Adding new units

Dixbee · 08-26-05, 12:36 AM

I was browsing through a bunch of mods, deciding what I'd like to try next when I came across a couple that add extra units into the game. Extra ship types (both naval and merchant), and extra aircraft types. This sounds great but I'd just like I'm concerned that installing them may overwrite other types of ships or cause weirdness with convoy composition or random ship selection. I'd hate to have a new ship replace a standard one, or to have a convoy full of new vessels that dont have proper pathing, such as a new heavy cargo ship that doesnt know how to move and so doesnt, or that gets assigned a much smaller vessels characteristics, therby moving and acting as, say an elco.

Are these concerns well founded, or is adding new units a simple and straight forward thing, resulting in nothing but happiness, bliss and an enriched life?

Gizzmoe · 08-26-05, 01:03 AM

ThatÂ´s a good topic for the Mod forum. Topic moved...

Damo1977 · 08-26-05, 01:16 AM

Gizzmoe how many you moved now? :rotfl:
ALL hail the new God!!! :rotfl:

CWorth · 08-26-05, 01:17 AM

Well I am using sergbutos folowing mods...

1. Two extra merchants
2. Southampton class cruiser
3. Two Floatplanes mod

And as far as I know non of the above merchants will appear in convoys nor the cruiser in Task Forces.You would need to edit the RND layer file in the campaign folder and add them to the convoys/Task Forces yourself for them to appear with them I believe.

However I have had them appear as individual ships in the game though.

So for the most part your fears are unfounded..and it is pretty straightforward install of them.Though to get the Southamptn Cruiser to work you have to install the floatplanes mod also I think.
And none of the above ships replace any stock vessels in the game but simply add two more to the list.The floatplanes do not replace anything either as far as I know.

edit: EGADS!!!! How many more posts before I can get rid of this gay looking avatar

Dixbee · 08-26-05, 01:32 AM

Oops, sorry about the poor forum choice. Thanks for catching that Gizzmoe. And thanks for the reply CWorth. As for the avatar, I know I'm new and all but my guy looks like a twelve year old that eats nothing but {insert 1940s German equivalent of Twinkies here}.

Hardly my image of... well... any type of military really. Oh well, you've got to start somewhere.

sergbuto · 08-26-05, 02:16 AM

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Originally Posted by CWorth

... nor the cruiser in Task Forces.

Wrong! The cruiser will appear in Task Forces because they are scripted in through the generic Type option, not by Class.

CWorth · 08-26-05, 07:05 AM

Thanks for the clarification sergbuto..

I wasnt sure if it was the same as the Merchants or not.

08-26-05, 12:36 AM	#1
Dixbee Swabbie Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 5 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Adding new units I was browsing through a bunch of mods, deciding what I'd like to try next when I came across a couple that add extra units into the game. Extra ship types (both naval and merchant), and extra aircraft types. This sounds great but I'd just like I'm concerned that installing them may overwrite other types of ships or cause weirdness with convoy composition or random ship selection. I'd hate to have a new ship replace a standard one, or to have a convoy full of new vessels that dont have proper pathing, such as a new heavy cargo ship that doesnt know how to move and so doesnt, or that gets assigned a much smaller vessels characteristics, therby moving and acting as, say an elco. Are these concerns well founded, or is adding new units a simple and straight forward thing, resulting in nothing but happiness, bliss and an enriched life?

08-26-05, 01:16 AM	#3
Damo1977 Captain Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Posts: 487 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Gizzmoe how many you moved now? :rotfl: ALL hail the new God!!! :rotfl: __________________ \"If man is called to be to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well\" Martin Luther King, Jr

08-26-05, 01:03 AM	#2
Gizzmoe Silent Hunter Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Germany Posts: 3,668 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	ThatÂ´s a good topic for the Mod forum. Topic moved...

08-26-05, 01:17 AM	#4
CWorth Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Gettysburg PA Posts: 845 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Well I am using sergbutos folowing mods... 1. Two extra merchants 2. Southampton class cruiser 3. Two Floatplanes mod And as far as I know non of the above merchants will appear in convoys nor the cruiser in Task Forces.You would need to edit the RND layer file in the campaign folder and add them to the convoys/Task Forces yourself for them to appear with them I believe. However I have had them appear as individual ships in the game though. So for the most part your fears are unfounded..and it is pretty straightforward install of them.Though to get the Southamptn Cruiser to work you have to install the floatplanes mod also I think. And none of the above ships replace any stock vessels in the game but simply add two more to the list.The floatplanes do not replace anything either as far as I know. edit: EGADS!!!! How many more posts before I can get rid of this gay looking avatar

08-26-05, 01:32 AM	#5
Dixbee Swabbie Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 5 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Oops, sorry about the poor forum choice. Thanks for catching that Gizzmoe. And thanks for the reply CWorth. As for the avatar, I know I'm new and all but my guy looks like a twelve year old that eats nothing but {insert 1940s German equivalent of Twinkies here}. Hardly my image of... well... any type of military really. Oh well, you've got to start somewhere.

08-26-05, 07:05 AM	#7
CWorth Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Gettysburg PA Posts: 845 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Thanks for the clarification sergbuto.. I wasnt sure if it was the same as the Merchants or not.