****** Silent Hunter 4 Mods Contest ********

Onkel Neal · 07-29-07, 09:14 PM

The folks at Ubisoft sent Subsim a bunch of Silent Hunter 4 t-shirts to give away. To reward the great work and sense of community exhibited here, we're having a SH4 Mod Celebration Contest.

What is your favorite mod? Which mod do you think adds the most play value to Silent Hunter 4? Nominate your favorite mod and the modmaker in this thread. After a few days, I will post a poll and the top 10 mod makers will win a SH4 t-shirt, designed by Penny Arcade. And I will also award a t-shirt at random to some of the players who nominate their favorite modmaker.

So, make a post here, nominate your favorite mod guru, and explain why you feel his work makes Silent Hunter 4 even better!

Large view

Good hunting!
Neal
Subsim

Rockin Robbins · 07-30-07, 09:23 AM

First, I have to recommend awarding three of the t-shirts to WernerSobe, Redwine and leovampire. A nasty confrontation between the Die Slowly and Realistic Sinking Physics mod looked possible....likely.....imminent even. Modders tend to be highly opinionated people, and with the exception of CaptainCox, a bit *****ly (being censored here for a completely innocuous word. OK let's try mispelling it: "prikly") sometimes. Welcome to the world of creative people!

But as evidenced by posts #57, 58 and 59 in the [REL] Realistic Sinking Physics thread, these creative, highly opinionated, fiercely competitive guys will bury the hatchet at the drop of a hat if they can work together to make a better Silent Hunter IV. And they're not killing off one of the mods to combine into one. It's coopetition time, where exchange of information makes BOTH mods amazing. I say t-shirts all around to leovampire, Redwine and WernerSobe for that!

Second, but not last by any means, CaptainCox is just hovering above the crowd with his open, immediately responsive and incredibly prolific mod writing. When someone suggests a good tweak, CaptainCox often comes out the next morning with an update, always giving full credit to the suggester. When a modder hits the wall and needs help CaptainCox is there to help, sometimes not taking any credit for his work. I've bugged him to death at times about things that he knew were outmoded (he knew Oakgroove's interior was about to wipe out any improvements I was fishing for) and he never seemed irritated

. So for productivity above and beyond the call of duty (above and beyond reason itself!), he deserves a t-shirt.

Finally, and totally irrelevent to the purpose of this thread, I suggest that we give greater emphasis and recognition to training. WernerSobe's video on sonar only attack setup and execution, and two videos on full manual techniques are just as important as any mod ever produced in achieving full enjoyment of SH4. I consider them a mod to my brain and their effect is amazing. I'm sure there is much more material out there that I am not aware of.

mookiemookie · 07-30-07, 09:27 AM

Captain Cox's graphical mods add so much more polish to the gane. I love the Silent Service loading screens, as well as the improved hats. Small things, I know, but to me they really give the game a much more finished feeling. He gets my nomination!

Shipwreck · 07-30-07, 10:28 AM

Captain Cox's, :rotfl: Ducimus,

LeoVampire.

SW

donut · 07-30-07, 10:47 AM

1 Jimimadrid: [REL] Changed HUD Lamp Color commonly known as (Greenlight Mod)

Direct from Subsim Downloads

[REL] Green "Position Keeper" and "Good Lock" Buttons Mod for SH 4

Green "Position Keeper" and "Good Lock" Buttons Mod for SH 4
made by
Captain Cox

Improved and Tweaked
made by
jimimadrid

03-28-2007, 06:09 AM #24 #2Redwine vbmenu_register("postmenu_469175", true);
Here a small contibution...

Reduced Depth Charges Lethal Radius:
http://rapidshare.com/files/23169672...H_IV_.zip.html

Increased Underwater Visibility :
http://rapidshare.com/files/23236501...age_1.zip.html

Tweaked Sub Hit Points, Armor and Flooding Times :
http://rapidshare.com/files/23884493...age_2.zip.html
#3 Whomever: figured out the changes to the Cmd.cfg file that stop "ENTER" Key from firing fish,& got TCx1 =s Npad Enter,for ease of play.

