Damage texture Problem!

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by Reece

Good grief, that many files! From what I know after a little checking is that the Particles.dsd file is from the Depthcharge shake mod, the Particles.dat, dated 12/2007 is a total mystery, I actually thought it might have been from one of your early SH4 effects mod, but went through them all & differ, this one is 465,748 bytes.
The Val files are from Rubini's wake fix, Shells.sim is dated 2006, so not likely to be that. I went back in and reloaded the game but the effect and damage is gone, the U-boat is the 7c.

Edit: Could this happen using GWX 2.1 U-boats & 1.03 Particles.dat

Could be. Best thing is to roll back all mods and enable one by one and test to see if you still have the problem. Find which one is causing the problem and then investigate why. I would browse through all the mods in the MODS folders and see which ones are modifying the sub's .val files, the particles.dat file, and the shells.sim file (and shells.dat and shells.zon). I would target those first.
Rubini's wake fix, not familiar with.

[Reece]

Rubini's wake fix, not familiar with.

That is the horrible texture that you get mainly in rough sea when you get the lines across the water across the Boats or ships, like water running over a step, thisis an old Stock problem.
Now as far as taking out mods I will just have to suck it and see there, I got to around 150 mods then after so many campaigns & patrols without errors I proclaimed it safe to just install all mods without JSGME to conserve space, This sort of thing always happens to me!
I will have to find a small mission & try suicide to get some hits for a test!

[TheDarkWraith]

JSGME is your friend here! I would do this then:

make a folder called damage_texture_testing in the MODS folder. Under this folder create the following heirarchy:

\MODS\damage_texture_testing\data\Library
\MODS\damage_texture_testing\data\Submarine
\MODS\damage_texture_testing\data\Submarine\xxxxx (where xxxxx=sub)

Then take an un-modified particles.dat file and place in the library folder above and enable your new 'mod' to test.
If same problem then take shells.xxx (where xxx=.dat, .sim and .zon) and place in Library folder above (one at a time) and enable 'mod' to test.
If same problem then take xxxx.val (where xxxx=sub) and place in Submarine\xxxx folder above and enable 'mod' to test.
One of those should find the 'bug'.