Ammo date file ?

[CapnMike U-69]

Hi Kaleuns,
Can anyone point me to the correct path to modify the ammo quantities for the deck gun (in vanilla SH3), Please. (This is for a IXB)

Thanks in advance,
... and Happy Hunting
Capn. Mike U-69

[Mush Martin]

Hi Capn Mike I can help!

First things first make a back up copy of the
"Basic cfg" file prior to making any changes.

What you need to do depends how far you want to go though.

there is a limited amt of ammo storage on board the sub
so

Open C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\data\Cfg
then double click on the file called basic cfg.

it is a text file that should open with note or wordpad.
approximately 55% or so of the way down the page
you will see this

[SUBMARINE_AMMO6];IXB
Type=2
Version=0
ForeTubes=4
AftTubes=2
ForeResIntern=4
ForeResExtern=5
ForeResExtra=2
AftResIntern=2
AftResExtern=2
ShellSlots=12
NbYears=7
Renown=7
SNK_MASK=NSS_Uboattype9_SNK_mask

where it says shellslots you can increase it by a few but if you
add to many your game will run fine but if you open up the
"ammunition status screen" while in game then it will ctd.
but will other wise work fine but I dont use more than 24 normally.
also excessive ammo even in the slots you have may ctd when
viewing the ammo status screen, but again just dont open the
ammo status and all will work fine.


now next.

about 80% of the way down the page you will see this entry
this iis the ammount of ammo each of the slots you made will
hold.


[SUBMARINE_AMMOLIMITS1] ;105mm
MaxAmmoPerSlot=9999

[SUBMARINE_AMMOLIMITS2] ;88mm
MaxAmmoPerSlot=9999

[SUBMARINE_AMMOLIMITS3] ;37mm
MaxAmmoPerSlot=9999

[SUBMARINE_AMMOLIMITS4] ;20mm
MaxAmmoPerSlot=9999


ooops that ones mine not a standard yours will
have significantly fewer shells but you get the gist
from what appears here.


Just a little further down you will see
this. This defines how much of each type
and what types of ammo are alloted for each
weapon type
(again you will have significantly smaller amounts when you open
up your own copy of basic cfg)

[AMMO_TYPE0];10.5cm SK C/32
Idx=0
Year=1939
Month=1
AP=5000
HE=5000
AA=5000
SS=5000
Renown=0

[AMMO_TYPE1];8.8cm SK C/35
Idx=1
Year=1939
Month=1
AP=2500
HE=2500
AA=1250
SS=1250
Renown=0

[AMMO_TYPE2];3.7cm FK M 42 Twin
Idx=2
Year=1943
Month=12
AP=9999
HE=9999
AA=9999
SS=0
Renown=0

[AMMO_TYPE3];3.7cm FK M 42
Idx=3
Year=1943
Month=6
AP=9999
HE=9999
AA=9999
SS=0
Renown=0

[AMMO_TYPE4];3.7cm SK C/30
Idx=4
Year=1939
Month=1
AP=9999
HE=9999
AA=9999
SS=0
Renown=0

[AMMO_TYPE5];2cm FK C/38 Flakvierling
Idx=5
Year=1943
Month=1
AP=9999
HE=9999
AA=9999
Renown=0

[AMMO_TYPE6];2cm FK C/30 Flakzwiling
Idx=6
Year=1940
Month=7
AP=5000
HE=5000
AA=5000
Renown=0

[AMMO_TYPE7];2cm FK C/38
Idx=7
Year=1943
Month=1
AP=2500
HE=2500
AA=2500
Renown=0

[AMMO_TYPE8];2cm FK C/30
Idx=8
Year=1939
Month=1
AP=2500
HE=2500
AA=2500
Renown=0

[AMMO_TYPE9];2cm FK C/38 Flakzwiling XXI
Idx=9
Year=1944
Month=4
AP=2000
Renown=0

[AMMO_TYPE10];2cm FK C/38 Flakzwiling
Idx=10
Year=1943
Month=7
AP=2500
HE=2500
AA=2500
Renown=0

post your questions here if you have troubles it may
help others trying to learn the same stuff.

Hope this helps
M

[CapnMike U-69]

Hi Mush,
Thanx a heck of a lot for your very rapid help - and your time to type all that for me!
Found the files, made back-up, and upped the slots and quantities by 50% so that I have enough for a tanker-bash south of Florida!

Really appreciate the effort you made. I'm running this on an Intel iMac, and have no previous expereince of a Windows machine at all - so some of these things are new to me!

Now gonna' go and try it.
Happy Hunting....
Mike C U-69

[Mush Martin]

Good Hunting

[PB_2006]

Great post!! Thans for info Mush Martin!!

[SmokinTep]

I made some changes the other day in order to get some AP shells for the deck gun. When using the deck gun, shells show up, (right number of shells I entered), but they still say HE and if I click on it to change to next one (which should be HE), it changes, but can not go back to the previous one.

Any ideas?

[Hanomag]

Kaluens,

Have you seen the mod to allow Railguns on your boats? I have "Thor" right now, I can sink the Hood and the 3 ships behind it in one blast...uber!

JK !! :rotfl:

[bookworm_020]

Originally Posted by Hanomag

Kaluens,

Have you seen the mod to allow Railguns on your boats? I have "Thor" right now, I can sink the Hood and the 3 ships behind it in one blast...uber!

JK !! :rotfl:

Cheater! You won't injoy it for long as you will get bored with it quickly!