Sure
 

When I say, I got the shell on the screen, I got a radio button for it on the screen, but never could get the game to relate the button to the shells. The button is on the screen (I used the same nomenclature as the other shells in the hopes that would make the game realize that the button was for the star shells) but the button does not function whether you have Star Shells in the .sim or not. I think that the game just isn't looking for the menu id of the star shell button (or I haven't found the correct menu id yet).

I hadn't looked at this since before the 1.4 patch, so I need to double check whether it still functions with the patch. I'm in the process of checking it right now. Once I'm sure that it still displays correctly, I'll post the code I used in the menu.ini file and will upload the entire thing (with the graphics changes) so others can play with it and possibly get it to work.

Here's what I have so far
 

The code that I added to the menu.ini file is as follows :


Basically, I added the new [G38 I7] section, made a few changes in the old [G38 I7] (which is now the [G38 I8] and increased the rest of the chapter numbers to reflect the insertion (i.e. old [G38 I7] became [G38 I8]). I also added some graphical work to allow for a fourth shell type and idenifying the AA and SS shells.

The button still shows up, but doesn't function as it should. I'm still thinking that the game is not looking for any menu id associated with the star shell and that is why it isn't working. But I've gotten in trouble for thinking before:rotfl: , so someone please prove me wrong and get it to work:up:

I've uploaded the work I've done so far to http://files.filefront.com/Shell+Mod.../fileinfo.html . This include the menu.ini changes, the graphic work for the additional shell (and identifying the AA and SS shells) and the .sim files for all three guns with 50 star shells.

If anyone can get this button to function, it would be wonderful. If not, then we can just insert the star shell id for the AA, relabel the AA shell to SS and make the changes necessary to have the shells loaded for all the guns. If that is the case, though, that means that there would be no way to use the AA shels later in the war, so a little trade-off is necessary.

not necessarily so. Make a clone of the gun and change the AA ID back to it's original AA shell. Add a new entry in the .cfg file that references this new gun to start in whatever year it is supposed to start (for having AA shells). That's one way around that one :up:

Excellent point:up: It would be nice, though, if the fourth shell type could be implemented. I'm hoping that someone with a lot better grasp of the file relationships might be able to get it to work.:hmm: