Need SH3 Commander tweaking help

[godswarrior493]

Hey all, I had a question, and was wondering if anyone knew how to fix this. I don't know how to edit html since I'm no web designer, but I noticed that when I create a crew list, from SH3 Commander, it generates a beautiful crew list with 1 exception.

I modified my game so that I would start out as a Kapitanleutnant. Basically so that the last rank for me would be Fregattenkapitan, instead of ending with Kapitanleutnant. Couldn't stand being a Leutnant in charge of Oberleutnants. When the crew list generates, it still shows a little leutnant shoulderboard next to my captains name instead of the interweaved rope version for Kapitanleutnant. Now I realize there has to be somewhere to modify this, because jscone has the gif file for every rank through Vizeadmiral it looks like. I've been through just about all the files there and couldn't find anything that seemed to fix this, so I think it might be hidden in some code somewhere.

I realize this is a small issue, but I have a lot of fun with those personnel files and this has been bugging me for a while.

Does anyone have any advice, on how to modify that little gif?

[godswarrior493]

Just went through those files again, and I can't find any sort of trigger that tells SH3 Commander to call any particular gifs. Anyone else have an idea of what file this might be in?

[Laufen zum Ziel]

Sorry can't help you but I am sure someone will
come along who can.

(I hate to see a thread without any replies)

[JScones]

You will have more than that one problem. From the SH3Cmdr User Guide:

I want to start my career at a rank higher than Leutnant (rank bump). Will SH3 Commander allow me?
SH3 Commander reads whatever ranks are in SH3. However, when creating a Commander's pre-SH3 history, SH3 Commander assumes the starting rank will be as SH3 originally set it. It needs to do this for maximum compatibility. Thus, any "rank bumping", that is, changing your starting rank to anything higher than the SH3 default, will create gaps between your pre-SH3 history and your SH3 career. This will be evident only if you generate Personnel Files, where you will notice missing promotions. You can alleviate this somewhat by adjusting the pre-SH3 rank labels in SH3Cmdr_*.txt, or simply ensuring that you always start careers at the default rank of Leutnant.

Anyway, re "I modified my game so that I would start out as a Kapitanleutnant" I assume you mean you edited menu_en.txt and changed the rank labels? If so, then just rename the rank images in SH3Cmdr to match. For example, rename rank9.gif (KptLt image) to rank7.gif (Lt image) and so on.

BTW, the rank slide for KptLt is not interweaved rope.

[godswarrior493]

Ah yea, I wrote that article at 1 in the morning after tinkering with all the other files there, your right kapitanleutnant is O-3, not O-4. I always did forget that Lt. jg. rank heh.

Anyway, my question is will the engine not recognize the other leutnant and oberleutnants, and apply kapitanleutnant, and korvettenkapitan rank gifs, to them as well? that fixes me but then makes everyone else to same as well? I wish I knew html haha, would make things easier i think.

[JScones]

Originally Posted by godswarrior493

Ah yea, I wrote that article at 1 in the morning after tinkering with all the other files there, your right kapitanleutnant is O-3, not O-4. I always did forget that Lt. jg. rank heh.

Anyway, my question is will the engine not recognize the other leutnant and oberleutnants, and apply kapitanleutnant, and korvettenkapitan rank gifs, to them as well? that fixes me but then makes everyone else to same as well? I wish I knew html haha, would make things easier i think.

Yes it will - I thought of this last night - thanks for reminding me.

Basically, SH3Cmdr does not support rank bumping.

To post-edit your rank image in your Personnel File is easy though. Simply open "U-xx_Crew_List.html" in Notepad and look for the line that includes your Commander's name. It will look something like this:

    <td width="26%" valign="bottom"><font face="Courier New"><img border="0" src="rank9.gif" alt="Kapitänleutnant" width="12" height="32"> Jäsen Jones 4</font></td>

Change the src and alt values to suit.

You'll need to do this everytime you update your Personnel File though.