Dials, and where are they created?

BigWalleye · 10-17-13, 08:01 AM

The "damage dial" exists in stock SH3 as "Hull Integrity" on the Damage Control page. This indicates hull damage on a 0-100% scale. You can change that to a series of warning color bars using h.sie's patcher. Unless you are looking for some sort of integrated overall damage indicator, which, when you consider, wouldn't be very useful. There are a lot of systems on a submarine, and damage to some is more critical than others. If both shafts are wrecked and you can't move, that might only be 10% damage. Wouldn't tell you much.

There is also a weather indicator available. Again, see h.sie's patcher.

http://www.mediafire.com/hsie#s25cczf1puzqz

Dials are defined functionally in Data/Menu/cfg/Dials.cfg. The screen image of the dial is defined in Data/Menu/menu_1024_768.ini, and linked to the functional description by the ItemID/Dial values, which must be the same. But AFAIK, you have to know the variable name of the data you want the dial to display. And for variables not already being used, that name is buried in the source code for sh3.exe, which we don't get to see. Maybe someone else, who has explored the source, would know more.

10-17-13, 08:01 AM	#3
BigWalleye Sea Lord Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: On the Eye-lond, mon! Posts: 1,987 Downloads: 465 Uploads: 0	The "damage dial" exists in stock SH3 as "Hull Integrity" on the Damage Control page. This indicates hull damage on a 0-100% scale. You can change that to a series of warning color bars using h.sie's patcher. Unless you are looking for some sort of integrated overall damage indicator, which, when you consider, wouldn't be very useful. There are a lot of systems on a submarine, and damage to some is more critical than others. If both shafts are wrecked and you can't move, that might only be 10% damage. Wouldn't tell you much. There is also a weather indicator available. Again, see h.sie's patcher. http://www.mediafire.com/hsie#s25cczf1puzqz Dials are defined functionally in Data/Menu/cfg/Dials.cfg. The screen image of the dial is defined in Data/Menu/menu_1024_768.ini, and linked to the functional description by the ItemID/Dial values, which must be the same. But AFAIK, you have to know the variable name of the data you want the dial to display. And for variables not already being used, that name is buried in the source code for sh3.exe, which we don't get to see. Maybe someone else, who has explored the source, would know more.