Please Help with correcting river class

[Mush Martin]

First thanks to serge and neon for their answers to my initial enquiries

I have noticed that sometime in the research porition of the process somebody
got a river class destroyer mixed in with the river class frigate data.

now recognizing the difference may not matter to most
but a river class frigate looks essentially like a black swan
but with the following differences

4" d/p in A turret replaced by hedgehog
4" d'p in C turret replaced by 3" single
aft radar stand moved between main mast and bridge
aft deckhouse reversed so bandstands are aft
remove 4 K guns
Reduce AA suite
now I am still learning to mod and havent yet changed a ship other than to put
a type VII Conning tower on a type IX and swap out some guns, but I would like to correct the rivers can anybody leave me a list of what I need to change when I swapped cfg files for Black Swan and River class the boat changed but the stats in museum etc were all Black swan also I need to know How to change out the guns or remove them assumably in the roster files. as for moving radar and reversing deckhouse I havent any idea where to begin. finally If I do fix it I would like to pack it up and make it available. As the river may be the most underated ship of the Atlantic Campaign.

any help or guidance would be appreciated
with thanks Mush.

[bigboywooly]

Hi Martin
Welcome to Subsim

What is it you are trying to do ?
Clone the Black Swan to create the River class Frigate
Or alter the River class DE to become the Frigate ?

[Mush Martin]

I think that given my limited experience and the high similarity between the real river class and the black swans it would be easier I think to clone the swan to river rather than remodel the game version of the river class DE the only thing missing would be the small cubed DF deck house between the B turret and the bridge with the above listed changes with thanks for taking and interest their BBW

M.M.

[bigboywooly]

No problem MM
Well you can make a copy of the Black Swan folder
Rename all the internal files to River - including in the cfg file
Then you can clone using Pack3d - http://files.filefront.com/P3dAllVer.../fileinfo.html

You can then make the arnament changes through the .eqp file
Altering the text ( museum ) docs to match

( Dont forget to make a copy of the cfg file in the British roster folder -renaming that as you did the others )

The new dat file then really needs hexediting to rename the .tga (skin )file inside to match the new naming convention
Then you can give it different skin to the Black Swan

Hope that helps a bit

[Mush Martin]

this posting thing works great thats exactly what I needed thanks I will take a crack at it a little later if you would be so kind to check back here for any difficulties over the next couple of day's Id appreciate it

thanks again M.M.:p

[bigboywooly]

Am always around
Thats the idea of a forum

Keep us informed how you get on