Silent Service 2 (SH2) - External view zoom question
 

Hiya

I fired up SH2 yesterday. Loaded quite a number of mod goodies for this goldie of an oldie. I have a question on the external view zoom:

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5737/2...4bcce21c_b.jpg

Q1: The zoom with Control-Up or Control-Down arrow keys are limited. I can't zoom or unzoom all the way. For example in the image above, I have already zoomed the maximum zoom. Yet, stock vanilla SH2 limits the amount of zoom one can do in the external view. Bummer.
How can I zoom or unzoom unlimited, all the way, so that the submarine completely fills my screen? Any hack of the sim.ini file to achieve this?

Q2: I enabled the sim.ini, once the sub is submerged, to allow one to view the sub in both below and above the waves kinda-view. That is nice when checking out the charging destroyer and the already crash-dived sub. My question is this: when the submarine is surfaced, with the external view keys, I cannot view it from underwater, looking up towards the sub. Is there any way I can view the surfaced submarine in both above and below the waves kind of view?

Cheers
Captain Frankie Kam
Malaysia

Silent Service 2 is not the same as Silent Hunter 2

You got them mixed up:

http://www.subsim.com/ssr/sh2/review..._hunter_ii.htm

http://www.subsim.com/ssr/service2.html

Can't help with the actual questions though, sorry.

Hi Pisces

Thank you for pointing out my confusing title. Yes, it is Silent Hunter 2.
BTW, this post is related to what I was asking:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=191651

Unfortunately, as the old timer Sailor Steve mentioned, there is no free camera in SH2. Only the external view that is tied to a ship/submarine.

Thanks for taking the time to reply anyway.
Cheers
Frankie Kam

Hi Bl1tzkr13g

Thanks for your reply. I have just finished installing SH5 and have added the Steel Wolves (SW) mega-mod add-on with SW patch 1.4. Even with mods like SW (that is a compilation of 100 mods), you still returned to SH3? Please explain because I am curious. Maybe something along this line:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=221154
?

In the spirit of sharing,
Frankie Kam