Waves! I need waves!
 

Reminiscing my Coastie days I felt the need to see large......I mean LARGE seas in the game.

How can I manually increase the wave height to say, 10 times the current size?

I'd just like to play around a bit with the wave and ship physics to see what happens.

Anyone know?

Hello,
try the "Big waves" mod, abvailable at Subsim.com (SH3 download section) or here: http://u-boot.realsimulation.com.
Be aware that ships (skimmers, that is ;) ) may sink, especially destroyers, trawlers and PT-boats ...
Greetings,
Catfish

I use the 1.25x wave pack and it's perfect. (still not large enough wawes during storms, but you won't get 5 meters wawes in calm wether ether.

Can anyone explain how to get wave heights in excess of 50 feet? Is 100 feet possible, or is it beyond the capabilities of the engine?

Just submerge and you will see what a wave of 50 feet looks like ! :P

Hey mrfritz... I'm a retired Coastie! When and where for you? I was a HS ret in 2000 at Seattle

I've got 1.4b and no wave mods and i've seen waves large enough to totaly cover the sub, i'd say unless you're bolted down thats enough to possibly lose the watch crew.

I was under the impression waves are huge enough as it is!

3 versions of the Big Wave mod I use the middle version(1.5) waves are still pretty good but a lot less ships sink in the storms. I read somewhere that RUB(?) was addressing ship stability to cause less floundering, haven't heard anything more on the subject.

Semper Fi

I was in Gloucester and Merrimack River for my four year stint (95-99).

I'm at the point in SH3 where I want less to be historically accurate and more experimental with the capabilities of the graphics. I've lost that sense of awe from watching the game's waves and I want to see how large the waves can really go.

Anyone know how to modify them besides applying prepackaged mods? I think it would be cool to make 100 footers or more and just see what happens to the U-boats,. It's a thing left over from the days when I would burn plastic Army men :88)

Thanks,

Fritz

Just great! The SH3 Expanision Pack turns out to be a remake of The Poseidon Adventure! :damn:

Remake
 

Sorry but that remake is filming as we speak... Sad that Hollywood has lost all original thought.

to each his own but I did not like the big waves Mod and Gave it the flick pretty quick.The bigger the waves get the less real they look and the U-boat does not react to the bigger waves as well, riding high up the face of the waves then crashing down as one might expect does not happen.
it's not how big your wave is it's the motion on the ocean!

Can someone refer me to someone who may know how to make this modification?

Yeah, the submerge idea is best - go down to 200 meters - and you'll have a really big wave.

I'm a Coastie PA1 stationed in Kodiak. I wonder how many other Coasties are around here. BTW I use the big wave mod and love it, makes the storms look more real for sure.