Now thats a great idea :hmm:

I guess I'm retarded but I'm damned if I can get the hat and ranks working at the same time.

The file I downloded has two folders. Ranks with hat and ranks alone. If I enable hat with ranks I only get the hat. If I then go and try to enable the ranks alone mod it tells me there's conflict with the ranks and hat mod.

Perhaps I don't have the right file?

:o
I don't know if it's possible, but I hope that CC will try to remove the hats. :)

Wow, hard one. I think its not possible as its sort a random. There is no specified head to a specified hat in the script. It looks like this
As you see the # only indicates "any number" so to have to hats off down below is a bit of a hard one to crack I think.


That is weird indeed. You should have
Only these installed
HAT STANDALONE+INSIGNIA,RANKS (ONLY)
http://files.filefront.com/US_OFFICER_HAT_MOD_10rar/;7632419;/fileinfo.html
http://files.filefront.com/LOWER_OFFICER_RANK_13rar/;7521411;/fileinfo.html
or
HAT/RANKS (ONLY)
http://files.filefront.com/HAT_RANK_.../fileinfo.html
or
HAT/RANKS/SWEAT (ONLY)
http://files.filefront.com/SWEATY_CREWrar/;7666287;/fileinfo.html

Don't mix these or you will have conflicts.

I see... :(

Sweaty crew, missed that one, I'll have to give it a try!

So I download the sweaty crew mod. I'm hoping to have the hat, rank insignia, and sweaty crew. Inside the archive I have two separate mods. I have a folder called "SWEATY CREW" and a folder called "SWEATY LOWER OFFICER RANKS INSIGNIA v1.2". So that I get all the goodness of sweat, hat and ranks, which of these do I install?

Thank you,

M

SWEATY LOWER OFFICER RANKS INSIGNIA v1.2

cheers:up:

However once again they have hats but no rank insignia. I've disabled all other rank/hat mods etc and just enabled this one. I can't tell if they are sweating or not.

May I ask, do you run the game with hi-res off?
If you do, then yes there could be a problem as these mods only use the TNormal textures, not the Lo-res ones. See this post, I think its the same problem
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...8&postcount=41

Ah yes, this could be the problem. I'll give it a try with high res textures.

Thanks, M

I'm having no luck whatever I do with graphics setting. What resolution should the game be running at for the changes to show up?

I just noticed that when I look at the sub from outside, the tiny officer figure is wearing the new hat! I didn't know they were driven off the same 3D models as the internal/bridge close-up views. Cool!

My grattude goes out to CC and all the other modders in this forum, whoever you may be. You have taught me a few things and made SH4 at least half-way playble for me.

trimzeke

Great stuff.

Ok, my problems of the insignia not appearing was related to not having "high res textures" ticked.

I can now see the ranks. The problem is that they don't relate to the actual ranks of my crewmen. e.g. The insignia of my current watch officer is that of a full lieutenant but in actual fact he is only an ensign.

Still looks great though!

That I think will be tricky to correct as the game draws the "shirts texture" based on a totally different script then what is shown as actual ranks...but...I can have a look later if there is a relation ship between rank and shirt texture...not 100% but worth a look.

Ok had a quick look at this and...
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1.../rankstest.jpg

Here I had 2 Lieutenants (JG) and 2 Lieutenants but as you can see there is 3 guys with one color and 1 guy with another color. This means the shirts are not drawn based on rank at all. There is a script for all this, but again I can't really see how this could be tweaked to relate to the actual rank.

If someone would like to have a look, its in:
Called:

No worries. Thanks anyway though mate!:up: