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Captain
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Iam sorry to say that there is to many bugs whit this mod atm.
When i try to click on the speed settings on the normal hud there is hidden buttons that take me to stations that is made for sh4. It seams the old interface is in the background but whitout icons, but some of the stations are clickable and that leads to 2 different views. example, It took me to the bridge while i was watching the map and the 2 screens overlapped each other so i could se both. But good thing is. If i can click and get some of the old stuff back its possible to mod out the new hud and in whit the old one. The hud part you changed is not just about the 3 dials, it gives us most of the old hud also, but its invisible and some parts are clickable.
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Someone had mentioned that the old interface is there but hidden, and that seems to be the case. The speed buttons and "center TAI on sub" buttons are covered up and non clickable now. I suppose the speed ones isn't that important since there are dials now, but still.
![]() I guess the choice needs to be made, should this mod replace everything with SH3/4 style buttons or should it add in what's missing while leaving what's there in tact. Personally I think Compass/rudder is vital, Depth is handy, but has some bugs. Speed is completely redundant and I don't see it's usefulness as a dial personally. At one point I was at periscope depth. I used the depth dial to raise to the surface and I did, but it didn't "register that I'd surfaced" so manning the guns didn't work. I had to use the SH5 "surface" command and after that the men manned the gun. Last edited by kylania; 03-04-10 at 08:08 PM. |
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Captain
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Yep, I'm seeing the same thing, but let's look at this as an opportunity - get rid of the new HUD entirely and go for the old! |
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Eternal Patrol
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Thx DW
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Helmsman
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By unlocking the old interface (button is in the left corner BTW) you can adjust and move the chat box. The lack of fuel and battery guages is disturbing, VERY disturbing... I noticed that when I used this mod in combo with the Morale Mod, Engine Sounds Improved and Commands mod as well as No Damn Bubbles etc mods that my realism settings changed so best to use the new mods at the start of a fresh patrol so you can double check your patrol settings.
EDIT: I was looking through the SH4 v1.5 files and did not find a Page layout file, but I did find menu_1024_768. That may be of assistance to people looking to update the GUI... Obviously someone will need to go through the file and update or remove the unnecessary stuff and add in the new "menu" things that are SH5 specific (Crew management page etc). EDIT 2: Silent Hunter Wolves of Pacific -> Data -> Menu -> Skins -> German -> GUI -> Layout Thats the same directory in SH5 as well with similiar but "new" files. It may be possible to add the old UI back in through those files and replacing them. I can't find a DDS viewer to see if the file is the same or not but if we can find the line in the page layout files we may be able to work on getting the old layout back... Last edited by UrPeaceKeeper; 03-04-10 at 08:24 PM. |
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Taking a step in the right direction... Ish...
![]() So I tested what happens when you copy and paste the old German Layout stuff over into SH5... thats the result... Step in the "right" direction... ish :P |
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Black Magic
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what is this old German layout stuff? Where do you find it?
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Helmsman
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And who the heck hired these idiots to name their config files... NO SPACES... grr........... I tried copying over the SH5 menu file renamed as page layout... crashed to desktop with no error... back to the drawing board. |
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Born to Run Silent
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Great work, keep it up, I will feature this in my review
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We also need someone who worked in one of the Supermods from SH4 to help with the menu buttons. Obviously we dont need the menu buttons from the old UI to be quite the same as we obviously can't jump to stations, but we do need to assign some of them to certain commands we want (depth under keel, etc). |
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Just glancing through the file I'm not sure how much of the menu_1024_768 file is going to be usefull to us. There has to be more then what is there. A lot of the code dividers (the stuff in the brackets) dont match up exactly... Looking for other files and stuff in the file that is of use, but I'm not holding my breath. It definetly deals with where things are located and what is used, but I'm having a hard time matching up files to locations and dividers to their respective functions....
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you are looking for \data\Menu\Pages. In there contains the rest of the menu_1024_768.ini file. They broke it up into pages. |
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