[WIP] Damage Control analyzer that factors crew experience into the damage report

[billko]

Originally Posted by billko

Damage Control v 1.0.4.1 is now out.

What's new:

Duplicate medals are shown as gold stars, up to four duplicates. (Per military custom. I haven't coded for more than four duplicate medal = 1 silver star because it would unnecessarily clutter up the user interface - this is supposed to be about sub damage, remember?)

This can be downloaded from:

http://users.gotsky.com/kaf/damage%20control/

For full history details, see original post.

Enjoy!

Bill

PS: my aoplogies to H. Gieseke for the egregious error I made in the spelling of his name in the credits. It was a very late night...

Version 1.0.4.2 is out and fixes an unhandled exception: IndexOutOfRangeException. Leave it to DigitalTrucker to have more than 5 medals of one kind!

You can get the new file at the same place as the old one.

Bill

[Digital_Trucker]

Originally Posted by billko

Leave it to DigitalTrucker to have more than 5 medals of one kind!

My bad! I'll try not to do it again

Keep up the good work and thanks for the extremely rapid fix

[billko]

Damage Control 1.0.4.3 is now available. There are some bug fixes that are too subtle to notice right away in that they don't crash the application, but are nevertheless critcal, as well as code optimization to make it take up less memory and also to interfere less with the game, itself.

As usual, it can be downloaded from:

http://users.gotsky.com/kaf/damage%20control/

The latest history.txt can plus an overview of the application can be found in the original post.

This is a recommended update!

Bill

[Rattail]

My crew must be a bunch of amateurs.. Despite 3 bulkheads damaged (goodness knows when THAT happened...), and a whole lot more, they report that i can dive to 300ft, so I sit at 50m after having sunk a NTLE. This to allow them time to repair things before I move out. Silent running rigged. 3 destroyers looking for me. (No damage yet). Next thing I start sinking.... nothing I can do.

[billko]

Originally Posted by Rattail

My crew must be a bunch of amateurs.. Despite 3 bulkheads damaged (goodness knows when THAT happened...), and a whole lot more, they report that i can dive to 300ft, so I sit at 50m after having sunk a NTLE. This to allow them time to repair things before I move out. Silent running rigged. 3 destroyers looking for me. (No damage yet). Next thing I start sinking.... nothing I can do.

That is *very* odd. The only thing I can think of is that SH4 isn't correctly reporting compartment damage for something... Do you remember which compartment the crew was reporting as most damaged? All the application does is search for the compartment with the most damage and generate a random percentage error based on the experience of the crew involved in the decision-making process. In any case, the number should never be greater than +/- 20%.

[Rattail]

Hi Bilko,
If I look at what's damaged in SH4, there are 3 bulkheads, the engines, and other stuff. But the damage Control Analyzer only shows minor damage to the deck and flak guns. I know that I did not get nailed by anything before this. Maybe SH messed up somewhere. I am using 2 damage analyzers. Your one and the Damage-Analyzer-II-2.0.5-beta. both say my sub is fine. Sp tyhe problem must be with SH4. I have reloaded 2 saves back and am going forward again.
cheers

[billko]

Originally Posted by Rattail

Hi Bilko,
If I look at what's damaged in SH4, there are 3 bulkheads, the engines, and other stuff. But the damage Control Analyzer only shows minor damage to the deck and flak guns. I know that I did not get nailed by anything before this. Maybe SH messed up somewhere. I am using 2 damage analyzers. Your one and the Damage-Analyzer-II-2.0.5-beta. both say my sub is fine. Sp tyhe problem must be with SH4. I have reloaded 2 saves back and am going forward again.
cheers

There are differences in the way DA II and DC 1.0 report damage. DC 1.0 sorts compartments as compartments and weapons/equipment as weapons and equipment, as per the structure of the saved game files. DA II reports them as they appear in the game (You'll notice that some of the compartments in DC appear as equipment on DA II.) To be honest, I don't know which way is correct. One of the main reasons why I did it differently is because I've seen cases where DA II wasn't reporting any major compartment damage, yet I couldn't submerge without my sub coming apart at the seams. My thinking was maybe it was because SH4 was reporting some compartment damage as weapon/equipment damage (and DA II was mimicking this for consistency) so that critcal damage was going "unnoticed." Unfortunately, you've proven that neither way prevents this thing from happening! Now all I can say is that I hope either of these programs at least *cuts down* on the number of occurences.

Bill

Oh, and another silliness revisited:
I just had my deck gun blow up on me for no reason and injure my deck gun crew. It's the first timethat's happened since SH4 1.3. Maybe a training accident?

[edited for poor sentence structure...]

[billko]

Version 1.0.4.4
Fixes:
Fixed an annoying bug where there old tooltips were being displayed along with new ones (noticable when you loaded a game with a different amount of medals).

Bugs:
In-Game time and date are not updated.
Medals shown do not match what is in the game.
Changes:
Bug Fixes

It can be downloaded here:

http://users.gotsky.com/kaf/damage%20control/

This is not a required update; just a cosmetic fixup. For a complete history, see original post.

Bill

[billko]

Some minor cosmetic fixes. This will probably be the last release for a while until I get motivated to spiff up the help file by adding an index and tags to jump from one place to another.

For details and the history, see the original post.

Bill

[leovampire]

Just down loaded and installed your anilizer. Thanks for doing this and I am sure I am going to enjoy it and your hard work!

[SirHendrik]

Hi!

Greate idea to rework the tool! Do you rely on savegames, too, or do you get your data directly from the memory?

If you need any help, write me a mail and I might be able to add some knowlage.
Which langauge and which version do you use? VB.NET, VB 2005, C#?

Hendrik

[billko]

Hint:

Dave/LeoV take a look in the help/credits, okay???

More info can be obtained by clicking on the link in my sig!

Bill

[billko]

It contains a fix for the problem where if your flotilla and/or base is new (as compared to SH4 1.3) DC would report it as “Unknown.”

DC can be found at:

http://users.gotsky.com/kaf/damage%20control/

Have fun!

*Actually, I am surprised this hasn't surfaced sooner as I know there are mods out there that add new bases and stuff...