[req] SO: Depth charges in the water!
 

SO: Depth charges in the water!

Has anyone been able to get this to work? I can't, but i'll keep trying. This is like.. a major pet peeve of mine. Total immersion breaker.

look in Library under Phrases
 

the controls for what they say is there in the dat files.

Well ya the phrases exist in those dat files, but im not entirely sure what to do with them. Ive never edited a "control" so im not sure what to do with that.

This much i know:
/data/cfg/Message_SO.cfg

ive tried experimenting with that, and no dice.

there is also a corilation between that and the
 

menu 1024 768 file configurations I beleve and menu txt file as well

Acutally, let me back up, heres the files that i beleive are involved in this seemingly simple message:

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/data/menu/menu.txt
This is the text message thats supposed to appear in the txt window.

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/data/cfg/Message_SO.cfg

Assigns various parameters. Some of which im not sure how they work. Only real way to figure that one out, is to compare them to other message.cfg files.

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Data\Library\Phrases\Phrasees_voice*.dat


Theres 9 of these files, im assuming one, correspeonding to each of the 9 different voices. As Leo stated, the dat files containing controls.


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Data\Sound\Speech

with directories number 1 through 9.

In each directory you should find 3 iterations of "depth charges in the water", each iteration reflecting state.

Normal:
SoM_K_Depth_charges_in_the_water_sir.ogg

Panic:
SoM_P_Depth_charges_in_the_water_sir.ogg

Silent:
SoM_S_Depth_charges_in_the_water_sir.ogg

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Another file that i thought might relate, but looks like its turning out to be a dead end is:
\Data\Cfg\Sensor.cfg

In particular :
Hydrophone speed factor is, in this case, means, "must be going this speed (in kts) or faster in order to be audible."

Noisefactor, im assuming means, "must be this loud in order to be audible on hydrophones"

My thought was, if the spash of a depth charge makes a signal less then these values, then the SO isn't going to hear it, therego wont report it. zeroing these values out, yeilded no results, so im thinking this file is a dead end.



That means, its probably in the messages.cfg file, but most likely in the dat file since were not even getting the text message, but again, i don't know what to do with a controller.

I need a freaking hex editor, and not Hex workshop because its only a free trial which expired ages ago, so reinstalling it doesnt do me any good.

D check your P.M.
 

asked you a question

A little OT but still same kind of area

Has this from Message_RA.cfg ever worked
This kind of thing would be pretty great with the sonar man and the watch crew. Getting a bit tired of hearing that "Ship spotted etc. etc." a million times every time I intercept a convoy...

If you are serious, I use Frhed:
http://www.kibria.de/frhed.html

It works great and it is free.

Art

The free version of HHD isn't bad either.

http://www.hhdsoftware.com/Family/hex-editor.html

There are a LOT of unused voice files that would do the game good, but that's the price paid for a short development time.

the question is how do you get it all working?
 

Without pulling your hair out figuring it all out!

I dunno, i went to bed after i made this post and one experiemnt. I reinstalled SH3, and pulled the voice dats from it, using it in Sh4. The Worked fine, no problem, alight granted there was some audible damage reports missing, and probably tubes 7 through 10.. Right away i noticed the crew didnt seem to be whispering when an enemy was detected, but the point of this experiment was to use a version of these files where "DC in the water" was known to work - it still didn't.

okay change the SO notepad file to this it should work fine
 

[Msg0]
MsgId=0
Priority=4
Timeout=20
Param0=1
MsgOgg00=Contact
;SoM_K_Contact.ogg
Param1=3
MsgOgg10=Type_unknown
;SoM_K_Type_unknown.ogg
MsgOgg11=Warship
;SoM_K_Warship.ogg
MsgOgg12=Merchant
;SoM_K_Merchant.ogg
Param2=3
MsgOgg20=Constant_distance
;SoM_K_Constant_distance.ogg
MsgOgg21=Closing
;SoM_K_Closing.ogg
MsgOgg22=Moving_away
;SoM_K_Moving_away.ogg
Param3=1
MsgOgg30=Bearing
;SoM_K_Bearing.ogg
Param4=1
MsgOgg40=0
;Number -> always put 0
Param5=3
MsgOgg50=Short_range
;SoM_K_Short_range.ogg
MsgOgg51=Medium_range
;SoM_K_Medium_range.ogg
MsgOgg52=Long_range
;SoM_K_Long_range.ogg

[Msg1]
MsgId=1
Priority=2
Timeout=20
Param0=1
MsgOgg00=Depth_charges_in_the_water_sir
;SoM_P_Depth_charges_in_the_water_sir.ogg

[Msg2]
MsgId=2
Priority=3
Timeout=20
Param0=1
MsgOgg00=Enemy_is_pinging_us_sir

[Msg3]
MsgId=3
Priority=3
Timeout=20
Param0=1
MsgOgg00=Enemy_ship_engaging_us_sir

[Msg4]
MsgId=4
Priority=3
Timeout=20
Param0=1
MsgOgg00=Destroyer_in_attack_run

[Msg5]
MsgId=5
Priority=5
Timeout=20
Param0=2
MsgOgg00=Warship
MsgOgg01=Merchant
Param1=3
MsgOgg10=Constant_distance
MsgOgg11=Closing
MsgOgg12=Moving_away
Param2=1
MsgOgg20=Bearing
Param3=1
MsgOgg30=0;Number -> always put 0

[Msg6]
MsgId=6
Priority=5
Timeout=20
Param0=2
MsgOgg00=Warship
MsgOgg01=Merchant
Param1=1
MsgOgg10=Bearing
Param2=1
MsgOgg20=0;Number -> always put 0
Param3=3
MsgOgg30=Constant_distance
MsgOgg31=Closing
MsgOgg32=Moving_away

okay leave the highlighted entry in my tester just confirmed he did what I first posted
and it worked out just fine but change the priority to 2 not 3

WOW! Way cool! Leo you are just in the ZONE! at the mo with this game. CUDOS!:up:

I have had 3 confirmations that this works now
 

so i am going to fix all the other missing phrases today and post the work JSGME ready for everyone. Have 5 done now like for example "plane is enguaging us sir", "We have been spoted Sir" and so forth. There are a total of 10 or more missing or broken phrases I am fixing.

Very, very nice :up:


RDP

I hope we can get this one fixed. More voice phrases would be a great addition.

Leo, you rule! sucha simple solution too. I'd have never thought to just rearrange the cfg file. Time to toss this baby into my test mission...

Three elite akikaze's. :arrgh!:

I also had to remove one line that also made it appear
 

in the text read out as well to make it work.

In the new patch they didn't make those lines work that say where
they hear the charges droping in the water that was also messing it up.

Just like some of the others I am fixing so you will here the words just not
get directions as to where it is comming from like the plane attacks and stuff.

And I don't think it is all lip sinked but it might be! I guess I and you guys will find
out soon enough.

Here is a list of some of the new phrases will be:

We_are_closing_to_critical_depth_sir

We_are_diving_too_deep_sir

Tube_1_loading_sir
and so forth for other tubes

Firing_tube_1
and so forth for other tubes

Tube_empty_sir

Tube_1_empty_sir
and so forth for other tubes

We_have_been_detected_sir

We've_been_spotted_sir

Enemy_ship_is_ramming_us_sir

I think you get the point of what I am fixing that is missing.