SH3 Hints and Keyboard Tricks - Page 7

Paajtor · 01-23-08, 02:39 AM

here's a way to quickly create a mission, using the multiplayer-option:

Quote:

fire up the game and hit "multiplayer" and go directly to the next screen. then hit "lan game", next screen enter a name, push okay, then "create game", make sure the player number is "1" and the game mode is "generated" (also choose the rest of the options/parameters you want), then push okay. you then come to a screen where you can choose year, time, boat, crew, etc., then push OK. your mission will generate with all the parameters and options you choose.

panzer 49th · 01-23-08, 05:23 PM

Shift+F4 makes your game crash :hmm: I wonder what it is supposed to do

deadparrot · 01-24-08, 05:01 PM

I just found out that when you move the first waypoint in line, in close proxomity of your sub and LClick near it (with the triangular plottertool) all the following waypoints will disapear.

(hey.. my first post. hi all)

Jimbuna · 01-24-08, 05:27 PM

Welcome aboard matey

Abd_von_Mumit · 01-24-08, 06:56 PM

Welcome deadparrot (with reallydedpoet we have a kind of human-animal cemetery here, true Iron Coffins).

deadparrot · 01-25-08, 07:22 AM

a watery grave sure enough

ReallyDedPoet · 01-25-08, 09:49 AM

Welcome to SUBSIM

deadparrot

From the dedpoet

RDP

Barbac · 01-28-08, 09:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paajtor

yes, for GWX as well.
But you have to be locked on the target, then press ship:, and the manual opens up on the correct page.

Hi guys,

New to this forum so nice to meet you all amigos

Do you mean you have to be locked (L) on the target and click on ship on the Data Notebook upper left to get the right page in the recognition manual ?
I have tried it this way but nothing happened. I still had to turn the pages to find the dedicted one ... :hmm:
This hint does also work both in single mission and career with GWX2.0 ?

Barbac

Sailor Steve · 01-28-08, 12:25 PM

WELCOME ABOARD, deadparrot and Barbac!

Jimbuna · 01-28-08, 12:42 PM

Welcome aboard Barbac

Paajtor · 01-28-08, 02:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barbac

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paajtor

yes, for GWX as well.
But you have to be locked on the target, then press ship:, and the manual opens up on the correct page.

Hi guys,

New to this forum so nice to meet you all amigos

Do you mean you have to be locked (L) on the target and click on ship on the Data Notebook upper left to get the right page in the recognition manual ?
I have tried it this way but nothing happened. I still had to turn the pages to find the dedicted one ... :hmm:
This hint does also work both in single mission and career with GWX2.0 ?

Barbac

Scroll up, to post#90.

Barbac · 01-29-08, 09:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paajtor

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barbac

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paajtor

yes, for GWX as well.
But you have to be locked on the target, then press ship:, and the manual opens up on the correct page.

Hi guys,

New to this forum so nice to meet you all amigos

Do you mean you have to be locked (L) on the target and click on ship on the Data Notebook upper left to get the right page in the recognition manual ?
I have tried it this way but nothing happened. I still had to turn the pages to find the dedicted one ... :hmm:
This hint does also work both in single mission and career with GWX2.0 ?

Barbac

Scroll up, to post#90.

Thx Paajtor,
I had missed it !

Barbac

Platapus · 02-16-08, 11:45 AM

Ok, here is what I have learned from this great thread. I hope I got all these right

Crew Management

- Left clicking one compartment and then right clicking another will completely fill up the left clicked compartment with crew from the right clicked compartment.

- You can also double click a compartment and it will fill it with enough crewmen to operate, but not all the way full. Double clicking a compartment also swaps out the red exclamation mark crewmen for fresh ones.

- Right-click a compartment to send the crew to rest.

- If you right click on an officers icon in the bottom left hand corner, it will take you to their station.

- Right clicking on the officers faces on the bottom panel will bring up the full screen dials for you too use.

