[WIP/REL] The Battleships Campaign

[wevbarker2011]

The basic idea is that all the allied stock battleships are playable in a career which is adapted for battleships. I know Iowa and several other BBs are playable in career, but it was pointed out to me that carrying out a photo recon behind a triple 16" turret was hardly appropriate. The Battleships Campaign will feature task force vs task force patrols and large naval encounters.

I have released a taster of the work I've done so far, it isn't much: I haven't even altered the missions yet so you'll be playing like a fleet boat still. The playable BBs are:

1. Iowa
2. Colorado
3. New Mexico
4. Tennessee
5. Tennessee (early war)
6. Pensylvania
7. North Carolina
8. Nevada
9. West Virginia
10. King George V

Here is the taster:

V0.1 RELEASED
V0.2 RELEASED
V0.3 RELEASED
V0.4 RELEASED
V0.5 RELEASED

http://www.gamefront.com/files/user/wevbarker2011

Enjoy the ships; please post back any huge bugs (I know there is some very fishy damage atm - I need to speak to Peabody)

Will.

[Boos]

With "very fishy damage" you mean weird-damaged main gun? Because most of the playable main guns look strange (New Mexico's triple 16in and UK's quad 14in works). Everything else seem to work ok, the guns do not have that bug in the museum.

[wevbarker2011]

I actually meant that although these ships will catch alight, blow up and even sink, your sub will never be destroyed. Even on the sea floor upside down. Whats more no damage is done to the conventional submarine systems. As for the main turrets, the game makers were clearly not historians; some of these ships came with 100% wrong armament. Thats very very easy to fix though, once I've tracked down all the right information from wiki etc and all the dates for the refits and rebuildings of the ships. The New Mexico and a few others were compleately rebuilt throughout the war but the stock models have none of that showing.

[Boos]

I meant that there is a bug with some of the playable main guns, it doesn't happend on museum but it does on singleplayer missions and career, see screenshots


The Colorado BB on a modified battle of midway mission (modified so the "sub" starts in surface) showing the strange texture
http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/2171/bug1lq.jpg

Colorado BB again on the museum (it's sinking, but I guess that it's because the game thinks its a sub) without the bug
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/6300/bug1museum.jpg

[chrysanthos]

i have found some bugs too...including the old one wich the guns are not firing just stand there...second some ships are black...and third i think on colorado or nevada when i press space to fire the AA guns it crashes to desktop...thats all of them...and i missed you...what happen you said you will make all the ships playble

[wevbarker2011]

I can see that turret is drawing a skin from the T01 or 2 texture in the submarine file, not from Its true dds or tga. Odd. Ill look into it; and Chrysanthos, which AA gun is crashing for you? Is it a 40mm quad, 40mm twin or 2pdr quad? if so check you have the stock weapons UPC file. Sounds like I quoted a shell the game engine couldn't find.

[wevbarker2011]

And as for black ships, the textures have date windows on them in .cfg which obviously conflict with the unit availability window I gave the ships, so your using the vessel when it never existed so to speak. Ill tweak that too. Thanks loads for the screenshots Boos! Ill look into it. And Chrysanthos, I just made eight more playable BBs, thats what happened!
seems theyre full of bugs -_-

[wevbarker2011]

I think ive just found the issue with the gun textures; when I created new weapons in the ussubparts folder i didnt know they needed independent textures in the textures folder; kind of obvious since they didn't feature .cfg files! ill sort it out when I have some time; and since im deep in third derivatives and stationary points of inflection from my maths homework that time isnt now thanks for letting me know!

[Boos]

Many thanks

[chrysanthos]

:/...

[wevbarker2011]

Hehe ill tell you now that its only a quick fix . I know exactly what I did wrong in the beginning now; I assumed that the texture associations of parent nodes applied universally to their children; which I had no reason to really. I've hooked up textures quoting the correct .tga to the barrels as well as the turret housing so the guns should look fine, but the textures aren't exactly the same as they should be - you'll never notice the difference. When I release the next version I'll remake the guns with all the stock texture nodes but for now the guns will still look and act fine with mine.

[wevbarker2011]

Experiment Chrysanthos! There was no tut for anone before you or me! Try copying the file content/structure for a playable ship. Down to the last detail, just with another stock vessel. Then remap the IDs for s3d files.

[yamatowar]

i think you can fix some things... for example in the nevada i havn't a uzo or a periscope...and i haven't the battleship image in the damage control...your mods can be better...try your limits mi friend...you can do better things

[Klaus]

am i doing something wrong?
main guns never goes to fire position, they always returns before shot even a single shell

[chrysanthos]

well thats the problem i am talking about but no one listens:/ what is the id nodes how should i rewrite them and what i need to delete and wich folder....i am not a magician you know:/