Hi, Jonz!

Good job.
But i want to see arrows under bird on left & right of the year.

Anvart :up:

I reckon it would be cool to have a different manual appear every year, and have the ship types (and countries maybe) change according to their entry into the war. SH3 date folders could do this... right?

I don't know if it can be done, but with SH3 Commander, it can be feasible to update the cover 1939 to the current year. I am doing the 1939 font going through 1945 so SH3 Commander can update the manual through years.

Unfortunately I don't know if removing ships appearing only later on war can be done with the game.

It looks very elaborate. For mine, perhaps a tad *too* elaborate.

I couldn't find an example of an actual Erkennungshandbuch, but I found this, which is more in-line with what I envisaged. I note the smaller Eagle - I think the one on your book is too large.

Note the use of Antiquan fonts even though the "Bormann Decree" was not enacted until Jan '41.

Anyway, just my personal thoughts which may well be quite wrong.

And this is exactly what I was thinking of!

I use the same exact texture of this same book I used for references :p

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/6149/ref10bo.jpg


I'm almost done. Here's one of sample of the 7 skins that will be available.

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/5756/ref26jj.jpg





I'm doing my usual double check and writing documentation right now. I'm hoping a release this afternoon.

Man, this so Rocks! :rock:
The Devs should be humbled by the things this Modders here achieve!

--- Double Post :88) --

That "Taschenbuch der Kriegs-Flotten" posted by jscones looks like an awesome resource for a lot of things... even only from those pictures.

Rather than just putting Deutschland on the cover, you could replace it by Deutsches Reich, as it is called in the real handbook... as well as calling Britain "Britisches Reich" and the USA "Vereinigte Staaten and so on.

The flags are also a great resource, at it shows the kriegsflaggen (war flags) of many nations that as yet don't have them on the cover... ie. Norway, Finland, Denmark etc.

Also, If you're going to do different years, changing the fonts and colour of the manual might be interesting additions.

You guys are giving me too much job :88)

:-j


Can you list me all the name in your 'appropriate way' before I someone point to me after release that I should have name this country this and that... you know.

Preferably under GW mod. It has the most complete handbuch right now. This will be appreciated.

I've done 7 differents skins colors so dont worry about the variety ;)

Well... I have dug myself a hole now haven't I...

Ok, after a bit of research here is my list of improved and more accurate country names (I have only included those that need changing) :

Deutschland - Deutsches Reich
Russland - Sowjetunion
GrossBritanien - Britisches Reich
USA - Vereinigte Staaten
Kolumbien - Columbien
Red Cross - Rotes Kreuz

That's all I've noticed, the rest seem accurate. It's not really that important but these would be great.

Can you post it in the GW thread? could be awesome.

Awesome work!!
Ready to download......!!

BTW following the Boris post here some historical indications:

Italy: Italienisches Königreich

RSI: Italienische Sozialistische Republik

GrossBritanien: England Vereinigtes Königreich

and found also for USA: Vereinigtes Staaten von Amerika

Thanks for the extra contributions...
I was working mainly off what I could find written in actual Kriegsmarine recognition manuals, including the one listed on ebay posted by jscones.
As I said, its nice to make the names right... but nothing to spend sleepless nights over (unless that's your thing).

Sorry guys but i have to improve. ;)

*"Großbritannien" ist right, no German would say "Britisches Reich"

*Kolumbien with "K"