6 Dials- Simfeeling Mod!

[Boris]

I just realised the textfield really needs a dark backround too, its hardly readable against the navmap and the bordintrumente 1.0 periscope i'm using.

[Boris]

Another afterthought... could I just have the console stay out all the time? I'm sure theres something in the Menu_1024_768.ini that changes this, just don't know what or where.
It's just that I like to see what TC I'm on and what radio messages/kontact updates I'm getting without having to make the console pop up from the bottom all the time.

[Boris]

Ok... I'm an idiot... just found out to deactivate the slide in the readme

[Fangschuss]

Originally Posted by jimmie

Replace [G3F I34] with:

[G3F I34]
Name=Group feedback; FLB Sale`s 6 Anzeigen
Type=1026;Menu group
ItemID=0x3F010000
ParentID=0x3F000000
;Pos=290,131,330,130
Color=0xFFFFFFFF
VertSlide=-141

You're actually missing the last entry (parameters of "Pos" entry is also different from the original but it doesn't matter since it is commented out).

THX jimmie for reply

I checked my *.ini back ... the [G3F I34] entries are correctly

[GlobalExplorer]

@FLB sale U-999: This mod looks excellent. I just think the installation is too complicated. Do you think about offering an automatic installation program? If you need simple program code to create / change the entries with SetPrivateProfileString() I can send them to you. It would certainly be easier to do it once for all users, then let everyone go through that ordeal

Great work!

GlobalExplorer

[Fangschuss]

Problem solved

after reinstall

[FLB sale U-999]

Originally Posted by LukeFF

I like it! Good work! It makes the screen much less cluttered.

One question: would it be possible for you to make a version that uses the compass from the Bordinstrumente mod, as I see you've done with the other dials?

EDIT: second question: I see the slideout icons for the different stations (e.g, periscope, comamnd room, etc.) are transparent when viewing them on the navigation map, the conning tower, etc. Is there a way to keep this from happening?

Hi guys!


Ok, i think it is no Problem to have the compass u want. Because it`s is only changing the Textures there. So i will look if i find good Textures, which are sharp enough for enlarging them, and built one with the Original Compass from the Bordinstrumente mod.
I can do this only next week, because i have not much time at the moment. I have to finsih and release first my TDC&UZO&Peri Mod.


The second thing......hmmm That`s is the big Problem in that game. because all those things use the same Background TGA like for those Pannel and also for the Konsole Background.....

But i think i have a good solution for that Problem. Will test that next week to built an extra Block into the MenuXXXX.ini that uses another Background.tga and let work it as the Background for the Pannel up there....have to see, but really early next week.....


@ Fangschuss

Nice that u like it and much more nice that u could solve the Problem!

@GlobalExplorer

I gave u right! The insatllation isn`t easy! but believ me, i tried to make the Readme (with my bad english knowledge) so easy to go how i could. I think that all will work easy when u go the Guide step by step, and make no misstakes there.
I do not know what u mean with a Programm which could install everything by himself. Don`t know if that works? Because u MUST set those IXXX Numbers indivdually by everyone different, so a automatic installation will not be possible i think.

Thank u very much for ur effort, try it. If it works then it would be great to have such a EXE File which we could just start and it would do everything necessary byhimself!


@ tikigod

U said it, only 20 Steps for installation. i tried to write everywhere which was changed, something that u know for what it is and what it does. Hope so. Unstallation isn`t easy, so if anyone isn`t sure if he wnats this Mod, then please don`t install it! There is a smaller Version, the 4 DialsslideoutMod, i made. That should be for all those who want to let theri Console how it is but just the important Dials a little bit bigger.....

There is no light Version, sry.

No way for just adding them to the Right. because i have had to deactivate the Original Console, because i needed the MenuIDs for this Bigger Dials.


@ kapitanfred

? No idea what u directly mena with that?
In my game i have by every Message shown the Time before.

Don`t know what to do for that thing!?


@ Jochem



Hope that someone will like it, like me.

I think that i can finish and create a Readme on Saturday afternoon, if i have enough time. But should a good release termin.



Oh, guys. The Installation will be much more Bigger then this one!
Over 150 New Blocks for the Menu_1024_768.ini and 27 new Dials for the Dials.cfg......

