NYGM 3 Super-mod (Current: 3.6 F, January 13th 2015)

[DURUK]

Originally Posted by Fifi

Don’t delete them...just copy past the NKLs_ship.tga in all the ships folder (renaming it accordingly to the ship folder of course) and all ships icons will be transparent !

Thanks for chipping in Fifi. I was not entirely sure at first what you meant, but later I found NKLs_ship.tga under the NKLS/Sea/Data of the main SH3 install, copied the same file into every folder available in IABL, and renamed them accordingly. Unfortunatelly the first ship I encountered testing this, a coastal freighter, still had a red ship icon on 3 zoom levels

Besides, I am not sure if I messed it somehow, or if it was wrong before, but please check the attached picture for the difference of angled and 90* AOB pictures in the recognition manual, they belong to different vessels I think I do need a mod for fixing this. Or I could go just without IABL (supposing that it would fix everything). How essential is it? Does it affect range measurements made with the scopes, etc.?

[Fifi]

Originally Posted by DURUK

Thanks for chipping in Fifi. I was not entirely sure at first what you meant, but later I found NKLs_ship.tga under the NKLS/Sea/Data of the main SH3 install, copied the same file into every folder available in IABL, and renamed them accordingly. Unfortunatelly the first ship I encountered testing this, a coastal freighter, still had a red ship icon on 3 zoom levels

Besides, I am not sure if I messed it somehow, or if it was wrong before, but please check the attached picture for the difference of angled and 90* AOB pictures in the recognition manual, they belong to different vessels I think I do need a mod for fixing this. Or I could go just without IABL (supposing that it would fix everything). How essential is it? Does it affect range measurements made with the scopes, etc.?

No, you have to add this transparent tga to each ship your sea folder have, not only IABL...
When all mods are activated, go to your SH3/data/sea and here you have ALL your ships!
Best is to build little mod with them and new tga

As for the ID book, don’t know what you have wrong here...

[John Pancoast]

To add on, whether IABL ships are necessary is up to each player. They do two things I like though:


- add more ships with better graphics to the campaign.
- they have Thompsen's parameters applied with make them sail better; not so "rubber duckey" in heavy weather.
These parameters can be applied to any ship btw.


Hitman's mods work fine with them.

[DURUK]

Originally Posted by Fifi

No, you have to add this transparent tga to each ship your sea folder have, not only IABL...
When all mods are activated, go to your SH3/data/sea and here you have ALL your ships!
Best is to build little mod with them and new tga

As for the ID book, don’t know what you have wrong here...

Got it, will try to make my first mod tonight then
Concerning ID book, I've attached another picture. The pictures on the top (90* AOB) and bottom (0*, 20*, 45* AOBs) belong to different ship models, or am I seeing it wrong Just to make sure that I did not mess anything while copying and renaming files etc.

[Fifi]

I have same ID book error as you DURUK
Anyway seems a little mess in the ID book, as some ships have more than one page, a tga needs to be resized (we see only the stern) etc...probably like it was in real!

Have a question though: i tried to re supply at Vigo with the Bessel, but doing as i made in Ccom12 (esc/end patrol/continue) close to Bessel, i didn’t received any torp/fuel!
Have same Hsie settings as my Ccom...so why it doesn’t work the same in NYGM?

[John Pancoast]

Originally Posted by Fifi

I have same ID book error as you DURUK
Anyway seems a little mess in the ID book, as some ships have more than one page, a tga needs to be resized (we see only the stern) etc...probably like it was in real!

Have a question though: i tried to re supply at Vigo with the Bessel, but doing as i made in Ccom12 (esc/end patrol/continue) close to Bessel, i didn’t received any torp/fuel!
Have same Hsie settings as my Ccom...so why it doesn’t work the same in NYGM?

It works in NYGM. But you're supposed to choose "Continue Mission". That is a H.sie mod instruction, nothing to do with NYGM.
Also fwiw, historically the supply ships never supplied torpedoes.

Regarding the manual, anytime new ships are added to the game unless the manual is also updated, it will be incorrect.
I never use the manual so not sure how updating would be done. I would assume any ship mod would have to include it as part of the mod.

