Merchant Distress Flares

[Hebe Vollmaus]

Originally Posted by John Pancoast

Ah ! The ship sinking method may have been making a difference in why I didn't see them.

So, you put the "Effect1....." text line in each of the zones you list vs. just the two he lists ?

Yes.

[John Pancoast]

Originally Posted by Hebe Vollmaus

Yes.

Thanks ! Still not working for me, but I made up a JSGME mod folder and have in installed so I'll give it more time.

[Hebe Vollmaus]

Originally Posted by John Pancoast

Thanks ! Still not working for me, but I made up a JSGME mod folder and have in installed so I'll give it more time.

Some more words for clarifying. My personal preference using more entries in Zones.cfg has no impact on my statement in post #14. It works with only the two initial entries.
But i like some more LightBalls. When a Ship sinks over astern, the bow is swimming vor a long time, so that the ship stays vertical in the water, the result can be awfull. The Lightball is then shout out nearly horizontal, strait over the waterline. The Fuelbunkers i use are generaly more effective, or better watchabel.

Greetings.

[John Pancoast]

Originally Posted by Hebe Vollmaus

Some more words for clarifying. My personal preference using more entries in Zones.cfg has no impact on my statement in post #14. It works with only the two initial entries.
But i like some more LightBalls. When a Ship sinks over astern, the bow is swimming vor a long time, so that the ship stays vertical in the water, the result can be awfull. The Lightball is then shout out nearly horizontal, strait over the waterline. The Fuelbunkers i use are generaly more effective, or better watchabel.

Greetings.

Understood, thanks. I'm surprised there isn't any texture/graphic file in the patch.
I looked in the .dat files, maybe I missed something in there.

[Jeff-Groves]

Originally Posted by Hebe Vollmaus

Some more words for clarifying. My personal preference using more entries in Zones.cfg has no impact on my statement in post #14. It works with only the two initial entries.
But i like some more LightBalls. When a Ship sinks over astern, the bow is swimming vor a long time, so that the ship stays vertical in the water, the result can be awfull. The Lightball is then shout out nearly horizontal, strait over the waterline. The Fuelbunkers i use are generaly more effective, or better watchabel.

Greetings.

What if you added a object with a pendulum controller?
Assign the flare zone to that and it should at lest be random.

[Hebe Vollmaus]

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves

What if you added a object with a pendulum controller?
Assign the flare zone to that and it should at lest be random.

Wow. Thats why i come here, to learn new things!
But this object is beyond my knowledge today and willingness to invest more time.
What we get here is an additional Material to an existing mechanism already integrated in the game-mechanics. I am not shure on which place a pendulum object can be injected.

But on two tests, which naturaly results into Game-crash, i learned with the Help of the ID-Finder from S3D, that i do not need the "flare.dat", these items are already integrated in my Materials.dat. This saves a little Loadtime, Diskspace and Memory.
So thank you for animate me looking into this deeper.

Some other working Pendulum objects can be found in AC4.dat and the two Submarine-Turms IIA-IID.

Greetings.

[Jeff-Groves]

Originally Posted by Hebe Vollmaus

Some other working Pendulum objects can be found in AC4.dat

Yeah. I put those in for effects on the USS Cyclops Ghost Ship.

[John Pancoast]

Never could get this to work. No big deal.