How to change Flak guns?

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Originally Posted by kurfürst

Hallo Kaleuns,

could anyone of you tell me how I have to change/modify files in SHIV to have a 3.7cm FK M42 Flak-Zwilling on my IX C/40 or IX D2 rather than the standard 3.7cm C/30 single Flak gun? Would like to have my loved IX C/40 look like this one:

http://www.heritage.nf.ca/law/images/u_boat_600.jpg

This only regards "single missions", no uboat missions or patrols where the armament can be changed. This is my last "how can I modify... question" for the rest of the year, promised!

Wishing You all a quiet and relaxing Christmas!

Best Wishes, Kurfürst

Go to "Silent Hunter Wolves of the Pacific\Data\UPCDataGE\UPCUnitsData"


find UnitPartsXXX.upc ( XXX = type of sub ) for the sub your looking for and open with wordpad

find this entry near the bottom of the file

ID= UpgHeavyFlak
NameDisplayable= Heavy Flak Gun
Type=NULL
AcceptedTypes=GerHeavyAA
UserCustomizable=Yes
IDLinkUpgradePackSlots= HeavyFlak
IDLinkUpgradePackSlotsIntervalDefault1= NULL, NULL, Upack37mmSingle

change
IDLinkUpgradePackSlotsIntervalDefault1= NULL, NULL, Upack37mmSingle

to

IDLinkUpgradePackSlotsIntervalDefault1= NULL, NULL, Upack37mmImpTwin