How can I get rid of the single ship contacts and the colored tails?

Phylacista · 07-12-06, 05:40 PM

Hi all,

I am using NYGM 2.0 and the gods eye option included. Now I did some modding so the contacts are grey. Intention was that id is needed to verify if contact is friendly, neutral or hostile.

As it now is the small tail is still colored so it gives this away!
I think that the file contline.tga is used somehow, but I like to keep the sonar lines red for warships and black for merchants.

Here you can see what I mean (a red tail for an enemy merchant)

The other problem that can be seen here is that additional to the problem stated above single ship contacts are displayed again. How can I turn them off?

Thanks a lot for your help!

zzsteven · 07-12-06, 06:13 PM

Sure hope you find answer to this, I would also like to get the red sonar lines back and keep the grey tails. I swapped GW's contline.tga for the stock one, it lasted one patrol and back to GW's. Something must be telling the program what color to display contline.tga.

zz

bigboywooly · 07-12-06, 06:40 PM

Not sure but I think it is dashline.tga in the same folder as the contline

Phylacista · 07-14-06, 02:49 AM

I think the dashline is the dashed circle when you click on a contact and/or the dashed line when shooting torpedo spreads.

Now I am back to GW - all grey. But still there are the single ship contacts displayed.

Any ideas how I can get rid of them? I like to have contact reports on convoys only (who should this guy be anyway who is always about 100km around me and reporting all those single shiops...)

And then there is the problem with contline.tga. Any ideas how to get the color only for the sonarlines?

07-14-06, 11:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phylacista

I think the dashline is the dashed circle when you click on a contact and/or the dashed line when shooting torpedo spreads.

Now I am back to GW - all grey. But still there are the single ship contacts displayed.

Any ideas how I can get rid of them? I like to have contact reports on convoys only (who should this guy be anyway who is always about 100km around me and reporting all those single shiops...)

And then there is the problem with contline.tga. Any ideas how to get the color only for the sonarlines?

You make some good points. I agree with having Convoy Contacts Only. It just feels more accurate!

07-15-06, 12:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phylacista

I think the dashline is the dashed circle when you click on a contact and/or the dashed line when shooting torpedo spreads.

Now I am back to GW - all grey. But still there are the single ship contacts displayed.

Any ideas how I can get rid of them? I like to have contact reports on convoys only (who should this guy be anyway who is always about 100km around me and reporting all those single shiops...)

And then there is the problem with contline.tga. Any ideas how to get the color only for the sonarlines?

There is another post on this subject with instructions on how to change it. That might help you. Just read carefully.

CWorth · 07-15-06, 01:23 AM

Here are the instructions from the other thread..

1.) Load the mission editor. Load the Campaign.RND file. Find every instance of a single merchant contact, in the explorer window, right click on it, go to group properties and where the section of contact reports is, put in -1, and 0%.

or you an

2.) Open the the campaign.RND file in MS wordpad, look for whatever the contact report variable is called, then do something like find "ContactReporttime =" and replace it with ContactReporttime=-1, do the same for probably, and reset them all to 0%.
do that for the entire freaking file. If i have this backwards in this descrption all you have to do is find an HK group entry, and look at its its contact probably as you do not receive contact reports for them. Emulate those settings for all your single merchants.

Of course that will kill your convoy contract reports as well, so you'll have to go back and put those back in through the editor.

It is really not complicated..mostly very time consuming to get each and every single merchant contact in the Campaign.RND file set with the setting to make it not get reported on the map.

07-12-06, 05:40 PM	#1
Phylacista Electrician's Mate Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Aachen, Germany Posts: 133 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	How can I get rid of the single ship contacts and the colored tails? Hi all, I am using NYGM 2.0 and the gods eye option included. Now I did some modding so the contacts are grey. Intention was that id is needed to verify if contact is friendly, neutral or hostile. As it now is the small tail is still colored so it gives this away! I think that the file contline.tga is used somehow, but I like to keep the sonar lines red for warships and black for merchants. Here you can see what I mean (a red tail for an enemy merchant) The other problem that can be seen here is that additional to the problem stated above single ship contacts are displayed again. How can I turn them off? Thanks a lot for your help! __________________ commissioned 01APR1941 - 1.Flotilla Brest - 110,000 GRT total - 84 days at sea click pic to see how the real U-556 fared

07-12-06, 06:40 PM	#3
bigboywooly Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Swindon, England Posts: 10,151 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	Not sure but I think it is dashline.tga in the same folder as the contline __________________ My mediafire page http://www.mediafire.com/?11eoq19bq9r41

07-14-06, 02:49 AM	#4
Phylacista Electrician's Mate Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Aachen, Germany Posts: 133 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I think the dashline is the dashed circle when you click on a contact and/or the dashed line when shooting torpedo spreads. Now I am back to GW - all grey. But still there are the single ship contacts displayed. Any ideas how I can get rid of them? I like to have contact reports on convoys only (who should this guy be anyway who is always about 100km around me and reporting all those single shiops...) And then there is the problem with contline.tga. Any ideas how to get the color only for the sonarlines? __________________ commissioned 01APR1941 - 1.Flotilla Brest - 110,000 GRT total - 84 days at sea click pic to see how the real U-556 fared

07-12-06, 06:13 PM	#2
zzsteven Chief Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 319 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Sure hope you find answer to this, I would also like to get the red sonar lines back and keep the grey tails. I swapped GW's contline.tga for the stock one, it lasted one patrol and back to GW's. Something must be telling the program what color to display contline.tga. zz

07-15-06, 01:23 AM	#7
CWorth Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Gettysburg PA Posts: 845 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Here are the instructions from the other thread.. 1.) Load the mission editor. Load the Campaign.RND file. Find every instance of a single merchant contact, in the explorer window, right click on it, go to group properties and where the section of contact reports is, put in -1, and 0%. or you an 2.) Open the the campaign.RND file in MS wordpad, look for whatever the contact report variable is called, then do something like find "ContactReporttime =" and replace it with ContactReporttime=-1, do the same for probably, and reset them all to 0%. do that for the entire freaking file. If i have this backwards in this descrption all you have to do is find an HK group entry, and look at its its contact probably as you do not receive contact reports for them. Emulate those settings for all your single merchants. Of course that will kill your convoy contract reports as well, so you'll have to go back and put those back in through the editor. It is really not complicated..mostly very time consuming to get each and every single merchant contact in the Campaign.RND file set with the setting to make it not get reported on the map.