[Bosje]

OK i hope I came to the right thread for this, I'll try to explain as clearly as I can

Stumbled across a strange problem just now. After having lots of things going wrong when i upgraded my old 1.4 installation to 1.5 and some mods on top of that, I tried again with a fresh install

so now that's 1.0 -> 1.5 -> RFB -> RSRD with patches -> PE3.3 (#1 through #5 for stock settings)

all is well until I go to my sonar or radar station from the conning tower (salmon, porpoise, all the same). The conning tower camera is free walking with the above modsequence, when I go back to previous view from the radar/sonar I get in the middle of blackness with camera out of sectors. F2 gets me back to the control room but from there I can no longer get to the conning tower proper. it's the blackness from there on.

at first glance it would seem there is some kind of conflict resulting from the 1.5 settings: F9 is now no longer Conning Tower but it's Radar. Something that needs to be tweaked in cameras.dat or commands.en?

The same error occurs in the S class, except that the previous camera from radar/sonar in the S class is the control room which is consequently wrecked from then on. In other words, one is perfectly fine until one hits the radar or sonar console with the left mouse button. then it gets screwed and you have to restart the game.

upon freshly loading, the Conning tower works fine. hitting F8 or F9 works fine, from there you can back to the conning tower camera fine, nothing going wrong. Hit sonar or radar with the mouse -> screwed

This happens with ONLY PE3.3 or ONLY RFB1.5 as well, so it's something in both mods as far as I can see. I removed all mods and tried this with various mod sequences. results are always the same.

I came up with a solution but it's only a limited solution: ROW camera mod 2b for 1.4 fixes the problem as it nails the conning tower camera to the floor. With that mod installed on top, I CAN hit the radar/sonar consoles with the mouse and simply right click back to that fixed cam position. But when I install the mod it says something about overwriting salmon/porpoise/gato files. Not S class. And indeed, the S class is still screwed up (hit the 'radioman' highlight from the control room and then go back to previous view -> control room camera out of sectors.

SO....

the current sequence is 1.0 -> 1.5 -> PE3.3 -> RFB1.5 -> RSRDC for RFB1.5 -> ROW camera 2b
this sequence seems alright so far, as long as I stay away from the s class or german subs

am I onto something here or did I somehow manage to corrupt a file or two within 5 minutes of freshly installing the whole thing?

kind regards, Bosje

ps: I love the environment