[WIP] Printable SH IV recognition manual

Raven Morpheus · 01-20-14, 11:59 PM

Hello, me again...

I've been thinking about having a printable Recognition Manual (based on the stock game) so that I can flip through it whilst I'm playing rather than clicking through the in-game one.

I noticed that some people have done this in the past and released them, but none of the links I've come across are working.

I don't really want to spend £20 on a used copy of the SH IV collectors edition but that seemed to be the only option open to me if I wanted a SH IV RM booklet, until I started poking around in the files and realised I can make my own...

...so, I've started making my own in a booklet type format and I decided to make my RM capable of being printed on A5 sized paper/thin card.

There are 103 silhouettes in the stock game so if printed one on each side of each piece of paper/card that makes 52 sheets (51.5 rounded up) plus 1 or two for a cover of some sort. I'm am as yet undecided personally how I will approach binding this, I thought of making several separate RM's, one for each section on the in-game RM, i.e. 1 for Japanese warships, 1 for Merchants, 1 for British Warships etc. or I could just make one big one and have some dividing sheets, but however I do it I'll be buying some cheap A5 ring bound notepads and chucking the note paper so that I can use the ring binder. I'll use a hole punch to put holes along the left edge of the cards. That'll save on buying a fancy ring binding machine...

So far I've completed the Japanese Warships section (only took me a couple of hours to do) and this is a sample of the layout I've chosen, the white border is the extent of the A5 card, the blue bits around it are just where I used windows snipping tool to grab the picture, I left a blank margin around the artwork because I'm not sure my printer can do borderless printing and also I didn't want the ship image/text being right on the left edge as the left edge is where the binder will go -

As you can see it pretty much matches the in-game recognition manual, I find the information on the in-game recognition manual sufficient so I don't plan on putting any more info on the cards, although I can do if I choose to at a later date.

The images are from the game _sil.dds files, and the info is what's shown in-game so any errors are not mine.

Let me know what you think.

Also, as I'm using game files to make this (i.e. the artwork) are there any restrictions on me making a release of this?

If I release this RM it will be released as a set of .pdf files but I may also release a set of M$ Word .docx files so that people can adjust the size of the pictures to suit their printer.

I shall also in due course be making one for SH V in pretty much the same style as above as I'd like a hard copy RM booklet for that also.

01-20-14, 11:59 PM	#1
Raven Morpheus Machinist's Mate Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 125 Downloads: 143 Uploads: 0	[WIP] Printable SH IV recognition manual Hello, me again... I've been thinking about having a printable Recognition Manual (based on the stock game) so that I can flip through it whilst I'm playing rather than clicking through the in-game one. I noticed that some people have done this in the past and released them, but none of the links I've come across are working. I don't really want to spend £20 on a used copy of the SH IV collectors edition but that seemed to be the only option open to me if I wanted a SH IV RM booklet, until I started poking around in the files and realised I can make my own... ...so, I've started making my own in a booklet type format and I decided to make my RM capable of being printed on A5 sized paper/thin card. There are 103 silhouettes in the stock game so if printed one on each side of each piece of paper/card that makes 52 sheets (51.5 rounded up) plus 1 or two for a cover of some sort. I'm am as yet undecided personally how I will approach binding this, I thought of making several separate RM's, one for each section on the in-game RM, i.e. 1 for Japanese warships, 1 for Merchants, 1 for British Warships etc. or I could just make one big one and have some dividing sheets, but however I do it I'll be buying some cheap A5 ring bound notepads and chucking the note paper so that I can use the ring binder. I'll use a hole punch to put holes along the left edge of the cards. That'll save on buying a fancy ring binding machine... So far I've completed the Japanese Warships section (only took me a couple of hours to do) and this is a sample of the layout I've chosen, the white border is the extent of the A5 card, the blue bits around it are just where I used windows snipping tool to grab the picture, I left a blank margin around the artwork because I'm not sure my printer can do borderless printing and also I didn't want the ship image/text being right on the left edge as the left edge is where the binder will go - As you can see it pretty much matches the in-game recognition manual, I find the information on the in-game recognition manual sufficient so I don't plan on putting any more info on the cards, although I can do if I choose to at a later date. The images are from the game _sil.dds files, and the info is what's shown in-game so any errors are not mine. Let me know what you think. Also, as I'm using game files to make this (i.e. the artwork) are there any restrictions on me making a release of this? If I release this RM it will be released as a set of .pdf files but I may also release a set of M$ Word .docx files so that people can adjust the size of the pictures to suit their printer. I shall also in due course be making one for SH V in pretty much the same style as above as I'd like a hard copy RM booklet for that also. Last edited by Raven Morpheus; 01-21-14 at 12:11 AM.