Removing National Flags?

[Tiro]

Greetings to the forum!

Hoping this one hasn't been asked before, and realising it probably sounds a bit of a weird question... While I'm playing normal campaigns and missions in SH4 it makes sense that ships should fly flags, as I know I'm sailing for the USA and that the Japanese are The Enemy. No problems there.

But sometimes when I create missions of my own I like to set them elsewhere in the world (say around the UK and Europe), and I was wondering if there was a way to remove the flags from the ships I place?

The main reason is that when creating and playing my own missions I throw in a historically implausible imaginary background story and I'd like my enemy ships to appear less, well, Japanese. I'd like the opponent vessels to be a 'generic enemy', rather than a specific nation (albeit I know they'll still be Japanese-made ship types). If anyone knows if this can be done, and how, I'd appreciate it.

Thank you.

(PS - I'm running v 1.4 - without the expansion pack.)

[irish1958]

Originally Posted by Tiro

Greetings to the forum!

Hoping this one hasn't been asked before, and realising it probably sounds a bit of a weird question... While I'm playing normal campaigns and missions in SH4 it makes sense that ships should fly flags, as I know I'm sailing for the USA and that the Japanese are The Enemy. No problems there.

But sometimes when I create missions of my own I like to set them elsewhere in the world (say around the UK and Europe), and I was wondering if there was a way to remove the flags from the ships I place?

The main reason is that when creating and playing my own missions I throw in a historically implausible imaginary background story and I'd like my enemy ships to appear less, well, Japanese. I'd like the opponent vessels to be a 'generic enemy', rather than a specific nation (albeit I know they'll still be Japanese-made ship types). If anyone knows if this can be done, and how, I'd appreciate it.

Thank you.

(PS - I'm running v 1.4 - without the expansion pack.)

Welcome aboard.
The flags are listed in data/textures/Tnormal/tex/country name. (and in data/textures/TLowRes/tex/country name.)
By messing around with these files, you could have any flag you want, or no flag at all.

[Tiro]

Many thanks for the advice; I've found a DDS converter and I'm busy creating some fictitious flags to use. Thank you.

you could also use the neutral ships to be a very simple method without needing to mod anything

[Sailor Steve]

WELCOME ABOARD!