[REL] Charts Addon 1.5 for Widescreen MaGui

[sublynx]

CAWS 1.61 - totally revamped new version

Features:


Download:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=4686

New additions include:
- Tycho's DR3 slide rule and analog clock
- Hitman's Lagewinkelscheibe tweaked by makman94
- Prize rules translated by Golden Rivet
- Contact Approach Attack PDF by nataraj
- Tycho's Gridxxxx tweaked by Fahnenbohn
- North Atlantic KM gridmap
- slideout recognition charts for either MFM or IABLnew
- Hitman's Dreieck
- excerpts from the U-boat Commanders Handbook, 1943
- and some minor changes

Special thanks for this version to Tycho, makman94, GoldenRivet, nataraj and Fahnenbohn!

May 23rd, 2015. CAWS 1.61.
- a typo corrected from dials.cfg
- a makman94 modified cameras.dat for players who use the mod with a 1366x768 screen
- a couple of mostly makman94 modified tga's for use with 1366x768 screen




The mod is a widescreen 1360x768 version of Charts Addon 1.4. It is meant for Widescreen Magui, but might work with other SH3 versions of similar screen proportions as well. I've only playtested the mod for WS MaGui+NYGM 3.6F, so don't be surprised if it doesn't work in a different setup.The mod is untested in career mode, so there likely are some glitches, that I'll try to fix if absolutely necessary and I happen to have the time. Installation through JSGME.

Info on the previous 1024x768 versions of Charts Addon:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=197685

New compared to Charts Addon 1.4. for MaGui F:

- Leitender's Anschütz compass added
- Maneuvering board made bigger
- added a chart that shows how to use the attack disc for multiplication
- replaced Hitman's Gegnerfahrttafel with a speed chart made by LGN1
- added a chart that aids in distinguishing between cloud types

Special thanks regarding this newest version to makman94 (Widescreen Magui), Leitender (Anschütz compass) and LGN1 for the time/length/speed chart.

Here's a clip that shows a couple of slides and Leitender's magnificent compass:



Thanks Leitender for giving the permission to use your compass here! It really is a beauty Hopefully widescreen players that hesitate editing menu_1024_768.ini will give your compass a try through JSGME, and then start experimenting with finetuning the game themselves

[BigWalleye]

Just to make life easy, here's the download link: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=4598

[sublynx]

Thanks BigWalleye! Kind of crucial info

[Delta Wolf]

Nice work

[BigWalleye]

Nice job. A boon to all the widescreenies (which these days is probably most SubSimmers).

BTW, I still get Hitman's Gegnerfahrttafel, and no new speed chart. Am I just missing it? I'm fine with Hitman's chart, but curious to see the new one.

[sublynx]

Originally Posted by BigWalleye

BTW, I still get Hitman's Gegnerfahrttafel, and no new speed chart. Am I just missing it? I'm fine with Hitman's chart, but curious to see the new one.

That's curious. Do you see the speed table in the Layout folder? I named the new table gegnerfahrt.tga, just like the old table by Hitman. I'm on my phone right now but I'll have a look at this when I get to my laptop.

[BigWalleye]

Originally Posted by sublynx

That's curious. Do you see the speed table in the Layout folder? I named the new table gegnerfahrt.tga, just like the old table by Hitman. I'm on my phone right now but I'll have a look at this when I get to my laptop.

Never mind!

Some time in the distant past - maybe day before yesterday - I had swapped Hitman's Gegnerfahrttafel for LGN1's. Then I promptly forgot I had done so.

So I loaded up your Charts Addon v1.5 and looked for the "new" Gegnerfahrttafel. Guess what? It looked just like the "old" one!

Uff da!

[makman94]

very nice work, Sublynx

especially the propela's rounds tables looks superb !

[sublynx]

Here's some screenshots of the mod:

[sublynx]

Having read the war diary of U-480 over in the U-boatarchive I realised that at least some late war U-boats actually estimated regularly the speeds of the merchants and the escorts through listening to their propellers' sounds. Counting the screws and deducting the RPM's per minute from that

That's why I made this SH3MissionEditor Mission where I let German type 34 destroyers run by me at different speeds. I counted the RPM's and took screenshots for a crude guesstimation of speed based on how the smoke coming from the funnels behave

I made a chart like this:



This was something the Germans could have done very easily during the war. Of course it's possible that the type 34 destroyer's screw sounds are totally different to a Town class or River Class

Anyways, I'm planning on maybe adding the chart to Charts Addon one day. Here's the tga for anyone who wants to try it

http://www.2shared.com/file/nMI-xdd1/sliderule.html

The easiest way to try it, is just to drop it into the layout folder in charts Addon. Then it replaces the chart that tells how to multiply with an attack disc.

[sublynx]

I'm real happy to give out these three new charts that are based on nataraj's most excellent Contact_Approach_Attack PDF:

helmut.saueregger.at/gameresources/SH3/Contact Approach Attack.pdf

Thanks a lot nataraj for writing the PDF and giving the permission to spread the knowledge through these TGA's


An easy way of calculating an intercept course with the desired room for maneuver


How to shoot in a way that the torpedo hits the target at a 90 degree angle, even if the U-boat is not at a 90 degree angle to the target's track


The torpedo triangle

You can download the new tga's here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/gt...g/natarajs_pdf

For anyone already using Charts Addon, just drop the tga's into the Layout folder. The new tga's will replace some of the old ones. Make backups if you want to keep the old ones!

I might make a new version of Charts Addon for MaGui WS some day, and then I'll do the menu work as well. For now it's just experimental

[sublynx]

A new TGA pack ready, Prize Rules, condensed and translated by GoldenRivet. Downloadable from here: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=4657

[sublynx]

LGN1's SH3 Log mod forces one to make an estimation of the GRT of the ships one has sunk. With all the ships one can mod into SH3 nowadays, it sometimes happens, that one sinks a ship one does not recognize. In these cases I guess most of us just make a crude guess about the GRT.

The US Coast Guard has a formula for GRT calculations. Here's the formula changed into the metric system:



Download from here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/oj...31j517/grt.tga

I haven't had time to try this in the game yet, so I'm not 100% sure I made the feet to meters conversion right, so maybe doublecheck the results with the recognition manual when possible.

[Fubar2Niner]

@Sublynx

I am at present using a 16:10 monitor but am looking to get a 16:9 with a res of 1920x1080 will your chart mod display ok, or will I have to manipulate the .ini?

Best regards.

Fubar2Niner

[sublynx]

It will load, but the charts will be here and there and there are some charts that would be on your way all the time. You would need to manually edit every x value by adding something like 560 pixels. Basically easy, but takes a lot of work and you would need to that to every TGA that the mod contains.