New version of SH3 Commander (1.43) now available!

[SmokinTep]

Great stuff. Will need to download it.

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by 999-Jay-999

I have the first 1.0 Early Edition Merchant Variety Pack by Iambecomelife installed through the Jonesoft enabler.. (ran script for D:/games install)

Do I simply take that out then (un mod it)..and run SC3 as normal to get those skins instead ?

Thanks.

Remember to restore the games original files that MVP overwrote. Then delete MVP's backup. Only then remove using JSGME.

Once you've done that, whenever using SH3 Commander to start up SH3 will give you MVP skins automatically.

[999-Jay-999]

Just a thought, as I feel I am in no need to ever go back to the original skins anymore..(not like any further patches will require them) is it necessary for me to restore the games original files that MVP overwrote ???

After all SH3 commander places the new skins for me ...

Thanks again for the advice Avon Lady.

[Beery]

Originally Posted by BladeHeart

...You referred to the setting of dates to get the most out of SH3Comm. How precise does one have to be when selecting the date for a 2nd or subsequent patrol?
If you were to select the 23rd of October 1939 and the game then commenced the patrol on the 2nd November, does SH3Comm load files for the October or November?

The game is very imprecise when it comes to dates. Basically, the game can be off by a month, depending on what your NbDaysInBase setting is in Basic.cfg. RUb comes with 31 days as standard, so (because every mod I make is based on RUb) SH3 Commander's Newsmod is tuned to that setting. This means that when you use Newsmod, the date you set in SH3 Commander will set you up for a month ahead of that date. This works perfectly for careers (as it takes into account the 31 days between the date in the base and the date of the next mission) but it will be off by a month for single missions (i.e. if you set up for 23rd of October 1939, the game will actually load files that are correct for 23rd of October 1939). In practice it doesn't make that much difference, since the changeover dates are usually not that precise anyway.

[Beery]

Originally Posted by 999-Jay-999

Merchant Variety Pack by Iambecomelife included ... is this the First or second even BOTH variety packs ???

Both.

[SteamWake]

Very very nice.

Puts a lot of useful information in one place you would otherwise have to dig through files to find.

Terrific job guys

[Beery]

Originally Posted by 999-Jay-999

Just a thought, as I feel I am in no need to ever go back to the original skins anymore..(not like any further patches will require them) is it necessary for me to restore the games original files that MVP overwrote ???

Since MVP is basically a skins pack, you can leave it enabled while SH3 Commander is used. SH3 Commander will simply overwrite the skins when it needs to do so. If you uninstall the MVP, you should replace the skins with the standard skins (if you use the Mod Enabler it will automatically do this for you). If you remove MVP without replacing the old skins, and then if you ever load SH3 WITHOUT using SH3 Commander, you may get a crash to the desktop because the game may fail to find the necessary ship skins.

[c0sm1c]

It looks reallly great Beery but...

I cant open it -- its in some strange esoteric compression -- My system doesnt have 7z capability and when I try any of the download mirrors they dont work or come up with "404 page not found" or just a blank page with nothing there

or if I google it i either get more non working mirrors or i get a set of sub sites with

"Download here"

Then another page full of crap and "Download here"
Then another page full of crap and "Download here"
Then another page full of crap and "Download here"
Then another page full of crap and "Download here"
Then another page full of crap and "Download here"

then to when I get to the actual source site - I get "Error 404 Page cannnot be found"

Anyone thought of just compressing it with what everyone has got

Like winZip

thanks

[Beery]

Originally Posted by c0sm1c

It looks reallly great Beery but...

I cant open it -- its in some strange esoteric compression

7zip is a pretty popular compression format, and you can find a link to the 7zip utility on my Links page.

One thing is for sure, if I used Zip to compress this file it would be over 100MB. I'd get a lot more complaints about that.

[c0sm1c]

Thanks Beery -- but that just takes me to a bunch of sourceforge and surfnet mirrors that dont work

If it was 100Mb -- I'd download your file in about 5 mins -- I spent an hour trying to get 7z and I still dont have it.

Would you mind giving us the option by doing a Rar or a Zip ?

DANG! My own PC can't get online right now, and there's no way to download it.

Oh well, I guess I'm stuck with the last one for the foreseeable future. It works great anyway.

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by c0sm1c

Thanks Beery -- but that just takes me to a bunch of sourceforge and surfnet mirrors that dont work

If it was 100Mb -- I'd download your file in about 5 mins -- I spent an hour trying to get 7z and I still dont have it.

Would you mind giving us the option by doing a Rar or a Zip ?

You can open it with the latest version of WinRAR.

[Stymnus]

Originally Posted by c0sm1c

It looks reallly great Beery but...

I cant open it -- its in some strange esoteric compression -- My system doesnt have 7z capability and when I try any of the download mirrors they dont work or come up with "404 page not found" or just a blank page with nothing there

or if I google it i either get more non working mirrors or i get a set of sub sites with

"Download here"

Then another page full of crap and "Download here"
Then another page full of crap and "Download here"
Then another page full of crap and "Download here"
Then another page full of crap and "Download here"
Then another page full of crap and "Download here"

then to when I get to the actual source site - I get "Error 404 Page cannnot be found"

Anyone thought of just compressing it with what everyone has got

Like winZip

thanks

I got 7-zip no problem last night straight from its site:

http://www.7-zip.org/

Was easy, honestly, easier than I expected.

[Beery]

Originally Posted by c0sm1c

Thanks Beery -- but that just takes me to a bunch of sourceforge and surfnet mirrors that dont work

If it was 100Mb -- I'd download your file in about 5 mins -- I spent an hour trying to get 7z and I still dont have it.

Would you mind giving us the option by doing a Rar or a Zip ?

The problem is that it's more a question of how many 100MB files my web hosting service will allow to be downloaded. These mods are very popular indeed, so it can be a big problem if I don't compress the files adequately, and Zip and Rar just don't achieve enough compression. A couple of months ago I uploaded a 45MB file and my data transfer limit (200GB) was exceeded in about 10 days. That's why I have to offer it in the best compression format possible, otherwise the files won't be available at all for most of each month, which would undoubtedly be annoying for most people. I already pay $40 per month to offer these mods, and for that I get the most data transfer that Yahoo offers. most web hosting services just aren't set up to allow the huge downloads that are necessary for today's mods.

Anyway, I just checked the link at my site. Went to a few of the mirrors for the 4.23 version, and the file was right there every time, so I'm not sure which mirror you're using.

[c0sm1c]

Hi Beery...I appreciate the hosting & bandwidth issues and fully understand that .

However, I cant get any of those mirrors to work, I'm afraid

Perhaps i'm on an ip range those sites have restricted...I dont know...

I'll try cracking it with WinRaR as Avon Lady said

thx folks