SH3 Commander R2.6 NOW AVAILABLE!

[JScones]

Release 2.6 of SH3 Commander is now available!

DOWNLOAD Through SUBSIM

"Main engine" changes:
- Added ability to change crew officer faces (includes automatic 3D head and hat wearing alignment)
- Crew transfer message now includes crewman's main qualification
- Added new "Static settings" feature
- Changes to "Randomised events.cfg" file - refer to instructions in header of file
- Added ability to recognise when docked at a milk cow or other friendly base and automatically adjust the number of days spent in base to 1 (plus any extra days required to repair damage)
- Improved backup mechanism for scene.dat and Basic.cfg files
- Improved copy mechanism for unique crew configurations
- Randomising new crew names now includes number of patrols, certain medals and experience (ie you're no longer limited to a purely "green" crew everytime you start a new career)
- US rank labels are now the same as stock SH3. SH3 Commander does not support rank "bumping", that is, changing your starting rank to anything higher than the SH3 default
- Crew Manager now warns where crewmen have been awarded the U-boat War badge prior to 13 October 1939
- Crew Manager now warns where crewmen have been awarded the Wound Badge but not the U-boat War badge
- Now looks for and runs SH3Weather if it exists just prior to launching SH3 (when in base during or at the start of a career)
- Added new fatigue model - Grey Wolves 24 Hour
- Added ability to randomise main screen banner - refer to "!!BANNER INSTRUCTIONS!!.txt" under the Banners folder
- Minor adjustments to main interface
- Minor adjustments to all Cfg files

New included mods:
- Hemisent's simulated equipment malfunctions plus optional damage caused by sabotage (simulates the effect of equipment malfunctions plus damage caused by sabotage by randomly reducing default equipment specifications)

View screenshots

Note that prior to installing this release you must *fully* uninstall your current release. Don't forget to rollback SH3 Commander first and back up any SH3 Commander files that you may have modified!

To download, click here. Please note that SH3 Commander's Update feature will not work due to me changing ISP last month.

After you have installed SH3 Commander you can reapply any add-ons such as the Combined Skin Pack. YOU SHOULD ALSO ENSURE THAT YOU FIRST VISIT THE SH3 OPTIONS SCREEN, as some options have changed.

As always, please post your questions/feedback/problems to this thread after reading the readme and FAQ (both files are installed into your SH3 Commander folder). Due to other priorities, threads started elsewhere with titles like "Problem" or "Why won't this work", may not receive my attention.

**Feel free to post links to this thread in other SH3 related forums.

Wow, looks like I need to play SH3 today! Great work Jaesen!

[Miss Behavin]

Fantastic! Been waiting for this. Thank you for all the hard work.

Best wishes!

[JohnnyBlaze]

Awesome! have to download it right away. Thanks, JScones

[Mr.Fleck]

Thank you very much JScones! Nice work again.

Cheers
Mr. Fleck

In NYGM TW 2.0 Teddy told us we had to install three files included with NYGM TW 2.0 into the SH3 Commander's cfg file. Does that still hold true? I don't want to assume we still need them and cover over files automatically installed with SH3 Commander 2.6, but then I don't want to assume we don't need them and end up screwing up something in one of my careers.

[Henry Wood]

Thank you very much for the obvious hard work you have put in to this, it is greatly appreciated. I'm of an age where I don't know how these things work, yet they make the game so much more enjoyable. (I also like the new shortcut with the Kaleun's cap - I must save up and buy myself one!)

Henry

[zoinks]

thanks. great improvement for the game.

[Iku-turso]

Thank you,great work as usual

[Onkel Neal]

Additional download link: SUBSIM Downloads

Originally Posted by JScones

- Added ability to recognise when docked at a milk cow or other friendly base and automatically adjust the number of days spent in base to 1 (plus any extra days required to repair damage)

That's one I wasn't expecting. It just keeps getting better.

Now I just have to get moved into my own place so I can start playing again.


[edit] I just looked at the screenshots. Poor Egon Unterhorst. Health: Dead.

[MaxenThor]

The game loads OK for me but when loading my Career,the loadbar stops about 60-65% along and stops PC locked program not responding. Now I'm in mid-patrol so that may be the problem;however,having said that I reinstalled 2.5 and everything loaded OK. BTW I followed Jaesons instructions for removal and upgrade to the letter. Also I have it configured as specified in the NYGM manual. I assumed because it ran OK when 2.5 was reinstalled it has something to do with 2.6 but I may be wrong.

[enaceo]

If the patrol was started while using 2.5,and then you installed 2.6 ant tried to load,then that probably is the problem.If you started your career with 2.6 and can't load i don't know what's wrong.I have tried loading /strating a career/a mission and such and i can't get anything to happen.The only problem i have with 2.6 is a little "Incompatibility" with some backgrounds from the NYGM patch ,more specifically the ones when clicking on the map (the ones from 2.0 were the normal one,with Germany highlited in Europe,and the ones from the patch were with a real u-boat flolating.When using 2.6 the image won't change don't know why).

[Maverick2799]

Excellent work!! Thank You very much!!!

Maverick

[NKVD-crazyivan]

Great effort JS just a quick Q.....................
I have GW installed that is all on a fresh version of SH3 and of course SH3C 2.5
so i just do as you say to uninstall every thing except SH3Cmdr.ini and then install 2.6 is this alright with GW and can i do it mid patrol and also in the same carear.
or would you reccomend a fresh install of SH3 then GW then your great SHC 2.6

thanks dude...........