[WIP] Printable SH IV recognition manual

[Raven Morpheus]

For my personal hard copy of an RM, as said above, I plan on using a ring bound notebook and swapping out the paper for my printed cards.

So, in my hunt for one I came across this one which I think will be perfect as it looks like it has a nice hard pair of covers - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Derwent-Sket...+pad+landscape


But of course I still need some dividers for each section, like on the in-game RM, so I cobbled together this image from the artwork in the game, to print onto 1 side of one of the A5 sheets of card, to which I'll glue a little tab to the edge to make flipping easier, with the appropriate word on it (like Japan for the Japan section, probably with the same leather texture also), I may however change the brown leather to black so it matches the outside covers of the notebook -




Because the cards will be A5 sized I had to resize the artwork for the leather RM cover in photoshop as well as resizing but maintaining the shape of the flag and bar with the word on it. Turned out quite nicely though, just need to find a "flag" to use for the merchants, in-game they don't appear to have one on the RM.



I'll also be using "ivory" coloured card to print on so it should look nice and authentic.


I would offer to sell people a hard copy as per how mine will be, but I'm in the UK so shipping costs will likely be horrendous, and the materials for the hard copy will in fact set me back about £15. So nearly the cost of a used copy of the SH IV collectors edition, but my RM will likely end up covering both SH IV and SH V ships.

Probably going to use up quite a bit of ink on my printer doing this also, but the result will be worth it...

Have to stick to supplying you guys with the files so you can print your own I think.

[donna52522]

I believe someone already did this, but the filefront link seems to be broken.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom//sho...d.php?t=129912

[Raven Morpheus]

I believe someone already did this, but the filefront link seems to be broken.

Seems to be only the IJN ships. And as you said, the links are dead (seems to be the case with all the printable RM's I've come across), which is precisely why I'm doing this, for myself as much as anything.

Filefront has a habit of deleting files that aren't used for a period of time, I will probably upload mine here if possible, or to somewhere that won't delete the files after a period of time.

Besides I'm doing all ships that are in the stock game (both SH IV and SH V), not just the IJN.

[TorpX]

You might consider adding:

1. the length of the ship

2. the angle of the view (where it is not obvious)

[Raven Morpheus]

I may add the length, although I don't understand the relevance of it.

I need to tidy up the text at the top of each card a bit anyway on some, the Class text isn't as long for some as it is in the sample pic I posted and it looks a little untidy not being in line with the end of the line of text below it.

As for the angle of the view I can add that text on there below each view I guess, but the only one's I know are the obvious ones, 0 and 90 degrees.

The third looks like it's something like 20 degrees, but I can't tell exactly, one would assume all the silhouettes have the same angle for that 3rd one?


One tweak I've done already is to remove that black border that you can see around the "tan" coloured artwork in the sample pic above, I didn't like it and it will look better without it when printed on "ivory" coloured cards.

[les green01]

if you know the lenght you can figure the speed of the target by how long it takes by the use of a stop watch

[Raven Morpheus]

Ah OK, not sure how to do that myself, I usually just mark position on the map, wait 3 minutes and mark again then use the compass to measure the distance, which gives me the speed in knots.

I'll add the length though as I can see now how that would be handy.

I finished doing all the cards for the SH IV ships this afternoon, so just text tweaking text on each card, some extra bits of info to add (like metric values for mast height and draft), and arranging them in a M$ Word document to convert to PDF format.

I would imagine adding the SH V ships won't take too long, just a matter of working out which ones I've already got from SH IV.