BuPers Mod Interest?

[ElCid97]

It's been quite some time since I've had a chance to even fire up the sim, much less have any real time to do anything with mods or updates.


That said, I'd be honored if you would consider to include this mod -- as bare and basic as it may be -- with the next update for TMO-BH Edition.


I know it's been geared towards the FotRSU mega-mod, but I don't think there should be any issues with it working in TMO-BH at all.


I had persmission from Jimimadrid to use many of his graphic files as a basis for the work I did (especially the crew information and such), so I'm not sure how it would look with some of the default backgrounds found in TMO in general.


I also changed many of the fonts to the best/closest ones there were as you can see with the posted images.


I eventually did an update to the rank images so that they are blue "dungaree" style as well as collar "pin-on" ranks when you see the officers and crew in the different pages.


I also updated the career "book" so that the ranks for the player are also "pin-on" ranks and even added an officer's "dolphin" breast insignia to the page as a sort of "paperweight" to the top of the page.


These were supposed to be in the V2 update, but I can send you what I have for the TMO-BH update if you want. Just give me a few days since most of the busy days are the week since work has been pretty hecktick.


Thanks for all the great work!


Background of Crew Page based on Jimmimadrid's:



... and the new logbook for the player rank:

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by ElCid97

It's been quite some time since I've had a chance to even fire up the sim, much less have any real time to do anything with mods or updates.


That said, I'd be honored if you would consider to include this mod -- as bare and basic as it may be -- with the next update for TMO-BH Edition.


I know it's been geared towards the FotRSU mega-mod, but I don't think there should be any issues with it working in TMO-BH at all.


I had persmission from Jimimadrid to use many of his graphic files as a basis for the work I did (especially the crew information and such), so I'm not sure how it would look with some of the default backgrounds found in TMO in general.


I also changed many of the fonts to the best/closest ones there were as you can see with the posted images.


I eventually did an update to the rank images so that they are blue "dungaree" style as well as collar "pin-on" ranks when you see the officers and crew in the different pages.


I also updated the career "book" so that the ranks for the player are also "pin-on" ranks and even added an officer's "dolphin" breast insignia to the page as a sort of "paperweight" to the top of the page.


These were supposed to be in the V2 update, but I can send you what I have for the TMO-BH update if you want. Just give me a few days since most of the busy days are the week since work has been pretty hecktick.


Thanks for all the great work!


Background of Crew Page based on Jimmimadrid's:



... and the new logbook for the player rank:

Absolutely. Thanks! No rush.

[ElCid97]

Bubblehead,

I believe I just sent you a message, but I'm not sure. For some reason it just didn't "feel" right.

If not, I'll try to do the e-mail thing as well.

Let me know.

ElCid97

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by ElCid97

Bubblehead,

I believe I just sent you a message, but I'm not sure. For some reason it just didn't "feel" right.

If not, I'll try to do the e-mail thing as well.

Let me know.

ElCid97

I sent you a message

[ElCid97]

Yea, the first one I sent obviously didn't make it.

Should be there now.

ElCid97

[Captain Wreckless]

Being prior Navy, it always bugged me that medals, ranks, etc were incorrect and I couldn't do anything about it. Saw this mod and went YEAH! I tried to get this mod to work with TMO -BH but it would crash. I even tried to edit it some but all I did was make it worse. It would be awesome to have this work with TMO.


CW

[ElCid97]

Originally Posted by Captain Wreckless

Being prior Navy, it always bugged me that medals, ranks, etc were incorrect and I couldn't do anything about it. Saw this mod and went YEAH! I tried to get this mod to work with TMO -BH but it would crash. I even tried to edit it some but all I did was make it worse. It would be awesome to have this work with TMO.


CW

Currently working with BH to see if we can get this thing to work with TMO. It's probably something in the cfg files, but it's such a LARGE amount of files, that it's going to be a while.

One thing will be to see if the player can start as a Leiutenant instead of a Lieutenant Commander since the majority of the early war S-Boat folks were O-3's and not O-4's.

Down side is that you'd be sent to a desk after reaching Commander instead of Captain. From what I understand, if you make Admiral you get sent home (career end) anyway, so maybe you can still do things as a full Commander and then get sent to a desk at Captain. Not enough testing yet.

I yet to have a career in ANY version of SH4 (default, FotRSU, TMO-BH) where I make it past mid or mid-late-42 before getting deep sixed by either a DD or BuPers.

Maybe if I didn't start in Manila in December 1941 things would be better?

Don't worry, mod's not dead! Just other things to get out the door first so I can help BH with some other stuff on his TMO update.

ElCid97