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[subsowespac]

I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I frequently forget to tell my crew to stand down from Battle Stations after a heated encounter with the enemy.  This makes for a pretty fatigued crew.

OneTinSoldier posted a keyboard shortcut over at the SubSim forum to toggle Battlestations on and off using the Shift + B keys.  You need to edit the 'commands.cfg'.  On my system, the path to it is:

c:\Program Files\Ubisoft\Silent hunter 4 Wolves of the Pacific\Data\Cfg\Commands.cfg

Using Notepad, open the file and scroll down to the following:

[Cmd436]
Name=Toggle_battle-stations
Ctxt=1

Edit it to read as follows (and of course save it):
[Cmd436]
Name=Toggle_battle_stations
Ctxt=1
Key0=0x42,s,"SHIFT B"

Now all you have to do is press Shift + B to toggle Battle Stations on/off.

Thank you OneTinSoldier!

Ed Howard

[Kqlted]

Hmm, talking of keyboard shortcuts, how about one to shut off that bloody annoying chronometer that comes up every time you hit 512x time compression - really frustrating, especially with a go7400 card in my laptop - really drops the frame rate when it appears and difficult to get to to switch it off.

I seem to remember someone on subsim also offering one to switch off radar warnings on the way home instead of dropping to 8x or 1x compression every 10 seconds - another really annoying thing

[Grus]

with the Chronometer, when it pops up just hit the "X" key, and its gone again 

Gav.

[mkyp]

How would I change the command room shortcut to be Attack Map?

I'm new to this forum, so if there is a FAQ ( I could not find one that had this topic), please point me in the right direction...

thanx, mark

[Rockin Robbins]

Here is my stolen fair and square Trigger Maru keyboard layout. It has "B" hooked to battlestations, F6 to attack map, shift-w to weather report, and as a bonus, shift-i for "identify target." The layout is very similar to SH3 and works with any mods installed. http://files.filefront.com/Alternate+Key+Bindings7z/;9762884;/fileinfo.html

[Ducimus]

This might help in the future, although ill probably still use the B key

[Rockin Robbins]

Would I be looking at interactive alarm switches?

[Ducimus]

IN real life, yellow is general quarters, green is the dive alarm, and red is the collesion alarm.

Which is what those do, with the exception of the collesion alarm. I made that crash dive instead, since there is no collesion alarm in game.

I have been debating to myself if i want to use a collesion alarm sound mixed with the sounds of doors/hatch's shutting, which would preceed the current, "emergency dive" sound.

It sounds like a cool idea, except that i think the two sounds are opposite, since if you were prepairing for a colleision, diving would be the last thing you'd do.  So im not sure how far out into fantasy field i want to take it.

[Rockin Robbins]

You're right. I'd hook it up to existing crash dive sounds. Pretty good for a lousy 3-d modeler. So you'll be able to click on these and initiate the functions?

[Ducimus]

You're right. I'd hook it up to existing crash dive sounds. Pretty good for a lousy 3-d modeler. So you'll be able to click on these and initiate the functions?

yeah.  And i didnt make them from scratch.  Look around very closely at the bridge. 

[Rockin Robbins]

Heh! heh! heh!

[Ducimus]

Yup, like i said, i suck at 3d modeling.  S3D allows me to treat things like.... umm

[Olyaxman]

What would I put in if I wanted shift c to go to the attack map?

[Olyaxman]

I got it it's hex so c would be 0x43,s,"shift c" right?