Customizing crew clothing

[Paul Riley]

Originally Posted by pditty8811

So you like the medals on the uniforms I take it. I was always curious if this was realistic or not. I do like the bling. I think a sailor should flaunt what he's earned. But I couldn't find any textures of the medals in good resolutions. Rank_Deco_ND.tga

-pditty8811

At the very least it would be nice to see the Iron Cross around an officer's neck.In the end though I dont want him looking like a christmas tree with about 10 medals all over the place! Also keeping the Iron Eagle badge across the right breast is pretty much important,as it states that the clothing/uniform is Kriegsmarine endorsed etc.
The reason I mentioned all this is because some of the clothing mods (and I like some of the outfits) remove the medals if any have been 'won' ,in fact i'm not even sure if the missing medals is due to a corruption somewhere.

Originally Posted by Paul Riley

At the very least it would be nice to see the Iron Cross around an officer's neck.In the end though I dont want him looking like a christmas tree with about 10 medals all over the place! Also keeping the Iron Eagle badge across the right breast is pretty much important,as it states that the clothing/uniform is Kriegsmarine endorsed etc.
The reason I mentioned all this is because some of the clothing mods (and I like some of the outfits) remove the medals if any have been 'won' ,in fact i'm not even sure if the missing medals is due to a corruption somewhere.

Well look in your Rank_Deco_ND.tga and see if you have medals in there. Also the Ranks.cfg file, or Ranks.bat, deals with medals.

I also like the eagle on the breast, and all my textures retain that.

My current Rank_Deco_ND.tga has the Iron Crosses, but no other medals. If you want my tga just let me know, it's the most realistic and best I've ran into. I can upload it for you.

-pditty8811

[Paul Riley]

Originally Posted by pditty8811

Well look in your Rank_Deco_ND.tga and see if you have medals in there. Also the Ranks.cfg file, or Ranks.bat, deals with medals.

I also like the eagle on the breast, and all my textures retain that.

My current Rank_Deco_ND.tga has the Iron Crosses, but no other medals. If you want my tga just let me know, it's the most realistic and best I've ran into. I can upload it for you.

-pditty8811

I appreciate that,I will let you know

[frau kaleun]

In real life there was little or no enforcement of uniform code on u-boats, most guys would not have been wearing their full naval uniform (or any part of their "good" uniform at all) except for when they were standing in formation on deck or bridge whilst leaving and returning to base.

When the uniform isn't being worn, there really is nothing appropriate on which to hang or pin any bling. You don't put your Ritterkreuz around your neck when you're wearing a flannel shirt that hasn't been washed in a week and the sweater your grammy knitted for you last Christmas.

So all in all, I would say that having medals on the crew while on patrol is not realistic if you are using a mod that puts them in anything other than full uniform for the duration.

[Paul Riley]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

In real life there was little or no enforcement of uniform code on u-boats, most guys would not have been wearing their full naval uniform (or any part of their "good" uniform at all) except for when they were standing in formation on deck or bridge whilst leaving and returning to base.

When the uniform isn't being worn, there really is nothing appropriate on which to hang or pin any bling. You don't put your Ritterkreuz around your neck when you're wearing a flannel shirt that hasn't been washed in a week and the sweater your grammy knitted for you last Christmas.

So all in all, I would say that having medals on the crew while on patrol is not realistic if you are using a mod that puts them in anything other than full uniform for the duration.

How about the Iron Eagle badge over the right breast as implemented in the standard GWX uniforms? some of the uniform mods even remove that.I actually like that badge to be honest.

Thanks

[frau kaleun]

I don't know, I haven't used the stock vanilla or GWX uniforms in so long I can't remember what they looked like.

In the mod I use, the leathers worn by the watch officers and crew have the eagle emblem on them. They are naval issue items and therefore the insignia seems appropriate. However it would not be realistic to have medals pinned to those leather jackets, so I use the "no medals" option.

The rest of the crew is in non-uniform work clothes therefore they wear neither medals nor insignia. On anything that is not government issue clothing, the emblems/insignia would not be realistic IMO.

[Paul Riley]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

I don't know, I haven't used the stock vanilla or GWX uniforms in so long I can't remember what they looked like.

In the mod I use, the leathers worn by the watch officers and crew have the eagle emblem on them. They are naval issue items and therefore the insignia seems appropriate. However it would not be realistic to have medals pinned to those leather jackets, so I use the "no medals" option.

The rest of the crew is in non-uniform work clothes therefore they wear neither medals nor insignia. On anything that is not government issue clothing, the emblems/insignia would not be realistic IMO.

Thanks for your opinions on this.

I am torn between keeping it realistic ie,going with the no emblems & casual look,and tailoring the crew to my own personal style ie,I wouldnt mind German greatcoats with a German helmet? LOL) for the watch,blue overalls for the seamen below deck,and not entirely sure for the other officers,maybe Das Boot influenced,or greatcoats and German helmet! LOL

[Paul Riley]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

In the mod I use, the leathers worn by the watch officers and crew have the eagle emblem on them.

So,its possible to give the same leather jackets from say raptor's leather mod to the officers?,I think I would prefer that actually,and say simple engineering style overalls for the guys below.

I once managed (as an experiment) to give identical clothing to some guys simply by copying the piece of clothing I was interested in,pasting it the number of times I wanted it and renaming it to whatever the recipient's file name was and overwriting,and it worked ok.

Many thanks