Need Help with Ship-converting

[AOTD_MadMax]

Hello Captains,

iam working on converting SH3-Ships to SH4 and normaly i got no problem with them.

The Nelson is done :





Other ships work also fine but with one ship i got my problems.
Unfortunally it is one of my own build ships for SH3



It didnt wear any skin
It should wear a Red Cross skin.
All other things like the flag, the new country "Red Cross", Recmanual and Sil-files work fine.
Did anybody know a way to make it run ?
Who can help ?

Greets

Maddy

[Torps]

But looks darn good.

[miner1436]

is the skin in .DDS format?

[AOTD_MadMax]

Originally Posted by miner1436

is the skin in .DDS format?

Yes, the skin is in DDS but other converted ships got tga´s and the come with skins.
I have tryed bothe, DDS and tga but nothing happend.

So i need help please.

Greets

Maddy

[AOTD_MadMax]

Hello Captains,

i got it !

Now i converted 2 Redcross-Ships to SH4.
They drove under a new imported flag as neutral-units.
I create a smal modpack with them wich includes the right Sil-files and the right Recmanualcoverflag and the flags.dat.

I hope i can release it soon.

Here some pictures :





Some tips for missionbuilding :

If you create a mission it is better to make a neutral-unit as leader cause this convoy will drive always on the normal curse if yo dont shoot that neutral vessel.
You will never see an convoy driving circels.

Greets

Maddy

[Eofi]

how did you achieve this?

i have aquatania and queen mary liners from SH3 to SH4 but no skin


thx in advance

[andycaccia]

Great job AOTD!!
I hope they will be released soon...I've got a small project in my mind:hmm:

[AOTD_MadMax]

Originally Posted by Eofi

how did you achieve this?

i have aquatania and queen mary liners from SH3 to SH4 but no skin


thx in advance

Hi Eofi,

you have to edit the config in the Roster-Folder for your ship.

Here an example of converted T2-Tanker:

[UnitClass]
ClassName=OTMST2
UnitType=101
AppearanceDate=19380101
DisappearanceDate=19460101
DisplayName=T2 Tanker

[Texture 1] <------ This is the new entry !
TextureName=data/Sea/NOTM_T2/NOTM_T2_T01.tga <--- Filestructure where tga is layed down in game !
StartDate=19160101
EndDate=19461231
Frequency=1

[Unit 1]
Name=T2 Tanker
DOC=19390101
DOD=19460101

With this option it is easy to let your ship come with different skins triggered by entrydate of skin

If you wanne have a military designed Queen you need 2 entrydates like this :


[UnitClass]
ClassName=QM <---- fictive name for Queen Mary
UnitType=101
AppearanceDate=19340101
DisappearanceDate=19460101
DisplayName=Queen Mary

[Texture 1]
TextureName=data/Sea/QM/QM_T01.tga <- Zivilian Texture
StartDate=19340101
EndDate=19391231
Frequency=1

[Texture 1]
TextureName=data/Sea/QM/QM_T02.tga <---- Military Texture
StartDate=19400101
EndDate=19451231
Frequency=1

[Unit 1]
Name=Queen Mary
DOC=19340101
DOD=19460101

I hope you can realize it.

Greetz

AOTD|MadMax

[AVGWarhawk]

Cool, more targets.

[Eofi]

priciate your time


took me a while to get it i cant use the texture files from sh3 for unknown reason
so i cheated a little and copied the japanese euro liner texture for now
and works great
thx for the help
eofi


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totally got it was able to dds a file from original liner in sh3 and got them skinned appropiatley
lol spent 6 hrs doing but was worth it

is this the same for if i want to make a liner a hospital ship?...still having trouble doing that one