Officer caps on other crew?

[Vanagen]

Thanks for replying this fast!

This sure looks close to what I intended to accomplish.

Would it be feasible to copy it from one dat file to the other?

[Vanagen]

Victory!





Many, many thanks, privateer.



Now I'm going to push my luck and see if I can have two POS_Helmet dat files in the same directory, one for the NCO cap and one for the sailor headdress.

I might have to make a directory structure like Body01 and Body02 to make it work, I suppose.

If anyone's interested, I'll upload the one file, though the operation's quite easy to do using Silent 3ditor (export 3D model from the OFF, import it to the POS).



Thanks again, privateer.

You are most Welcome Sir.
I was going to do a different cap style myself.
But I got wrapped up with the GWX stuff and MANY things are unfinished.

As far as adding other dats to a folder?
It won't work.

The commands as to what files to use are hard coded for the most part.
If you use a hex editor,
open the SH3.exe file.
You can then search for POS.
Bump through the file and you will see all file/directory calls.

If you files don't match those calls?
Guess what happens?

The game ignores them.

[rob89]

This looks like it has the beginnings of a fantastic mod.

[Vanagen]

Haha, I knew I was going to run into a wall of hard code sooner or later with this.



Oh well, the result I've achieved on my boat is quite satisfactory.

I now have my Watch Officer with Konrad Krumm's white cap and the other watch crew using the black cap from XIII's Men@Work mod. No hats below deck.

I'll post a screenshot as soon as I get out of this dreadful weather.


I could make a mini-mod out of what I have now, provided I get permission from the rightful owners to include their skins. Or just release it with the stock officer cap skin.


I'm also definitely looking forward to your take on this, privateer.

I'm always glad when I can help.
Many great people help get me started.
I could do no less then follow thier lead.

[Reece]

Venatore done a similar mod, just had to change a cfg file iirc, just check out "Venatores Drive through", it was called "Random Crew Headdress", At the start of a new career you can have all the crew with headdress & as new recruits are transferred via SH3 Commander these will randomly have headdress, after half dozen patrols or so you will find most of the men have headdress & some don't:

I have an updated version of this file if you want I can upload it.