Well said.

Plus remember everyone the attack can be plotted by taking speed with the nomograph, and bearing and range with the sonar.

If there are DD's in the area, plug in the O'kane method.

O'kane and the Tang were successful because O'kane used alternative targeting methods to generate a solution, you should all try doing the same.

PE4 is currently integrated. When PE4.1 is released, it will be integrated assuming it isn't against kriller's wishes.

Any answers to the question I asked previously about the periscope's horizontal centerline missing, and how or what tick mark do we place at the waterline of the target to obtain range?

You don't need to worry about lining up the scope with the target's waterline when taking a range reading (unlike the case with U-boats).

Thanks for the reply Luke! Love the mod:yep::up:

Thanks Luke, though I like realism I will revert back to the stock 1.5 map as the new colors are "disturbing" me.

Now I know it's easy - just replace RFB1.52 /Terrain/Pal/gradient.tga with stock file

I really like the new map because it adds something to the gameplay. The stock map gives you pretty much exact depths but the RFB map doesn't so you have to do what real skippers had to do, take a depth sounding. Taking that sounding can give your location away if the bad guys are near, a reality skippers had to deal with.:arrgh!:

Environmental 5 fixes superstucture shimmering in periscope view
 

RFB 1.52 is great, no doubt.:up: Thank you & congrats.
I'm puzzled, however, by following visual oddity: when looking through the periscope at capital warships, their superstructures keep shimmering constantly, Yamato is worst. In free cam, non-periscope view there is no shimmer, superb graphics at maxed out graphical settings.

I tried changing graphic settings in both the game and nVidia driver options - the periscope view shimmer persisted. I also tried alternative periscope mods - the shimmer remained.:shifty:

I then installed (despite mod conflict warning) Environment 5.0 incl. patch 1.0 on top of RFB 1.52 and the shimmer was gone.:D No problems, glitches whatsoever so far in a few historical battles and a couple campaign hours. For me RFB 1.52 and EE 5.0 seem to work flawlessly together. Hopefully possible mod conflicts won't turn up later.:-?

A 2nd visual glitch: Yamato for some reason shows both the huge & ugly stock portholes as well as the retextured smaller portholes from Kriller2's improved warship textures in PE.:88) I fixed this glitch by running Kriller2's original standalone texture mod on top of RFB, and no more ugly giant portholes.:smug:

Arclight, those three hits are too close together. Spread out they would sink the ship. But the way you did it you leave major compartments intact on both ends of the ship. That leaves the ship properly able to steam away. That is not a defect, but the glory of the new damage model.

Spread your hits out along the length of the ship and you will have much better results.

I made a fresh install today as following.

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n...erblue/1-1.jpg
On top of this I installed the SH3 keyboard layout cfg.


Now I have a couple of questions. I read the manual, I downloaded the key layout, but it's not all very clear to me.

What exactly is the Hogan Alley, and how do I make use of it ? Is it some sort of relaxing compartment ?
How do I rig the boat for depth charging ?
Am I supposed to fill in every free slot with a man before leaving port ? When I sound the general quarters, why is it that the crew does not man the flak and deck gun ?
What's the shortcut key for general quarters ?
How do I browse the stern tubes (in TMO it was the E key) ?


Thank you, and please do not let yourselves bothered by the questions of an old and expired skipper ;)

You got it man! Let me send you a case of your favorite beverage!

TO THE RFB 1.52 designer folks:

Download it. Had a little problem un-compressing it, got over that after I figured out I was the dummy...

Tried a few short missions - fell in love with it - love the new map colors and the vague navigation map updates.

I have trashed all my RFB 1.5 saved version games - shame since I wanted to see how the war ends in RFB 1.5 - was in April, 1945 with manual targeting for all 16 missions.

Anyway, my purpose is aside from thanking you, I think and EQUAL amount of thanks should go to your "testers". I seem to think Rockin Robbins was one of them - just bowing in your direction and saying thanks to the "testers", too.

I am in S-18 on my first mission in January, 1942. DAMN Good MOD!

DAMN GOOD!

No complaints ... should give me MONTHS of TOTAL fun!

guys ...................................... THANK YOU!

By "shimmering," what do you mean? Can you show me some screenshots of this?

I'm afraid still picture screenshots would not show the phenomenon as the "shimmering" is sort of like very fast flickering, shivering, jittering & quivering movement of superstructure surface textures. Sorry for my limited English capabilities (not native), can't explain it better. Anyway, I'm sure it can be fully displayed in a live video file.
In case of interest pls PM me video file mailing instructions.

That's what I thought it was. Will look into it some more to see if the problem can be alleviated.

A couple of noob questions, does this take away auto targeting? I am still very new and learning to shoot torpedos but sometimes i hit a game just to see some nice explosions and such so i just use the auto targeter. I've noticed that alot of mods take the auto targeting feature off cause its not true to real life, thefore making them hard to learn and enjoy for myself.

Second question is does this change any keymapping? I have recently found shSpeech2.54 for silent hunter 4 but it has conflicts with mods that change keymaps like Trigger Maru and such. I would like to try your mod but have gotten way to used to using voice commands. Does anyone here use the voice software and know if it works in conjunction with this mod?

:huh:
1 below the fore mast, 1 below the bridge, 1 in the engine rooms and 1 below the aft mast. I thought that was d**n near perfect. You yourself always say you aim for the masts and midships, or am I missing something? :-?

Don't get me wrong, I wasn't complaining about the modeling. I chalk it up to the Mark 10s, I've switched to a fleetboat now and the Mark 14s don't leave much afloat when spaced like that. ;)

my problems always been finding something to shoot them at...
my pacific is suprisingly rid of targets....only like 4 targets since i got it up on my computer....i hate the marshalls...

Alright, I figured out the Hogan Alley mystery, the misunderstanding originated from my lack of realizing that the rigging of ship for depth charging is a manual maneuver.

However, the rest of the questions still haunt me. Also, I was wondering if anybody here knows a sound mod that I could put over RFB in order to enrich the experience. Maybe the sounds from TMO ? Thanks a lot.

Made some further tests trying to narrow down the flickering superstructure in periscope view issue, and this is what I found for viewing capital warship superstructures (mainly Yamato at Battle off Samar) through periscope:

1. RFB 1.50 only on clean SH4 1.5: Flickering clearly visible (somewhat disturbing)
2. RFB 1.50 + PE4 Install Main: Flickering greatly reduced (ok)
3. RFB 1.50 + Environment 5.0: Flickering greatly reduced (ok)
4. RFB 1.52 only on clean SH4 1.5: Heavy flickering (very disturbing)
5. RFB 1.52 + PE4 Install Main: Virtually no flickering (nice)
6. RFB 1.52 + Environment 5.0: Virtually no flickering (nice)

Bearing in mind that PE4 is incorporated in RFB 1.52, I find my findings a odd/inconsistent. Maybe not all parts of PE4 are built into RFB 1.52, thus causing the flickering?

Are there any (not yet encountered) drawbacks to be expected when adding the whole PE4 package on top of RFB 1.52?

Your looking at incompatibility problems between the files both mods have made changes to. If you enable PE4 first then RFB1.52 everything in RFB will work correctly but some files of PE4 may not and vice-versa.

You could try the ROW sound Effects. I believe there is a link in the PE3 thread.