Possible to replace the droids with SH4 crew?

[Reece]

I personally think the SH3 characters are better than SH4, there a bit chunky but if you could make them higher res then you could smooth out the bumps! Again though it means more memory, I can't run all the nice mods with XP, but hopefully in the near future Win 7 64 bit will be better, a little off topic but what is the max memory that SH and Win 7 64 can manage?

[nemo7]

Not bad hmm?

Great idea Hitman.

[Ktl_KUrtz]

A good idea!
I hope someone comes up with a mod soon, it's the last issue I have with the game; the grotty crew!
KUrtz

[Reece]

Well I must say that the OM faces are pretty good!

[nemo7]

Originally Posted by Reece

Well I must say that the OM faces are pretty good!

[Sailor Steve]

I would rather see the best of the SH3 Graphics mods remade for SH4. It has better crew management, better water, better radio log (clipboard) and is much more stable. Overall the better platform if people would give it a chance.

[nemo7]

I am convinced that SH3 (+GWX3+mods) remains the best U-boat sim ever made. Therefore deserves better crew models.

SH4 v1.5 OM is a great U-boat sim in aspect of graphics, crew managment and sea water environment. But there is no adequate U-boat boyancy and the rest of the environment (e.g. sunset) is quite excessive. I agree though that deserves more attention from the moders.

Ps. I wonder SS, why there is only one Mega-mod for SH4 v1.5?

[Ktl_KUrtz]

Originally Posted by Reece

Well I must say that the OM faces are pretty good!

Yes I agree!
KUrtz

[Fubar2Niner]

Originally Posted by Reece

I personally think the SH3 characters are better than SH4, there a bit chunky but if you could make them higher res then you could smooth out the bumps! Again though it means more memory, I can't run all the nice mods with XP, but hopefully in the near future Win 7 64 bit will be better, a little off topic but what is the max memory that SH and Win 7 64 can manage?

@Reece

Win 7 can handle up to 192GB ram depending on the version you have;

While the maximum RAM limit for 32-bit Windows 7 editions is 4GB, when it comes to the 64-bit editions, the amount of memory that the OS can address depends on which edition you are running.

Here are the upper RAM limits for the different editions of Windows 7:

• Starter: 8GB
• Home Basic: 8GB
• Home Premium: 16GB
• Professional: 192GB
• Enterprise: 192GB
• Ultimate: 192GB

Best regards.

Fubar2Niner

[Royale-Adio]

@ Java

Not only that, but Tomi099 had a hard time making a high poly type 7. The game engine just couldn't handle it.

The data folder is not the same in sh3. I get lost pretty much while trying to mod. I like SH4 data folder better. More simple, more modder friendly IMO.

I would like to see the refinement of OM with type 2 and 7 High-Poly just like type 9 1.5(Tomi099 did the type 7.) rather than importing all to sh3.

Originally Posted by Royale-Adio

Not only that, but Tomi099 had a hard time making a high poly type 7. The game engine just couldn't handle it

It's not the Engines fault.
It will handle higher poly 3D models.
It's the excessive redundancy in SH3.
SH4 suffers from some of the same redundancy.
They just cut up the Campaign files to try and fix the load times.
SH5 uses a much better approach to this problem.
Still not optimized as much as it could be but much better.

[Reece]

Originally Posted by Fubar2Niner

@Reece

Win 7 can handle up to 192GB ram depending on the version you have;

While the maximum RAM limit for 32-bit Windows 7 editions is 4GB, when it comes to the 64-bit editions, the amount of memory that the OS can address depends on which edition you are running.

Here are the upper RAM limits for the different editions of Windows 7:

• Starter: 8GB
• Home Basic: 8GB
• Home Premium: 16GB
• Professional: 192GB
• Enterprise: 192GB
• Ultimate: 192GB

Best regards.

Fubar2Niner

Thanks for that info, just waiting for SP1 to be released, plus I'm still saving my pennies, ain't cheap!

Sailor Steve said:
As for the bouyancy, With the current mods it's a lot better, and could probably be fixed entirely if someone felt motivated to do it.

That is the one big thing that is a game breaker for me, especially in a storm the boat near takes off and the crew appearing then disappearing all the time looks stupid!

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Fubar2Niner

@Reece

Win 7 can handle up to 192GB ram depending on the version you have;

While the maximum RAM limit for 32-bit Windows 7 editions is 4GB, when it comes to the 64-bit editions, the amount of memory that the OS can address depends on which edition you are running.

Here are the upper RAM limits for the different editions of Windows 7:

• Starter: 8GB
• Home Basic: 8GB
• Home Premium: 16GB
• Professional: 192GB
• Enterprise: 192GB
• Ultimate: 192GB

Best regards.

Fubar2Niner

Also depends on your motherboard. Mine's only 8GB even with 7 Pro - boo-hiss!

[Royale-Adio]

Do you still think this is possible? I heard that the crew was hardcoded...

[urfisch]

yes, it is. theres no normal way to change them. only with lot of work via hex editing. every single animation has to be modified and theres no way to do this easily. tried several ways, no success.

a case for privateer or diving duck, our hex specialists.