Ship appears on surface but not on map then lockup!

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by Reece

This is wierd, these are the closest match. The NCA_Northampton is an addon but the sil tga shows only 1 set of guns to the rear:

The NCL_Fiji is the closest but this is a standard unit .... I think:

I just checked the museum & Fiji displays ok, what would cause it not to show on nav or attack map, or not lockable, very puzzling!
Any ideas welcome?

Hi!

Well, the flag indicates it is a Royal Navy cruiser, so it's not likely a Northampton-class cruiser. It looks to me like it could be a Southampton-class light cruiser if it is not a Fiji-class light cruiser.

Pablo

[sergbuto]

It is 200% Fuji-class.

NCA_Northampton looks like the one from SH4. I thought I read somewhere that GWX does not use SH4 ships in principle.

[Boris]

Originally Posted by sergbuto

It is 200% Fuji-class.

NCA_Northampton looks like the one from SH4. I thought I read somewhere that GWX does not use SH4 ships in principle.

It doesn't, but they're available from independent modders.

[sergbuto]

The more ships/units or other new stuff one adds to SH3, the higher probability for getting strange effects due to the engine design demanding unique digital IDs for most things.

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Originally Posted by sergbuto

The more ships/units or other new stuff one adds to SH3, the higher probability for getting strange effects due to the engine design demanding unique digital IDs for most things.

Yep. That's why we run a checker tool to ensure that hex ID's are unique, and to ensure that other elements do not suffer from oversights.

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Secondarily, after comparing Fiji and Southampton skins included in version 1.03, it would indeed appear to be a Southampton cruiser.

It most certainly is not a ship model from SH4 if it came from GWX.

[Reece]

This ship is definitely the NCL_Fiji, I don't come across capital ships often, maybe this is why!! In post #3 I mentioned the NCA_Northampton was an addon, only 3 ships have been added & the EnglishNames.cfg file updated to suit! I have them installed with JSGME, I will disable and try again, although a load from mid patrol may not show anything! Please note that I edited a previous post to include this, you may not have seen it:

One other important thing, all hydraphones lines are there for all ships including DD's but not to the cruiser.

Secondarily, after comparing Fiji and Southampton skins included in version 1.03, it would indeed appear to be a Southampton cruiser.

I checked the museum & shows this to have sloping funnels:

And the Fiji class:

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Originally Posted by sergbuto

And even then, I can think of a few cases when this kind of checker tools may not help.

Absolutely. Nothing is impervious to the unseen.


@ Reece

No worries. Just reporting what I found that seem to suggest to the contrary is all.

I'm a little puzzled about the usage of 1.03, but that's up to you of course.

Problem is that we don't really have a support mechanism in place for 1.03 nowadays. Every ship in the stable has undergone a number of changes in GWX 2.0 and naturally our focus has shifted to the new/updated data.

[sergbuto]

Originally Posted by Kpt. Lehmann

Yep. That's why we run a checker tool to ensure that hex ID's are unique, and to ensure that other elements do not suffer from oversights.

And even then, I can think of a few cases when this kind of checker tools may not help.