A few basic Questions.......

[HuskerNlincoln]

Morning all, This is my first post on the SHIV side of the house.

I recently upgraded to a quad core 4 gigs of ram, high end graphics, and low and behold I can play this game.

I have been playing SHIII for years, but I love the eye candy of this game.

Of course I perfer to be a Kaluen so I have the Uboat mission upgrade, Operation Monsoon, Real Evironments 5, and love it.

Some questions though,

1. I cant seem to get my damage control team to repair damage, if I even get straffed lightly by a plane we sink, I cant seem to find out how to set them to the task of repairs. I have them in the priority list showing what damage has occurred, but nothing gets fixed

2. Seems like no matter where or how many torps hit a ship, they all sink the same, no massive explosions, no breaking up, just the old Titanic styled sinking. WHen I played on the American side of the game, one of the quick missions is to attack the tankers, I loved it when the would seem to lift out of the water right before they exploded. I miss that

3. I am in Feb '40 and still cant fiqure out why I have no radar, Its seems not to be available as of yet.

4. Its tough to find ships in the ocean, maybe one every now and again. Course on the up side I can go into Lock Ewe and sink the TWO Nelson Classes that are parked there....Quick 100+ tons per patrol.

5. I see from some of the screen shots that some of the people have a flag on their conning tower, where can I find that?

ANy thoughts

[Highbury]

Originally Posted by HuskerNlincoln

5. I see from some of the screen shots that some of the people have a flag on their conning tower, where can I find that?

+1

I would like that as well but have not seen a mod for it.

[DarkFish]

Originally Posted by HuskerNlincoln

1. I cant seem to get my damage control team to repair damage

are you sure the dmg control team is active? if they're not they won't repair anything.

Originally Posted by HuskerNlincoln

2. Seems like no matter where or how many torps hit a ship, they all sink the same, no massive explosions, no breaking up, just the old Titanic styled sinking.

this is a feature of OM. occasionaly you will see it happen though.

Originally Posted by HuskerNlincoln

3. I am in Feb '40 and still cant fiqure out why I have no radar, Its seems not to be available as of yet.

radar isn't available in 1940 yet, it will be in 1941 as in real life.

Originally Posted by HuskerNlincoln

4. Its tough to find ships in the ocean, maybe one every now and again. Course on the up side I can go into Lock Ewe and sink the TWO Nelson Classes that are parked there....Quick 100+ tons per patrol.

another feature of OM. This is how it was in real life, the stock oceans are overcrowded.

Originally Posted by HuskerNlincoln

5. I see from some of the screen shots that some of the people have a flag on their conning tower, where can I find that?

personally I add them manually to the subs textures. go to data\submarines\subname\ and edit subname_T01.dds using a good image editor that supports dds (like Paint.net)
also see the Kill Flags Mod

[Highbury]

I thought he meant an actual flag from the whip on the back of the tower...

If he meant painted on emblems or kill markings, that doesn't work with the German subs like it does with the fleet boats. Texture is mirrored too many times in too many places. (At least on the II's and VII's)

[Captain von Keldunk]

Hello
"actual flag from the whip on the back of the tower".
My mod thread ,SH3 in SH4
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=150313
You get IX with flag, two deck guns, exhaust smoke, water streams.

[Highbury]

Thanks

Do you have any plans to put the flag onto other U-Boats? It looks great but I don't think I have ever had the IXA in a career

[HuskerNlincoln]

You say to activate Damage crew, how do I do that?

Also, which Download shuld I ise to get the whip flag since I am running U-Boat missions, Operation Monsoon, and Environments 5?