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Originally Posted by keltos01
I edited the bow, punching through the door openings, then pasted in the tubes from the Gato class, added a vertical metal plate between the tubes and voilą :
Now I need Peabody to tell me how he set up eight forward torpedo tubes (a tutorial, please) and we might be set sooner than you think !  |
I almost have the buttons worked out but for some reason (mainly I don't know what I am doing:rotfl
the background is not transparent anymore. I now have a white border around the lights and the panel. What I did was take the dds into Photoshop Elements (can't afford the full version) made the lights 80% but when I saved there were 7 million choices for dds. And I don't exaggerate. You are more into this graphics stuff, I do Photography and don't need to do this dds stuff.
The tubes were easy, It didn't even work the way I expected. The upc still has them as stern tubes, that's why I commented I needed more testing. It just doesn't seem right. Tubes 7+8 are still listed as stern and loading from the stern bunker, but they don't. They moved to the forward side by themselves and started taking torps from the forward bunker. You can give it a try and do some testing, I haven't had a lot of time, been working on the campaign. (Sorry, US/Jap career not UBM, didn't realize all these boats were going to be availbale as German and this was my very first attempt at modding so It started as a learning experience.)
I shouldn't give out all my secrets:rotfl:.(Just kidding) It's about the only thing I haven't had trouble with. Ok, simply:
I am using a Gato for my Sen Toku II and went to the .sim file and found tubes 7 and 8 (which are 6+7 because the numbering starts at zero) and copied the "Parent ID". Then went to the .dat file and found the doors they were linked to. Took those doors in the dat file and they were -4.xxxxx and the forward doors were +4.XXX. So I moved the doors to the bow by making them +4 and turned them around to face forward and wammmo 8 forward tubes.
Like I commented in the .upc they show as stern and load from the stern bunker, but that is not what is happening. I even tried to move the compartment and let them load from the stern bunker (more storage) but wasn't able to make it work. But I didn't try very hard either.
So, that's it in a nutshell, moved the stern tubes forward turned them around and linked to the forward doors.
This is what I ended up with when resizing the buttons, I got rid of the white around the panel but the color must be different where I resized the buttons because it isn't transparent, maybe you can fix it?
