Very confusing. Seems like this system is not universal and was not valid in ww2.

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So that means.. I have red light on my right side when I enter in port and green when I leave it. Im a total noob regarding these stuff, so someone with sailing experience pls clarify these things.

The green Buoys are on the Starbord Side (Right, if you look ahead), when you enter the Port. When you leave, Red are on your right Side.
In Europe. America use red Paint for the Starbord Buoys. :doh:

I think, this System wasnt use during the War, cause its from 1978. But i didnt find anything about the System in Germany during the War. The Book "Leuchtfeuer und Signalstellen" (ETsd4 show this) isnt cheap to get. 153 Euros... :o

The Light Sequences are different, so you can count the Flashes and look in the Chart, which Buoy you pass. So there was no Mistake about the Position of the Ship. You can mix it, if you have only two Versions of them. But steady Lights wasnt used on Buoys, cause you can confound it with the Position Light of a Ship.
Orange Buoys u can use to mark some special Areas, like Shooting Ranges ore similar. What color have the Danger Buoys?

Danger bouys are yellow.

But im very confused now. You say "When you leave, Red are on your right Side" and most of the nautical websites says "green markers are kept to the RIGHT when leaving a harbor". So what should I do now? Or green on right when leaving port is used in US only?

Yes I was confused at first as well,,,,,,,,,,

I have never had the chance to navigate Europes waters !

There is a system for your region :
http://cgate.co.il/eng/Seamanship/buoy_lateral.htm

"IALA A Covers Europe, Africa, Australia and most of Asia.
IALA B Covers North and South America, Japan and Philippines."

Helps?
:)

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From all I could gather...
Marker colors were just starting to follow standards at that time, but was in no way "Universal".
Some were black, some were mere wood poles, some Harbors chose their own colors !
I'm sure with more research it could be found what was used for the time period and a specifc area .... maybe...lol...

:D

Aight, then this is it.

IALA A covers Europe, Africa, Australia and most of Asia.
Entrance to harbour -
Green light in STARBORD side
Red light in PORT side

http://cgate.co.il/eng/Seamanship/graphic/entrance.gif

http://cgate.co.il/eng/Seamanship/graphic/chanel.gif



IALA B covers North and South America, Japan and Philippines.
Entrance to harbour -
Green light in PORTside
Red light in STARBORD side

http://cgate.co.il/eng/Seamanship/gr...ntrance1_B.GIF

http://cgate.co.il/eng/Seamanship/graphic/chanel_B.gif

crist.. my eyes are flashing now.


Thanks folks!

SH5 plays on german Side, so i would prefer german Rules. So you can place the Buoys like in the Chart, that i posted before. I think its easier than use the american Rules, cause you can place the Buoys like in the Chart.

Coming Home= green to green. :salute:

The Danger Buoys yuo can use like you want, some are shown in the Chart on dangerous Sands.

Danger will robinson
http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/6979/reef3.jpg
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/2122/reef.jpg
http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/8242/reef2.jpg

Is it possible to script harbor traffic to follow a narrow path , IE following a navigation path thru a channel ?

awsome... very nice sober:yeah:

I think yes:hmmm:... zedi show me something yesterday and i remember that you can well define port trafic

Yes. Its a bit tricky because somethimes the ai tend to get stuck, but with patience and a lot of testing everything is possible. And now we have buoys.. getting out and in the port with tc1 is just awesome.

@LtzS_Petersen
Im using IALA A for Europe and IALA B for US.. not sure about the last part, but now Ive got more people willing to help with the campaign, maybe we can rework the US ports too. Thank you all for the help, much appreciated.

That will be perfect. :yeah:
The Sands in Sobers Pictures are perfect for some Danger Buoys.

Will the Position of the Buoys shown in the Map too?

As far as i remember a friend of mine saying, US buoy system is different than the one for the rest of the world. I don't know if it already was during WW2, but i think it was.
Difference is, (afair) that the direction of the path is different. If in europe red buoys are on the port side of the ship when entering harbour, it would be red buoys on the starboard side of the ship when entering harbour in US.
I have no direct source for this, but it might be worth to search for some maps.

Thats correct.. IALA A and IALA B, see me post on the top of this page. Is what I will use in the game in every major port.

Whoops, seems as if i missed half of your post. Sorry for that. Good work. :)