Survivors
 

Hey guys,
I was thinking about having a mod in Silent Hunter IV where we have more survivors instead of the usual dinky lifeboat with a half dozen sailors in it.

My idea is that with existing animations, we can have a mod where sailors jump into the water from the ship when it's sinking from being hit by torpedoes or deck gun shells from your submarine. The sailors will swim in the water, using the same model that downed pilots in in SH4 use when they land in the water after being shot down, except with sailors.

The sailors will just float in the water like real sailors do and swim towards your sub. I want to see more survivors from ships because I think that it would be more realistic to see sailors swimming in the water from shipwrecks.

In a real shipwreck,
sailors would just jump off the ship into the water :woot: and swim to safety, hoping not to go down with their ship. The silent hunter experience would be enhanced by having these sailors swim in the water and act like real sailors do after a ship is sunk.

Good idea.:up:
This was done once for SH3, canßt find the thread but such a mod is existing there. I think it is an update from lifeboat&debris.

Thank you, McHibbins.

My pleasure.

Well found it at least :

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=170965

Must be also possible for SH4

That certainly would be more realistic. Kind of disturbing though...

I like the idea. I'm wondering, however, what kind of impact would animations like that would have on FPS?

dinner time
 

If you perfect this mod, we will have to update the great white shark mod, so that the sharks swallow, eat, take a leg, etc., from a percentage of the survivors. :wah: Give them a homing device like the AI on TMO dds.

I previously started a thread re Pacific Shark Attacks, and included a review of GUMS, the x-rated version of JAWS. Rather than being attacked from below by a shark, it was a woman who attacked from the depths. Maybe we can incorporate parts of the movie into the opening credits when the game starts.:D

I run the PE4 life boat and debris, just just a bunch of dead floating bodies, no swimmers.

Would be great if someone could meld the swimmers in with the debris and dead bodies mod from PE 4.Would add to the game.