Uh Oh
 

well I'm not sure exactly what I did wrong but now Im getting CTD about a third of the way through the initial gameloading screen all I had done was swap out the nderiver file in sea and taken directly from that file the cfg and put it in british and canadian folders in roster. I undid all this and replaced the file and the cfgs with vanilla versions and it didnt cure the problem. I assume at this point I didnt succesfully clone the dat file and oops although I have a back up of vanilla it seems Ive lost my back up of 1.4 I believe I'll be spending the next hour doing a reinstall and reload of mods.

update : am spending the next hour reinstalling arghh! oh well my bad for poor back up.

MM, I do a complete copy of the data file for each version installed. If I screw up I can simply swap back to the last good data folder. It is also good to back up areas you are working on and date them so how to find them.
I recently installed GWX and made a copy of all the folders in a new data folder so as I mod it I can be sure I have their clean files to revert to.
I am rebuilding all the convoys (RND.mis file)for that so you better believe I saved their original!
We all screw up and often when trying new stuff.
BTW, back in mid 2005, the firt thing I tried to mod was the River class to rename the model "A" class DE and did not know how. If Big was around then he likely would have walked me through it like he has many other things.
I could never have made my tweaks work so well without the help I get here even from guys I am basically saying I want to alter their work because it is not to my liking.
However, some are not alsways friendly like Big.
So, be prepared on occasion to crash dive ALARM!!!!

Wulfmann

What can I say
 

Oh well :damn: MM.

Have your file MM
Will look after work mate

speaking of work
 

whatever it was it was a major Foo Foo , problem survived uninstall forgot to remove latent folders and defrag, once more into the breech dear friends back on this evening MM.

MM you have PM

Warning to all
 

well as it turns out it wasnt my Foo Foo I believe my Lexmark printer was trying to use my Sh3 to communicate with headquarters and it Interfered with Loading , loading pages on this site and it wouldnt allow me to delete Ubisoft/SilenthunterIII/Data even once I emptied all files as it was using it, the printer was not Identified as the culprit but I have battled LXCats previously and detected the presence in processes and shut it down, subsequent to this I was able to freely delete data file and these pages loaded instantly again on my system. am proceeding with sweep and reinstall and reload and fully expect to be succesfull this time

Caution if you have a lexmark printer educate yourself on what is installed on your drive it runs deep and doesnt get detected by spyware I know of .

I really should take a computer course someday MM.

MM you have PM and a new ship

Well you will do when I have fixed something

regarding my question of the other day
 

does cloning just register the names internally within the file? does it make copy then? or does it do both ( first attempt didnt show an obvious copy) or is there another more mysterious and sinister function that I am unaware of like making a million copies of my sister? MM. :roll:

ps (again) is there a good public domain tutorial on cloning and or hexediting and skinning?.

Good Q in the cloning
I know it renames the cam file above that I believe it also changes the digital ID so as not to cause conflict
Sure some one more versed in that could give you an answer

Try a search for skinning - it should bring up something
I dont recall seeing anything on cloning and hexediting

regarding last
 

thanks yet again. MM

(relieved about sister thing whew!)

an update as such
 

Well for anybody joining in the file conversions are done and the ship exists but still needs a few visual changes at which I have no current skills.
in short I need to delete a radar and reverse the positions of a deckhouse and bandstand. also need to add a small deck house in where there isnt one if possible but this small detail may not be worth it.
any help or advice would be welcome

MM.

off line for a little while
 

I am going to be offline for a day or two to finish reorganizing sh3 toybox.
will work up pics and next steps for when I come back on. and will look in for
pm's and posts MM.

Waiting damage modelling

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/6...erclassxz3.jpg

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/3...nter057ky4.jpg

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/982...lasssilgl7.jpg

( yes the museum does read 4x 4" - typo :rotfl: )

Imageshack difficulties
 

well First of hall Happy new year to any and all,

Im definetly showing my Newbiness having difficulties with getting imageshack to work everytime I try to upload it tells me file contains no data, I am unable to deduce what I am doing wrong, any body had this problem?