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Old 06-02-17, 12:53 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by propbeanie View Post
That's more of that "wizardy" (black magic, even) in the menu_1024_768.ini isn't it?...
The addition of the word "Length" is indeed from adding it through the menu_1024_768.ini file. Placing it above the measurement figures in the Recognition Manual. Although, the actual figures of feet/meters comes from the Names.cfg file. As my image shows, the Taiho Fleet Carrier from the Names.cfg file looks like this:

Taiho Fleet Carrier <several spaces> 821ft / 250.3m

This is the only way I know of to get the length measurement of any ship to be displayed in the RM.

Funny thing about the menu_1024_768 file. There IS a parameter for "Length" to be read in the Recognition Manual section, however, unlike the "Height", "Draft", "Tonnage" figures that pick up these measurements from the ships.cfg file....the "Length" parameter is "inactive". It doesn't do anything! I can get it to display its name...."Length", but the Length= figure from the ships.cfg file means nothing to the game! Just another reason why a game "patch" would be in order to correct these short comings that only a hard coded patch can do.
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