[Dogfish40]

Originally Posted by Trevally.

Ok - made a test mission
I am 30m deep
target is 60km away heading to pass me side on at 8knots



Run the mission
The target is first spotted at 33km and hydro line is drawn on map
no call out or message


target heads towards my at 8knots
hydro line shows where he is the whole way
not shout out from hydro at any time.

Then the targer disappears as it passes by deaf spot off the bow.
When the target reappears the sound man calls out and message is posted
new updates are shouted out and posted as the target moves away out of range



Second go - ran same mission again
target spotted at 32km
this time i ask hydro to repeat last contact
contact is posted, but no shout out


sound man remains quiet and no more messages posted
the hydro line tracks target

again target passes my bow and is about to go into my deaf zone
still no message posted or call outs


as target re-enters by the hydro zone
sonar man posts message and calls out
he continues to call out and post messages until out of range



So - my issue is this
when using real nav - the hydro line is not marked on your map
this line is the only warning you will get unless you ask
or unless contact is lost and then found again before he will start reporting

So, In a nutshell, your soundman was working, right? You didn't have to adjust anything. My soundman was not doing this at all. The hydrophone line would appear and I will get no warning in the messagebox or a call out from the soundman at all. Until I ran the took out those three mods and ran the life raft mission. Unfortunately, I got home way too late yesterday to do anything but rearrange my mod list and update the UI mod.
For most of us with this problem, the fix is simply go to the SH5/data/cfg/contacts.cfg--open it with notepad and make sure this line reads 60! The same with the precise line, make sure this reads 15. This will fix most of the soundman problems that the Kaleuns are having.
There are several mods that have changed this and you'll need to find those as well 'cause everytime you load the mod, that contacts.cfg gets overwritten.
I hope that swtching my mods around and updating the UI will help.
I'll post again when I test.
Will I be able to access this mission?
Thanks
D40