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Originally Posted by horsa
No. I'm pretty clueless on that . I knew that the Scharnhorst appeared early on in one of the missions ( No. 9 : Safe Return Home ). By overwriting the scharnhorst model file meant Konig would appear instead.
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one way is to add this to any mission file (use the examples i've posted in the thread for the precise place to add the entry or just have a look thru a few stock ones..it's pretty clear where to add it...just find on with similar entrys and add yours to the list
ApplyStateEngine $0,"PassByZigZag#Scharnhorst#2.081,56.309,500000,1 #18"
go to the co-ordinates 2.082,56,309 chug about a bit and it will apppear..
add this to the list aswell
ApplyStateEngine $0,"PassByZigZag#Lion#2.081,56.309,500000,1#18"
and you'll get to see the two ships duke it out in a battle to the death...
i fancied see-ing another of my flottilla buddys knocking about the place...
so used a similar method to the above and here they are..crew on deck and all...
it really is no harder than SH2 for this sort of stuff...in fact in a lot of ways it is actualy easier to add ships to missions etc etc
convoys are a little different..and i'm not sure that side of things will really pan out to anything like a high standard..tho i could be wrong...it's hard to get convoy placement and formation keeping...you can see it is possible by generating a convoy mission thru the generator...but scripting that ....looking at the files for the convoy is complex...and i would not know how to incorporate that code into a normal campaign mission file..and even if i could i still think they're would be in game issues that made it less than satisfactory..escorts not returning to the ships after an attack etc etc...
but loosely formated convoys should work...by the simple inclusion of several ships and a few escorts given the same route and speed instructions..which is how the stock campaign handels the few small convoys it has incorporated..
FLOATER would know more about this more complex code work as it is AFAIK wrritten entriely in some form of Visual basic code...
in fact i reckon Floater could knck up a decent mission editor in no time at all...
why do i think that???
LOL
because I could knock up a basic mission editor myself ...and if I can make one...Floater could do it in his sleep!!!
on the modelling side here's that full 3 man watch crew idea i mentioned...
the third man is the stock one which you would see in game but ins't shown here..
unfortunately i am no closer to finding a way to export the model back into SOF from 3DSMAX...
i don't have an awfull lot of patince for fiddling about with model file formats exported settings etc etc etc...
love making the models etc hate all the anal p*ssing about needed to get things correct for inclusion into games..
tho should any-one deign to provide me the neccessary information on the correct X file plug in settings to export from 3dsmax or similar..i can now provide information on how to add a completely new ship model to the game.
here is a unique and new vessel using a stock model copied and renamed (along with a new texture file etc etc)
it's a german small cargo ship..
tho as you can probably see there is no smoke coming from the funnels so that is an indication that the job itself is not completely done...but as a stationary ship in a harbour area this would be perfect....
swop you this info for the exporter info....:hmm: :rotfl:
as you can maybe tell i stopped having fun "sharing" this info about one and a half pages ago..it's allready beginning to detract from the enjoyment i get from playing the game itself..and that's a "NO NO" ..i'm sorry i just can't take my self seriously enough to compete with the vibes..LOL. taking my self seriuosly isn't any FUN LOL!!!...this is just stored momentum. to get it out of my system so to speak..time to retire disgracefully back to my web-site again i feel.