(Damn, that was hard enough to create this things to work how i wanted to have... )

But don`t fear! It is easy to install! Because u don`t have to change much things, like those IXXX Numbers, because i know NO OTHER Mods which are affecting those Groups in the MenuXXX.ini.
So there should be easy Copy&Paste installation. but wait, u will see it!


@ The Avon Lady

Sry, but that will not Work i think. To make new 3 Dials and include them somehwere to have (Big Problem is the space where to have them, because there isn`t much free space) them, should be no Prob. But that is not what i want to have in the game. That is the Reason why i deactivated those small dials, which i hated so long time!

But maybe when i will have some free time i will built this mod out. With new Features or so.....time will see. If anybody else can look at that or would like to built them, then please do it!


@ jimmie


,,Ja, editing menu_1024_768.ini is a pain in the a**."

Don`t say me that. lol

But i think that a Proggie would be great to have for this editing section! You should talk with GlobalExplorer!

[GlobalExplorer]

Hm, I think it might be possible to write an installer, and not extremely hard, as the structure of the files is that of an .ini file. There exist functions in win32 for reading writing those files that are very simple and very good, unfortunately some of the files in Sh3 can't be used with them. to be honest I am a bit worried about those colons and commentaries in the menu file, which could mean they could not be used like standard .ini files. If that should be the case, it would be harder, but still doable.

I think this mod is fantastic, so if you find somebody who can do some basic programming, I could send you some code how to easily write the entries. All you would have to do is insert the many values you change.

But, hm, it's a possibility, i don't think it's without problems though.

GE

P.S. Ich spreche auch Deutsch. Wenn du Fragen hast, schick mir 'ne pm.

[WolfyBrandon]

I just tryed to install this mod... Went through all the steps and added the new numbers like the readme says but when the game is about to load and says Initializing I get this warning error

Menu ID Not Found: 0x3f1c0007!




***EDIT***

Fixed the problem, I accidently skipped a number for all the new entrys I had to add in the 1024 file. I fixed the numbers and everything is working perfectly now.

I Have to say, this mod really changes the game for the better, the menu's are out of the way and when you do need to use them they are visible and big enough to do exactually what you want. This is how SH3 should have been in the first place, I highly recommend this though the install is a little scary

Nice Work FLB sale U-999, Superb Mod! and a big thumbs up from me to you!

Wolfy

[don1reed]

I'm old...so, I take my time doing everything.

Results: Works perfectly and as the designers intended. Congrats!!!
u. Danke.

[FLB sale U-999]

Nice to hear!

Hope u can all enjoy that Mod!


Udates for him will come next week!


@ Global Explorer

I think that u should me explain that one time more in German! Maybe i will understand it better...

Hehe, ich glaube auf Deutsch wärs echt am Besten! Kannst mir ja ne PM schreiben, weil es interessiert mich jetzt schon was genau damit gemeint wird. Klingt
zumindest komfortabel!


Greetings Sale

[irish1958]

FLB sale U-999
I have your 4 dial slideout mod installed and really like it. In the readme of this mod you state that this mod is not compatable with the 4 dial one.
So what do I do with the 4 dial mod, and all the changs I made to install it? Do I leave it and install this one over it, or do I have to reverse all the changes I made in the files?
irish1958

[Jochem]

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Irish, hope you'd saved the ini before add the change. So here what u must to do. Deinstall completely the 4dials cause it's not compatible with the 6 dials.

Install the 6dials. Use JSGME for better use. I explain. I copy a "clean" 1024x768.iniand include it in the mode at the right way, add the change asked by the 6dials mod, and JSGME do the rest




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[Fangschuss]

Made a new "leer.tga" for this great Mod. Take a look

Simply replace the orginale leer.tga with this new one, or install via Mod Enabler if you like it

>>Preview<<

>>Download<<

greetings

[Jochem]

Originally Posted by Fangschuss

Made a new "leer.tga" for this great Mod. Take a look

Simply replace the orginale leer.tga with this new one, or install via Mod Enabler if you like it

>>Preview<<

>>Download<<

greetings

Got it !! very nice idea ! Thanks Fangschuss !



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