Type VIIC Emblems not showing up

[Zander42]

Hello,

I generally try not to start new threads, but haven't really seen to many other threads that address this problem, at least no in a thread that's not more than two years old.

I've not been able to get any emblems to show up on a Type VIIC conning tower. The image of the emblem shows up in the crew management screen but not in the 3D model in the game world. I've done several targeted Google searches to try to figure out a fix. The closest I've seen to a discussion about this problem, and potential fix, is a thread which leads to the "Trum7c_8 Your Way" mod published by Privateer in 2009. I downloaded this fix and installed but no joy. My emblems were still not showing up.

I've tried:
Multiple, different emblems.
Going on a first patrol in a VIIC with no emblem, then returning to base and applying the emblem then. Still no emblem.
Uninstalling my mods (see below). Game won't load in vanilla so the most basic mod I could run is LSH V5. Still no emblem.

My emblems work as expected in the Type IIA, and VIIB. I assume they work on the IX and XXI as well, but I haven't tried them. It seems to be a problem with the VIIC. Didn't try the /41 either.

Here are my install specifics:
Win7 Ultimate 64 bit.
SHIII
LSH3 V5
LSH3 V5.1
LSH3 V5.1 GUI OLC

I also have some high 'specialeffekte,' sea color, and EnvSimAct_10 mods, but as I mentioned above, rolling back the mods to bare LSH3 V5.0 and nothing else did not fix the problem.

I have a weak suspicion that the Trum7c_8_hd.dat is not being referenced. I have S3D so I can look in to the data files. There seem to be two separate places where the hull graphics are located. In data\Submarine\NSS_Uboat7c there is NSS_Uboat7c.dat. This files has an embedded .TGA, NSS_Uboat7c_Hull. Similarly, in data\Objects there is Trum7c_8_hd.dat which also has an embedded tga, also named NSS_Uboat7c_hull, but this tga is clearly different than the one in NSS_Uboat7c.dat. The hull graphics that shows up in my game is clearly the one in the NSS_Uboat7c.dat and not the one in Trum7c_8_hd.dat.

I even tried exporting the tga from the NSS_Uboat7c.dat, manually adding an emblem and then re-importing it in to the .dat but that led to bizarre results since the skin from the place I was trying to apply the emblem is used for multiple locations around the conning tower, so no dice there.

So, it seems to me that the game isn't reading the .tga file from the Trum7c_8_hd.dat. Maybe that's why Privateers fix isn't working.

I"m obviously pretty far down the rabbit hole on this one. It's certainly not a game breaking problem, but it will nag at me until I figure it out. Hoping someone else maybe had a similar problem and figured out a fix.

Thanks,

-z