[TEC] Mod Tools, HowTo

[Drifter]

Why is this thread so dead? I mean, does no one here realize the potential for the ability to now script in SH5?!

This is BIG news. Wake up people!

[Kretschmer the IV]

I see ultragiantenormous genial mods comming

[gutted]

I found everything but the script manager. where is it?

[Drifter]

Originally Posted by gutted

I found everything but the script manager. where is it?

I wish I knew. But I don't even have the game yet. Maybe someone else can answer.

[Safe-Keeper]

I'm just about speechless. This is incredible. Terrain editing, script editing, menu editing, campaign editing... there's no end to the things you can do with this.

If only the GWX team had this many tools when they made their supermod. Maybe some or all of it can be ported?

Originally Posted by Mission Editor 2 - Total_Germany

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/9678/missioneditor.png

What do these "nodes" do? Do they have to do with traffic or someething?

[Hartmann]

Well , seems that despite the drawbacks , limitations , and half finished game it´s like a blank board where modders can do everything they want.

[karamazovnew]

Originally Posted by Hartmann

Well , seems that despite the drawbacks , limitations , and half finished game it´s like a blank board where modders can do everything they want.

That HAS to be the worst thing a dev would like to hear. Let's not go overboard just yet. There are a few things missing but I wouldn't call the game a "blank board".

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by Safe-Keeper

What do these "nodes" do? Do they have to do with traffic or someething?

My first hunch is that these are traffic lanes where ships/convoys may choose alternate routes. I.e. shipping routes are possibly less scripted than they were before. I did notice that traffic shows up in a lot more places than I would've expected; I also noticed traffic actually avoiding coasts (not always successfully). I suspect that the traffic scripting has undergone a pretty big overhaul towards the dynamic.

[gutted]

Originally Posted by gutted

I found everything but the script manager. where is it?

found it!

with the modding controls enabled, you have to right click the Slient Hunter 5 Taskbar icon and select it from the menu... as was shown in the screenshots further up.

Took me abit to realize that's what it was showing.

[jmr]

I wonder how many of our talented modders will buy SHV though. How many of them are refusing to buy the game solely because of the DRM?

[Safe-Keeper]

My first hunch is that these are traffic lanes where ships/convoys may choose alternate routes. I.e. shipping routes are possibly less scripted than they were before. I did notice that traffic shows up in a lot more places than I would've expected; I also noticed traffic actually avoiding coasts (not always successfully). I suspect that the traffic scripting has undergone a pretty big overhaul towards the dynamic.

I'm guessing traffic routes, too, they definitely seem to go in and out of ports and follow shipping lanes.

My hypothesis is that it's a way to increase performance by not making all ships plot their own routes. Instead of the game tracking I don't know how many different routes, now all you have to do is tell a ship to, for example, patrol between nodes X, Y and Z, and it will stick in that area. Hopefully you can add some randomness into the game, too ("go within 30nm of Node 60, then transit to Node 100 or within 2nm of Node 62, then...").
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I see there is a "StateAbandon" and "StateSurrender" in the Script editor, too. So do crews actually abandon ship or surrender now?

[karamazovnew]

Originally Posted by gutted

found it!

with the modding controls enabled, you have to right click the Slient Hunter 5 Taskbar icon and select it from the menu... as was shown in the screenshots further up.

Took me abit to realize that's what it was showing.

This doesn't work on Windows 7 because of the new QuickLaunch Taskbar thingie.
Even RightClick and then Shift RightClick doesn't work. We need a different solution. I'm not going back to Vista

[karamazovnew]

YEEES, found a way! All W7 users listen up.

Open the Menu Editor and right click on the window top. You'll get a menu that allows you to open any of the tools

[piri_reis]

It's weird, Menu editor, Script Manager and AI debugger works but the terrain geometry and object editors will not open..

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Drifter

Why is this thread so dead? I mean, does no one here realize the potential for the ability to now script in SH5?!

This is BIG news. Wake up people!

The first post was made at 0342 hours, my time, which is central US. That would be 2242 in London, where people are going to bed.

Your post was made at 0755 my time, so people here were just getting up. The reason this thread was so dead was because everyone was asleep.