Was the Mining Mod ever continued?

Originally Posted by LGN1

Hi,

laying mines has been implemented in OM for SH4 and I know that quite a few people have worked on this for SH3.

- Does anyone ever released a mod for mine laying for SH3?

- If yes, does anyone still have a copy of it?

From what I gathered from old posts there are two ways to achieve this: Either use 'fake' torpedoes or use the bold decoy. If anyone has more details about this, I would be glad to know.

Cheers, LGN1

I can tell you now, just having the mines show up in future patrols is currently in the impossible area of modding development. To lay mines would be one thing, but for them to show up in any future patrols or if you even leave and comeback to the area you laid mines during the same patrol, they would not show up. So being that that is impossible at the momment, it makes the whole idea of laying mines irrelevent because once you got out of sight of those mines they would disappear from the game.

If we can find a remedy for that there is many other places we can fiddle with that would most certainly take a priority like a dynamic campaign of ships disappearing from the SCR layer once you sink them. But all this is currently out of touch.

-pditty8811

[danzig70]

It might be possible to create a program that searches the save game map file for a specific object and it's location and then add it to the campaign files after you exit the patrol. You would probably need another map object like a circle or mine symbol of some kind.

Of course you could probably just edit the campaign files manually anyway. After the patrol.

[andqui]

I think the gameplay challenge alone of laying mines would make it worth is- sneak in at night, very close to the shore, in waters that are possibly already mined, where discovery means you're in a great deal of trouble. If anyone implements mining it would be awesome.

Originally Posted by andqui

I think the gameplay challenge alone of laying mines would make it worth is- sneak in at night, very close to the shore, in waters that are possibly already mined, where discovery means you're in a great deal of trouble. If anyone implements mining it would be awesome.

You mean mission objectives of laying mines? That would be cool. I wonder if any has yet to change the mission objectives in the career to anything other than a patrol grid. I noticed in the mods that add the monsoon boats there is area patrol grids, by name. I wonder how they got that to work.

[Canovaro]

Well there is a very old minelayer mod that changes type II torpedo's into floating mines. The creator of the mod claimes that they do explode on contact but I never managed to make that happen.

Try a search on these forums.

Originally Posted by Canovaro

Well there is a very old minelayer mod that changes type II torpedo's into floating mines. The creator of the mod claimes that they do explode on contact but I never managed to make that happen.

Try a search on these forums.

Well, even if they did explode on contact you would have to sit there and wait to watch a vessel hit it. Because if you leave the area, that mine disappears.

[Canovaro]

True. But still great fun!