You asked for torpedo depth control... OK, I worked on it few hours, it works as I want and I can't find errors in it anymore, so I think you will test faster and better than me :-) Try it and tell me if it's any good.
Demo version of torpedo doctrine with depth and speed control ready to download and test. Use it rather on plain DW (without LwAmi mod) because it have no features of LwAmi mod - it's just standard DW torpedo doctrine with demo of advanced control mod. If it works, then I can include this changes in LwAmi mod doctrines too.
http://members.chello.pl/m.ostrowski...ControlBet.zip
And the "manual" here, I know it's too long but I wanted to describe really every aspect of mod here, even those that are obvious
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Advanced Torpedo Control Mod Demo
Torpedo if not touched after launch will behave as before - so after reaching enable range it will go to seaarchdepth and enable in passive or active mode as set.
If you take manual control over torpedo then it works like that:
Click Enable once - torpedo enabled in passive mode, speed set to 40kts, depth NOT CHANGED
click Enable again - torpedo enabled in active mode, speed set to max, depth NOT CHANGED
Click Preenable once - Preenable (when enabled) or nothing (if preenabled)
Click Preenable again - cycle depth between launch ---> search ---> ceiling ---> reset
So second preenable click - depth change from launch to search depth
third preenable click - depth change from Search depth to ceiling
fourth preenable click - depth change from ceiling back to launch depth and counter reset
(so fifth preenable click - cycle starts again with depth set from launch to search depth ect.)
IMPORTANT: there have to be at least one second pause between clicks. If you click fast few times in one second frame, game will notice only one click. So click - wait a second - click - wait a second ect.
P.S. To be more precise, I should write "one game frame" not "one second" pause. The time between two game screen updates can be - sometimes - little longer than a second, so sometimes one second pause could be not enaugh. After click, wait untill game screen refreshes (torpedo position updates) and then you can click next time ect.
If torpedo is actually at depth that would be set, nothing will happen. For example if torpedo was at search depth (you send it there or it enabled after reaching enable range) then first preenable will preenable torp, second preenable do nothing (would set torp to search depth but it's already there), third preenable send to ceiling ect. So not every click will change depth, if you click preenable second time and nothing happens then torpedo is probably on search depth already, just click again to continue to ceiling and ect.
After manual enable it will not go to search depth on it's own anymore to give you full control over it's depth. Of course I could left it as it was - going to search depth after enable, but you couln't change torpedo search depth at all - after enable it would always return to preset search depth.
So now after manual enable torpedo will just start search on it's CURRENT depth, so FIRST set it to depth you want and THEN enable it. This way you can set it to search on any depth you want - launch depth, search depth or ceiling.
To change depth of enabled torpedo, preenable it, change depth with use of Preenable button and enable it again on wanted depth.
I have discovered that by simple change I can give you basic speed control. Change is that after preenable, torpedo speed is NOT reset to preenable speed and torpedo continues run on it's current speed. Passive enable sets torpedo to 40kts, active enable to max speed. So if you preenable the torpedo in passive mode, it will continue on 40kts, if you preenable active torpedo - it will continue on max speed.
So if you want to speed up a slow torpedo, you have to enable it to active mode first (clicking on Enable button twice, with a pause between) and then you may preenable it if you want. Of course it will emit a ping after active enable so rather turn it away from enemy to do that :-).
If you have 55kts torpedo and want to slow it down, preenable it, enable in passive mode (once) so it slows down to 40kts and then preenable again - it will continue on 40kts.
I hope it's all clear, I tried to make my best with my english :-)
This is beta manual so I have tried to describe EVERYTHING here, so please tell me what parts of this "manual" are so obvious that not needed and I will remove them to make it shorter.
Ami
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