Question RE: Sub Commander Randomization commands...

[Church SUBSIM]

Ok, now that I am completely sucked back into SHIII after taking a break, I have a few questions about tweaking. /evil grin.

First, in the Sub Commander Randomization file (which is an amazing tool btw)...
What I am trying to do is make the Message that I get when I send a Patrol report be random *and* relative to my U-Boat number. For example, in the NYGM 2.2 en_menu.txt the following line is called on when ever I receive a response to my patrol report when I have torpedos remaining:

4197=Acknowledged.

Now in the Randomization folder I should be able to add the following to make that line random each time I receive a message I get a diffrent response by doing the following (as per Gouldjg's Hollywood example):

[0_data\Menu\en_menu.txt]
ChooseFrom=13
RndMidPat=1

0_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. Excellent Work.
1_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. Increase Patrol One Grid NORTH.
2_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. Increase Patrol One Grid SOUTH.
3_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. Increase Patrol One Grid WEST.
4_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. Increase Patrol One Grid EAST.
5_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. REPOSITION ONE GRID NORTH.
6_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. REPOSITION ONE GRID SOUTH.
7_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. Good Hunting Kaleun!
8_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. Keep up the good work Kaleun!
9_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. Excellent Results.
10_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. REPOSITION ONE GRID EAST.
11_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. REPOSITION ONE GRID WEST.

What I would like to do is incorporate the U Boat Number I have been assigned so it would read like the following (using one line as an example):

0_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged U-97. Excellent Work. (but have the Uboat number match my boat each time it changes)

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance,
Church

[Samwolf]

Originally Posted by Church SUBSIM

Ok, now that I am completely sucked back into SHIII after taking a break, I have a few questions about tweaking. /evil grin.

First, in the Sub Commander Randomization file (which is an amazing tool btw)...
What I am trying to do is make the Message that I get when I send a Patrol report be random *and* relative to my U-Boat number. For example, in the NYGM 2.2 en_menu.txt the following line is called on when ever I receive a response to my patrol report when I have torpedos remaining:

4197=Acknowledged.

Now in the Randomization folder I should be able to add the following to make that line random each time I receive a message I get a diffrent response by doing the following (as per Gouldjg's Hollywood example):

[0_data\Menu\en_menu.txt]
ChooseFrom=13
RndMidPat=1

0_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. Excellent Work.
1_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. Increase Patrol One Grid NORTH.
2_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. Increase Patrol One Grid SOUTH.
3_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. Increase Patrol One Grid WEST.
4_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. Increase Patrol One Grid EAST.
5_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. REPOSITION ONE GRID NORTH.
6_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. REPOSITION ONE GRID SOUTH.
7_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. Good Hunting Kaleun!
8_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. Keep up the good work Kaleun!
9_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. Excellent Results.
10_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. REPOSITION ONE GRID EAST.
11_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. REPOSITION ONE GRID WEST.

What I would like to do is incorporate the U Boat Number I have been assigned so it would read like the following (using one line as an example):

0_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged U-97. Excellent Work. (but have the Uboat number match my boat each time it changes)

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance,
Church

Don't know for sure about the "personalized" U-boat number But you could try :

0_STRINGS|4197=Message Acknowledged. Excellent Work. %s and see what happens.

I used Gouldjg's Hollywood example also. I randomised my messages but I had a problem with it working, it finally worked when I changed

[0_data\Menu\en_menu.txt]

to

[MT0:data\Menu\en_menu.txt]

If the %s works let me know please.

Btw.

I believe 4197 is the response you get when you send a Patrol Report that does not include a new sinking.

4198 is the one you get when you report a new sinking.

[Church SUBSIM]

Thanks for the great response.

Like you, I was having problems getting the messages to work at all but have now incorporated you fix. I will see how it goes. I added the %s and will let you know if it works.

She is loading right now.

One thing that I wanted to ask you .... given the issues with the text in the Hollywood example needing tweaking, do I need to change the 0_ to MT:0 (as an example) for the sensors as well? Once I noticed the text was not working, I could not be sure the sensor randomization was working as well. Any feedback on that?

Thanks again,
Church

** UPDATE **

Ok, I managed to get the deck officers response to update but not the patrol report responses, so I suspect because they have the %s included in the line, they are defaulting to the original. Will advise once I tweak it again.

[Samwolf]

Originally Posted by Church SUBSIM

Thanks for the great response.

Like you, I was having problems getting the messages to work at all but have now incorporated you fix. I will see how it goes. I added the %s and will let you know if it works.

She is loading right now.

One thing that I wanted to ask you .... given the issues with the text in the Hollywood example needing tweaking, do I need to change the 0_ to MT:0 (as an example) for the sensors as well? Once I noticed the text was not working, I could not be sure the sensor randomization was working as well. Any feedback on that?

Thanks again,
Church

** UPDATE **

Ok, I managed to get the deck officers response to update but not the patrol report responses, so I suspect because they have the %s included in the line, they are defaulting to the original. Will advise once I tweak it again.

Not sure about the 0_, I think the problem was that the program was looking for the : I just changed the 0 to MT0 to ensure the entry was unique.

Sorry to hear that the %s didn't work, hopefully someone else knows the answer.

As for the sensors and effects all I did was make sure that the #_ at the beginning was changed to #: The effects seem to work but I haven't run into any DD's to know if the sensors work

I changed my Senors and effects to SE1: SE2: EF1: EF2: etc. The letters don't matter as long as they're unique for each section, I think the : is the important thing.

[Church SUBSIM]

Originally Posted by Samwolf

As for the sensors and effects all I did was make sure that the #_ at the beginning was changed to #: The effects seem to work but I haven't run into any DD's to know if the sensors work

I changed my Senors and effects to SE1: SE2: EF1: EF2: etc. The letters don't matter as long as they're unique for each section, I think the : is the important thing.

Good deal - I just went through and checked the file. I noticed that all the min height's (they end in 3's) had ; before the data. The first did not have that for the sensors, the remaining ones did. I corrected that as well.

Thanks again so much for the help. A perfect example of how great this community is here at Subsim!

Church

[Samwolf]

Originally Posted by Church SUBSIM

Thanks again so much for the help. A perfect example of how great this community is here at Subsim!

Church

No Problem. I like the idea of randomising the 4197 messages too. Never thought about that until you mentioned it.