[Req] Kriegsmarine Grid

[reaper7]

Originally Posted by SteelViking

Nope, I can't open the files in question with GIMP. And, I tried all the plugins available that say they work for .raw, but they seem to be bogus. Perhaps I am loading them wrong, but I have loaded several plugins before and they work fine.

reaper7, I will look for a good grid map, oh and, I need an answer to my question on the HiRes thread. Thanks

Edit: Ok, so it does not look good, I realized as I was looking at grid maps, that the numbered boxes will be so small, that you would never be able to read them. Could at least look at what lettered grid you are in though.

If anyone has a good quality grid map, send it my way and I'll see what I can do - there are other avenues to look into to get it into the game.

At worst case I could map a Grid Map book that the user could could use like a Atlas, fliping back and forth between the pages - this could be draggable like the Shipping chart.

[SteelViking]

Originally Posted by reaper7

If anyone has a good quality grid map, send it my way and I'll see what I can do - there are other avenues to look into to get it into the game.

At worst case I could map a Grid Map book that the user could could use like a Atlas, fliping back and forth between the pages - this could be draggable like the Shipping chart.

I found a pretty good scan of an original chart. However, there are better out there I am sure. I am attempting to clean it up right now to make it look better. This is not good enough quality yet to make a flip book out of it. Maybe someone should make a request thread for a good one?

Edit: reaper7 if you want the one I have, I am making really good progress in cleaning it up even further, the only thing I don't like about it is that the grid lines are green. That just seems weird to me, but it is a scan of a historical map.

Part of the old SH3 code was left in SH4.
Most of that was removed in SH5,
but there's still a small bit.

I doubt we could use any of what is left in any way.
However!

It may be possible to do several things.
Just as skwasjer did a dll trick for the Voice Command stuff?
We may be able to do K-Grids that way.

Then there is the scripting options.
TDW has the handle on that area and he may have an insight.
And we may need to use both combined!

One thing I learned long ago?
Never say never!

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by privateer

Then there is the scripting options.
TDW has the handle on that area and he may have an insight.
And we may need to use both combined!

I've seen some KM grid stuff in the files. I'll look into it after I finish v3.0.0 of the UIs mod

[reaper7]

Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

I've seen some KM grid stuff in the files. I'll look into it after I finish v3.0.0 of the UIs mod

Yes I've looked into them with no sucess. Appears they've been removed by Hardcoding.

If you look at the cfg files I posted earlier there appearance in game is goverened by the zoom factor, 4000 and over I think going by memory.
This is not happening the same way the single entity can not be changed, anything you change regarding the zoom factors is ignored (hardcoding) while you can chage the zomm factors themselves in that file.
Also there is the KM folder that contains the dds file for the grid square (Single square). And then a cfg file for the cordinates for each square to be displayed.

[TheBeast]

I would love to see this happen as well. I had already started a thread "[REQ] Navigation Map Make-Over" asking for more detailed Nav Charts (I said "charts" Kylania). Current NAV Charts are difficult to determind Water Depth as water depth gradient is very poor.

Changing the Navigational Charts to Kriegsmarine Grid style is only half of what would need to be done.
You may also need to edit the Radio Messages to replect the grid changes as well.
Any MOD that works with Radio Contact Messages may also need to be changed.

The Grid in SH3 was hard coded only.
SH4 dumped most of the working code and did the stupid addition.
SH5 dumped even more code!
Talk about working backwards!


The mere fact that all that code is still laying around somewhere
but not used?

Come on Guys!
You want to do a patch that actually kicks sales?
You have the code!!

Use it!

[Reece]

Don't know if this is any help but Ducimus has done a mod (Nine Delta Two), for SH4, this includes the Kriegsmarine Grid map, might also be in OM, I think it was done by karamazovnew, can this be adapted?

[reaper7]

Originally Posted by SteelViking

I found a pretty good scan of an original chart. However, there are better out there I am sure. I am attempting to clean it up right now to make it look better. This is not good enough quality yet to make a flip book out of it. Maybe someone should make a request thread for a good one?

Edit: reaper7 if you want the one I have, I am making really good progress in cleaning it up even further, the only thing I don't like about it is that the grid lines are green. That just seems weird to me, but it is a scan of a historical map.

Send it on, you never know. If not today I might be able to cook something up down the road .

[SteelViking]

Originally Posted by reaper7

Send it on, you never know. If not today I might be able to cook something up down the road .

Expect it in your email in about 20 mins ok. Just doing some finishing touches, I am really liking how it is turning out actually.

[jwilliams]

I have the SH3 Grid map. I dont know if its anyuse but here it is :-

This image is the scaled down version, theres a link at bottom of post to the full size image.



Link to the full size map :-
http://i876.photobucket.com/albums/a...g?t=1275094999

[reaper7]

Originally Posted by jwilliams

I have the SH3 Grid map. I dont know if its anyuse but here it is :-

This image is the scaled down version, theres a link at bottom of post to the full size image.



Link to the full size map :-
http://i876.photobucket.com/albums/a...g?t=1275094596

Thanks, have already though. Is this close to the Original Grid I wonder
Still its given me an Idea how to do my Atlas type Grid Map