[REL] Playable U-FlaK for SH5

[vdr1981]

Originally Posted by gap

LOL

[gap]

Originally Posted by vdr1981

yep, time to rest, but I don't give up on this. This particular bug is haunting me since at least three years ago...

[vdr1981]

Just a small update...

Even without any files/controllers, twin 37mm still freezes the game (removed sim, cam and zon file)...Definite sign that the problem is in 3D object...Somewhere...

When I was removed twin 37mm cam file, I was able to use manually front flak and in order to access front gun station I had to click rear flak gun...

So, all is working, it's just a matter of camera/station controllers settings. Somehow , I think the solution may be in camera.cam file. It's like some camera "definition" is missing...

[gap]

Originally Posted by vdr1981

...all is working, it's just a matter of camera/station controllers settings. Somehow , I think the solution may be in camera.cam file. It's like some camera "definition" is missing...

Thank you for your tips

today in the morning I was looking exactly in that direction. The problem can't be in camera.cam, because all the Flak guns use the same camera definition. Knowing that, I focused my attention on the station controller. This is what I found:

37mmTSA.sim => GunStationController @ 37mmTSA_Soclu => GunStationController => NameDisplayable: 0
37mmTSA.sim => GunStationController @ 37mmTSA_Soclu => GunStationController => InteractiveObject => tooltip: 0
37mmTSA.sim => GunStationController @ 37mmTSA_Soclu => GunStationController => InteractiveObject => expertTooltip: 0

For all other guns, the same parameters point to appropriate tooltip number in menu.txt. See what I mean?

[vdr1981]

Originally Posted by gap

Thank you for your tips

today in the morning I was looking exactly in that direction. The problem can't be in camera.cam, because all the Flak guns use the same camera definition. Knowing that, I focused my attention on the station controller. This is what I found:

37mmTSA.sim => GunStationController @ 37mmTSA_Soclu => GunStationController => NameDisplayable: 0
37mmTSA.sim => GunStationController @ 37mmTSA_Soclu => GunStationController => InteractiveObject => tooltip: 0
37mmTSA.sim => GunStationController @ 37mmTSA_Soclu => GunStationController => InteractiveObject => expertTooltip: 0

For all other guns, the same parameters point to appropriate tooltip number in menu.txt. See what I mean?

I already tried to add name and tooltips...No good. You can try the same , just to make sure...

[gap]

Originally Posted by vdr1981

I already tried to add name and tooltips...No good. You can try the same , just to make sure...

Wait, I was going to give you a link to a patch I had created with menu.txt tooltips for the 3.7 cm twin gun and refeferences to them in its gun station controller, but you beat me on time. I am looking at some other settings right now

[vdr1981]

Originally Posted by gap

Wait, I was going to give you a link to a patch I had created with menu.txt tooltips for the 3.7 cm twin gun and refeferences to them in its gun station controller, but you beat me on time. I am looking at some other settings right now

Tooltip is just a tooltip, I dont think that is the problem...Actually that was the first thing I tried when I was adding twin 37mm gun...

Right now I'm trying to make front gun player controlled. I think I'm very close...

There is a controller called "GunStationControllerPoperties" in conning tower's sim file (one for each gun bone, A1,A2,S1) and it seems that this is the key.

Very same controller for S2 bone (front flak) was missing and I've added it.
Still, I'm mission the appropriate "S2" slot in controller settings.
Do you know anything about this Gap??
Maybe I need to add one more bone to Cameras.gr2 file?

EDIT
Hmm, or maybe a new waypoint in waypoints gr2 file...

There is so much craps around all this...In almost all other games similar stuff can be done with just a few entries in cfg files , but not here...