The SHIV Mission Editor Wish-List

Safe-Keeper · 10-09-06, 11:18 PM

1. And/or flags when defining the content of Randomly Generated Groups. For example, I want to re-create the Shetland Bus in Silent Hunter III. The Shetland Bus, or the covert transport of troops, refugees, and supplies from Norway to Shetland, was mainly comprised of fishing boats, but also used some submarine chasers that survived the German invasion. So I'd like to set up a Group Contents list that looks like this:

- 1x Fishing Boat [75% chance]
OR
- 1x Submarine Chaser [25% chance]

So that the group consists of only one vessel, and that there's a 25% chance it'll be a 'chaser and 75% chance it'll be a fishing boat. As far as I know, I can't. It'd be nice if you added this feature to Silent Hunter IV.

2. Ability to define "GENERIC" groups (such as "Generic Merchant", and so on) in the editor, without needing to alter files, edit hex code, or whatever the Heck I need to do in Silent Hunter III. If I could do this easily in Silent Hunter III, I could just tell the Random Generated Group to contain "1x GENERIC Shetland Bus" and have it be either a fishing boat of some kind or a submarine chaser.

View Poll Results: Do you want a more powerful editor with Silent Hunter IV?
Yup.	46	68.66%
Nope.	2	2.99%
I use the editor, but it's the same to me.	1	1.49%
I don't use the mission editor.	18	26.87%
Voters: 67. You may not vote on this poll

10-09-06, 11:18 PM	#13
Safe-Keeper Ocean Warrior Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Norway Posts: 3,234 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	1. And/or flags when defining the content of Randomly Generated Groups. For example, I want to re-create the Shetland Bus in Silent Hunter III. The Shetland Bus, or the covert transport of troops, refugees, and supplies from Norway to Shetland, was mainly comprised of fishing boats, but also used some submarine chasers that survived the German invasion. So I'd like to set up a Group Contents list that looks like this: - 1x Fishing Boat [75% chance] OR - 1x Submarine Chaser [25% chance] So that the group consists of only one vessel, and that there's a 25% chance it'll be a 'chaser and 75% chance it'll be a fishing boat. As far as I know, I can't. It'd be nice if you added this feature to Silent Hunter IV. 2. Ability to define "GENERIC" groups (such as "Generic Merchant", and so on) in the editor, without needing to alter files, edit hex code, or whatever the Heck I need to do in Silent Hunter III. If I could do this easily in Silent Hunter III, I could just tell the Random Generated Group to contain "1x GENERIC Shetland Bus" and have it be either a fishing boat of some kind or a submarine chaser. __________________ First Strike Mod tester. Hardcore sub skipper. Last edited by Safe-Keeper; 10-10-06 at 02:21 PM.