[REL] The Game Fixes Only Mod

Originally Posted by Dogfish40

Still on this subject...Is GFO compatible with Pacific Environment 4 ??
D40

wait,... what??

i thought YOU were testing this already.

as i said many times before the smaller rain in gfo will not work if PE4 or ENV 5 is used (i provided a patch to fix it for real environments)

its a very minor detail you may not even notice but thats the only conflict with those environmental mods, now as i understand it the ISE mod goes way beyond the environmental files and makes other changes so i dont know what conflicts exist with that mod and gfo

hope that answers your questions

[Dogfish40]

Originally Posted by Webster

wait,... what??

i thought YOU were testing this already.

as i said many times before the smaller rain in gfo will not work if PE4 or ENV 5 is used (i provided a patch to fix it for real environments)

its a very minor detail you may not even notice but thats the only conflict with those environmental mods, now as i understand it the ISE mod goes way beyond the environmental files and makes other changes so i dont know what conflicts exist with that mod and gfo

hope that answers your questions

LOL, No I tested the Improved Stock Environment_v3, which works fine. I was wondering about PE4 because of the camera features, but I'll load it up.
Sorry for the redundant questions, it's just that SH4 mods are a bit cranky at times and I don't want anything messing with the GFO stuff 'cause it works really well so far.
Thanks again.
D40

Originally Posted by Dogfish40

LOL, No I tested the Improved Stock Environment_v3, which works fine. I was wondering about PE4 because of the camera features, but I'll load it up.
Sorry for the redundant questions, it's just that SH4 mods are a bit cranky at times and I don't want anything messing with the GFO stuff 'cause it works really well so far.
Thanks again.
D40

ok well if it has a camera dat then you will lose the fix for the closer centered radar and sonar views as well as the scope zoom levels and free cam very close up views. (there may be some other visual element i cant think of right now)

i dont think its that big a deal for you but if you dont want to lose those you can just remove the camera dat file from PE4 and then it shouldnt be a problem, just check the PE4 read me and see what changes he made to the camera views to know how important it is. im almost posative PE$ doesnt need the cameras dat to work properly

keep in mind im saying all this just from memory since its been over 2 years since i fooled with the game files

[Dogfish40]

Originally Posted by Webster

ok well if it has a camera dat then you will lose the fix for the closer centered radar and sonar views as well as the scope zoom levels and free cam very close up views. (there may be some other visual element i cant think of right now)

i dont think its that big a deal for you but if you dont want to lose those you can just remove the camera dat file from PE4 and then it shouldnt be a problem, just check the PE4 read me and see what changes he made to the camera views to know how important it is. im almost posative PE$ doesnt need the cameras dat to work properly

keep in mind im saying all this just from memory since its been over 2 years since i fooled with the game files

Well, it turned out for the worse in this case. After loading the PE4 files 1, 2,4 and 5, then placing my other go to fav mods in, I loaded up my game and had that fire/smoke thing that follows the ship around immediately. I don't have any idea right now if it was one of the other mods causing it, it may be that I missed a conflict warning someplace from PE4. So, I'm going back to my first Environment choice for a time until I can try something else.
Now everything is back to normal. All this really started because I want to see more sea foam on the water. I remember seeing it at one time, now I'm not and I can't figure out why. But the water doesn't look very much like ocean water without lots of salt suds. As of now the crew is scared 'cause the skipper wants to waterski, they hate that.
Thanks for the help Webster! It's all good.
D40

well i dont use the 1-5 ad-ons because of what you mentioned, they cause issues with everything when i tried them wether used with gfo or just the stock game so if you are going to use it then its best to use PE4 by itself and not use the ad-ons

capt cox has a seafoam mod, you might be able to find it in the downloads section

[ryanwigginton]

I'm converted.

[Eugene]

Great mod! Need some advice on use of Max Optics IV for GFO 1.1.
I have enabled GFO and New Orders Bar first, then added Improved Stock Environment v3. No problems I could detect running a couple of missions after allowing the overwrites of GFO upon enabling, although I am rather inexperienced with SH4.

However...I want to use Max Optics and the accompanying Metric Nomographs. I installed them after ISE and permitted a large number of overwrites. Now in missions I have the new zoom levels as well as the nomograph tools. BUT the new buttons at the various stations added by GFO are gone! I don't know what else may be adversely affected, but I don't want to lose GFO functionality. I am puzzled by this since the MaxOptics version is specifically for GFO.

Any advice? Are there other optics mods and nomograph mods that could be added instead, and not conflict with GFO?