[REL] Ship Conversions SH3 merchants to SH4, Beta Release

[jmjohnson36]

THE RELEASE OF THE MERCHANT POWER PACK V0.1

://hosted.filefront.com/jmjohnson36

BOATS ADDED:

AMM=Pyro Ammunition Freighter
CHT=Small Troop Transport
NCOT=Coastal Tanker
NCVW=Converted Whale Factory Ship
NECT=Flush-Decked Tanker
FishingBoat1=Coastal Trader
C3Cargo=C3 Cargo
NKSA=Coastal Freighter
NKSB=Small Freighter
NKCA=Small Passenger/Cargo
NKLS=C2 Cargo
OTMST2=T2 Tanker
NOTSF=Patapsco Tanker
NPPL=Large Passenger Liner
CVIllustrious=Illustrious Carrier
DDCClass=C&D Class Destroyer
DDJClass=J&K Class Destroyer
NPTR=Heavy Transport
NKGN=Large Freighter

Added countries: Greece, Romania, Italy, Brasil, Sweden Norway, Poland and SouthAfrica

- All hex editing completed by jmjohnson.
- All .cfg changes and file structures by AG124.

- AMM, CHT, COT, CVW, ECT, KCA by AG124, with UV Mapping by Ref, deck textures by Boris, and GWX damage models by Von Helsching.
- C3 – multiskin .dat by Sergbuto.
- NPTR and NKGN by Sergbuto.
- J class DD, C/D class DD, Illustrious CV, Coastal Trader – multiskin .dat by UBOAT234.


*************Corrected the SouthAfrica flag issue

[jmjohnson36]

In the next release I will have the ID book ready for this...

[Boris]

Originally Posted by jmjohnson36

waiting on info from UBISOFT

God I hope they say yes. Is this just stock ships or modded ones too?

[AG124]

@ Boris - It contains most of my kitbashed ships, with the exception of the Belize (too much like the Coastal Merchant), the Rose Castle, and the Proteus (neither of them have been UV Mapped). It also does not contain the Lightship (lighted by Anvart for me) or either of the two cruisers I built in GWX with Ref.

In addition to these, it contains the two original cloned merchants from Sergbuto (I got permission from him first and credited him for them). The rest of the ships were stock though.

[jmjohnson36]

Well looks like modded ones from AG124...Im just converting the files.

Originally Posted by Boris

God I hope they say yes. Is this just stock ships or modded ones too?

[jmjohnson36]

this was installed on a clean copy and works fine...might have issues if you install the newer ID book...but not sure...

[tater]

I got a single error loading up the mission editor. It said:

The unit class NCOT from country Japan not found in the platforms library

[tater]

made a quick mission with new ships, got CTD on loading. Yep, every time, ctd

[Stew U-582]

I am interested in trying your mod Merchant Power Pack V1 but I used the link and found mutiple files. Am I missing something or does one download all the seperate files and install seperatly ?

[7Enigma]

Originally Posted by Stew U-582

I am interested in trying your mod Merchant Power Pack V1 but I used the link and found mutiple files. Am I missing something or does one download all the seperate files and install seperatly ?

It's the one listed as ships1.0.7.z (22.27Mb). I think the modder should rename it so its easier to find (I just guessed and assumed it would be the largest of the mods size-wise).

[jmjohnson36]

I suppose you have a point there....when Im done updating the Merchant power pack I will post the same name...sorry for the confusion.:hmm:

Originally Posted by 7Enigma

It's the one listed as ships1.0.7.z (22.27Mb). I think the modder should rename it so its easier to find (I just guessed and assumed it would be the largest of the mods size-wise).

[Stew U-582]

Thanks for the info , ill give it a try

[7Enigma]

Originally Posted by jmjohnson36

I suppose you have a point there....when Im done updating the Merchant power pack I will post the same name...sorry for the confusion.:hmm:

It's very nice btw, however all the damn 4 letter acronym's are confusing the heck out of me. I feel like I'm dyslexic or something when going to the recog. manual!

[AG124]

Did you add the names to the Names.cfg file after installing the package? This is not done automatically, as it would mean that the current file would be erased - thus, when new ships are released both for SHIII and SHIV, modders (including me) usually provide the entry for the appropriate .cfg which is then entered manually by the user (using any work-processing program). After this is done, the lettered names shouldn't appear in the game itself anymore - those should only normally be a concern to the program itself and to modders.

BTW - They aren't necessarily acronyms, as some of them don't really stand for anything.