- Pressing H you come to the hydrophone but press H again and you will return to previous station. This works with most stations with hot keys assigned.

Boat Management

Observation Periscope ctrl+insert raises your observation periscope all the way, ctrl+delete lowers it all the way.
Attack Periscope ctrl+pageup raises the attack scope all the way, ctrl+pagedown lowers it all the way.

- To turn your view to match your current heading hit the - key

- To turn your heading to match your current view hit the + key

- Click on the shallow depth dial, on 7, but as close to 8 as you can.
The boat will slowly drop to decks-awash, so only the conning tower will be above the water, making the boat very hard to spot for the enemy, while still having the benefits of being surfaced (UZO, air etc.)

- To set a target for your deck gun by using the Binoculars, center the intended target with the Binoculars (depending the mod it may or may not have a crosshair). Then hit the space bar

- To read radio messages and contact reports, hit M

Enter-key sets time-compression back to 1x

- Shift + F2 while inside the sub lets you roam around just like free cam outside. (Just dont wander to far into the darkness, as this might cause CTDs.

Auto Recognition manual

- If you have already identified your target (either manually or with the assistance of the Weapons officer) and you have the target currently locked in your view ( L key). Clicking on “ship” on the notepad will bring up the appropriate page in the recognition manual. This works even if manual targeting is selected. The key is, of course, that you have to identify the ship first.

Mapping and Navigation

- When you move the first waypoint in line, in close proximity of your sub and LClick near it (with the triangular plotter tool) all the following waypoints will disappear.

Control-left click will center your U-boat on the map exactly where you've placed the cursor when you've clicked.

- Remove/restore orange sub-marker: Ctrl+Num.Del
(in GWX, it's completely disabled)

In external view Press "." and "," to see your sub and any other contact you have in range including aircraft. (press "." to jump forward through the contacts and "," to go back).

Graphics

Shift+PageUp or Pagedown adjusts the sun glare effect of Nvidia cards.

- Control-F8 toggles a little box at the top of the screen that displays your frame rate.

- Shift+F11: Instead of taking one screenshot, it takes a sequence of screenshots that can be used to create movies.

- Open chat in multiplayer: Numlock (type text, hit Enter)

MarkShot · 02-18-08, 06:17 PM

While looking at the map ...

Suppose your SO is tracking the nearest warship, then the other contact lines tend to fade and not be updated.

You could tell your SO to perform and normal sweep and wait a while for the update. Or you can simply hit H (for hydrophone) and hit H again.

This will rapidly refresh the contact lines on the map.

Nicolas · 02-20-08, 09:32 AM

Dont know if this happen to everyone, but sometimes the Deck view is in wrong angle to one side or other very annoying, well i fix this waiting until the horizon is straight and press b (binoculars) and quick press F4 to go back to deck and done

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01-23-08, 05:23 PM	#92
panzer 49th Weps Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 361 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Shift+F4 makes your game crash :hmm: I wonder what it is supposed to do __________________

01-24-08, 05:01 PM	#93
deadparrot Swabbie Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 5 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Delete all waypoints I just found out that when you move the first waypoint in line, in close proxomity of your sub and LClick near it (with the triangular plottertool) all the following waypoints will disapear. (hey.. my first post. hi all)

01-24-08, 05:27 PM	#94
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01-24-08, 06:56 PM	#95
Abd_von_Mumit The Old Man Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Warszawa, Polska Posts: 1,453 Downloads: 46 Uploads: 4	Welcome deadparrot (with reallydedpoet we have a kind of human-animal cemetery here, true Iron Coffins). __________________ Long, hard, wet and full of seamen. My precious. SH3+GWX+OLC — sunk x4, retired x2; SH5+TDW — still exploring My SH5 mods: EQuaTool - Elite Quality Map Tools, Patrol Routine Scripts, No Logo Intro Menu_Animation, Less Annoying Stopwatch Links: SH5 mods I use, FileFront, Manual plotting how-to

