[REQ/TEC/HELP] Missing periscopes

[Sledgehammer427]

I would post this in the ATO mods thread but for the sake of quickly troubleshooting a solution, the people I want to see this visit this forum more than that.

So, let me tell you what I am doing.

I missed my XVIII in Operation Monsun, I love the hypothetical and I want to just have it around for kicks when I want to do 27 knot underwater attacks.
I also wanted it by the beginning of the war.
insofar, I brought the whole sub back in, the crew berthing has no slots but I'm fine with that, I'm glad to have it all back, and pretty much complete. but one problem remains, and it's something I'm not used to working with

The periscopes, although using the same file as a sub which HAS periscopes, in this case I kistbashed the XXI parts since they were practically the same. The periscopes are missing.

here's my theory on what I did. as I was working on making the XVIII workable and making the crew from OM mesh into the XVIII, using the XXI crew and compartment slots as a base, I noticed that there was a conning tower slot, and that there were no torpedoes or torpedo tubes. the conning tower slot*** was empty of crew (in my mind, useless) and so I went out and deleted it and renumbered the remaining compartments and crewmember slots, apparently I did this right because I didn't even notice the periscopes missing until I fixed the lack of torpedoes.
I have a sneaky feeling the periscopes are connected to this conning Tower slot in the game and my deleting it removed the periscopes. Even though I always thought that these were connected to the Unitparts.upc, because the behaviour being shown is the same as the sub not having a conning tower at all

I can upload what I have (privately, even though Lurker is gone, I don't think he liked this kind of thing without making sure mods like these don't break Operation Monsun ((like with the Admiral Scheer mod I shoehorned in there, he picked it up and threw it full-on into OM)))
Since I know some people here would rather have an XVIII no matter what is wrong with it, I would like to distribute it to the modders interested for now and let them help me figure it out, so with any luck, I can share it with the community, and everyone who would want such a thing .


***There was a conning tower slot and a deck watch slot. the conning tower slot I mention was in the damage control, deck gun, and flak gun area of the crew control screen. The deck watch slot is where it's supposed to be and fully crewed.