Heavy loaded & unloaded Cargos/Ships.

KeldorKatarn · 10-08-06, 07:44 PM

While it seems to be true that one can only edit lone running ships in this fashion, there is a little additional info in that German description that wasn't translated yet. Most of all that you don't always use 5m as a value. Here the complete translation:

A really realistic naval traffic includes unloaded, empty cargo ships. One can do that with a simple trick and without new ship types. Just changing the value "Height=0.000000" to e.g. "Height=5.000000" (in "Unit properties" in the *.mis files). Hat is possible with any normal editor or the mission editor that comes with SH3.
But the height should never be more than two thirds of a ship's draft or it will look very funny. For these two T3 tankers I set the height to 5 meters.

The other way around, the setting deeper, is of course possible as well. By doing that the ship looks very heavily loaded or overloaded. For both variants: beware u-boat commanders if using the magnetic pistol. Draft is changed!

Since one can change this for every single ship, one has virtually unlimited variants - in a convoy, in a harbor, as a single runner. One could also simulate empty convoys traveling back from the UK to the US.

10-08-06, 07:44 PM	#11
KeldorKatarn Helmsman Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 103 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	While it seems to be true that one can only edit lone running ships in this fashion, there is a little additional info in that German description that wasn't translated yet. Most of all that you don't always use 5m as a value. Here the complete translation: A really realistic naval traffic includes unloaded, empty cargo ships. One can do that with a simple trick and without new ship types. Just changing the value "Height=0.000000" to e.g. "Height=5.000000" (in "Unit properties" in the *.mis files). Hat is possible with any normal editor or the mission editor that comes with SH3. But the height should never be more than two thirds of a ship's draft or it will look very funny. For these two T3 tankers I set the height to 5 meters. The other way around, the setting deeper, is of course possible as well. By doing that the ship looks very heavily loaded or overloaded. For both variants: beware u-boat commanders if using the magnetic pistol. Draft is changed! Since one can change this for every single ship, one has virtually unlimited variants - in a convoy, in a harbor, as a single runner. One could also simulate empty convoys traveling back from the UK to the US.