Hires skins for VIIC wanted

[Hitman]

Yes, exactly

BTW trying FUBAR's skin for the standard Type VIIC I still get the camo conning tower. Must try with U-552 one, which I also have.

[etheberge]

Originally Posted by Hitman

Yes, exactly

BTW trying FUBAR's skin for the standard Type VIIC I still get the camo conning tower. Must try with U-552 one, which I also have.

I think some of the answers you guys are looking for may be found in the first post of this thread : http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...hlight=emblems.

Generally the confusion is that for a lot of the u-boat types, the model uses one skin for the hull and another for the conning tower. Some are event shared between different types or use embedded textures.

Hitman to change the conning tower for the VIIC, you need to edit or replace NSS_Uboat7c_hull.tga. My guess is that fubar's SH3 skin replaces the file that the VIIC in OM uses for the hull but the part that is supposed to be the conning tower is being replaced by NSS_Uboat7c_hull.tga.

I spend many hours of trial and error messing with those texture files to figure out what is used, what is not, etc. But it's been a while since I wrote it and I forgot most of what I learned

[GlobalExplorer]

All I had to replace was NSS_Uboat7c_hull.tga, the other files are original OM.

[Hitman]

No, I just found the reason why the conning tower did not show the new skin: I was testing in a mission where the VII is equipped with the late war one. In the early/mid war conning tower there was no problem at all. Must look and find which is the texture of the late conning tower.

[Hitman]

[!] Just a small reminder that the purpose of this thread was actually to get download links to hires skins of Type VII U-Boats [!]

For example Hitman mentioned a basic version of the VIIC which I don't even know, and I would like a download link (if you still have one).

Sorry you are right, it's just that discussing if they would work OK after downloading seemed appropiate.

On the other hand, I did not offer my own stored FUBAR skins because all of them are low res. But if someone is interested, I can upload them.

The list of what I have (All low res) is:

VII: (All skins work for both VIIC and VIIB AFAIK)

-Standard VIIC (I think that's the default VIIC skin in GWX3)
-U83 (Mediterranean camo with green splotches)
-U552 (Already shown by Globalexplorer)
-U253 (Large dark grey triangles)
-U201 (Diagonal dark stripes)
-U997 (Type VIIC/41, very rare irregular dark triangles and plotched white background)

IX:

-U805 (Dark grey conning tower, light grey hull and one vertical dark stripe )
-IXB Plain
-IXC Plain
-IXC Camo

These last three ones unfortunately tweak some DAT files, so they will not be compatible with SH4 directly

XXI:

-XXI Plain

[GlobalExplorer]

I would sure like to know the solution for your conning tower problem.

And yes, I see. To be honest I am indeed not very interested in lowres versions.

But I wouldn't know exactly what defines a hires skin

I think for SH4 2048x2048 is fine.

[ShadowWolf Kell]

Those look quite nice. I tend to favor the plain worn look myself.