[WIP] Draft Fix for all ships

Originally Posted by TH0R

I am fully aware of his mod and changes made. Lets just say that my values are more accurate than his. ... Webster did only few of the ships. I fixed them all.

I calibrated every single ship (that needed to be calibrated) in SH4. So far only the two ships in question (J class DD and Fiji class CL) are the exceptions where I had to use different values for GFO version. I don't know what the reason is, probably some supermods (RFB or RSRDC) change the .sim file that causes this. Or it might have something to do with the environment mods, I don't know...

My mod will overwrite Webster's changes.

RFB uses its own sim values for many ships so i think they made changes for other reasons besides draft heights (manuvering and sinking charactoristics come to mind). i have found RFB has a tendency to be different enough that its files arent meant to be used (or will work very well, if at all) with anything other then RFB.

GFO has changes made to the sim files for the draft fix as well as the manuvering fix mod merged together so that should be kept in mind as well.

i tried to get everything very close to exact with my mods draft settings but if it looked ok up close and it wasnt that obvious that it was a tiny bit off then i didnt change it for a very small (and IMO) a minor change thats not going to be noticed in the game. i concentrated my efforts on the ships with a foot or more error to them.


as you suspected i went with a standard stock calm sea state in protected waters and didnt set it up on dead calm seas to get the accuracy that you did in your mod. i think i had 1 ft rolling waves or something and took the average level of peaks and valleys of those waves.

there are a couple of ships that had some quirks that acted different then others, most sim files acted fine but some didnt want to use the surfaced draft settings. its been a loooong time since i fooled with it so my memory of it is fuzzy but i seam to recall that a few ships would get "interference" from the submerged draft settings so in some cases those were changed to zero to allow the surfaced drafts to be accepted.

i applaud your efforts as a fellow modder and perfectionist and i hope to see more mods like this from you