[TEC]Adding Upgrade Packs

[Capt Jack Harkness]

Well it would make sense, the naxos detector was mounted on snorkels quite often. I wonder about the placement, though, since most pics I've seen show the snorkel right alongside the front of the tower when raised...

[TheBeast]

Originally Posted by Capt Jack Harkness

Well it would make sense, the naxos detector was mounted on snorkels quite often. I wonder about the placement, though, since most pics I've seen show the snorkel right alongside the front of the tower when raised...

I've noticed that when using Goblin Editor to view the Model's that the Tower appears to be a little out of position, mislocated to the aft and a bit to starboard. This mislocation may be why texture lighting FX do not render correctly on the Tower when viewing all components of the models loaded at the same time. Just another bug in SH5 and of no concern to Ubi.
I think I have had enough of SH5. At first glance SH5 looks promising but the more I dig, the more issue's (bugs, stability) and locked doors I discover. Some obsticles and or locked doors appear to be intentional, by design. Almost as if they are trying to make it hard for MOD's to actually adjust/change game play atempting to keep SH5 as a Arcade game rather then a Simulation.
IMO, SH5 barely meets Beta-Testing requirements let alone releasing it to the world charging money for it. (DRM, Auto-Save and documentation ZOMFG! Can you say "Brain-Fart")
I think Ubi does not respond to any questions because they are so ashamed of what they have released, as they should be.

[BIGREG]

Yes

Now, he must succeed to change. Gr2 by any means!

Great Food UBI$OFT to give us a way to edit
(new Goblin editor not buggy)

Buy Granny SDK license $ 12,500 !
(I am ready to put 100 €uros in, but we must agree among ourselves to buy)

Try to converted the .gr2 in an other format to export/import ?

Hex editing ?

In any case we must find a way !

[Capt Jack Harkness]

Originally Posted by BIGREG

In any case we must find a way !

That's the spirit!

[TheBeast]

I was looking at Conning Towers for TDW and something dawned on me. The Snorkel was not defined as a Upgrade Pack and maybe it is not supposed to be.
Maybe the Snorkel is just supposed to be installed at a certain date. With that said, what do you think about adding something like this below to the NSS_Uboat7c.upcge?

[UserPlayerUnit X.UnitPartSlot X];<--X to be determined
ID=VIICSnokelSlot
NameDisplayable=SnorkelSlot-UnitPartSlot-Name
Type=NULL
AcceptedTypes=VIICSnorkel 
IDLinkUnitPartIntervalDefault1= NULL, 1946-01-01, VIICSnorkel
ExternalNodeName3D= SNK

Do you think the game will just do it on the defined start date?
But then again, it is late and I am very tired. That is why I haven't tried it.

ALSO: We need to find a way to link the Snorkel to the deisel engines so the deisel engines can run while at Snorkel Depth with Snorkel engaged. Maybe we can do this in the NSS_Uboat7c.upcge some how?

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by TheBeast

I was looking at Conning Towers for TDW and something dawned on me. The Snorkel was not defined as a Upgrade Pack and maybe it is not supposed to be.
Maybe the Snorkel is just supposed to be installed at a certain date. With that said, what do you think about adding something like this below to the NSS_Uboat7c.upcge?

[UserPlayerUnit X.UnitPartSlot X];<--X to be determined
ID=VIICSnokelSlot
NameDisplayable=SnorkelSlot-UnitPartSlot-Name
Type=NULL
AcceptedTypes=VIICSnorkel 
IDLinkUnitPartIntervalDefault1= NULL, 1946-01-01, VIICSnorkel
ExternalNodeName3D= SNK

Do you think the game will just do it on the defined start date?

.eqp file defines the dates

[TheBeast]

I released this info in this post because there are a few good MOD's available that already adjust the UBoot_Sensors.sim file. If you or the MOD Author's want to use this information, GO FOR IT....
"Original Concept discovered by BIGREG"

1. Open Gobline Editor and Load the Uboot_Sensors.GR2 file.
2. Now - Merge the UBoot_Sensors.sim file.
3. Locate the Dummy_Round_Antenna -> Round_Antena in Scene Tree.
4. Right-Click the child named Round_Antena and select Edit Controllers.
5. Currently the "Existing Behaviors" Column is blanks so we need to add a "Dial" control from the Available Behaviors column -> SHControllers list. So expand the SHControllers and Double-Click Dial to add it to Exhisting Behaviors list.
6. Now Click on the new Dial control we just added to view it's properties.

Here are the value's to adjust that I used for the Type-VIIC:

Type = DIAL_WATER_LEVEL
Display = DIAL_LINEAR
MinDVal= -0.01
MaxDVal = 0.1
MinRVal = 9.1
MaxRVal = 9
LogFactor = 0
Cammand = 
Both Drag options = NO

NOTICE the MinRVal is greater than the MaxRVal. This makes the antenna raise when surfaced and lower when you submerge

Now if you want the Antenna to Rotate we need to add a "GenericAxisRotation" using the same steps described above.

Here are the value's to adjust that I used for the Type-VIIC:

RotationSpeed = 25
RotationInertia = 0.01
Angles Min = 0
Angles Max =359
Axe = Y

KNOWN ISSUE: I have not been able to figured out how to stop the antenna rotation when I submerge. I tried adding WaterInteraction and or WaterSurfaceTransition controllers to stop the rotation but they didn't work. I think they have to be added "Special" as child of the "GenericAxisRotation" controller. Not sure how to do this yet...

You can also Extend the Dummy_ROD_Antena using almost the same settings. The thing is, you want the Rod Antenna to raise when you submerge.

Here are the value's to adjust that I used for the Type-VIIC:

Type = DIAL_WATER_LEVEL
Display = DIAL_LINEAR
MinDVal= -0.01
MaxDVal = 0.3
MinRVal = 5
MaxRVal = 10
LogFactor = 0
Cammand = 
Both Drag options = NO

NOTICE the MinRVal is less than the MaxRVal. This makes the Dial work the other way so the Rod Antenna is lowered when surfaced and it raises when you submerge.

Save Changes, Enable the MOD, Restart Game, Reload Saved Game
Note the Round DF Radio Antenna should be raised out of stowed position when Surfaced.