[REL]Lifeboats for SH3!(Update V4.0, Dec. 27, 2008)

[Jimbuna]

Congrats on a great mod

[Torp III]

Thanks for a great mod, this will make sinkings even more interesting!

[Ivan Putski]

Thanks for this great mod, adds that much more immersion to the sim. Puts

[iambecomelife]

I was wondering if you guys could help me. I am still having problems with adding human figures to lifeboats. Whenever I combine the men with the boat I get this error message in S3d:

"One or more vertices is not mapped to a coordinate texture."

I have tried deleting the unsued materials in Wings3d and cleaning up the object faces, but nothing seems to work. Do you know what the problem might be?

Thanks in advance.

[Rubini]

Originally Posted by iambecomelife

I was wondering if you guys could help me. I am still having problems with adding human figures to lifeboats. Whenever I combine the men with the boat I get this error message in S3d:

"One or more vertices is not mapped to a coordinate texture."

I have tried deleting the unsued materials in Wings3d and cleaning up the object faces, but nothing seems to work. Do you know what the problem might be?

Thanks in advance.

Iambe,

I don´t know if this reply will help you...
If all objects are already UVmapped then I guess that you will not have problems. My approach was to put the survivors on a separated file just because this way I can add/delete them, adjust their position on the boat and change their textures more easily and at any time. But if you combine objects on Wings3d that are already Uvmapped i guess that you will also not have problems. If they aren´t Uvmapped then you need to make it first.:hmm:

[Rubini]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

another cool thing is that as long as you are on patrol, they stay there... so you can sail 100 miles away, and on the return passage if you happen to pass by a location where you sank a ship they will still be there.

also, i have noticed that sometimes there wont be any survivors. and the number of survivors in rafts seems to depend on ship size

I hit an oil tanker and it exploded BIG TIME and there were no rafts.

a few days later i hit a tramp steamer and a large merchant.

tramp steamer let out one raft.. but the large merchant let out 4 or more.

finally i submit this for your consideration. what happens if over the horizon, a ship is sunk by weather or another u-boat with its guns or whatever, you have no knowlege of the event until you pass by and on the one in a million chance see rafts :hmm:

although i think you have to witness the sinking for the debris to appear.

Yes, normally in the Sh3 engine the small ships have less debris and big ones more. As until now the LifeBoats are attached to few debris, then normally you will also have the same variation in quantity linked to the size of the ship.

I yet don´t had the oportunity to test the above scenario...but I guess that the debris will only appears when the sunk ship is at 30km radius from your uboat, this is a magical distance for Sh3 engine. So, if it helps at this radius , yes, you can encounter debris and LBs without expect them, what is good IMO!

[Rubini]

Originally Posted by iambecomelife

Seriously, I could create water casks & ration boxes if you want. Most lifeboats and rafts had quite a few provisions on board - assuming, of course, that dockworkers hadn't stolen them in port. A handheld flare would also be a nice touch (but I don't know how to make luminescent textures).

The flares isn´t necessary just becuase isn´t possible to add them correctly in the game. Sh3 don´t have triggers that we can work on (or only few and rudimentar ones) so, isn´t possible to use them (flares) on LBs. But ration crates and oars could be add to the scene and will be good!

[Letum]

You couldn't add the same manner of flare that merchant ships currently have? Triggerd by spotting the player.

[ReallyDedPoet]

Nice work Rubini


RDP

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Originally Posted by iambecomelife

Wow - this is the epitome of immersion. No more robotic, crewless drone ships. :p

Ditto!

Good stuff Rubini, Privateer, and all.

[nautilus42]

Thanks Rubini, great work

[LordNeuro"Serbia"]

U r the man Rubini and all athers involvd in thise project. Fantastic job. Now realy sinking the ship will not be the same. Thx for u hard work.

[Murr44]

This looks like a wonderful mod but I can't get it. Every time that I type in an access code on that damn Rapidshare site I get an error message! I'm not buying one of their premium memberships as the sellers are all listed being in Eastern European & Third world countries & I'm not looking to be a fraud or identity theft victim...

[bigboywooly]

Originally Posted by Murr44

This looks like a wonderful mod but I can't get it. Every time that I type in an access code on that damn Rapidshare site I get an error message! I'm not buying one of their premium memberships as the sellers are all listed being in Eastern European & Third world countries & I'm not looking to be a fraud or identity theft victim...

Use the mediafire link
Works fine

[Murr44]

Well it's not working for me & I'm sick of trying to get it...