I spent a good part of last night and the past hour today installing FLB_Sales's Simfeeling 6-Dials Mod. The bad news is twofold:
1. You have to edit the menu_1024_768.ini, which is not easy and can be risky. FLB_Sale has made it a little easier by typing out all the changed files, so you can just copy and paste them, but even with that you have to change some of the file numbers. Last night I had everything work properly except the little grey box at the bottom, which holds the time-and-date figures. I knew roughly what was wrong because I've done it many times before, but it still took a lot of rereading to get it right. Today I finally discovered one misplaced item (some modders add the new listings on at the bottom rather than within the sections they belong to. The game doesn't care, because it reads the numbers at the top of the listing, but if you're adding new items and don't know that some of them are continued at the bottom you run the risk of getting into trouble. That's what happened in this case.
2. The mod completely changes the way the screen looks. The dials are quite large, making them easy to read and to click on, but all the dials and the officer bar and the time and time compression slots are now all slideouts, so there is nothing on the screen unless you want it there. I think this is wonderful, but it is totally incompatible with any GUI mod, so if you like one of those you can't use this one, and vice versa.
This is what it looks like:
The Compass. This is the one that comes with the mod. I'll be installing Hitman's accurate compass some time later.
The Rudder Control.
The Engine Control (Americans call this the Lee Helm).
The Knot Meter.
The Depth Gauge.
The Shallow Depth Gauge.
And the Time Compression and Date / Time Panel.
