Blacked out ships.

Flaskegaard · 03-21-13, 03:14 PM

I was sailing west on the surface towards Japan when I found myself directly in front of a large American carrier task force sailing east towards Pearl Harbor. As I got closer on the surface, I noticed several very dark ships I couldn't recognize thru the TBT, so I zoomed in on them with the camera and found all the Buckley DE's and a couple US cruisers completely blacked out except for their weapons. I ended the patrol and looked at the ships in the museum. They were blacked out there also. I found several other ships blacked out in the museum. I had just recently added some extra ships from an EXTRA ASW SHIPS pack prior to finding the blacked out ships in the patrol. Anyone know what could have done this?

fireftr18 · 03-21-13, 08:38 PM

It's a graphics glitch. If you normally don't have any trouble, try restarting. Otherwise you may need to adjust your graphics settings.

Flaskegaard · 03-25-13, 12:06 PM

I tinkered with my Nvidia controller and solved the blacked out ships in the museum, but those same ships were still blacked out in the scenario.

. It took a couple of days, but I finally discovered that if you have ships in a scenario that were built AFTER the date of your scenario, they are blacked out because in the files of the game, they don't exist yet. You either have to change the date of creation of the particular ship in the ROSTER files, or date your scenario to a time after the date that ship was built. That's why my DE's in the scenario were blacked out. I accidentally dated the scenario 1942-11-15, instead of 1943-11-15.

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fireftr18 · 03-25-13, 02:10 PM

Interesting. Glad you figured it out. I never bothered with a custom scenario.

TorpX · 03-27-13, 09:18 PM

I'm sure you're not alone. The main reason for building a mission, imo, is to test something in the game. There isn't much drama in playing a mission, when you already know what's going to happen.

03-21-13, 03:14 PM	#1
Flaskegaard Medic Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Washington State, USA Posts: 159 Downloads: 885 Uploads: 0	Blacked out ships. I was sailing west on the surface towards Japan when I found myself directly in front of a large American carrier task force sailing east towards Pearl Harbor. As I got closer on the surface, I noticed several very dark ships I couldn't recognize thru the TBT, so I zoomed in on them with the camera and found all the Buckley DE's and a couple US cruisers completely blacked out except for their weapons. I ended the patrol and looked at the ships in the museum. They were blacked out there also. I found several other ships blacked out in the museum. I had just recently added some extra ships from an EXTRA ASW SHIPS pack prior to finding the blacked out ships in the patrol. Anyone know what could have done this? Last edited by Flaskegaard; 03-23-13 at 09:25 PM.

03-21-13, 08:38 PM	#2
fireftr18 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Kentucky Posts: 2,528 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 0	It's a graphics glitch. If you normally don't have any trouble, try restarting. Otherwise you may need to adjust your graphics settings. __________________ Of all the forms of Martial Arts, Karaoke causes the most pain!

03-25-13, 02:10 PM	#4
fireftr18 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Kentucky Posts: 2,528 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 0	Interesting. Glad you figured it out. I never bothered with a custom scenario. __________________ Of all the forms of Martial Arts, Karaoke causes the most pain!

03-25-13, 12:06 PM	#3
Flaskegaard Medic Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Washington State, USA Posts: 159 Downloads: 885 Uploads: 0	I tinkered with my Nvidia controller and solved the blacked out ships in the museum, but those same ships were still blacked out in the scenario. . It took a couple of days, but I finally discovered that if you have ships in a scenario that were built AFTER the date of your scenario, they are blacked out because in the files of the game, they don't exist yet. You either have to change the date of creation of the particular ship in the ROSTER files, or date your scenario to a time after the date that ship was built. That's why my DE's in the scenario were blacked out. I accidentally dated the scenario 1942-11-15, instead of 1943-11-15. If there were such a thing as a Noob Award, I just won a red ribbon! ...but I'm learning.

03-27-13, 09:18 PM	#5
TorpX Silent Hunter Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 3,975 Downloads: 153 Uploads: 11	I'm sure you're not alone. The main reason for building a mission, imo, is to test something in the game. There isn't much drama in playing a mission, when you already know what's going to happen.