88mm Deck Gun Mod for the Type II

[mikolajcap21]

I've been trying to make a mod that implements the 8.8cm deck gun for the Type IIs.

Before someone says this is unrealistic, it is exactly that, now on to what I tried to do.

First I swapped the 20mm gun entry in basic.cfg in place with the 88mm and it swapped the the model but it was unusable and registered as destroyed. I also tried swapping the labels for each gun around in the SUB_GUNS.dat file but it yielded the same results as in the cfg

I've tried to reclassify the 88mm as type = AAgun in SUB_GUNs.sim
I've tried to add compartments to the type II basic.cfg
I've tried removing two of the crew nodes on the 88mm in hopes to only need one crew member to move onto the gun

I've looked at older posts and none of them came to a solution

My best attempt would be to swap the 3d models only in the 20mm with the models from the 88 as for my purposes I just need the gun to look like the 8.8cm.


Any pointers to what I should be manipulating, modifying? With mods as sophisticated as warship mod there surely has to be a way to be able to do this.

Thanks