need help with sobers' mega mods

[InvisibleDeath]

Okay -- so I pulled down the mega mods, went to his forum page, and installed everything I didn't have to download into the engine.

Now the interior looks fantastic. Night time is way too dark I can barely see my fracking hand in front of my eyes leastwise a ship out there. But worst of all I have NO FRACKING WAY TO ORDER MY CREW TO SLOW OR STOP THE FRACKING SHIP. Help please.

[Oleander]

Originally Posted by InvisibleDeath

Okay -- so I pulled down the mega mods, went to his forum page, and installed everything I didn't have to download into the engine.

Now the interior looks fantastic. Night time is way too dark I can barely see my fracking hand in front of my eyes leastwise a ship out there. But worst of all I have NO FRACKING WAY TO ORDER MY CREW TO SLOW OR STOP THE FRACKING SHIP. Help please.

If you are using NewGUI's 7.5, the GUI defaults to hidden icons until they are moused over, then they appear. You can change this through changing the Python scripts within the gui folder, the instructions are here: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...89&postcount=5

You can also change the HUD style if you wish from the same options script.

As for the dark nights, if you are using the complete list from Sober, all you should need to do is remove the "DynEnv v2.9 - 5.c Ambient Settings - Darker Nights-No Murky Waters" from your active mods in JSGME.

[plj]

..or replace with DynEnv v2.9 - 5.e Ambient Settings - Brighter Nights-No Murky Waters

[gap]

Originally Posted by plj

..or replace with DynEnv v2.9 - 5.e Ambient Settings - Brighter Nights-No Murky Waters

...or if you like the green-grey sea color featured in most of the Baltic Sea, part of the North Sea and elsewhere around the world, just enable DynEnv v2.9 - 5.d Ambient Settings - Brighter Nights

[volodya61]

Originally Posted by Oleander

If you are using NewGUI's 7.5, the GUI defaults to hidden icons until they are moused over, then they appear. You can change this through changing the Python scripts within the gui folder, the instructions are here: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...89&postcount=5

You can also change the HUD style if you wish from the same options script.

This is a wrong way to do it.. there is an app within NewUIs - OptionsFileEditorViewer.. you should change options in the UI only using this app.. you can find link for 'How to' thread at the bottom of the post #1 of NewUIs thread..

[gap]

Originally Posted by volodya61

This is a wrong way to do it.. there is an app within NewUIs - OptionsFileEditorViewer.. you should change options in the UI only using this app.. you can find link for 'How to' thread at the bottom of the post #1 of NewUIs thread..

Not exactly wrong for soemeone who knows what he is doing, but surely not suggested for a newcomer.

[volodya61]

Originally Posted by gap

Not exactly wrong for soemeone who knows what he is doing, but surely not suggested for a newcomer.

I'm not a newcomer but I always did it using OptionsEditor.. why? it's simpler and easier.. and I'm sure I can't mess the options file this way..

[Oleander]

Originally Posted by volodya61

This is a wrong way to do it.. there is an app within NewUIs - OptionsFileEditorViewer.. you should change options in the UI only using this app.. you can find link for 'How to' thread at the bottom of the post #1 of NewUIs thread..

Code doesn't scare me!

I'm actually glad you said that, I had no idea he made an app. That makes changing options much easier.

[volodya61]

Originally Posted by Oleander

Code doesn't scare me!

I'm actually glad you said that, I had no idea he made an app. That makes changing options much easier.

If the work with the code was so simple, we'd still be using DOS

[gap]

Originally Posted by volodya61

I'm not a newcomer but I always did it using OptionsEditor.. why? it's simpler and easier.. and I'm sure I can't mess the options file this way..

Editing the py file manually was the only way to change New UI's options until when TDW introduced his option viewer/editor. The mistake was around the corner though, and most errors resulted in CTD's or the UI getting corrupted. I don't remember the firts New UI's version which had the editor included in its package, but when it was released you probably weren't a subsim member yet.

[volodya61]

Originally Posted by gap

..I don't remember the firts New UI's version which had the editor included in its package..

v6.8.0

[gap]

Originally Posted by volodya61

If the work with the code was so simple, we'd still be using DOS

I do

Yesterday I started working on a batch file that will process menu.txt automatically, adding to it some rows required by our U-boat Guns mod... and I had to dust off my old DOS manual

[gap]

Originally Posted by volodya61

v6.8.0

LOL, I thought it was an even older version...

[volodya61]

Originally Posted by gap

I do

Yesterday I started working on a batch file that will process menu.txt, adding to it some rows required by our U-boat Guns mod... and I had to dust off my old DOS manual

I didn't work in DOS a lot.. when I saw a PC at the first time it was IBM486 with Win3 on-board.. 1995..

[Mikemike47]

Originally Posted by gap

I do

Yesterday I started working on a batch file that will process menu.txt automatically, adding to it some rows required by our U-boat Guns mod... and I had to dust off my old DOS manual

Too bad it is not an *.ini file, instead of a **.txt file
[REL] JTxE - Textenabler to merge lines in ini-Files

Unless Jimimadrid can make program magic for **.txt files!

Update: It works for menu.txt files. I just had to open up on **ini files in SH4 when I had more time.