Where's the Band????

[dagamecat]

ok i'll try and answer those questions now..

the mod installer is only designed to work with mods that you extract, not exe ones (I find it pretty annoying that some mods are coming out as exe files, I refuse to install them). Though I suppose if you make it extract to another folder, you could make it work somehow. Real U-boat 1.22 comes as a zip (i think), so its very easy to install.

About the real u-boat crew-management system: at first I was skeptical, but now I love it. It improves it in a way that you dont have to constantly be putting your crew to bed, yet I find that I can still run many sections at high efficency. It's all about where you place your officers. People worry when their crew start getting exclamation marks on them, but its really nothing to panic about. And it just gets better and better when you finish patrols and reward your crew with medals.

I'm afraid I don't know of a way to remove just this part of the mod.


Yea, the mod also makes it more realistic in that you get far less contact reports. However, I've done two patrols with this mod, and i've had a convoy report in both of them, both within range, and I have gone on to sink many ships.

The only thing I don't like about the mod is the murky water thing, for me it's a little too murky. However this part is very, very easy to remove.


I'd just have to say, give it a go, if you don't like it, it's easy to remove. i'll help if you have any problems with the mod enabler, or whatever.

[Lane]

Thank's dagamecat,
For that info about the Jones mod installer.
And the RealBoat mod
Right now I have I think a clean install with ver 1.2 patch. Started Patrol 15 no mod's I am going to miss
some of my mod's may add the moon mod and weather
mod's back. For some reason I think it was Steve's
das boot sound mod that was causing my crash. Somebody
else removed it all thinking it was causing problems
I think it was the last mod I installed before all these
CTD happent
I may just wait a week i read Patch 1.3 is very close to
release.
Thank's gamecat for you comeback's on some of my
questions and fear's about some of these mod's
Lane

[dagamecat]

yea no worries.

at least if you have to do a reinstall, you know you can keep your saved games.

real u-boat contains a moon mod, and some das boot sounds aswell. not sure about weather modifications, though.


fingers crossed for 1.3 soon!

[Lane]

Thank's Dagamecat,

I saved all my patrols and patched back to 1.2
I may try the Jones mod program and install new
small moon. and weather mod, nice looking clouds
I used AiL's sky mod saw the nice looking clouds
and the weather before a storm looked great It took
me 14 patrols before I saw the cloud's
Great mod think I will leave sound mod's alone for
now just see if there mit be a link to CTD.
Sound's like patch 1.3 right around corner
Lane ;D

[Lane]

Just a follow up I installed the Jonessoft Generic mod.
and installed RealUBoat mod 1.22 and Ail's sky mod
I am staying with ver 1.2 till I see if they are going to fix
the radio, sonar problem . when on patrol 16 with
realUBoat 1.22 No problems with crew fatigue yet
keep the ones not on duty in rest areas crew shows
no fatigue yet. Yes the water is too dark Need to fix that? Had a report of convoy in my area but never
saw them and spot one patroling DD in distance.
On my way home from Patrol area hope to make contact with some ships.
Fair Sea's
Lane

[dagamecat]

yea the water is a bit too dark, but its a breeze to fix. Here's how:

Use the Jonesoft mod enabler to disable the real-uboat mod.

Then go to the C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\MODS folder, then to the real u-boat folder, and into the data folder. There should be a folder called Env. Just delete it.

Enable the mod with the mod enabler, and thats that!

[Lane]

Thank's gamecat,
I will remove the Env folder in the mod installer.
I have the three orignal files back in SH3 data\Env
and I will remove the 3 back up files. Have the Uboat
mod and Ail's sky mod in Ver 1.2 going back to my save
on Patrol and check things out . Check the sun?
I like those sliding menu's and map tools and the new
dept gage. Have not been on UBi web page forum
or Neal's sit are things "smoking" Wonder what the
dev team thinks sound's like they better get a new patch for 1.3 ;D
Later
Lane

[dagamecat]

yea there's alot of people moaning


well the devs released one of the best games ever (IMO), they screwed up on a patch... it could be much worse.

i have a feeling we wont have to wait too long for a new patch, and i'm still more than happy to play with 1.2 and real uboat 1.22.

[Lane]

dagamecat,

Question? Do you think World mod could be installed
in a folder on desk top then see what's there and
could be modified to work with the mod installer?
Or do you think there would be conflicts in data
folder ? I have have read about all that ship
traffic they see. I sure miss having ship contacts
Just not luckie finding convoys?
Lane

[dagamecat]

i simply don't know becase I haven't tried to install it myself.

but if you could somehow extract it to the desktop, yeah you could definitely do that.


have you not had any convoy reports with real u-boat 1.22? maybe i got lucky, i had 2 convoys in 2 patrols

[Lane]

Dagamecat,
Yes I had one report going North to AL78 outside
my home port St Nazaire BF area that's were i saw
the patroling destroyer It was a sunset when I got
the report try to do a end around but missed the
convoy in dark I am on way back south from AL78
May be I will get another report
I just d/l Time travelse new dept crush depth program ?
Has a self installed check it out over at Neal's SH3
Modelers forum to check it out. For all versions
guess you can set decks awash and stuff like that
Like you sometimes I don't like those self installers
Later
Lane

[Lane]

Dagamecat,

Got something screwed up in my Data\ ENV folder
messing with those water color files Lost patrol 16
Had a big sun and all messed up? Removed UBoat 1.22
still had problem ? When to my old backup Data folder
and copy all the files from the Env to my data folder
env folder seem to fix problem? So I reinstalled UBoat
mod and Ail's weather mod seem's all is ok again :)h
So I hope to run patrol 16 again may be I can make
contact with that convoy again.
Lane