Q: Automated manouvering scripts?

Commander Mysenses · 10-28-11, 02:19 AM

Is there an equivalent to Trevally's SH5 Auto Scripts for SH4?
(automated search patterns etc)

magic452 · 10-28-11, 03:27 AM

I'm no modder but as far as I know either SH 4 doesn't support those types of scripts or the modders don't have access to them.
SH 5 has much more moddability built in.

Magic

Rockin Robbins · 10-28-11, 09:58 AM

There is no evidence that real submariners had access to similar scripts either......

GreyBeard · 10-28-11, 01:54 PM

I got a keyboard recently with a dozen macro keys on the left side of it that I have programmed to automate several things in SH4. One key is set just to surface. So let's say I'm at a depth of 90 feet and I command the boat to surface, it will go to periscope depth\ahead 2 thirds\tc 16\up scope\delay 3 seconds\radar depth\tc 32\delay 5 seconds\surface\down scope\weather report. If it can be done with the keyboard you can program the macro keys to do it. Last night I discovered I can set up a key to toggle a function off\on. Place a delay at the end of the last function and it will repeat over and over until I toggle it off. That means I could dive, take a sounding and surface every hour, two hours, 3 hours of game time, whatever I program, just by pressing one key. If I get a contact, either a ship while submerged or an aircraft while surfacing, I press the macro key again and toggle the function off. The boat stays where it is and I can take the appropriate action.

razark · 10-28-11, 04:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GreyBeard

So let's say I'm at a depth of 90 feet and I command the boat to surface, it will go to periscope depth\ahead 2 thirds\tc 16\up scope\delay 3 seconds\radar depth\tc 32\delay 5 seconds\surface\down scope\weather report.

If you detect a contact by scope/radar, can you abort the rest of the surfacing procedure?

GreyBeard · 10-29-11, 08:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by razark

If you detect a contact by scope/radar, can you abort the rest of the surfacing procedure?

99.9% certain that the answer to that question is yes. I will test it thoroughly this weekend and report back.

Commander Mysenses · 10-28-11, 06:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

There is no evidence that real submariners had access to similar scripts either......

But they did have junior officers and the art of delegation!

10-28-11, 02:19 AM	#1
Commander Mysenses Navy Dude Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: AM98 - Rounding Hartland Point and sneaking up the Bristol Channel Posts: 173 Downloads: 137 Uploads: 0	Q: Automated manouvering scripts? Is there an equivalent to Trevally's SH5 Auto Scripts for SH4? (automated search patterns etc)

10-28-11, 03:27 AM	#2
magic452 Sea Lord Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Reno Nevada USA Posts: 1,860 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	I'm no modder but as far as I know either SH 4 doesn't support those types of scripts or the modders don't have access to them. SH 5 has much more moddability built in. Magic __________________ Reported lost 11 Feb. 1942 Signature by depthtok33l

10-28-11, 09:58 AM	#3
Rockin Robbins Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: DeLand, FL Posts: 8,900 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 52	There is no evidence that real submariners had access to similar scripts either...... __________________ Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks, Slightly Subnuclear Mk 14 & Cutie, Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun, EZPlot 2.0, TMOPlot, TMOKeys, SH4CMS

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10-28-11, 01:54 PM	#4
GreyBeard Engineer Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: LI, NY Posts: 209 Downloads: 257 Uploads: 2	I got a keyboard recently with a dozen macro keys on the left side of it that I have programmed to automate several things in SH4. One key is set just to surface. So let's say I'm at a depth of 90 feet and I command the boat to surface, it will go to periscope depth\ahead 2 thirds\tc 16\up scope\delay 3 seconds\radar depth\tc 32\delay 5 seconds\surface\down scope\weather report. If it can be done with the keyboard you can program the macro keys to do it. Last night I discovered I can set up a key to toggle a function off\on. Place a delay at the end of the last function and it will repeat over and over until I toggle it off. That means I could dive, take a sounding and surface every hour, two hours, 3 hours of game time, whatever I program, just by pressing one key. If I get a contact, either a ship while submerged or an aircraft while surfacing, I press the macro key again and toggle the function off. The boat stays where it is and I can take the appropriate action.