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What is the possiblity of having this as a take-away mod in the mod section anyway soon?

I guess this is as dead as a WWII u-boat!

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Originally Posted by kylania (Post 1412430)

Sometimes it's worse!

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/6766/seafloor.jpg

This is probably why the 'depth under keel' button was removed from the game in the first place.

Looks like somebody stuffed up the collision model for the sea, game wide.

Yes its incredably anti-immersive.

I wonder if TDW will be adding this in to the Super - Mod?

TDW?

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Originally Posted by Schwieger (Post 1506863)

So the question is, can you beach your submarine on the shore or will it hover?

i accidently beached my sub in a forest once >.>;

I,m apalled that this hasnt been fixed so far. Its so absolutly stupid and is another example that sh-5 was never ment to be released and sold a a game but rather a subsim toolsoftware for the community.
But is this really so hard to fix?

Let it rest. No pun intended.

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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen (Post 1611479)

Let it rest. No pun intended.

why? i like this to be fixed.

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Originally Posted by oscar19681 (Post 1611522)

why? i like this to be fixed.

Then why not mod it yourself? Periodically bumping the thread to the top and telling everyone how lazy they are for not fixing it only makes peole angry.

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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen (Post 1611550)

Then why not mod it yourself? Periodically bumping the thread to the top and telling everyone how lazy they are for not fixing it only makes peole angry.

Oh really? I dont see anyone angry here but you. Whoever said anything about me saying the modders are lazy? I just bumped it so it would come under the attention of potential modders and people who feel the same way. I dont understand what your problem is. If you dont have anything to add to this topitc that might be of help then please dont bother do reply at all please.

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Originally Posted by oscar19681 (Post 1611577)

I'm not angry at all. I'm just curious about your insistence on things. In terms of the modders, just read your posts, I think it is pretty clear that you have an expectation that this be modded; a demand to be served, if you will. I will say again: If you feel so strongly about it, stop posting about it and start working on it yourself.

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Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith (Post 1509752)

since Oby gave some insight as to where the possible problem is I started playing around with the .zon file. I didn't remove any zones or anything, I just disabled some collisions and moved one sphere up some and decreased it's radius. Result:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/pict...pictureid=3110

yes the sub is actually going through the bottom. That's not really the problem though. The problem is I did a 180 degree turn to get to the point in the screenie above. Before that 180 degree turn the terrain was sloping down at a shallow angle and the sub was hovering above the terrain. Do the 180 degree turn and sub is going through the terrain now. This means there is a problem with the game's terrain functions. It appears that it calculates a mean depth from a certain area of the terrain and uses that for the collision detection with objects :hmmm:

This seems like it would be more realistic though (As long as thats where you got the collision to happen) because wouldnt it seem that the sub going say 8 kts on the bottom would drive itself somewhat deeper into the sea floor?

Actually, i've just finished reading "Iron Coffins", where the Author , one of the few survivors from the U-boat war, regulary pitched his U-boat on the bottom, and waited for the correct tide to pull him through tight spots like the English Channel and Gibraltor at speeds reaching 14knots while running on silent running speed!

He said using the current ment a quick speed with zero sound...and worth the wait!