A few problems I'm having with SH3

frau kaleun · 03-24-11, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Howard313

Now if I can just find that das boot mod I've seen from time to time i'll be all set.

Ah... but which Das Boot mod?

There are mods to give your officer icons faces from DB, mods to make the interior of your boat look more like the one in DB, mods to put your crew in DB-style fashions, mods to make the outside of your boat look like the one in DB, mods to put sounds from DB into your game...

...altho I think some of the latter was done with GWX, if I'm not mistaken the crash dive sound effect is one of the "ALAAAAAAAARM" sequences from the movie.

Sailor Steve · 03-25-11, 12:56 AM

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Originally Posted by frau kaleun

...altho I think some of the latter was done with GWX, if I'm not mistaken the crash dive sound effect is one of the "ALAAAAAAAARM" sequences from the movie.

Yes it is, specifically the one from the end when they're attaced off Gibraltar. If you listen carefully you can hear the plane fly over.

They stole it from me. I stole it from the original DBSM made for SH2.

"Stole" being a relative term, of course. Everybody asked everybody else's permission.

Howard313 · 03-25-11, 02:26 AM

well, the mod is installed, and everything seems to be running smoothly, no detectable slow-down unless i'm at port, which is nothing new and that happened in stock sh3. (Whoever made this thing deserves a medal btw.) I did find something rather....strange though.

I was midway though a patrol and I encountered a sort of ghost-ship, completely red in color with two light-posts on it, no flag of any colors. I watched it for a while and it never moved, just kind of sit dead in the water, so out of curiosity i fired two torpedoes at it, both of which struck their target, the ship broke in half and sank rapidly to the bottom of the ocean.

I checked the Captain's log to see if i got any tonnage from it, the kill wasn't recorded. *twilight zone music*

King_Zog · 03-25-11, 02:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Howard313

well, the mod is installed, and everything seems to be running smoothly, no detectable slow-down unless i'm at port, which is nothing new and that happened in stock sh3. (Whoever made this thing deserves a medal btw.) I did find something rather....strange though.

I was midway though a patrol and I encountered a sort of ghost-ship, completely red in color with two light-posts on it, no flag of any colors. I watched it for a while and it never moved, just kind of sit dead in the water, so out of curiosity i fired two torpedoes at it, both of which struck their target, the ship broke in half and sank rapidly to the bottom of the ocean.

I checked the Captain's log to see if i got any tonnage from it, the kill wasn't recorded. *twilight zone music*

What you encountered sounds like a 'light ship', basically a ship that acts like a light house for use when it is impractical or too difficult to build one in the relevent location, you can read about them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_ship As far as I know GWX incorperates them just for added extra eye candy/immersion purposes and they are not 'game play' effecting, which is probably why you didn't receive any record of the sinking. Although it could have been a bug...

Edit: It's worth mentioning that like hospital ships, light ships were considered neutral during wartime by international treaties as they served a humanitarian purpose for the shipping of all nations. Although again much like hospital ships, this neutrality wasn't always respected and on occasion light ships were attacked and sunk during world war 2.

Gargamel · 03-25-11, 03:20 AM

Yessir, you sank some scenery.

Howard313 · 03-25-11, 03:28 AM

Curses! Yeah that fits the description quite perfectly. Leave it to me to mistake a floating lighthouse for the Flying Dutchman.

frau kaleun · 03-25-11, 07:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Howard313

Curses! Yeah that fits the description quite perfectly. Leave it to me to mistake a floating lighthouse for the Flying Dutchman.

Not that she isn't out there as well...

Okay I don't know that the Flying Dutchman is in GWX, altho I think Jimbuna had a cool video of a ghostly encounter stashed away somewhere...

But I'm pretty sure the USS Cyclops is. (At least she's in my Sea folder, and I think GWX probably put her there.)

Fish In The Water · 03-25-11, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Gargamel

Yessir, you sank some scenery.

No worries, everything's fair in love and war - besides, scenery doesn't shoot back...

HW3 · 03-25-11, 11:33 PM

The Flying Dutchman is setup to possibly show when the game calls for a Netherlands Frigate class 11 after May 5, 1941.

desirableroasted · 03-26-11, 04:58 AM

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Originally Posted by King_Zog

What you encountered sounds like a 'light ship',... GWX incorperates them just for added extra eye candy/immersion purposes...which is probably why you didn't receive any record of the sinking. Although it could have been a bug...

I didn't know you could even sink a lightship.

Because they are "environment" (like a dock or tree or those happy nurses on the wharf), your watch officer will never see it. So they are always accompanied by an anchored tug or trawler that your watch officer can see.

I suspect there's some additional coding in there, since my 1WO can always spot a lightship trawler at 10-12K, while sometimes missing ASW trawlers 500 m behind us.

Gargamel · 03-26-11, 05:40 AM

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Originally Posted by desirableroasted

I didn't know you could even sink a lightship.

Because they are "environment" (like a dock or tree or those happy nurses on the wharf), your watch officer will never see it. So they are always accompanied by an anchored tug or trawler that your watch officer can see.

I suspect there's some additional coding in there, since my 1WO can always spot a lightship trawler at 10-12K, while sometimes missing ASW trawlers 500 m behind us.

Wonder if all he (player) saw was the lightship, but sank the tug? Due to the way they lined up, they could look like the same ship.

But then he would have gotten credit...... maybe he did sink the lightship...

Yessir....... you sank some scenery.

Howard313 · 03-26-11, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Gargamel

Wonder if all he (player) saw was the lightship, but sank the tug? Due to the way they lined up, they could look like the same ship.

But then he would have gotten credit...... maybe he did sink the lightship...

Yessir....... you sank some scenery.

there was a trawler in the area too, but it was a german ship, so i.......shot it anyway

97 tons!

03-25-11, 02:26 AM	#3
Howard313 Engineer Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: America Posts: 211 Downloads: 102 Uploads: 0	well, the mod is installed, and everything seems to be running smoothly, no detectable slow-down unless i'm at port, which is nothing new and that happened in stock sh3. (Whoever made this thing deserves a medal btw.) I did find something rather....strange though. I was midway though a patrol and I encountered a sort of ghost-ship, completely red in color with two light-posts on it, no flag of any colors. I watched it for a while and it never moved, just kind of sit dead in the water, so out of curiosity i fired two torpedoes at it, both of which struck their target, the ship broke in half and sank rapidly to the bottom of the ocean. I checked the Captain's log to see if i got any tonnage from it, the kill wasn't recorded. twilight zone music __________________

03-25-11, 03:20 AM	#5
Gargamel Lucky Sailor Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Rome Posts: 4,273 Downloads: 81 Uploads: 0	Yessir, you sank some scenery. __________________ Luck is a residue of Design.

03-25-11, 03:28 AM	#6
Howard313 Engineer Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: America Posts: 211 Downloads: 102 Uploads: 0	Curses! Yeah that fits the description quite perfectly. Leave it to me to mistake a floating lighthouse for the Flying Dutchman. __________________

03-25-11, 11:33 PM	#9
HW3 Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Gresham Oregon Posts: 6,579 Downloads: 458 Uploads: 0	The Flying Dutchman is setup to possibly show when the game calls for a Netherlands Frigate class 11 after May 5, 1941. __________________ "Some ships are designed to sink...others require our assistance." Nathan Zelk