Ship Names February 2011

[Sailor Steve]

Well, after six months of other interests, burnout and sheer boredom, I finally have enough new names to warrant a new release. Not too many (about 200), but at least it's something new. And we're on our way again.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=2981

[EmeAzul]

Steve, thank you for this work. Cheers

EmeAzul

[Magic1111]

Many thanks !!!

[Damo]

Thankyou Steve for your continuing work on what must be a somewhat monotonous task, monotonous but I imagine interesting finding out about all the various ships and their stories (or lack of, i bet). Anyway, it seems you have picked the exact wrong time to release this as I'm currently adding MFM to my mods and now I'm going to pick your brain (I convinced myself your brain needed picking, I'm very persuasive...)

You may remember I had an issue with names, crew and cargo not showing in my patrol log when it came to the MFM ships (this was using the Interim version). I've done a little snooping (yes, I did TRY to work my way half way to you, lol), and one thing stands out to me, in that in every ship's .cfg file it has a 'Class Name', and in your list (august one, not downloaded the latest yet), it has a section in the Ship Names.cfg under [Class Map]. At first glance, it would appear that the classes listed in this area correspond to some of the folders in my Sea folder and your file tells Commander what sort of ship it is and what list of names to take the sunken ship from. Am I right?

If this is the case, then let me give an example from one ship I had the issue with, Tanker 07, here's it's .cfg:

[Unit]
ClassName=T07B
UnitType=101
MaxSpeed=14
Length=142
Width=19.5
Mast=22.5
Draft=7.0
Displacement=7300
RenownAwarded=332

[2DCompartments]
UnitPos=56,8,403,20
NbOfComp=4
Name1=Propulsion
Area1=58,5,30,18
Name2=Keel
Area2=164,2,187,10
Name3=Engines Room
Area3=207,13,52,18
Name4=Fuel Bunkers
Area4=261,13,30,18

So, my question is, do I need to add 'T07B' (and T07A (US), T07X (Neutral)) to the [Class Map] with =GenericMerchantsAndTankers for Commander to then acknowledge the MFM ships and add a name and cargo/crew? It's a lot of work as there are many extra ships that would need to be added to [Class Map] if I am indeed right. I await your answer before I start modifying anything though as I'm well aware that it's never as clear cut as it first seems, especially with this game....

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Ok, scrap that, I just looked further down and can see T07A/B already in the list, will install the latest and see if it fixes things.

Thanks Steve!!

Again, let me know if there's anything I can do to help you with this.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Damo

in every ship's .cfg file it has a 'Class Name', and in your list (august one, not downloaded the latest yet), it has a section in the Ship Names.cfg under [Class Map]. At first glance, it would appear that the classes listed in this area correspond to some of the folders in my Sea folder and your file tells Commander what sort of ship it is and what list of names to take the sunken ship from. Am I right?

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...170741&page=31

Especially #455, and Frau Kaleun's response in #460.

I don't think the problem you're having with information showing up will be fixed by making the changes you propose. I say this because you seem to be one of a very few who are having these problems. On the other hand I'm unable to use MFM, so Frau Kaleun will have to confirm that it shows up for her.

[frau kaleun]

I'm pretty sure that 4-5 of the ships I sank on my last patrol were from the MFM, all of them got names/cargo/etc. when I updated my files in Commander after the patrol. None of them were tankers, though.