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peabody · 02-10-12, 10:31 PM

As always thank you very much Admiral. Like I have commented before to all, Admiral has given me tons of info. Appreciate every bit of it.

I noticed in the ranks Takao gave us you started as a Chu-i. In yours it lists a "Kaigun Chui" , then I realized the Kaigun part stands for Navy. Some of the other ranks are the same and some are not.I think he was trying to match up with the German ranks and sometimes there wasn't a match.

As for the submarine idea, I tried it with a US sub I made and it didn't work, but only a simple one mission test since I didn't have time for more. The problem to solve is that if you use a normal sub from the game, it does NOTHING. It won't move. To make it move you need to make it a ship which they will not attack. The ships will shoot at ships that are close enough, but will not leave the escort position to attack (and DC) like they do with a nearby player sub.
So what is a bit ironic is the US DDs will attack the IJN surface ships because they need to be converted to subs to make them playable. But the IJN DDs won't attack the US sub because to make them AI they are converted to ships. Catch 22.
I did leave the unit type to 200 which is a sub, but it still didn't work.

Now I have read about a sub that submerges when attacked, but I haven't seen it so I don't know how that was done. On mine since it is a ship if it submerges it is basically a sinking ship and it stops moving. The way around that for me was to make a submerged sub by moving the center point of the ship. That made the game think it was still surfaced, but that created another problem if there was more than one DD attacking, they would shoot at it with guns, and since there was nothing to hit (the sub is submerged) they usually ended up shooting each other.

So maybe with a little thinking I may get an idea, but I am also trying to find time to put the IJN Campaign together. It has taken forever and now it is frustrating, there is so much I do not know about modding this game. And I am now working it alone. That is why I have given my partially done ships to Tbear, at least it is a start. Maybe he can complete something.

Thank you once again.

02-10-12, 10:31 PM	#4
peabody Admiral Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: New York State, USA Posts: 2,390 Downloads: 126 Uploads: 7	As always thank you very much Admiral. Like I have commented before to all, Admiral has given me tons of info. Appreciate every bit of it. I noticed in the ranks Takao gave us you started as a Chu-i. In yours it lists a "Kaigun Chui" , then I realized the Kaigun part stands for Navy. Some of the other ranks are the same and some are not.I think he was trying to match up with the German ranks and sometimes there wasn't a match. As for the submarine idea, I tried it with a US sub I made and it didn't work, but only a simple one mission test since I didn't have time for more. The problem to solve is that if you use a normal sub from the game, it does NOTHING. It won't move. To make it move you need to make it a ship which they will not attack. The ships will shoot at ships that are close enough, but will not leave the escort position to attack (and DC) like they do with a nearby player sub. So what is a bit ironic is the US DDs will attack the IJN surface ships because they need to be converted to subs to make them playable. But the IJN DDs won't attack the US sub because to make them AI they are converted to ships. Catch 22. I did leave the unit type to 200 which is a sub, but it still didn't work. Now I have read about a sub that submerges when attacked, but I haven't seen it so I don't know how that was done. On mine since it is a ship if it submerges it is basically a sinking ship and it stops moving. The way around that for me was to make a submerged sub by moving the center point of the ship. That made the game think it was still surfaced, but that created another problem if there was more than one DD attacking, they would shoot at it with guns, and since there was nothing to hit (the sub is submerged) they usually ended up shooting each other. So maybe with a little thinking I may get an idea, but I am also trying to find time to put the IJN Campaign together. It has taken forever and now it is frustrating, there is so much I do not know about modding this game. And I am now working it alone. That is why I have given my partially done ships to Tbear, at least it is a start. Maybe he can complete something. Thank you once again. __________________ System Spec: Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3, PentiumD Dual Core Presler 945 3.4Ghz, Gigabyte Geforce 7600GS, 2-1GB Corsair XMS2 800Mhz in Dual Channel, 2-WD 250 SATA 3Gb/s, Onboard Realtek HD 7.1 Audio, DVD ROM, DVD burner, Hiper 580 Watt Power supply, WinXP SP2.