questions about the deck gun stabilisation

Sammi79 · 05-02-10, 10:01 AM

Hi all, sorry for dragging this ancient topic up again. I've trawled through hundreds of posts relating to the deck gun stabilisation, most of which are 2+ years dead now and were relevant to pre 1.5 versions of the game, I've downloaded 'real deck gun mod' although have yet to test as I play Op monsun I just wanted to see if I could implement the same change therein, and nope I can't. In cameras.dat the stabilsation seems to be linked to the AimCannon entry which has no settings, If I remove it the stabilsation is gone (the sight is still stabilised however by the MoveCannon entry) but the cannon will not move - this could be usefull, if the camera was setup with 0 rotation on the X-axis, it could be used to tell when the boat was level to give the fire command while the sights could be used purely to set azimuth/elevation, unfortunately when coming back out of the sight view the camera becomes unlinked from the boat and stays in the same position while the boat moves on.

Questions :-

Is there a way to get rid of the stabilisation of all the deck guns and their sights?

As the AimCannon and MoveCannon entries seem to be calls to SHControllers.act is there anyway to edit this file? Its 99% garbage in notepad/wordpad is there a specific program for editing these files?

I assume not because I've never seen a modified .act file in any mod and I assume the answer to my first question is no because it does not seem to be implemented in any of the mega mods (have not tried RFB yet though), but perhaps someone could just put my mind at rest on this? I've been bashing my head against and mutilating these files for a good while now. I even put SHcontrollers.act into a hex editor and started randomly deleting sections of code, how desperate is that!

Sammi79 · 05-05-10, 05:49 AM

Hmmm. Taboo subject? It should be in the mods forums I guess only I didn't want to post twice (ATO/Fleet boats).

So anyone? no idea at all?

Fishbreath · 05-05-10, 10:16 AM

IIRC the guns in RFB are not stabilized. Or at least that's how it feels to me; firing coming over the top of a wave has sent my shot high more times than I can count.

Sammi79 · 05-05-10, 10:27 AM

OK, thankyou Fishbreath for your reply I shall have a look at RFB before I give up on this completely.

Wilcke · 05-05-10, 10:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sammi79

OK, thankyou Fishbreath for your reply I shall have a look at RFB before I give up on this completely.

PM LukeFF on the topic, this is something that has always been a compromise, but he did delve into and has the knowledge base regarding stabilization. Good luck!

Sammi79 · 05-05-10, 10:38 AM

Wow 2 replies in 1 afternoon? must be my lucky day

. Thankyou Wilcke I shall PM LukeFF and see if he can help or at least tell me why it ain't possible.

To be continued...

05-02-10, 10:01 AM	#1
Sammi79 XO Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Penzance Posts: 428 Downloads: 272 Uploads: 0	questions about the deck gun stabilisation Hi all, sorry for dragging this ancient topic up again. I've trawled through hundreds of posts relating to the deck gun stabilisation, most of which are 2+ years dead now and were relevant to pre 1.5 versions of the game, I've downloaded 'real deck gun mod' although have yet to test as I play Op monsun I just wanted to see if I could implement the same change therein, and nope I can't. In cameras.dat the stabilsation seems to be linked to the AimCannon entry which has no settings, If I remove it the stabilsation is gone (the sight is still stabilised however by the MoveCannon entry) but the cannon will not move - this could be usefull, if the camera was setup with 0 rotation on the X-axis, it could be used to tell when the boat was level to give the fire command while the sights could be used purely to set azimuth/elevation, unfortunately when coming back out of the sight view the camera becomes unlinked from the boat and stays in the same position while the boat moves on. Questions :- Is there a way to get rid of the stabilisation of all the deck guns and their sights? As the AimCannon and MoveCannon entries seem to be calls to SHControllers.act is there anyway to edit this file? Its 99% garbage in notepad/wordpad is there a specific program for editing these files? I assume not because I've never seen a modified .act file in any mod and I assume the answer to my first question is no because it does not seem to be implemented in any of the mega mods (have not tried RFB yet though), but perhaps someone could just put my mind at rest on this? I've been bashing my head against and mutilating these files for a good while now. I even put SHcontrollers.act into a hex editor and started randomly deleting sections of code, how desperate is that!

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05-05-10, 05:49 AM	#2
Sammi79 XO Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Penzance Posts: 428 Downloads: 272 Uploads: 0	Hmmm. Taboo subject? It should be in the mods forums I guess only I didn't want to post twice (ATO/Fleet boats). So anyone? no idea at all?

05-05-10, 10:16 AM	#3
Fishbreath Watch Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 22 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	IIRC the guns in RFB are not stabilized. Or at least that's how it feels to me; firing coming over the top of a wave has sent my shot high more times than I can count.

05-05-10, 10:27 AM	#4
Sammi79 XO Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Penzance Posts: 428 Downloads: 272 Uploads: 0	OK, thankyou Fishbreath for your reply I shall have a look at RFB before I give up on this completely.

05-05-10, 10:38 AM	#6
Sammi79 XO Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Penzance Posts: 428 Downloads: 272 Uploads: 0	Wow 2 replies in 1 afternoon? must be my lucky day . Thankyou Wilcke I shall PM LukeFF and see if he can help or at least tell me why it ain't possible. To be continued...