As said before, that´s not my area of expertise. Besides I haven´t had a look at the game´s code for about a year now. But afaik there are different ways to make a crew member disappear.

1-If you choose to take the position of one specific crew member, the game engine switches to the respective cam. The important thing, the character must be invisible to "his" own cam/pov now. There´s a (cam-) parameter that can be set just for that particular reason. But the character remains still there, though invisible.

2-Set parameter to be visible/invisible below water. That´s how the deck crew basically works, IIRC. (If not, #3 applies for the deck crew) ;)

3-Link the crew member to a specific state defined in the SMC (StateMachineControllers). Unfortunately the states defined are pre-set. There´s no such state like "surfaced" or submerged, which would make a lot of things easier to handle. At least I´ve never found it. ;)

4-Link the crew member to an object that moves into/out of view when a certain condition is met. Such as the engine in FM_NI.

5-Now the unknown, at least unknown to me, the crew member appears/disappears according to a single bit/flag that will be set when fumbling with the crew management screen. Never checked it. But if it would be easy, somebody would have made it happen already.


Now lads, that´s what I remember. Maybe this is total BS, maybe it´s not.

Regards,
DD

Moin my friends,

thank you for your posts, especially to Diving Duck, every player of SH3 owes you a whole lot!!! Appreciate you being around again!

There aren't any news from this mod as I did not have lots of time for modding the last week. But wait, there actually is one little piece of news: Beta ready to download at the first page of this threat!

Have fun, really looking forward to you feedback!

Best regards, MCHALO12.

Yes, indeed very little piece of news, but... ESSENTIAL! It's here!:woot: Thanks for the great news and for the mod.:salute:

thanks very much for this mod MCHALO12, downoading now....:yeah:



Edit: hey one of the guys is sitting in my seat at the officers mess table! Great start, looks vry good. However now that I see it in game they definitely need some basic animation loops IMHO-heads moving, breathing- at the least. The stock guys in the control room don't move very much, but that little bit they do move is alot.

MCHALO12,

Thank you for your work on this mod. I noticed that the file path for the Textures is incomplete. The folders TNormal and tex are missing in it. Looking forward to testing this mod out.

:salute:

Many thanks, test it this evening when I´m beeing at home ! :up:

It looks good and doesn't seem to affect frame rates at all. Just a few sugegstions...

1. Ditch the guy standing in the engine room with his arms extended upwards. He just doesn't look right. Maybe have him standing on the side with a cup of coffee watching the others working or something. But something about his position seems unnatural to see more than once.

2. Maybe a few guys in the bunks aft of the control room, sleeping or sitting accross from each other paying cards.

Looking good. I can't wait to se your final version!

That's a good suggestion as guys lying in any of the resting quarters will look natural even if they are not moving.:salute:

@MChalo:

Excellent work, mate! All works fine in my GWX and LSH3v5.1 installations.

No drop of FPS.

Suggestion: some sailors resting, and some animations (heads or respiration).

Not so bad for me the machinist in diesels room. Awesome Johann the Phantom, I like it very much.

Many thanks, Mchalo! Congratulations!

@Brett25: Is the new "dat" file for Type VII compatible with your new Interiors Tweaks? I tested that in the STD FM Interiors (all OK), but not in this new with crew.

Best regards!

Fitzcarraldo :salute:

Hi Fitzcaraldo, it is. I made edits to FM's NSS_Uboat7_CR.dat, Mchalo has modded the NSS_Uboat7_RR.dat file. It seems like the lighting data is contained in the CR file however. In any case thats what im using, but I need to look into it some more.

Many thanks, Brett! Is included your camera.dat in the Aces´Multimod compatability fix? I use that mod, and it seems I have the wide camera...

Some images in my SH3 GWX:

This is a psichological image. Two crewmen. One, depressed because that damn war. The other, the exalted nazi adherent, secure of the 1000 Years Reich. Great, Mchalo!

http://img848.imageshack.us/img848/2...1021330582.jpg


...and the awesome Johann The Phantom in the diesels room:

http://img858.imageshack.us/img858/9...1021343891.jpg


Best regards.

Fitzcarraldo :salute:

:har:

yes Aces include the wide camera in his mod too.

Another question about the wide camera mod, the readme says it's based off of the FM New Interiors camera, does this mean it only works with FM New Interiors, or can you use it even if you're playing something other than a Type VII and don't have New Interiors enabled?

Hi Frau Kaleun, the camera should work regardless of the interior, although I havent tried it in anything other than a Type VII. What I do is overlay the camera.dat file last so as to overwrite any other camera files in the mod stack. You can either grab the camera from Aces FM interior compatibility mod (i don't believe Flakmonkey's original camera was wide angle), or download it from me (see above). Try it and let us know. If needed I can make one up for you that will work in another type boat.:salute:

So basically we know for sure it's compatible with the Type VII and with FM New Interiors, but should/might work in other types?

I've already downloaded from the link above, I was just wondering if it was something I should enable via Commander only for the Type VII boats, or could put it in for everything... but I enable New Interiors that way, so I'd need to use Commander for it anyway to avoid the Interiors mod overwriting it when I launch the game. I don't think I have any mods enabled outside of Commander that affect the camera.dat file. Probably DD's Open Hatch does but I enable that in Commander only for Type IXs. :hmmm:

Well I will give it a try, of course it's not like I'm at all likely to play anything other than a Type VII. :O: But I think one of the Academy tutorials is in a Type II maybe? That would be the quickest way to test outside of a VII methinks.