New Graphic & Sound Mod for Aces of the Deep

[Andreas86]

Current Mod Version 1.8
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s2z...usp=drive_link

https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/dow...o=file&id=6229

For a full description of what the mod contains, the version history and installation instructions, please read the PDF document included in the download. Meanwhile, here is a new collection of screenshots of the latest version of the mod.

Requirements: The CD version of "Aces of the Deep" (DOS), OR the latest patched disk version. Expansion Pack is optional. This does not currently work for windows 95 based "Command Aces of the Deep".


New bridge and external view showcase:






New menu screens:



New in-game screens:






New crew faces:

[John Pancoast]

Well done ! Is it available to use ?

[Andreas86]

Thanks! As soon as I finish it, some small touches left..

[Andreas86]

Also, how about some new menu screens?

[John Pancoast]

Outstanding !

[Silent Otto]

Yes, very nice!


I would like to know how you do this as I was hoping to do the same in the areas of awards and promotions, but make it so they would be actually awarded in play and not just imaged as I did below.


The hex edit files list the Iron Cross, so ..?

[SnipersHunter]

Excellent work, I can not believe that this is possible.

Do you have an ETA for this?

[Andreas86]

Thanks guys! As for an ETA, seeing as its christmas I might not get to do much today but I'll try. I want to compile a small but nice graphic mod as well as include the relevant tools, documentation, and write up a simple description of how to do this. The weird (but lucky) thing is that the graphic modding is not really that difficult..

I need to work on the periscope bitmaps so they blend more with the rest of the room graphics. Those files are completely independant from each other.

@Silent Otto:

Sure enough, you can modify the graphics of all the awards. I am going to write up the procedure and share, when I can. The pictures all exist in compressed BMP format. I extracted the higher awards / iron crosses here:

[SnipersHunter]

No hurry, this already looks really great.

[derstosstrupp]

Wow, this looks excellent, great work! Great to see Aces getting love in this department as well.

[RConch]

Very nice!

[Jeff-Groves]

Nice work.

Waiting for the Tools and documentation as those may lead to more Hacking of files.

[FUBAR295]

Looks excellent. I just purchased AOD on disc and delaying setting this up till your mods are out. Looking forward to this.

Good hunting,
FUBAR295

[Silent Otto]

Andreas,

Looks great!! I added a couple images below for ideas.

The current promotion images for Korvettenkapitan are wrong in the game as the sleeve insignia didn't change from Kapitanleutnant.

Here are the correct images for both Korvettenkapitan and Fregattenkapitan. I have these in larger format if you need them, just let me know and I can email you anything you need or desire.

Additionally, do you think we could/should add other awards to the game for more realistic and incentive reasons? I added a couple below as examples.

Please note on the award PICs, that I drew the swastika back in as I just hate PC and history is what it was. However, I do understand some countries like Germany have a law prohibiting the public display of the swastika. If I need to modify anything for you, that's easy to do.


Best and Merry Christmas!
Tim

[Andreas86]

Thank you all for the feedback!

My mod is now finished and uploaded, link is added to the top post, and also here:

See latest version.

I wanted to make this as polished as possible, and at the same time celebrate Christmas. So I have spent some long nights editing and painting pixel graphics, and trying to overcome some palette challenges. Anyway, a lot of stuff is added, and everything is much improved since my last postings. I hope you will enjoy the control room and new menu screens. Try to check them all out, and remember that you can click on the graphics outside the menu bar to see the whole image.

@Silent Otto: It would be very nice if we can improve these areas of AOTD as well, thank you very much for the offer. My hope is that we can all work together on improving the game. As for the awards, I haven't really thought of this yet, but all bitmaps can be extracted and improved. I will try to look into changing the insignias, but I just need a little break as my head is now all numbers and pixels. As for adding more to the game than the existing number of awards, perhaps it is possible by editing .dat files, but I havent gotten into that yet. About political correctness, I fully agree with you. History is history and cannot be changed.



Merry Christmas and best wishes to you, and to all subsim members!

I have also uploaded a written tutorial and tools for modding AOTD, you will find all info in a new thread. I look forward to seeing other new mods in the future!