Watch Crew Clothes - can this be done?

[panthercules]

Are the watch crew's clothes graphics while on the bridge (during non-storm conditions) separate from the graphics for when they're down below? What I'm wondering is whether it might be possible to mod the "normal" (non-storm) watch crew clothes graphic so that they would always be wearing their rain/storm gear on the bridge regardless of the weather/storm conditions. It's November 1943 and I'm stalking some Murmansk convoys and it seems silly to see my guys up on the bridge in shirt-sleeves.

I was hoping that the "normal" (non-storm) clothes graphics could be modded to be basically a copy of the "storm" clothes graphics, so that whether there were "storm" conditions or not the guys would always be wearing their rain/storm gear.

I understand that the storm conditions settings that cause the watch crew to don their rain/storm gear are linked to the ability to use the deck and AA guns so that you get odd results if you try to mess with that setting to make them wear their rain/storm gear all the time. But I've seen several mods that appear to change the clothes on the 3D crew in various ways, so I was hoping that it might be possible to create a clothes mod for non-storm conditions that looked just like the storm clothes - the only downside I could see would be if the watch crew clothes graphics also displayed the same when they are below decks, so that if you mod the non-storm clothes graphics they will be wearing their storm gear inside the boat.

If this could be done, I was also hoping that there would be a way to use SH3 Commander's date files to apply the modded "always wear storm clothes on bridge" files during the winters but not during the summers.

Anybody here know if something like this could be made to work? Anybody willing to take a stab at it?