[Fifi]

Originally Posted by John Pancoast

It works in NYGM. But you're supposed to choose "Continue Mission". That is a H.sie mod instruction, nothing to do with NYGM.
Also fwiw, historically the supply ships never supplied torpedoes.

Regarding the manual, anytime new ships are added to the game unless the manual is also updated, it will be incorrect.
I never use the manual so not sure how updating would be done. I would assume any ship mod would have to include it as part of the mod.

After reading Hsie instructions regarding U-Tanker fix, it’s normal i can’t pseudo-dock at Bessel ship, because it’s not a U-Bessel!
In Ccom12, the Bessel at Vigo is named U-Bessel, that’s why it works there
If i want to pseudo-dock in NYGM at Bessel ship, i have to rename this ship in Campaign file as U-Bessel...

[DURUK]

Replacing all the xxx_shp.tga files through a mod seemed to solve my problem. Thank you both Kaleuns I particularly wanted this to work in order to get rid of my habit of pinpoint marking the bow of every ship so that I can acquire perfect solutions, and to work on my guessing the aob, range etc..
Well now I try to find the center of the empty circle with my marks Seems to be a case of old dog and new tricks.

[John Pancoast]

Originally Posted by DURUK

Replacing all the xxx_shp.tga files through a mod seemed to solve my problem. Thank you both Kaleuns I particularly wanted this to work in order to get rid of my habit of pinpoint marking the bow of every ship so that I can acquire perfect solutions, and to work on my guessing the aob, range etc..
Well now I try to find the center of the empty circle with my marks Seems to be a case of old dog and new tricks.

Great, have fun ! Also if you haven't noticed already, if you click on a circle it will be tracked as it moves on the map.

[John Pancoast]

Originally Posted by Fifi

After reading Hsie instructions regarding U-Tanker fix, it’s normal i can’t pseudo-dock at Bessel ship, because it’s not a U-Bessel!
In Ccom12, the Bessel at Vigo is named U-Bessel, that’s why it works there
If i want to pseudo-dock in NYGM at Bessel ship, i have to rename this ship in Campaign file as U-Bessel...

[Aquelarrefox]

Originally Posted by Fifi

After reading Hsie instructions regarding U-Tanker fix, it’s normal i can’t pseudo-dock at Bessel ship, because it’s not a U-Bessel!
In Ccom12, the Bessel at Vigo is named U-Bessel, that’s why it works there
If i want to pseudo-dock in NYGM at Bessel ship, i have to rename this ship in Campaign file as U-Bessel...

Yes, I changed it in my files and added other supply ships from a old post from blitzkrieg in other forum and the old milkcow mod with have several more utanker. That's a critic to all megamod, there was as the double of utanker in real world. They add many alternatives for fat trips.

[Fifi]

Little old mod to get better smoke when ships in fire in NYGM (like in GWX enhanced effects)
It’s only 2 tga not affecting anything else.
I always found that fire smoke was too light in NYGM...
https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/dow...d=624&act=down

Result:

[Fifi]

Are the convoys running faster later on the war? (After 41)
Because they are always slow until 41, not to say very slow...
Would like to see some around 8/10 knots
As for lone ships, almost never encountered one sailing fast

If not, is there a way to set them faster without side effects of course?

[Anvar1061]

Originally Posted by Fifi

If not, is there a way to set them faster without side effects of course?

Sh3MissionEditor makes it possible.

[Aquelarrefox]

Originally Posted by Anvar1061

Sh3MissionEditor makes it possible.

This thing it's better to be checked by note++. I had issues with the types of ships editing random groups.

And fifi I have a similar sense for convoys speed in early war. But I'm not sure if there's a good solution for this, the speed was linked to slower ship in n the convoy...in real world. You point convoys in open Sea of the convoys strong British island?

I use onealex fx from his mod, similar to the wac5 but I feel safe that none have been urgeteando the files like with wac. Nygm is not likely visual in any way, only water reflection is interesting but water many times looks like oil.