Celestial Navigation with RFB / TMO mods?

[propbeanie]

Have you found then Art, that the SH4 game is rather "accurate" at the Moon and Sun phases and "times"? What I'm thinking of is if we drew those vertical lines on the game's Nav Chart (would it be easier to put that in the Campaign_LOC.mis file??), using that Blue Chalk font, the player could do the math themselves, using your little Help File add-in?... We'd have "aanker's Sun and Moon Phases Assistance Mod"... ??

"Do you have trouble attacking those Convoys? Is a dead-calm sea the least of your worries? Do the Momi dance like the Kaibokan on your head? Does it seem like the moon is always full when you're trying to do an attack, and you're seen from 9200 yards out? Well, load this puppy up, follow Art's directions, and never more have to find out at 0100 hours that it ain't a cool time to attack! Download now, and we'll throw in a free set of Ginsu knives!"

[aanker]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

Have you found then Art, that the SH4 game is rather "accurate" at the Moon and Sun phases and "times"? What I'm thinking of is if we drew those vertical lines on the game's Nav Chart (would it be easier to put that in the Campaign_LOC.mis file??), using that Blue Chalk font, the player could do the math themselves, using your little Help File add-in?... We'd have "aanker's Sun and Moon Phases Assistance Mod"... ??

"Do you have trouble attacking those Convoys? Is a dead-calm sea the least of your worries? Do the Momi dance like the Kaibokan on your head? Does it seem like the moon is always full when you're trying to do an attack, and you're seen from 9200 yards out? Well, load this puppy up, follow Art's directions, and never more have to find out at 0100 hours that it ain't a cool time to attack! Download now, and we'll throw in a free set of Ginsu knives!"

Yes, the Moon phases are accurate; Full Moon, Gibbous, Quarter, etc and Moon-rise, Moon-set are also reasonably accurate using Local time, not Base time found by the 015d equals one hour method. It makes deciding to do a night surface attack and other tasks easier to resolve. Same with Sunrise - Sunset. I don't mind dead calm seas if the Sun is going to set soon.
If the chart says New Moon there is no moon, and despite how good the Japanese lookouts are, they have a harder time in the dark.
I borrowed - stole the Tables from a mod that someone put together called, 'Combat Information Center'

chapter 14: moon phases 1941 to 1945

dates and times of moon phases in the war years.

chapter 15: moon nautical almanac, rise and set times for the moon, during the war year 1941 to 1945

chapter 16: sun nautical almanac, rise and set times for the sun, during the war year 1941 to 1945

and is the only part of the mod I used (I hope the author greyrider is not disappointed ; ) greyrider posted this one mod and I never saw him post again.

Happy Hunting!

[propbeanie]

So, what mod are you usually playing, aanker? I'll see if I can get a straight line to draw in a MIS file, and send you something...

[aanker]

I have modded my own game, fixing and fine tuning many things. The Spyron mod I like to use won't be compatible with FOTRS due to circumstances beyond my control.

If you send me the F1 in-game Help file, it would be easy to add the three Tabs (pages) from greyrider's mod to it.... or you could easily add them yourself - it is a copy paste operation and renumbering the 'chapters' and paragraphs in them with find replace.

Some of the SH4 Help file isn't helpful so I combined some of it and managed to free up 3 pages for the Celestial/Almanac data. That work wasn't necessary but I didn't want Tabs scrolling down the F1 page.

Happy Hunting!

[propbeanie]

Originally Posted by aanker

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Some of the SH4 Help file isn't helpful so I combined some of it and managed to free up 3 pages for the Celestial/Almanac data. That work wasn't necessary but I didn't want Tabs scrolling down the F1 page.

Happy Hunting!

Heresey! ~Hare-ess-SEA~!!! - About the only times I've used the Help is when I accidentally hit the F1 key, and it then it takes me a while to figure out how to close it... - Your idea there is a good one. Actually have a use for hitting that F1 key...

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by aanker

I have modded my own game, fixing and fine tuning many things. The Spyron mod I like to use won't be compatible with FOTRS due to circumstances beyond my control.

If you send me the F1 in-game Help file, it would be easy to add the three Tabs (pages) from greyrider's mod to it.... or you could easily add them yourself - it is a copy paste operation and renumbering the 'chapters' and paragraphs in them with find replace.

Some of the SH4 Help file isn't helpful so I combined some of it and managed to free up 3 pages for the Celestial/Almanac data. That work wasn't necessary but I didn't want Tabs scrolling down the F1 page.

Happy Hunting!

Would you release this to work with TMO RSRD? This would be a huge help.

[propbeanie]

I'm trying to get his fingers screwed down to the table, but he keeps squirming away... I haven't gotten into the Help portion yet to see what he did to that, but if aanker doesn't have the time, I'll be trying it, and will see how different FotRSU is from TMO / RSRDC for that portion. That'll be the hard part. The drawing lines is just tedious - unless those can go in the menu_1024_768.ini also, then they become difficult...

[aanker]

Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

Would you release this to work with TMO RSRD? This would be a huge help.

I'll see what TMO & RSRD did with their Help files if anything and attempt to add the three pages of Almanac data. Or, I could send you my Help file. That way you could see what the data looks like before I go through the work of adding and editing them to be compatible with TMO & RSRD. Let me know.

Happy Hunting!

[propbeanie]

I can either open my Google Drive for an upload, or I'll take a link from you, and do the editing, unless you want to dig into that part of it. PM my PM and they'll do lunch... Unfortunately, keltos01 and I filled up my DropBox, and I can't figure out how to get space back... some of this new-fangled computer stuff does me in...