[REL] SH3 Long Patrol Script!
 

That is it!
Hopes that it could be useful for you too.
If you try it, post feedbacks .

Good hunting!
Rubini.
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Link V1.0a
http://www.mediafire.com/?6v1fa3d0f9ygipi

Link V1.1
http://www.mediafire.com/?gb7x1zuyia72i0n

Download and it works perfectly so far, very nice addition to Sh3 :salute:

Thanks reaper7!:up:

Uhhh...just noticed that this version is showing a window with all the variables used by the script.
This was just for debug purposes.:damn:
Already reuploaded a version without this (v1.0a).
Sorry!:D

:haha: was wondering what I was meant to do with them :O:

LOL!:rotfl2:
Let me know if some more odd things happens!:88)

Nice work Mate.
:salute:

You really didn't need to credit me though.
:)

But if you didn´t have post replies and insights about that softers i never had start to look at them...and was a nice surprise, i learned a lot, was a revival for me (have had good knowledge on Basic and Cobol - I´m old, ok! - 20-25 years ago.) This was one of the mods that I most liked to do.:up:

Hi Rubini!

Two questions please:D:

1.) Does your Script work with Widescreen MaGUI from here?

2.) Does your Script work in connection with SH3-Commander and how? :hmmm: Because the SH3-Commander .exe starts automatically the SH3.exe.

Best regards,
Magic

1. the script works with any Sh3 installation. Just the imagerecon is GUI specific, but it´s optional on the ini. Use zero on your main.cfg for airplanes, ships and radio contacts for best results.

2. Not a problem, this is also optional on the ini, then launch the script first.:up:

Rubini,genius idea and love that you can set it to pause game when enemy is sighted.Just an issue I am having is sometimes I press pause/break key and nothing happens.Also,I set to flank speed and press P/B and it goes to nav map,TC goes up but it stays at flank speed damaging the engines.

Hi Rubini,

I've tested the script. Works very well. Very nice work :up: Thanks.

Just one small question: Is the snorkel depth command used at any time? I've seen it in the command list, but I don't know when it is used :hmmm:

Regards, LGN1

I've downloaded but have not yet tried the mod. One question: is it required to have lunch or can I skip this part? I've been trying to lose a few pounds... :D

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I will try to help to clarify how the script sequence works and the best scenario to use it. I guess that these type of replies can be useful for all:

1. You can always use/make the script running in background because in truth It will never start to send key press unless you press the PAUSE/BREAK. So, again, it will not do anything until you press PAUSE/BREAK. And will stop to send things when you press any key, PAUSE/BREAK or reset/exit the script.

2.All the time that you press PAUSE/BREAK the script will toggle pause. If UNPAUSE is sent, then it will do these things (it do more things when you play PAUSE/BREAK, it will do different things when PAUSE, but these are what matters here for UNPAUSED state):

Go NavMAP, <== Here your second reply, edited: Wolfstiked!
Return to couse,
TC=1
TC=Player setting on ini (128/256/512/1024)
Go to main LOOP script

The above is necessary because the PAUSE/BREAK is also used to put the script on the rails again. See, we can´t know what each ppl will do when he pause the script. Then it needs to have a "small" restart all time that ppl unpause it.

Also look that I don´t put the speed ahead standart on the above, so it will continues with your choosed speed until find a spped command inside the script. The main motive is that we have different speeds inside the script (for surfaced and for submerged). But see below what you can do...

3. You always can change speed and plot waypoints with the mouse at any time! Don´t forget this ! In truth you can send any command with the mouse during the script execution, but some will result in strange things...This is why i made the script pause at any key press, but allowed the mouse to be used. I guess that you can get my point.;)

4. When you alt tab, the script and the game pauses. Just press PAUSE/BREAK and the SH3 will maximize and the script will unpause automatically. Usefull for some situations.

5. If you change the TC with the mouse the script will be messed, as it follow its own time, not the game time. So, both must stay at the "same music". If you want to change in game the TC, pause the script before it.

6. Dont forget: If in trouble, just reset the script (it will be also paused) with ALT+PAUSE/
BREAK

7. The PAUSE/BREAK will be always work (with feedback beep/beeps)...if not, check if the script is really running at background...:03:

No, it is not. I put there on the ini a bit more commands than I used. Also note that if you follow the directions on the ini file you can add any command or variables (options) on the ini. I made this way for future updates, new scripts, etc. The routine that i made to read the ini is too powerfull, we can have a million of options/commands there that the script will understand and will be ready to use them.:up:

Ops...! My bad. I don´t know if you noticed but i´m always revising my posts and always editing them beacuse I have a very poor english and a small degree of dislexia to write things on the keyboard ( and manually too!):damn::DL

I have the same problem and English is my native language. Perhaps, it is due to our mutual field of study.
Thanks for your great work on SH3.

Rubini.
 

This is great work my friend. Awesome job! Between you, Hsie and Stiebler, you guy's have made SH3 my favorite subsim. There are some questions I have regarding this mod of yours but it will have to wait until I get home from work and I can collect my thoughts. This really has more potential than is on the surface I think and I hope that you continue tinkering with it.:rock:

Not a worry, Rubini; I was just teasing you a bit. I also have to go back and tweak my posts quite often because I also have to deal with a bit of dyslexia and find it hard to deal with keyboards; I still have not been able to learn how to touch-type (BTW, a comedian recently commented on how cruel the person was who named a reading disorder that affected letter order "dyslexia"). I have a further problem with keyboards because I am old enough to have started typing on the much older manual (mechanical) typewriters that required a good bit of finger pressure to activate; hence, when I type I have a tendency to hit the keys rather hard, which often annoys others who may be nearby. In trying to compensate, I sometimes hit the keys too softly and do not get the letter(s) to appear. This is a particular bother since, in my work, I have had to type on many different keyboards of varying sensitivities...

Your English is fine and better than some of the native-born people I have had to deal with, including some people I have worked with who have college degrees. Thanks again for the great mods!... :yeah:

Thanks for the reply, Rubini :up:

Any plans for releasing the source code so that others can get some inspiration :D

Once again, great work!

Regards, LGN1