RMS Titanic Hit Points

[AndreasT]

Hi all, my query is that I loaded a few extra ships into SH3 using GWX. I actually encounted the Titanic in a convoi. Great I thought, tons and tons of ship to sink. I fired three torpedos at it. Of course two missed. One torpedo hit it, and it sank in a flash. Now for a ship which is unsinkable I found this a bit annoying. Can I, may I change the ships hit points? How do I do it?
I have no knowledge of modding and do not want to stuff up the game.
Thanks in advance.
Andreas

[Aces]

Hi mate,

I can't answer your question about hit points I'm afraid but the best and safest way to go about modding so as to avoid "stuffing up your game" is to do a second "modding" install of the game and any "core" mods such as GWX etc. and use JSGME to install any trial mods. You can use Multi-SH3 so that you can have two (or more) installs of the game each with their own save game folders.

Edit: I think that you should be looking at zones.cfg and find your ship entry in that file.

Cheers

Aces

Grab S3D and open the zon file.
(I use a Hex editor myself)
Look for the ColisionableObject controller.
HitPoints are listed there.
Just up the setting to your taste.

[Aces]

There you go!, thought an expert would appear soon enough to answer your query , Hi Jeff, hope you are well mate.

cheers

Leigh

Doing fine Leigh.


As to the zone.cfg,
Messing with the HitPoints there causes a universal change to all Units useing the zone you change.

Working the Unit .zon file only applies to that Unit.
For example:
the Junk has a value of 175
while the Bismark has a value of 800

Not sure what the Titanic has as I don't have that installed.
Don't even know how well the zon for it is setup.
That's a whole different ball game!

[Aces]

Thanks for the info Jeff, always nice to learn new tricks

Glad to hear that you are doing well mate.

Why not stop by Modders United for a gander when and if you have a bit of time.

Take care mate

Cheers

Leigh