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Calibrated gauges and 600' depth gauge for Balao class
Miracles happen! The Compressed Air gauges in the Control Room now work and Tempest flipped the textures on the 4 small stbd side gauges near the Aft Nav station that seemed to bother a few people... lol
With credit to:
S3D
Ducimus
Mikhayl
Tempest
Nisgeis
Te Kaha and Webster
In JSGME format. Back up your original files. Although this mod is for stock and has stock graphics I recommend (and use) Oakgroove's textures.
What it does:
Changes the 450' depth gauges in the stock SH4 1.5 Balao class Control Room to a 600' gauge. Most interior gauges in the Control Room and Conning Tower are calibrated (close enough). The Aft Nav station gauges in the CR are changed; the Stbd telegraph is moved right to its position and the knotmeter has been placed where the Stbd telegraph was. Some of the gauges are simply tied to battery, depth, etc - so they move.
The graphics file Common_Gauges_01.dds is in this mod is to display the actual Compressed Air gauge (near the fuel gauges) and is also in the Gato_Interior_gauges_ver_2 download. Since they are identical files, if you have already installed the Gato_Interior_gauges_ver_2 download you can delete this Common_Gauges_01.dds file.
The Common_Gauges_03.dds texture changes the 450' deep depth gauges to 600' for the Balao class while allowing the 450' gauge to be displayed in the Tambor, Gar, and Gato class boats.
As usual use Shift + F2 to free cam in the Control Room - also, if you pass through the aft wall near the passageway and up you can free cam in the Conning Tower.
This is a stock SH4 1.5 only mod. The 400' test depth indicator needle for the Balao class has been changed in the NSS_Balao.cfg file to display 400' correctly on the 450' HUD depth gauge. When you hit "D" for dive you will dive to 400'... or you can click any depth on the HUD depth gauge.
I changed my mind - the NSS_Balao.zon file was not edited because in my opinion there is no reason to dive below or even close to 600' in stock SH4. You can edit your own zon file to dive the boat below 600' if you want with S3D. I do not want to make this little calibrated gauges and 600' depth gauge mod into a 'big' complicated mod.
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Changes I made to this NSS_Balao.cfg (Data\Submarine\NSS_Balao\NSS_Balao.cfg)
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[Properties]
PeriscopeDepth=18.3;meters
SnorkelDepth=15;meters
CrashDepth=40;meters
MaxDepth=122;meters - changed to display 400' test depth on the HUD depth gauge
SurfaceDepth=4.5;meters
TorpLaunchMaxDepth=30;meters
StormConditions=9,0.1;max wind speed [m/s], max rain intensity [0,1]
And in the [Unit] section:
Interior=data/Interior/NSS_Balao/NSS_Balao
to point to this new Balao interior rather than the Gato interior.
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Thanks to:
UBI, S3D, Ducimus, Mikhayl, Tempest, Nisgeis, Te Kaha, Webster, (and Mush Martin) - for inspiring me to mod.
This is freeware, not for commercial use, and I am not responsible for anything that happens to your computer.
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