Hey Todd and welcome to SH3.
First thing youll wanna do is d/l and install the 1.4 patch found over at the SH3 site. Most of the mods are built for that.
Then youll want the generic mod enabeler found in the d/l section at subsim.com. Makes installing mods a snap.
Popular opinion is to go with SH3 commander, also found at subsim and either the lastest version of RUB(realuboat), version 1.45 I believe OR the latest version of IUB(improveduboat). IUB has all of RUB and some other goodies. (Not the latest version of RUB though)
Im running SH3 commander and IUB and am quite happy with that combo.
Now with IUB or RUB you may find that its to dark at night to see. You can either adjust your monitor gamma settings (there are none in game) or you can use the light night mod.
If you go to the list of mods sticky on this page it has a link for IUB and you also find the light night mod on the same site.
RUB can be found on the subsim site.
Hope that helps.
Cheers
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