When I sink a Whale Factory Ship...

[Sangamon Taylor]

...I always wish the whale could get loose and swim away...

[Aktungbby]

quit yer blubberin' & sink em all! There's no Frei Willy in subsimmin'!

[iambecomelife]

Originally Posted by Sangamon Taylor

...I always wish the whale could get loose and swim away...

This could actually be done. You would need to fiddle around with zones.cfg and create an objectremains controller for the whale; it would be complex but perfectly doable.

I have used a similar technique to have sailors jump off ships right before they sink in SH4.

[Sangamon Taylor]

Beyond my capabilities but food for thought for some ambitious modder.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Sangamon Taylor

Beyond my capabilities but food for thought for some ambitious modder.

we could name it the Fluke Mod!

[Mad Mardigan]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

we could name it the Fluke Mod!

Or... son of blubber...

but... in all seriousness.... would be kinda... cool, to watch a whale get away.

Would think it'd be doable to have it randomized to say... 1 or 2 out of 10 maybe even a 3 outta 10, ratio... but... wouldn't go any higher than... 4 outta 10.

That way, it keeps it random on when you'd see it occur.



M. M.

[iambecomelife]

Originally Posted by Mad Mardigan

Or... son of blubber...

but... in all seriousness.... would be kinda... cool, to watch a whale get away.

Would think it'd be doable to have it randomized to say... 1 or 2 out of 10 maybe even a 3 outta 10, ratio... but... wouldn't go any higher than... 4 outta 10.

That way, it keeps it random on when you'd see it occur.



M. M.

I really am thinking about methods to include fishing activities for the trawlers & small boats in SH3/4. Whaling (and whales escaping) could be included; it's just an issue with time - the whole concept is one of the "reach goals" for Wolves of the Kaiser and any WW2 Atlantic mods I do later. The U-Boat HAHD crew was going to include lots of sea life fully animated, and posted beautiful screenshots of animated fish & crabs, but unfortunately I think that mod group has disbanded.

The whole idea's not entirely out of place; in WW2 a German raider sneaked up on a whaling fleet once and captured the entire group of ships as they were catching whales - including a gigantic whale factory ship. Would make for an interesting U-Boat encounter.

[Mad Mardigan]

Originally Posted by iambecomelife

I really am thinking about methods to include fishing activities for the trawlers & small boats in SH3/4. Whaling (and whales escaping) could be included; it's just an issue with time - the whole concept is one of the "reach goals" for Wolves of the Kaiser and any WW2 Atlantic mods I do later. The U-Boat HAHD crew was going to include lots of sea life fully animated, and posted beautiful screenshots of animated fish & crabs, but unfortunately I think that mod group has disbanded.

The whole idea's not entirely out of place; in WW2 a German raider sneaked up on a whaling fleet once and captured the entire group of ships as they were catching whales - including a gigantic whale factory ship. Would make for an interesting U-Boat encounter.

A shame if that group, did disband... would have been grand to have seen what they had in mind & had been working on, released. Ahhh well...



M. M.

[Mister_M]

It would be very cool to encounter some shoals of fish, they could be generated exactly the same way as birds are (but with different "triggers" of course).
I even don't understand why they didn't ever think about that...