Help with getting rid of sunk message.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Diopos

Now I am probably miles away as I havent got a clue on how these things are parameterized and so on but instead on doing the work on all ships can't you get the "numbers" - by trial- on a selected "group" and "extrapolate" for the rest.



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I tried that too. In fact, i had a WIP file i posted on my filefront account at some point that started to do just that. The hope was for some ships to be "close enough". In reality, not really. Groups of ships utlize the same damage zones who's behavior is defined by the zones.cfg file. Tune for one ship, and some other ship that uses the same damage zones (though in different geometric configurations) will behave out of whack in some way shape or form. My hats off to the RFB team for working on the damage model. I don't know how successful it is, but i know whats involved, and its alot of work.

How I wish i could just remove the ship sinking message from the menu.txt like you could in SH3. That, utlimatly is the only reason to work on the damage model IMO. The root inspiration for ship damage model revamps was to remove the explosion when they ran out of hit points in SH3. With SH4, it doesn't do that. By flood, or by loss of Hit points, they sink the same way. (my adhoc solution from a couple years ago was to drastically increase sinking time and its worked fairly well.) It's just that damn message. If it were easily removed, id have done it a couple years ago.