Jace11 · 07-30-07, 11:34 AM

Hmmm tricky to choose one, so I won't I'll pick a top 10:

Captain Cox: All his mods are good quality.
Ducimus: TM.
Oakgroove: Great Dials.
Tater: campaign layers and just plain enthusiasm.
Beery: for RFB.
Anvart: for general troubleshooting and in depth stuff..
Kosh: stealth sub - sounds are important too
Redwine: for die slowely
Wernersobe: for realistic sinkings
mcoca: for his automated campaign editing tool...

I should add that graphics type mods add to the immersion but we shouldn't forget beery and tater who spend most their time trawling through masses of data fixing things, editing things, bringing things together...

CaptainCox · 07-30-07, 11:48 AM

I will quote Leo here...

Quote:

I can't choose between any of them! For me anyone who makes the game we all enjoy better is a winner no matter if you use their MOD or not.

Pat yourself on the back guys your all winners in my eyes!!!

For me there are a few guys here that would deserve this.

Ducimus
Beery
LeoVampire
Oakgroove
Anvart
Redwine
DivingDuck (This guys teached me A LOT! maybe more up for a SH3 award

)
l3th4l (not around much these days, but we had some fun)
Jimimadrid
Darship
FooFighter/Boris (beautiful skins)
This list could be one page...

But as Leo said so well.
All the guys here poking, digging, renlentlessy trying and not giving up, you all deserve this I think

@ Neal...common man, how about 20 T-shirts...or so for all the GOOD GUYS AROUND HERE!

Rockin Robbins · 07-30-07, 01:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CaptainCox

For me there are a few guys here that would deserve this.

Ducimus
Beery
LeoVampire
Oakgroove
Anvart
Redwine
DivingDuck (This guys teached me A LOT! maybe more up for a SH3 award

)
l3th4l (not around much these days, but we had some fun)
Jimimadrid
Darship
FooFighter/Boris (beautiful skins)
This list could be one page...

Great! Now we have to cut those t-shirts into a couple dozen itty bitty pieces!

I know! We could do like the Saturn commercials and make them send a single t-shirt around to each modder on a schedule until the shirt is worn out. Please wash before forwarding the shirt. No, you cannot e-mail a shirt.

Bear · 07-30-07, 02:01 PM

WOW!!! I mean damn "Pick Just One?" I don't use just one mod so it would be stupid for me to try to pick "just one". :rotfl:

Well I have given this a lot of thought and here is that thought.

There is a ONE that has made this game better by ALL accounts. Most every modder here has recommended his "mod" to the community. I am referring to the creator of JSGME, JScones I think it is. How would/could we put all of these wonderful mods into the game without JSGME.

Yes, I know one can manually install, but would you really want to do that? My one vote goes to JSGME.

don1reed · 07-30-07, 02:19 PM

My vote goes to the Romanian team that brought us these subsims in the first place for which there wouldn't be a need for modders. The cause and effect, if you will.

Deciding who is the best modder is like deciding who of the Trinity is the best :hmm: (not to put too lofty a point on it) You're all great.

Weather-guesser · 07-30-07, 03:31 PM

It would be hard for me to vote for one of the "Super MODS" only because the work of several MODS make up the great work as a whole.
So for a single MOD that has really added to the WOW factor, I have to vote for
leovampire for the Living Breathing Ocean MOD.

RickC Sniper · 07-30-07, 04:45 PM

Oakgroove and Captain Cox have created mods I couldn't do without, but saluts to all here who have worked so hard on improving this game.

Duck · 07-30-07, 04:44 PM

Not that I'm even close to being versed with the all the mods out there but - the green pressed buttons just did it for me. So much frustration without it.... the SH4 Toolbar "Lamp" mod is my vote.

GT182 · 07-30-07, 07:52 PM

Sorry Neal but I too can't pick "just" one. There are too many modders that have done an exceptional job on mods. And some have worked with other modders to make a specific mod for SH4.

So in all fairness I'd have to choose..... all the modders that have worked on SH4. They all deserve a

. Without each and everyone of them we'd all be crying in our milk.

corleonedk · 07-30-07, 08:07 PM

Yaa its to hard to pick one,they should just send each one a tshirt.

