need help with sobers' mega mods
 

Okay -- so I pulled down the mega mods, went to his forum page, and installed everything I didn't have to download into the engine.

Now the interior looks fantastic. Night time is way too dark I can barely see my fracking hand in front of my eyes leastwise a ship out there. But worst of all I have NO FRACKING WAY TO ORDER MY CREW TO SLOW OR STOP THE FRACKING SHIP. Help please. :)

If you are using NewGUI's 7.5, the GUI defaults to hidden icons until they are moused over, then they appear. You can change this through changing the Python scripts within the gui folder, the instructions are here: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...89&postcount=5

You can also change the HUD style if you wish from the same options script.

As for the dark nights, if you are using the complete list from Sober, all you should need to do is remove the "DynEnv v2.9 - 5.c Ambient Settings - Darker Nights-No Murky Waters" from your active mods in JSGME.

..or replace with DynEnv v2.9 - 5.e Ambient Settings - Brighter Nights-No Murky Waters

...or if you like the green-grey sea color featured in most of the Baltic Sea, part of the North Sea and elsewhere around the world, just enable DynEnv v2.9 - 5.d Ambient Settings - Brighter Nights :up:

This is a wrong way to do it.. there is an app within NewUIs - OptionsFileEditorViewer.. you should change options in the UI only using this app.. you can find link for 'How to' thread at the bottom of the post #1 of NewUIs thread..

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Not exactly wrong for soemeone who knows what he is doing, but surely not suggested for a newcomer.

I'm not a newcomer but I always did it using OptionsEditor.. why? it's simpler and easier.. and I'm sure I can't mess the options file this way..

Code doesn't scare me!

I'm actually glad you said that, I had no idea he made an app. That makes changing options much easier.

If the work with the code was so simple, we'd still be using DOS :03:

Editing the py file manually was the only way to change New UI's options until when TDW introduced his option viewer/editor. The mistake was around the corner though, and most errors resulted in CTD's or the UI getting corrupted. I don't remember the firts New UI's version which had the editor included in its package, but when it was released you probably weren't a subsim member yet. :salute:

v6.8.0

I do :doh:

Yesterday I started working on a batch file that will process menu.txt automatically, adding to it some rows required by our U-boat Guns mod... and I had to dust off my old DOS manual :haha:

LOL, I thought it was an even older version...

I didn't work in DOS a lot.. when I saw a PC at the first time it was IBM486 with Win3 on-board.. 1995..

Too bad it is not an *.ini file, instead of a **.txt file
[REL] JTxE - Textenabler to merge lines in ini-Files

Unless Jimimadrid can make program magic for **.txt files!

Update: It works for menu.txt files. I just had to open up on **ini files in SH4 when I had more time.

Forgot to say.. do you think it really needed? there are a few menu.txt in a different languages.. even TDW didn't do it with the patcher's entries :hmmm:

EDIT: maybe a better way is to add these rows to the first post of its future thread and to the readme file :hmmm:

There are two UI mods, each with its own menu.txt in several languages. To make things worse, menu.txt changes every time a new version of those mods is released, so including that file in Reworked U-boat Guns is obviously excluded.

My ideawas too create a batch file able to:

- read an external txt file with the new menu entries;
- check menu.txt for entries having the same sorting number;
- if entries with the same number are found, display a warning message and exit the process;
- if no entries with the same number are found, append the new entries to menu.txt in their correct position;
- move the edited menu.txt in the correct path of the mod.

All the user woud need to do, would be:

- translating the new entries txt file in his own language (optional);
- copying the menu.txt of his used UI mod into the same folder as the batch file and the new menu entries text file;
- double click on the batch to run it;
- enable the mod normally.

What do you think? I agree with you that this is not the most impotant feature: we could leave the user to copy/paste the new entries manually, but my method is safer and so much more cool! It would also be a good excercise for me :)

I don't doubt that for you it's a good exercise.. but if you remember, the users are not as advanced as we would like to :D.. as I recall, even run a standalone app to create a recognition manual in the MaGui or run an other standalone app - GenericPatcher, was a huge problem for users.. :03:

Okay guys this thread is getting a bit off base.

First off -- I'm a C# developer doing some nasty server based stuff so editing a little PY file was nothing for me.

I cleaned off the install of SH5, reinstalled the patches I wanted, and now I'm off.

I have my icons and they are not going away. (before I couldn't get them even with mouse over!!!) Not only that but I now have Automation Scripts. Yeah. Heading out of Keil now.

Sorry, I didn't notice your post before, Mike.

Nice little tool by the way. I Didn't know about it. Thank you for pointing me to it :salute:

Do you think it would be easier for them copying/pasting the lines manually? I wanted to make the process more simple for the average user :doh: :wah:

Yes, obviously it is but, unless you mind it, I don't see the problem: tomorrow or the day after tomorrow it will be lost anyway in a million of similar posts, and no one will notice the slight OT :03:

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