[REL] Cerberus62 Historical Ship Equipment 1.0

[Raven_2012]

I originally had it on top of my mod list, but all those mods were over writing most.

I believe it was like this:

Cerberus62 Historical Ship Equipment 1.4
FX_Update_0_0_22_ByTheDarkWraith
OHII 2.4
Cerberus62 Corrected Depth Charge Projector 1.0

Originally Posted by gap

Cerberus62 Corrected Depth Charge Projector 1.0 was released long after Historical Ship Equipment 1.4, and it is likely that it is based on the latter, though I have not looked into their respective files in depth.

OHII probably contains one or two eqp files and some roster entries which will (and can safely) be overwritten by Historical Ship Equipment.

If you overwrite FXU's eqp files with the ones by Cerberus, you will loose some whistle and withe flare effects. By doing the reverse, you would completely miss the features of the two mods by Cerberus.

All in all, unless you are ready to merge entries from the conflicting files, the best compromise should be this:

FX_Update_0_0_22_ByTheDarkWraith
OHII 2.4
Cerberus62 Historical Ship Equipment 1.4
Cerberus62 Corrected Depth Charge Projector 1.0

I might try your order or this one, I will look into maybe merging them and making a compatible version. Depending if its going to be easy or not.

[Raven_2012]

Yeah I see what you are saying after looking over some .eqp files. Its really not that easy to make compatible. Its pretty much of what do I want to gain and what do I want to lose.

FXU .eqp files and this mod .eqp files, even though there are 4 overwrites, would take a lot of work to make them compatible.

Edit: It think it should come before FX mod but after OHII, its hard to do with mod order. Unless I make a folder with those 4 .eqp files from FX mod and make it install last in mods soup.

Originally Posted by gap

Cerberus62 Corrected Depth Charge Projector 1.0 was released long after Historical Ship Equipment 1.4, and it is likely that it is based on the latter, though I have not looked into their respective files in depth.

OHII probably contains one or two eqp files and some roster entries which will (and can safely) be overwritten by Historical Ship Equipment.

If you overwrite FXU's eqp files with the ones by Cerberus, you will loose some whistle and withe flare effects. By doing the reverse, you would completely miss the features of the two mods by Cerberus.

All in all, unless you are ready to merge entries from the conflicting files, the best compromise should be this:

FX_Update_0_0_22_ByTheDarkWraith
OHII 2.4
Cerberus62 Historical Ship Equipment 1.4
Cerberus62 Corrected Depth Charge Projector 1.0

[gap]

Originally Posted by Raven_2012

Yeah I see what you are saying after looking over some .eqp files. Its really not that easy to make compatible.

Why not?

Use Corrected Depth Charge Projector's eqp files as base, and merge the new entries by TDW at the bottom of each file always making sure that equipments' progressive numbering is respected.

In OHII there should be at least one eqp file relative to a stock unit (the Rocket destroyer) which will conflict with the other mods taken in consideration here. What I did was adding a couple (or maybe more) of new gun bones on the GR2 model of the Rocket, used for giving guns to the ORP Gryf minelayer (Rocket's proxy). In the British destroyer they are still empty, but I have added anyway the new links in Rocket's eqp file, where they are assigmed "null" equipments. I am not sure that those null entries are really required but, for safety, I would recommend you to merge them as well into your compatibility patch (you will need to update equipment numbering though, as they are in the middle of the file).

Use Winmerge to speed up your work and for making sure that you don't forget anything. That's all

[Raven_2012]

Its the 4 .eqp files from FXU, I could easily put the starshells and flares from that mod to cerbeus but there will be lose in a lot in FXU stuff. Everything is very different in dates and equipment in those files.

That's just the .eqp files the cfg files, need to be combined. There are the Roster ones and the Sea ones.

I just put Cerbeus mod first in mod soup, If I put it like you said, I get a lot of errors running the validator. Like he says, use what you want.

I still may update it. It's going to take time.

Originally Posted by gap

Why not?

Use Corrected Depth Charge Projector's eqp files as base, and merge the new entries by TDW at the bottom of each file always making sure that equipments' progressive numbering is respected.

In OHII there should be at least one eqp file relative to a stock unit (the Rocket destroyer) which will conflict with the other mods taken in consideration here. What I did was adding a couple (or maybe more) of new gun bones on the GR2 model of the Rocket, used for giving guns to the ORP Gryf minelayer (Rocket's proxy). In the British destroyer they are still empty, but I have added anyway the new links in Rocket's eqp file, where they are assigmed "null" equipments. I am not sure that those null entries are really required but, for safety, I would recommend you to merge them as well into your compatibility patch (you will need to update equipment numbering though, as they are in the middle of the file).

Use Winmerge to speed up your work and for making sure that you don't forget anything. That's all

[Mikemike47]

Originally Posted by Raven_2012

I still may update it. It's going to take time.

If you do feel like updating it someday, you can try Winmerge. Another tool is called JTXE enabler.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...8&postcount=11
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=123521

[Raven_2012]

I use Winmerge all the time, a very useful program.

I have heard of JTXE enabler, I will have to look into that one.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Mikemike47

If you do feel like updating it someday, you can try Winmerge. Another tool is called JTXE enabler.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...8&postcount=11
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=123521

[gap]

Originally Posted by Raven_2012

Its the 4 .eqp files from FXU, I could easily put the starshells and flares from that mod to cerbeus but there will be lose in a lot in FXU stuff. Everything is very different in dates and equipment in those files.

IIRC, as far as eqp files are concrened, the one addition of FXU are white flares launchers and whistles. The remaining entries are from stock game, whose dates and equipments can be updated with the more historically accurate ones by Cerberus

Originally Posted by Raven_2012

That's just the .eqp files the cfg files, need to be combined. There are the Roster ones and the Sea ones.

Fair enough, I overlooked them.

sea cfg files: pick the ones by Cerberus, but overwrite carrier's air group settings with the ones from OHII

roster cfg files: in case of conflicts OHII-Historical Ship Equipment, it is safer if you use Appearance/Disappearance Dates from OHII; the rest (i.e. texture definitions, supposing that there are any differences among the two mods) can be from Historical Ship Equipment

[quad5]

oops

[ReallyDedPoet]

Anyone have a working link for this?

Thanks.

[Echolot]

Anyone have a working link for this?

Click.

[ReallyDedPoet]

Originally Posted by Echolot

Click.

Thanks