01-25-08, 09:49 AM	#97
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01-25-08, 07:22 AM	#96
deadparrot Swabbie Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 5 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	a watery grave sure enough

01-28-08, 12:25 PM	#99
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	WELCOME ABOARD, deadparrot and Barbac! __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

01-28-08, 12:42 PM	#100
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,964 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Welcome aboard Barbac __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

02-16-08, 11:45 AM	#103
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,399 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Composed list Ok, here is what I have learned from this great thread. I hope I got all these right Crew Management - Left clicking one compartment and then right clicking another will completely fill up the left clicked compartment with crew from the right clicked compartment. - You can also double click a compartment and it will fill it with enough crewmen to operate, but not all the way full. Double clicking a compartment also swaps out the red exclamation mark crewmen for fresh ones. - Right-click a compartment to send the crew to rest. - If you right click on an officers icon in the bottom left hand corner, it will take you to their station. - Right clicking on the officers faces on the bottom panel will bring up the full screen dials for you too use. - Pressing H you come to the hydrophone but press H again and you will return to previous station. This works with most stations with hot keys assigned. Boat Management Observation Periscope ctrl+insert raises your observation periscope all the way, ctrl+delete lowers it all the way. Attack Periscope ctrl+pageup raises the attack scope all the way, ctrl+pagedown lowers it all the way. - To turn your view to match your current heading hit the - key - To turn your heading to match your current view hit the + key - Click on the shallow depth dial, on 7, but as close to 8 as you can. The boat will slowly drop to decks-awash, so only the conning tower will be above the water, making the boat very hard to spot for the enemy, while still having the benefits of being surfaced (UZO, air etc.) - To set a target for your deck gun by using the Binoculars, center the intended target with the Binoculars (depending the mod it may or may not have a crosshair). Then hit the space bar - To read radio messages and contact reports, hit M Enter-key sets time-compression back to 1x - Shift + F2 while inside the sub lets you roam around just like free cam outside. (Just dont wander to far into the darkness, as this might cause CTDs. Auto Recognition manual - If you have already identified your target (either manually or with the assistance of the Weapons officer) and you have the target currently locked in your view ( L key). Clicking on “ship” on the notepad will bring up the appropriate page in the recognition manual. This works even if manual targeting is selected. The key is, of course, that you have to identify the ship first. Mapping and Navigation - When you move the first waypoint in line, in close proximity of your sub and LClick near it (with the triangular plotter tool) all the following waypoints will disappear. Control-left click will center your U-boat on the map exactly where you've placed the cursor when you've clicked. - Remove/restore orange sub-marker: Ctrl+Num.Del (in GWX, it's completely disabled) In external view Press "." and "," to see your sub and any other contact you have in range including aircraft. (press "." to jump forward through the contacts and "," to go back). Graphics Shift+PageUp or Pagedown adjusts the sun glare effect of Nvidia cards. - Control-F8 toggles a little box at the top of the screen that displays your frame rate. - Shift+F11: Instead of taking one screenshot, it takes a sequence of screenshots that can be used to create movies. - Open chat in multiplayer: Numlock (type text, hit Enter) __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

02-18-08, 06:17 PM	#104
MarkShot Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 1,134 Downloads: 93 Uploads: 0	While looking at the map ... Suppose your SO is tracking the nearest warship, then the other contact lines tend to fade and not be updated. You could tell your SO to perform and normal sweep and wait a while for the update. Or you can simply hit H (for hydrophone) and hit H again. This will rapidly refresh the contact lines on the map. __________________ War games, not wars! --- Only a small few profit from war (that should not stand)!

02-20-08, 09:32 AM	#105
Nicolas Commander Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Uruguay Posts: 453 Downloads: 196 Uploads: 4	Dont know if this happen to everyone, but sometimes the Deck view is in wrong angle to one side or other very annoying, well i fix this waiting until the horizon is straight and press b (binoculars) and quick press F4 to go back to deck and done .