Reduced Merchant Ship Crew Visuals

[John Pancoast]

If anyone is interested I have uploaded a mod containing edited IABL's MFM 3.3 and stock merchant ships .sns files.
Find it here.

[Mister_M]

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves

The Scripting ability of 010 is why I push it so much!
I rarely program a full exe now days because of it's open abilities!
Sure it costs a few bucks but it is HANDS DOWN the best thing since sliced bread!


You see how fast I did a simple example Script?

That Script is actually just an edited Script I had on hand for finding the Shadow objects in the dat files.
So once you have a Script? It's easy to modify them for other needs!

I have to spend a few days in a Motel so I may try to do a complete Script for you to whack the files in one swoop.
No promises but I'll see what happens.

Now. Since ALL Merchants are Types 100 to Type 105?
You could Wild Card the Search to keep from doing multiple Else If statements.

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves

A WildCard search on a Stock SH3 shows 23 Units.

Stock GWX shows 72
Easiest is just search a UnitType=10.
That will pop them all.

NOW! Right here is where We can change things up!


for( i = 0; i < r.count; i++ )
{
Printf( "%s\n", r.file[i].filename );
}


Here is where We can grab file names and direct 010 to open the sns file and change things.
I'll strip the cfg extension and tell 010 to open the ShipName.sns file. Then have it find the O01 line and change it.
then it will simply close the file with the changes made.

I won't believe it really works until I didn't see it with my eyes...

A program removing all the "SHD" garbage would be very apreciated...

[tonschk]

Originally Posted by John Pancoast

If anyone is interested I have uploaded a mod containing edited IABL's MFM 3.3 and stock merchant ships .sns files.
Find it here.

Thank you very much John Pancoast

[Jeff-Groves]

I have the Script for 010 to the point of stripping the .cfg extension and working on opening the sns files to replace the O01 setting then saving the file.
Now if there is no O01 or sns file? It just skips as in the case of Iceburgs.
Would adding the ability to check say like Aircraft/other stuff for a sensor change be a good way to go?

[John Pancoast]

Anything you want to put together would be great and much appreciated Jeff !

[Mister_M]

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves

Would adding the ability to check say like Aircraft/other stuff for a sensor change be a good way to go?

Sure !

[Anvar1061]

[Jeff-Groves]

Script now changes the extension and opens the sns files one at a time to allow changing the AI_Visual to whatever you wish.

Just have to add the routine to enter whatever you want then it will save and close the file.

WARNING! IT DOES NOT MAKE A BACKUP FILE JUST YET!

Example of what it does when looking at the cfg files.

E:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 3\data\Sea\Iceberg\Iceberg.sns
E:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 3\data\Sea\IcebergM1\IcebergM1.sns
E:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 3\data\Sea\IcebergM2\IcebergM2.sns
E:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 3\data\Sea\IcebergM3\IcebergM3.sns
E:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 3\data\Sea\IcebergS1\IcebergS1.sns
E:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 3\data\Sea\IcebergS2\IcebergS2.sns
E:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 3\data\Sea\IcebergS3\IcebergS3.sns
E:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 3\data\Sea\NATF\NATF.sns
E:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 3\data\Sea\NF_boat\NF_boat.sns
E:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 3\data\Sea\NF_boat_1\NF_boat_1.sns
E:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 3\data\Sea\NF_boat_2\NF_boat_2.sns
E:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 3\data\Sea\NKC3\NKC3.sns
E:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 3\data\Sea\NKLS_\NKLS_.sns
E:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 3\data\Sea\NKSQ_\NKSQ_.sns
E:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 3\data\Sea\NKSs_\NKSs_.sns
E:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 3\data\Sea\NLL_\NLL_.sns
E:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 3\data\Sea\NLST\NLST.sns
E:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 3\data\Sea\NOTMs_\NOTMs_.sns
E:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 3\data\Sea\NOTM_T2\NOTM_T2.sns
E:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 3\data\Sea\NOTSf\NOTSf.sns
E:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 3\data\Sea\NPPL_\NPPL_.sns
E:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 3\data\Sea\NTR\NTR.sns
E:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 3\data\Sea\NVV\NVV.sns

[rik007]

Does it skip the warships?

[Anvar1061]

Originally Posted by rik007

Does it skip the warships?

Yes

[Mister_M]

Why not allow us to select the types of units we want to include in the search/open/replace/save process ? I'm sure you know how to code this.

[Jeff-Groves]

You'll be able to select Class like Warships, Merchants, Aircraft etc.
Then select the UnitType in that class.
So Warships would give you

Type0=Patrol Craft
Type1=Corvette
Type2=Frigate
Type3=Destroyer Escort
Type4=Destroyer
Type5=Minesweeper
Type6=Light Cruiser
Type7=Heavy Cruiser
Type8=Escort Carrier
Type9=Fleet Carrier
Type10=Battlecruiser
Type11=Battleship
Type12=Minelayer
Type13=Auxiliary Cruiser

[Mister_M]

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves

You'll be able to select Class like Warships, Merchants, Aircraft etc.
Then select the UnitType in that class.
So Warships would give you

Type0=Patrol Craft
Type1=Corvette
Type2=Frigate
Type3=Destroyer Escort
Type4=Destroyer
Type5=Minesweeper
Type6=Light Cruiser
Type7=Heavy Cruiser
Type8=Escort Carrier
Type9=Fleet Carrier
Type10=Battlecruiser
Type11=Battleship
Type12=Minelayer
Type13=Auxiliary Cruiser

[Jeff-Groves]

I've set up a bat file to call the Script without opening the 010 UI.
So here's the first screen you get.



Working on the second level selection box now.
It will look the same but have each type in the selected Class.
All search values will be coded in Hex format to insure no false positives pop.
So to search for a UnitType=101?
I search for 3D3130310D0A,h

[John Pancoast]

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves

I've set up a bat file to call the Script without opening the 010 UI.
So here's the first screen you get.



Working on the second level selection box now.
It will look the same but have each type in the selected Class.
All search values will be coded in Hex format to insure no false positives pop.
So to search for a UnitType=101?
I search for 3D3130310D0A,h

Outstanding !