No holes on ships

Niume · 09-26-15, 09:33 AM

Hello does anyone know a mod that will fix missing cannon shells holes or torpedoes like torpedoe hitting a ship and no hole is it possibal to fix it

Rockin Robbins · 09-26-15, 09:42 AM

You have to realize that visible damage is pure eyecandy. It has nothing to do with anything. Therefore you will sink ships which have no visible holes. Your sub can have big holes showing in it and you can still submerge just fine.

What you see has very little, if anything, to do with what the game model of the damage is. There is no fix. It's the nature of all video games. And a personal problem. We believe we should believe what we see when very often the truth is very different from what we see.

SH4 is a great trainer for that fact of life. A wise man questions what he sees and investigates whether his eyes are telling him the truth.

Niume · 09-27-15, 12:48 AM

NO i know what you still gonna sink ship i want like to see like i want a merchant full of holes

Aktungbby · 09-27-15, 01:54 AM

Niume!

Fish40 · 09-27-15, 04:23 AM

IIRC, the game shows only a very limited number of shell/torpedo damage. After that, you could blow a hundred holes in her, and only a handful will show. As RR said the damage graphics have nothing to do with the actual damage, it just looks nice!

09-27-15, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Niume

NO i know what you still gonna sink ship i want like to see like i want a merchant full of holes

the answer to your question is that many ships in the game have incomplete files so things are missing. in some cases a section of the ship has no damage zone to record damage so you may hit the bow or stern and may or may not see any visual damage but as far as the game works, it doesn't record the ship has damage in any way.

fixing this requires digging deep into each and every ship one at a time to fix this and in some cases its not missing the file entries for it but it may have a borked file that simply doesn't work right and in those cases you would have to recreate a new control file for that ship which takes very advanced mod skills ands a knowledge of computer code writing.

so short answer, yes you can fix some of that stuff but not all of it and lots of the stuff that could be fixed would take many hours of modding and testing all for a brief few seconds of eye candy so most look at it and decide its not worth all that effort

09-26-15, 09:33 AM	#1
Niume Sea Lord Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: Lithuania Posts: 1,637 Downloads: 503 Uploads: 2	No holes on ships Hello does anyone know a mod that will fix missing cannon shells holes or torpedoes like torpedoe hitting a ship and no hole is it possibal to fix it

09-26-15, 09:42 AM	#2
Rockin Robbins Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: DeLand, FL Posts: 8,900 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 52	You have to realize that visible damage is pure eyecandy. It has nothing to do with anything. Therefore you will sink ships which have no visible holes. Your sub can have big holes showing in it and you can still submerge just fine. What you see has very little, if anything, to do with what the game model of the damage is. There is no fix. It's the nature of all video games. And a personal problem. We believe we should believe what we see when very often the truth is very different from what we see. SH4 is a great trainer for that fact of life. A wise man questions what he sees and investigates whether his eyes are telling him the truth. __________________ Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks, Slightly Subnuclear Mk 14 & Cutie, Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun, EZPlot 2.0, TMOPlot, TMOKeys, SH4CMS

09-27-15, 01:54 AM	#4
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,014 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	welcome aboard! Niume! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

09-27-15, 12:48 AM	#3
Niume Sea Lord Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: Lithuania Posts: 1,637 Downloads: 503 Uploads: 2	NO i know what you still gonna sink ship i want like to see like i want a merchant full of holes

09-27-15, 04:23 AM	#5
Fish40 The Old Man Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Yonkers, NY U.S.A. Posts: 1,507 Downloads: 154 Uploads: 0	IIRC, the game shows only a very limited number of shell/torpedo damage. After that, you could blow a hundred holes in her, and only a handful will show. As RR said the damage graphics have nothing to do with the actual damage, it just looks nice!