[REL] Goodbye Pac-Man
 

Goodbye Pac-Man v1.01 for Silent Hunter 5 v1.1

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v1.01 changes/fixes:

- corrected problem where map color would become light blue when near enemy escorts

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This simple mod removes those 'Pac-Man' shapes showing real-time enemy escort sonar and visual ranges on the game map when playing with No Map Update unchecked (false) in the realism options menu. U-boat radar/sonar range and direction contact lines are still activated. I feel this is a nice compromise for those who do not want the extreme cheat of those Pac-Man range circles, but still want general range and direction of enemy escorts that are detected by U-boat visual, sonar, and radar to be displayed on the map.


Stock Silent Hunter 5 submerged (showing enemy escort sonar range rings):

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/1796/noname3i.jpg



Stock Silent Hunter 5 surfaced (showing enemy escort visual range ring):

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/4046/noname2e.jpg



Silent Hunter 5 (submerged) with Goodbye Pac-Man v1.01 mod installed:

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/2825/nonamee.jpg



Silent Hunter 5 (surfaced) with Goodbye Pac-Man v1.01 mod installed:

http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/3130/noname4.jpg


Download v1.01 : http://www.mediafire.com/?ymz3tzmydzy

Excellent!!! :up:

Nice one, great for us realistic junkies and non arcade type players, realism im all for that, mind you the ai's so bad right now, needs major revamp, thanks mate.

Cool - nice job :up:

Very nice!! i never liked pac-man :up:

Seems like the map color changes to a lighter blue when near enemy escorts. I'll take a look.

Ok. I am currently working to stop the map changing color to light blue when close to escorts. Should be fixed soon.

Don't delete the whole pixel shader content, a pixel shader file must returned a float4 color value for each pixel which is to be rendered on the screen

Only set the circle.z value to zero in SensorVisual.fx
and circle.z + circle.w in SensoSonar.fx

All fixed now. Sorry about that. Just uploaded v1.01. Please see first post for download link.

Seeadler, thanks for the tip. I hadn't realized that deleting the whole shader would cause the map color problem. I had already fixed the shader problem a slightly different way in v1.01 before I saw your post, but got the same end result. :DL

lol yes, they look that pacman now that you name it :D thanks for the mod ! :up:

Fantastic work, those have been killing immersion everywhere since march 3rd.
Great mod!
:up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0KgQbQzZv0

just to add a little humor and good job :up:

I found the pacman very helpful:yeah:

Thank you, very nice!

Better and better
 

Thank you!

Eventually you terrific modders will have this game up to snuff!

Any chance to change blue and red colors to one ie. black for all units?
To not have info from map that this is friendly or enemy and to have to check that myself by flag on spoted unit? :rock:

Second idea is to remove speed info or any info when cursor is over visualy spoted unit (Merchant speed 5kt's etc).
Maybe change speed to something like slow, medium or fast instead od automagic determined exact speed ;)

Yes, SH3 (atleast in GWX) indicates a units speed on the map as any of the following:
Stationary (below 1 knot)
Slow (up to around 7 knots)
Medium (around 7 to 14 knots)
Fast (around 14 to 30 knots)
Very Fast (above 30 knots)

those arent the exact numbers, but that is what i think they are based on my gameplay experience.

Vanilla use different values for merchants and warships but for me both solutions will be ok.
For me is more important to force me to estimate myself the speed by observations and/or calculations ;)
That will be way more reallistic :up:

Another great mod, thanks :yeah: