[JScones]

Originally Posted by Paajtor

I've been thinking about this some more....'cause I want to try a XXI-career, and take her all the way from Bergen into the Med, and play around a little.
If I play it smart on fuel-economy, it should be fine.

So you guys are saying that you will keep the water-colours from your loaded Atlantic career, when you enter the Med.
Ok, so how about this:

- start from Bergen, head towards Gibraltar
- save&exit game before entering the straight, and rollback SH3C.
- make a copy of ...data\Env\EnvColors_Med.dat
- rename it to EnvColors_Atl.dat, and make it JSGME-compatible
- enable the mod
- enter the Med with the correct water-colours!
- when re-entering the Atlantic, repeat the other way around, to get correct Atl.colours again.


Would this work, or would I break anything?:hmm:

Don't forget SkyColors_*.dat.

But why go that far downstream? Looking further upstream provides a solution that merely results in two line changes in one small text file. Simply open ..\SilentHunterIII\data\Env\Env.cfg and look for the EnvColors and SkyColors blocks. Then follow my instructions below...

...
[EnvColors]
SeaType00=EnvColors_Atl.dat <-- change "Atl" to either Med or Arct
SeaType80=EnvColors_Med.dat
SeaType150=EnvColors_Arct.dat
 
[SkyColors]
SeaType00=SkyColors_Atl.dat <-- change "Atl" to either Med or Arct
SeaType80=SkyColors_Med.dat
SeaType150=SkyColors_Arct.dat

You can enable your modified files via JSGME, or add the lines to SH3Cmdr's Static settings.cfg where you can alternate as you please. Because I like utilising the most out of SH3Cmdr, I'd do it this way if for no other reason than to avoid the need to maintain duplicate files and another mod set:

[data\Env\Env.cfg]
;Remove ; when wanting Med water
;EnvColors|SeaType00=EnvColors_Med.dat
;SkyColors|SeaType00=SkyColors_Med.dat
 
;Remove ; when wanting Arct water
;EnvColors|SeaType00=EnvColors_Arct.dat
;SkyColors|SeaType00=SkyColors_Arct.dat

But whatever's easiest for you.

EDIT: You could perhaps even get away with just changing the DefaultSeaType setting to 8 (Med) or 15 (Arct), but I haven't tried this approach.

DISCLAIMER: I can't imagine why this wouldn't work mid-patrol, but having never tried it myself, I say attempt at own risk.