07-29-07, 09:14 PM	#1
Onkel Neal Born to Run Silent Join Date: Jan 1997 Location: Cougar Trap, Texas Posts: 21,385 Downloads: 541 Uploads: 224	**** Silent Hunter 4 Mods Contest **** The folks at Ubisoft sent Subsim a bunch of Silent Hunter 4 t-shirts to give away. To reward the great work and sense of community exhibited here, we're having a SH4 Mod Celebration Contest. What is your favorite mod? Which mod do you think adds the most play value to Silent Hunter 4? Nominate your favorite mod and the modmaker in this thread. After a few days, I will post a poll and the top 10 mod makers will win a SH4 t-shirt, designed by Penny Arcade. And I will also award a t-shirt at random to some of the players who nominate their favorite modmaker. So, make a post here, nominate your favorite mod guru, and explain why you feel his work makes Silent Hunter 4 even better! Large view** Good hunting! Neal Subsim

07-30-07, 11:34 AM	#6
Jace11 Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK Posts: 683 Downloads: 104 Uploads: 1	Hmmm tricky to choose one, so I won't I'll pick a top 10: Captain Cox: All his mods are good quality. Ducimus: TM. Oakgroove: Great Dials. Tater: campaign layers and just plain enthusiasm. Beery: for RFB. Anvart: for general troubleshooting and in depth stuff.. Kosh: stealth sub - sounds are important too Redwine: for die slowely Wernersobe: for realistic sinkings mcoca: for his automated campaign editing tool... I should add that graphics type mods add to the immersion but we shouldn't forget beery and tater who spend most their time trawling through masses of data fixing things, editing things, bringing things together... Last edited by Jace11; 07-30-07 at 01:08 PM.

07-30-07, 02:01 PM	#9
Bear Helmsman Join Date: May 2005 Location: CSA - Confused States of America Posts: 107 Downloads: 99 Uploads: 0	WOW!!! I mean damn "Pick Just One?" I don't use just one mod so it would be stupid for me to try to pick "just one". :rotfl: Well I have given this a lot of thought and here is that thought. There is a ONE that has made this game better by ALL accounts. Most every modder here has recommended his "mod" to the community. I am referring to the creator of JSGME, JScones I think it is. How would/could we put all of these wonderful mods into the game without JSGME. Yes, I know one can manually install, but would you really want to do that? My one vote goes to JSGME. __________________ "When you are going to kill someone, it cost nothing to be polite." CRS

07-30-07, 02:19 PM	#10
don1reed Ace of the Deep Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Valhalla: Silent Generation Posts: 1,149 Downloads: 910 Uploads: 0	My vote goes to the Romanian team that brought us these subsims in the first place for which there wouldn't be a need for modders. The cause and effect, if you will. Deciding who is the best modder is like deciding who of the Trinity is the best :hmm: (not to put too lofty a point on it) You're all great. __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ~ George Orwell

07-30-07, 03:31 PM	#11
Weather-guesser Lieutenant Join Date: May 2007 Location: Albany, New York USA Posts: 260 Downloads: 72 Uploads: 0	Best MOD It would be hard for me to vote for one of the "Super MODS" only because the work of several MODS make up the great work as a whole. So for a single MOD that has really added to the WOW factor, I have to vote for leovampire for the Living Breathing Ocean MOD. __________________ NAVY! It's not just a job. It's a Buck Seventy-Five an hour!

