok, the effect just has to be placed in a xxxxxxx.dat file contained in the Library folder. It doesn't have to be in particles.dat. Just check that both files (distressflare.dat and flare.dat) don't have the same name for the particle node (#distress_Flare) ! It looks like that these files are redundant... :hmmm:

Yes, I thought so too but both .dat files particle generator nodes have different names.
Strange.

If the ship doesn't launch any flare when sinking, it's probably because she has no zone with the effect attached to it... (have a look in ship.zon file).

Great idea, like in AOD :03:

Right thanks. I've attached it to all the zones Hebe listed with no luck. I'll do some more digging around the ship files though, maybe there's some more zones able to be used.

:up: Lots of AOD items haven been tried to be modded into Sh3. What's interesting is that it appears many have never even played AOD. :o
Still the King of the Hill imo. :)