Adding Merchants To Campaign
 

Hello All,

I recently downloaded and enabled (with JSGME) Iambecomelife's Arrow Tanker for SHIII. I am using GWX 2.1 with SHCommander 3.1. Is there anything I have to do to make this ship "show up" in the historical campaign? I am in late '39 right now so I won't be shooting at this ship for quite some time. I am just curious as to if anything needs to be done for this ship to spawn in convoys, alone, etc. Thanks in advance for any answers!

Adam

To use it in the mission editor dont you need to add its name to the Roster file EX EnglishNames .CFG

It is a unit type 101, so it should show quite regularly.

There is a readme with the ship instructing you to add:

T09A=Tanker 09

to the EnglishNames CFG http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...ies/pirate.gif

So I have been doing the right thing the whole time. Cool:lurk:

You have enabled it vis JSGME :hmm:

Eek! So my advice is wrong?

My apologies!

You must add the the detail to the CFG file to allow for identification.

So, am I to understand that by merely following the installation instuctions this ship will show up randomly during the compaign? I installed with JSGME and added the T09A=Tanker 09 to the englishnames.cfg file in SH3Root\data\sea. Is this a correct assumption? That's not bad at all. I am really looking forward to iambecomelife's merchant fleet mod. It should be great!

Adam

Yep,thats all you need to do,it shows up quite a few times in single/convoys and she is a beauty:up:

Rgr that http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...ies/pirate.gif

I'm curious, how does the game know that a newly added ship belongs to a certain type? Is it written in the .cfg files in the Roster folder, under UnitType (101 = tankers, 102 = cargo, etc.)?

Yep

Sea folder cfg

[Unit]
ClassName=T09A
UnitType=101 < Tanker
MaxSpeed=11

Roster folder cfg

[UnitClass]
ClassName=T09A
UnitType=101 < Tanker
AppearanceDate=19380101

English Cfg file in the main Roster folder

;Merchant ships
Type100=Replenishment
Type101=Tanker
Type102=Cargo

Thanks! :up: