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Originally Posted by joegrundman
hey karamazovnew,
nice to see you around 
did you ever try linking the aobf to a type 70 dial (at least i think it's that number) so that it could be turned directly from the stadimeter?
joe |
Yeap, I did... At first I even hoped to be able to move a "ship height" cursor because there was also a dial for the mast height, unfortunately that was unusable too. Maybe they work in SH5, haven't kept up to date with it.
you can try it too, the dial is this one:
[Dial129]
Name=AOBF_Visible
Type=42; DIAL_TGT_ANG_ON_BOW
Dial=0x260EF022
CrtVal=0x260EF021
NewVal=0x0
DialVal=-180,180
RealVal=-180,180; degrees
Circular=Yes
The AOBF sits in the "old" AOB page on the notepad. Because of weird coding, the temp speed and range don't work outside their pages. Fortunately I managed to move the stadimeter button outside the range page and into the main notepad page. Unlike SH3, in SH4 they added the selective Uboat - USfleet Boat interface by hard code. It checks every page and loads different groups or even different bitmaps for objects depending on which side you play. That's why my interface never affected the US interface. However if you move any object outside its original page or even group, the game refuses to load. I remember trying different ways to add functionality to the AOBF wheel, inspired by the way the range dial moves automatically when you move the US stadimeter. None worked. Took me two weeks of frustration to actually make the AOBF work as it is.