Old me, new to sh5

[Kruger]

Hi guys,

It;s been about a year since I've been around on subsim (since I shelved my sh4), it;s good to find you again.

Before my personal sh4 era I had taken another year off after shelving sh3...and so on .

I just got my SH5 copy, installed it full of anticipation, patched it....and no offence to anyone but vanilla sh5 is crap. To a degree unmatched by sh3 or sh4. I don't know where to begin, but you know perfectly well what I am about to say.

I browsed the mods section, but I don;t know where to begin. Do you still use the famous good old mod enabler ? If so, can you please give a download ink to it ? What mods should I start with ?

Any advice is much appreciated. I would like new voices, interiors, skins, new ships, new intrerface (old style maybe), a reasonable and usable automatic tdc, old shortcuts - everything that essentially will bring back the old silent hunter feeling, that made me lose countless nights.

Thank you

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by Kruger

Hi guys,

It;s been about a year since I've been around on subsim (since I shelved my sh4), it;s good to find you again.

Before my personal sh4 era I had taken another year off after shelving sh3...and so on .

I just got my SH5 copy, installed it full of anticipation, patched it....and no offence to anyone but vanilla sh5 is crap. To a degree unmatched by sh3 or sh4. I don't know where to begin, but you know perfectly well what I am about to say.

I browsed the mods section, but I don;t know where to begin. Do you still use the famous good old mod enabler ? If so, can you please give a download ink to it ? What mods should I start with ?

Any advice is much appreciated. I would like new voices, interiors, skins, new ships, new intrerface (old style maybe), a reasonable and usable automatic tdc, old shortcuts - everything that essentially will bring back the old silent hunter feeling, that made me lose countless nights.

Thank you

JSGME is still used, will probably always be used Do a search for it in the mods forum.

As far as what you are wanting there are two UI mods available: mine and Reaper7s. It appears Reaper7 has abandoned his though and doesn't work on it anymore. Mine you can find here: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...69&postcount=1. As for Reaper7's do a search for UI-boat.

If you choose to use my UIs mod it will take you some time to digest it. Take it slowly and ask questions if you're confused/need help.

[Kruger]

Thanks a lot, downloading your mod and patch now. One thing I do not understand, where do I specify which interface I prefer ? (sh3, sh4)

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by Kruger

Thanks a lot, downloading your mod and patch now. One thing I do not understand, where do I specify which interface I prefer ? (sh3, sh4)

Everything, and I mean everything, is in the options file (\data\Scripts\Menu\TheDarkWraithUserOptions.py - can be opened with Notepad). Don't have a heartattack when you first view that file! Take it slow and easy and read everything. There are MANY things that you can customize in the mod.

[Captain Can]

Kruger before you enable mod you have to go " C:\Ubisoft \ Silent Hunter 5 \ MODS \ NewUIs_TDC_6_2_0_ByTheDarkWraith \ data \ Scripts \ Menu \ theDarkWraithUserOptions.py " file and open it with notepad. then find " UI style" and select the one you wanna have. by the way check this thread out for more info about mods.

Happy Hunting!

[Kruger]

Ok, I downloaded and extracted both archives.




Then I placed the contents of mods folder from NewUIs_TDC_6_2_0_ByTheDarkWraith inside my mods folder in JSGME, within the game itself.

Then I coped the content from NewUIs_TDC_v6_2_0_patch_1 and overwrote the contents on the above.

In Jsgme it looks like this now, is it ok ?





My question is, if only the contents of mods folder is used, what are the other two folders for ? Namely - DIALS and TEXT




By default it is set for SH5Enhanced, am I correct ?




#+++++++++++++ UI Style ++++++++++++++
# Possible UI Styles:
SH5Enhanced = 0
SH3Style = 1
SH4Style = 2

# the current UI Style
# set below to either SH3Style, SH4Style, or SH5Enhanced
UIStyle = SH5Enhanced


Finally, does this look ok to you ?

[THE_MASK]

Read the how to install real navigation , in the real navigation mod before enabling anything .
The other folders are to change the look of the dials , i have never used them .

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by Kruger

Ok, I downloaded and extracted both archives.
Then I placed the contents of mods folder from NewUIs_TDC_6_2_0_ByTheDarkWraith inside my mods folder in JSGME, within the game itself.

good

Then I coped the content from NewUIs_TDC_v6_2_0_patch_1 and overwrote the contents on the above.

excellent

My question is, if only the contents of mods folder is used, what are the other two folders for ? Namely - DIALS and TEXT

Dials is alternate dials for the SH3 and SH4 UI styles. Text is for different languages (default is English)

By default it is set for SH5Enhanced, am I correct ?

yes

see above in yellow

Note: there is a folder \data\Applications that contains some apps I wrote. One of them is used to edit the Ship's Journal offline (out of game) and the other is to migrate your options settings to a new version when a new version is released (very handy!)