I respect your comments. You'll be one of the few who will utilize the tweak file when it's released also to 'disable' the effects or debris that you do not like (or to add more bodies or debris for those who want more!). When it's released there will be no toned down version - you will have to do that yourself when the tweak file is available. ;)

awesome man, its everything we were trying to achieve before you came along!
i got as far as adding the people instead of the boxes, this is just another level completely! congrats on your fine work.
tfm :up: :rock:

thanks. I would still like to look at what you were trying to do. Would you mind letting me view your work? Maybe I can add some of your work into this mod...:hmm:

Reality
 

I think this mod IS a REALITY check.

IMO the game had an arcade aspect WITHOUT these effects. The fact that is is going to be tweakable to taste is just icing on the cake...as for me I would prefer fewer bodies flying around....the screenies seem to show too many.

A lot of the crew would be below decks (stokers etc.) and wouldn't be flying off the ship.

I recently got a reality check watching the new Ken Burns series The War. That series shows the ugly face of war and it's consequences. Having studied WWII since the age of 10 or so (I'm 42 now), I thought I understood the reality but until one actually sees the bloody aftermath and hears a veteran talk about it, it's impossible to fathom.

Although it barely touches on U-Boat war, it still had me thinking in SHIII game terms and what it really means to torpedo a ship loaded with 100,000 barrels of oil or a full load of ammunition.

Now we will see it firsthand in the game. I think that's a good thing and I don't find it disagreeable or gratuitous...just reality.

I submitted falling into the water....screams...and "Help me's"(for Race's approval). I am one for Realism. If i want arcade style i wiould play Donkey Kong. I just wonder if the sounds will be for every ship sinking? or is it for the REALLY BIG explosions?

Is there anyway you can "incinarate" a ship. I've read quite a few cases where a boat carrying munitions and such completely blew to bits when torpedoed.....vapourised as it were. Would be really cool to have that occur in SHIII...but not too often such that one is still suprised when it happens.

It's possible. You could delete the [SHIPNAME]_F and [SHIPNAME]_B objects so that instead of breaking in two a ship disappeared. However, this would replace the breakups entirely, and I would rather have the breakups than vaporization. Plus, if a ship vaporized any "child" objects not destroyed in the explosion such as lifeboats and masts would continue to hover in midair as though their "parent" hull objects still existed. Not worth the trouble IMO.

if there was a way for the effect used to 'know' what type of ship and what cargo it holds this could theoretically be possible......maybe someone knows more about this than I do or have discovered on my own? :hmm:

LOL! That's exactly what my wife said when I told her some people didn't like the idea of bodies and survivors.

awesome job RB! :up: :up: :up:

Ships can be completely destroyed by an explosion. Warning: graphic destruction.

Video1

Naval warfare is certainly messy:

Video2.

Racerboy

I hope you realize that you are doing something wonderful and fulfilling a dream for all who want more of the latest eye candy -and- love u-boats enough to not switch over to SH4.

Hats off to you sir. :sunny:

P.S.: Personally, I think SH3's graphics look more crisp and realistic than SH4's stuffed-cardboard-cartoon looks and after using 1.06a I can say that this mod is gona rock teh boat! :D





P.S.: Waiting eagerly for the release. :arrgh!:

check your pm :up:

I have discovered a way to add a ship's horn to the ships in the game. Each ship can have it's own unique horn. Please see here http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...47&postcount=1
if you have any information that may help me develop this part of the SH4 effects (and more) for SH3 mod.

I have a unique one too....... waiting for this mod to be released. :D