07-30-07, 09:23 AM	#2
Rockin Robbins Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: DeLand, FL Posts: 8,900 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 52	4 T-shirts, huh? What a coincidence! First, I have to recommend awarding three of the t-shirts to WernerSobe, Redwine and leovampire. A nasty confrontation between the Die Slowly and Realistic Sinking Physics mod looked possible....likely.....imminent even. Modders tend to be highly opinionated people, and with the exception of CaptainCox, a bit *****ly (being censored here for a completely innocuous word. OK let's try mispelling it: "prikly") sometimes. Welcome to the world of creative people! But as evidenced by posts #57, 58 and 59 in the [REL] Realistic Sinking Physics thread, these creative, highly opinionated, fiercely competitive guys will bury the hatchet at the drop of a hat if they can work together to make a better Silent Hunter IV. And they're not killing off one of the mods to combine into one. It's coopetition time, where exchange of information makes BOTH mods amazing. I say t-shirts all around to leovampire, Redwine and WernerSobe for that! Second, but not last by any means, CaptainCox is just hovering above the crowd with his open, immediately responsive and incredibly prolific mod writing. When someone suggests a good tweak, CaptainCox often comes out the next morning with an update, always giving full credit to the suggester. When a modder hits the wall and needs help CaptainCox is there to help, sometimes not taking any credit for his work. I've bugged him to death at times about things that he knew were outmoded (he knew Oakgroove's interior was about to wipe out any improvements I was fishing for) and he never seemed irritated. So for productivity above and beyond the call of duty (above and beyond reason itself!), he deserves a t-shirt. Finally, and totally irrelevent to the purpose of this thread, I suggest that we give greater emphasis and recognition to training. WernerSobe's video on sonar only attack setup and execution, and two videos on full manual techniques are just as important as any mod ever produced in achieving full enjoyment of SH4. I consider them a mod to my brain and their effect is amazing. I'm sure there is much more material out there that I am not aware of. __________________ Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks, Slightly Subnuclear Mk 14 & Cutie, Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun, EZPlot 2.0, TMOPlot, TMOKeys, SH4CMS

07-30-07, 09:27 AM	#3
mookiemookie Navy Seal Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 9,404 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 1	Captain Cox's graphical mods add so much more polish to the gane. I love the Silent Service loading screens, as well as the improved hats. Small things, I know, but to me they really give the game a much more finished feeling. He gets my nomination! __________________ They don’t think it be like it is, but it do. Want more U-boat Kaleun portraits for your SH3 Commander Profiles? Download the SH3 Commander Portrait Pack here.

07-30-07, 10:28 AM	#4
Shipwreck Loader Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: on the far side of society Posts: 84 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Captain Cox's, :rotfl: Ducimus, LeoVampire. SW

07-30-07, 10:47 AM	#5
donut The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: The Shifting, Whispering Sands, NM Posts: 1,463 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Least we forget pioneers 1 Jimimadrid: [REL] Changed HUD Lamp Color commonly known as (Greenlight Mod) Direct from Subsim Downloads [REL] Green "Position Keeper" and "Good Lock" Buttons Mod for SH 4 Green "Position Keeper" and "Good Lock" Buttons Mod for SH 4 made by Captain Cox Improved and Tweaked made by jimimadrid 03-28-2007, 06:09 AM #24 #2Redwine vbmenu_register("postmenu_469175", true); Here a small contibution... Reduced Depth Charges Lethal Radius: http://rapidshare.com/files/23169672...H_IV_.zip.html Increased Underwater Visibility : http://rapidshare.com/files/23236501...age_1.zip.html Tweaked Sub Hit Points, Armor and Flooding Times : http://rapidshare.com/files/23884493...age_2.zip.html #3 Whomever: figured out the changes to the Cmd.cfg file that stop "ENTER" Key from firing fish,& got TCx1 =s Npad Enter,for ease of play.

07-30-07, 04:45 PM	#12
RickC Sniper Undetectable Join Date: Sep 1999 Location: Colorado Posts: 1,221 Downloads: 132 Uploads: 0	Oakgroove and Captain Cox have created mods I couldn't do without, but saluts to all here who have worked so hard on improving this game. __________________ Support Subsim http://www.subsim.com/store.html

07-30-07, 04:44 PM	#13
Duck Nub Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 2 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	jimimadrid Not that I'm even close to being versed with the all the mods out there but - the green pressed buttons just did it for me. So much frustration without it.... the SH4 Toolbar "Lamp" mod is my vote.

07-30-07, 07:52 PM	#14
GT182 Ocean Warrior Join Date: May 2005 Location: New Castle of Delaware Posts: 3,231 Downloads: 658 Uploads: 0	Sorry Neal but I too can't pick "just" one. There are too many modders that have done an exceptional job on mods. And some have worked with other modders to make a specific mod for SH4. So in all fairness I'd have to choose..... all the modders that have worked on SH4. They all deserve a . Without each and everyone of them we'd all be crying in our milk. __________________ Gary No Borders, No Language, No Culture =s No Country I'm a Deplorable, and proud of it.

07-30-07, 08:07 PM	#15
corleonedk Watch Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 29 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Yaa its to hard to pick one,they should just send each one a tshirt.

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Switch to Linear Mode Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode