Torpedo behavior normal?

[jollyjack]

I set up an attack area ground targets for a torpedo boat as test mission.

The attacker stops and starts firing torpedoes at it's ease, but they follow an arched trail, see picture. is that supposed to be?

(the trail is too vague IMO since a few updates ago BTW, red arrow)

 

 

Here's the (normandy map) mission with Uv2s set as player. fixed version:  ship torpedoing test v2a.zip

Put an external camera linked to the torpedo boat, but it does not seem to work

 

Edited May 23, 2024 by jollyjack

[IckyATLAS]

A defective torpedo. During WWII this was an issue, as some defective torpedoes did a wide circle instead of going straight. US torpedoes were the worst, the Japanese Long Lance the best.

Maybe there is a random effect in the game to mimic defective torpedoes once in a while.

[jollyjack]

But then they're all defective in this situation ... all fired by this boat follow the same route?😐.

[IckyATLAS]

I made various tests and I agree that there s an issue. With Submarine it does work it will hit a ship. With a torpedoboat it will miss all the time.

[kraut1]

You could additinally test destroyer torpedo attacks.

At least the russian (for me japanese) destroyer works well.

I have not checked the torpedo trail but it hits.

 

Edited June 12, 2024 by kraut1

[IckyATLAS]

Indeed destroyer and submarines do hit ships. I did not manage to get torpedoboats to hit. The torpedoes are always of course and miss the targets, and this even in ideal conditions head on. Clearly there is a bug here. Will post it to the devs. 

[IckyATLAS]

On 6/12/2024 at 6:09 AM, kraut1 said:

At least the russian (for me japanese) destroyer works well.

I see that the Japanese destroyer has a Japanese navy flag.

How have you been able to change the flag of the ship. This interests me a lot.

Can you skin just the flag or all the ship?

 

[kraut1]

3 hours ago, IckyATLAS said:

I see that the Japanese destroyer has a Japanese navy flag.

How have you been able to change the flag of the ship. This interests me a lot.

Can you skin just the flag or all the ship?

 

Hi IckyATLAS,

I asked for a skin because I have no knowledge with Gimp and I did not know in which gtp the skin is.

Hanu helped me and created the skin:

And there is already a german version of the destroyer skin available:

 

I try to make a british flag for test.

ADDED LATER: SORRY, THE SELFMADE SKIN DID NOT WORKED, IS INVISIBLE.

 

Edited June 16, 2024 by kraut1

[Off_Winters]

57 minutes ago, kraut1 said:

Hi IckyATLAS,

I asked for a skin because I have no knowledge with Gimp and I did not know in which gtp the skin is.

Hanu helped me and created the skin:

And there is already a german version of the destroyer skin available:

I try to make a british flag for test.

G'day Kraut1,

I will do a British skin for you. I'll post link here later.

regards Rob.

[kraut1]

26 minutes ago, Off_Winters said:

G'day Kraut1,

I will do a British skin for you. I'll post link here later.

regards Rob.

Great, thanks very much!

I will use it for 1940 BoF/BoB missions.

[Off_Winters]

2 hours ago, kraut1 said:

Great, thanks very much!

I will use it for 1940 BoF/BoB missions.

G'day Kraut1,

here is the link for British Destroyer. it includes low level LOD images and damage images.

 

https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/8t97uxjzj8nqocj/British_destroyer.rar/file

 

its in jsgme format, just need to put in your mods folder and install.

regards Rob.

[Billsponge1972]

It would be awesome if they were selectable in the mission editor has separate ships like MajorMaGee did with vehicles. Only two destroyers available I believe, but at least one could select the ship by nationality (different skin).

 

[kraut1]

3 hours ago, Off_Winters said:

G'day Kraut1,

here is the link for British Destroyer. it includes low level LOD images and damage images.

 

https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/8t97uxjzj8nqocj/British_destroyer.rar/file

 

its in jsgme format, just need to put in your mods folder and install.

regards Rob.

 

Thanks very much for the skin.

I work on a small Mod with 6x 20mm Oerlikon

Gun Positions still to be optimized.

I would like replace the US Seaman by the British seaman.

In which configuration file are they defined?

 

[Off_Winters]

13 hours ago, Billsponge1972 said:

It would be awesome if they were selectable in the mission editor has separate ships like MajorMaGee did with vehicles. Only two destroyers available I believe, but at least one could select the ship by nationality (different skin).

 

G'day Bill,

do you have a link to any of that work done by MajorMcGee. I'll take a look and see if I can replicate it with ship models.

regards Rob.

13 hours ago, kraut1 said:

Thanks very much for the skin.

I work on a small Mod with 6x 20mm Oerlikon

Gun Positions still to be optimized.

I would like replace the US Seaman by the British seaman.

In which configuration file are they defined?

G'day Kraut1,

I'll take a look and see if I can swap out the crew member models, if so I'll let you know how I did it.

regards Rob.

[IckyATLAS]

It would be nice if the devs would add a Soviet seaman for their destroyer and same for all the ships that were delivered with Kuban, this means also german seaman.

There was the idea of improvements made with new campaigns would retro-actively be applied for the older campaigns to keep them up to date. AT least this was the logic in Jason times. It does not seem to be there anymore. Keeping up the previous campaigns with recent improvements is little investment to keep things attractive.

 

[Billsponge1972]

 

5 hours ago, Off_Winters said:

G'day Bill,

do you have a link to any of that work done by MajorMcGee. I'll take a look and see if I can replicate it with ship models.

regards Rob.

G'day Kraut1,

I'll take a look and see if I can swap out the crew member models, if so I'll let you know how I did it.

regards Rob.

This is it.

[Off_Winters]

3 hours ago, Billsponge1972 said:

 

This is it.

Thanks Bill,

 

that looks straight forward enough, I’m sure it will work with ships as well. In fact any model in the sim. I’m travelling for the next couple of days but once home I’ll give it a go and put a link up here to the results.

 

regards Rob.