First imported model: Vosper

[mr chris]

Originally Posted by IrishUboot

Thanks. I'll have a look about adding them into my game and getting some for the Irish navy too. BTW, how would I go about adding Vospers for the Irish Navy after downloading? Which files would need edited and so forth? Apologies for being a noob when it comes to modding SHIII.

You need to add the vosper in the Irish roster folder and to see it in a campagin you need to add a entry for it in your SCR campagin file. Hope this helps

[bigboywooly]

Originally Posted by IrishUboot

Thanks. I'll have a look about adding them into my game and getting some for the Irish navy too. BTW, how would I go about adding Vospers for the Irish Navy after downloading? Which files would need edited and so forth? Apologies for being a noob when it comes to modding SHIII.

You will need to add them to the Campaign.scr which you can find in
C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\data\Campaigns\Campa ign

Your best bet would be to add them thru thru the mission editor for Ireland
The British ones are just a matter of replacing the Elco entry with the Vosper
You can leave the late war Elco entries if you like as Britain were using them as well then

What game are you running ? Stock\GW\NYGM or another ?

[IrishUboot]

I'm running GW1.1a + SH3 Commander 2.6.

[IrishUboot]

I have no experience in this kind of thing, but I opened the campaign scr file just to have a look at what it contains. Would I be correct in saying that this file is what allows the game to generate ships, etc in certain locations and decides things like probability of appearance, dates of appearance, etc? As I said, this is all a bit new to me so don't give me too much of a hard time. So, would I have to make changes to this folder even just to place the British Vospers in the game, let alone the Irish I intend to put in? We only had 6 of them by 1941 so I'd have to put a very low entry in. Any help would be great and thanks to mr chris and bigboywooly for the help already given.

[mr chris]

Originally Posted by sergbuto

They need to be scripted in if you want to see them in the campaign. It is actually very easy to put in Vospers as a replacement for Elcos. One can simply use the "Replace" option in Wordpad and exchange PTElco for PTVosper. F.e. in a stock campaign there are no American Elcos scripted in. All of the Elcos are Briti

Irish all you need to do to add the vospers to the english side is to copy the folders to corect locations then open the campaign SCR file with wordpad go to edit click on "Replace" and exchange PTElco for PT Vosper. save this and now you should have vospers instead of elcos for the britsh during your campagin.

[IrishUboot]

Originally Posted by mr chris

Irish all you need to do to add the vospers to the english side is to copy the folders to corect locations then open the campaign SCR file with wordpad go to edit click on "Replace" and exchange PTElco for PT Vosper. save this and now you should have vospers instead of elcos for the britsh during your campagin.

That seems straightforward enough. I can do this mid career? Adding some to Ireland is a tricky proposition you think? Thanks.

[mr chris]

Originally Posted by IrishUboot

That seems straightforward enough. I can do this mid career? Adding some to Ireland is a tricky proposition you think? Thanks.

You can do it mid career but do not do it mid patrol always add mods when you are in port only. And make sure you roll back SH3 Commander first.
As for adding them to Ireland just copy the vosper file you placed in the Britsh roster to the Irish one. Then they should show up in your musuem on the Irish side as well. But when it comes to adding them to your campagin SCR so they show up during your camapgin on the Irish side as well, I think this could be done using the mission editor but am not 100% sure. BBW helped me add a ship to harbour a while back so he might be able to help you with that matter.

[IrishUboot]

I'm midpatrol right now but I'm returning to Kiel and should get back there in a few days. With your help I now feel confident that I should be able to add the Vospers to the British side. I'll hold out on adding them to Irish until I've got a better idea of what to do. I'll wait on information from BBW if he's about. This is my first time adding ships and I've probably taken a pretty hefty task to begin with. I downloaded the Hood and a couple others but haven't added them yet either.

Every ship requires changes to the campaign scr file?

[mr chris]

Originally Posted by IrishUboot

Every ship requires changes to the campaign scr file?

Not every ship requires changes to the SCR file just the ones that i have found that are not already scrpited in.
To add the BB Hood that you have to the game just change this in the SCR.
(Thank BBW for this bit of help of the hood as he help me out with the same problems your having.)

[Group 5]
GroupName=Hood (Revenge7) <-------- Delete the bracketed stuff
CommandUnitName=Hood
Category=0
RandStartRadius=0.000000
DeleteOnLastWaypoint=true
EvolveFromEntryDate=true

[Group 5.Unit 1]
Name=Hood
Class=BBRevenge <--------- Change to BBHood
Type=11
Origin=British
Side=1
Commander=0
CargoExt=-1
CargoInt=-1
CfgDate=19380101

Hope this helps

[IrishUboot]

That's a huge help. I'll get the Hood in there also when I'm back in port. Thanks again.

[bigboywooly]

Will add some Vosper patrols to Ireland for you and you can just copy and paste to the bottom of your SCR

Your running GW so the unit numbers will be ok

@Irishuboat and mr chris
Copy and paste this to the end of the scr of mine you are using
Added 3 Irish Vosper patrols around Ireland and 3 HSL routes - 1 in the channel\1 in the North sea and 1 up the top of Scotland

http://rapidshare.de/files/30255158/Irish_Vosper_plus_HSL.txt

[IrishUboot]

I can never manage to download from rapidshare. It always gives me a failed message and now it's saying that I'm a bot for trying too many times to download. I don't have a premium account, probably the reason.


Which file exactly would I enter this in? I have a few files in the campaign folder. Would it be campaign_scr or GW_nominefield_campaign_scr? Not sure what that second one is about.

Thanks BBW for your efforts. This is great stuff.

[mr chris]

Originally Posted by IrishUboot

I can never manage to download from rapidshare. It always gives me a failed message and now it's saying that I'm a bot for trying too many times to download. I don't have a premium account, probably the reason.


Which file exactly would I enter this in? I have a few files in the campaign folder. Would it be campaign_scr or GW_nominefield_campaign_scr? Not sure what that second one is about.

Thanks BBW for your efforts. This is great stuff.

Have uploaded file to filefront for you hope this works.
http://hosted.filefront.com/mrchris99/
Enter it into your campaign SCR.

[IrishUboot]

Thanks, mr chris. BBW sent me a PM where I could upload the file. He also gave me a link to a consolidated lighted ships mod by Anvart. I'll work on getting both in the game tonight and let you know if I have any problems. Thanks again.

I found this oil painting which features an Irish Vosper and the Irish Poplar. There are some nice examples of Irish merchants on the site (http://www.irishseamensrelativesassociation.org/).

[sandbag69]

Just installed the Vosper.....Outstanding work!

Whats your next project Serg.

Wish u would publish a step by step guide to making ships....then we would have hundreds.