Please Help, Advice Needed

wizardmatt · 01-29-17, 05:34 AM

To cut a long story short, I want to go through every data\Sea\SHIPFOLDER\SHIP.sim file in my install and modify them. The reason is that there seems to be little consistency in how the variables "Mass" and "Displacement" are applied. I've observed this inconsistency consistently, even in the relatively small sample I've looked at. Sometimes Mass has a value and Displacement has a value; sometimes Mass has a value and Displacement is zero; and sometimes Displacement has a value and Mass is zero. In addition, sometimes, in the ship's data\Sea\SHIPFOLDER\SHIP.cfg file, the Displacement variable therein has yet another value.
Hence my confusion. My instinct is that neither Mass nor Displacement should be zero. So, if there are reasons otherwise, what are they? And, if I decide to trust my instinct and give both Mass and Displacement positive values, what should the relationship/ratio between them be? I'm no engineer, but I can visualise circumstances where Mass would be greater than Displacement, and vice versa.
Any advice and/or insight would be greatly appreciated

01-29-17, 05:34 AM	#1
wizardmatt Helmsman Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Birmingham, England Posts: 107 Downloads: 58 Uploads: 0	Please Help, Advice Needed To cut a long story short, I want to go through every data\Sea\SHIPFOLDER\SHIP.sim file in my install and modify them. The reason is that there seems to be little consistency in how the variables "Mass" and "Displacement" are applied. I've observed this inconsistency consistently, even in the relatively small sample I've looked at. Sometimes Mass has a value and Displacement has a value; sometimes Mass has a value and Displacement is zero; and sometimes Displacement has a value and Mass is zero. In addition, sometimes, in the ship's data\Sea\SHIPFOLDER\SHIP.cfg file, the Displacement variable therein has yet another value. Hence my confusion. My instinct is that neither Mass nor Displacement should be zero. So, if there are reasons otherwise, what are they? And, if I decide to trust my instinct and give both Mass and Displacement positive values, what should the relationship/ratio between them be? I'm no engineer, but I can visualise circumstances where Mass would be greater than Displacement, and vice versa. Any advice and/or insight would be greatly appreciated