New AI designs

[gornik]

As FW explained, how to mod ship designs:

The format is ShipType + aNumber for the time period (one digit 0-4) + X = Generic, can be beginning letter for specific nation + a number (one digit 0-7). The files should be in Data/Ides.

For example CA0X1 is an early generic CA.
DD2G0 Would be a later German DD.
...
Do not change the templates with higher numbers than 7, as they are used in special cases.

 I decided to add some legacy ships templates which I think were missed in original game. Here they are:

IDes.rar (11.42 KB)
IDes.zip (12.57 KB)

List of ship designs:

B:
B0X5: Generic "Ram battleship": 10000 ton B with forward 12 in turret only (and some secondaries), to simulate influence of that-time popular theories to navy.

CA:
CA0R0: Russian armoured raider, based on Gromoboi, with archaic side-by-side single 8 in mounts and heavy secondary battery.
CA0R1: Russian armoured scout, based on Bayan-class (I added her as in other way AI is strangely prone to build tons of Gromoboi-class only, ignoring generic designs)

CL:
CL0R1: Russian "semi-armoured" 7000 ton cruiser based on Bogatyr-class: fast, well-protected, with two double 6 in mounts (strangely, AI seem don't like her)
CL0X5: Generic 5500 ton Elswick-like cruiser with 8 in main guns, based on Japanese Casagi-class
CL0X6: Generic 3300 kton fast short-ranged fleet scout, based on Russian Zhemchug-class
CL0X7: Generic 6000 ton fast cruiser with 12x1 6 in guns, based on Russian Varyag

AMC:
AMC0X7: 10000 ton 20-knot well-armed liner, to simulate real usage of such ships.

MS:
MS0X2: 1700 ton well-armed slightly armoured colonial gunboat

To use them, install files from archive to data/IDes folder

NOTE: those designs should be installed at clear game, if you already created your own templates, you should change last number in double template name to not used one (not higher than 7).

If you have your own designs to add, post them in this thread

[paul]

Slightly off topic, but do you know what the naming convention for the ship designs within the save folder is? They don't end in .tdf and I assume that the number is the year of creation, but are they identical to design files?

[gornik]

Aug 31, 2015 17:14:38 GMT -6 paul said:

Slightly off topic, but do you know what the naming convention for the ship designs within the save folder is? They don't end in .tdf and I assume that the number is the year of creation, but are they identical to design files?

First digit in number marks save folder, second is number of country (may see them in Bnat.dat), so .31d for example means 3 save, nation1 (Great Britain). Inside the file text nearly equal to design .tif files, except classname (in .tif there is name of file), shipname (should be empty), buildyear (should be 0), builddate (should be deleted)

[soload]

I try to create mod with historical shipsdesigns and have some problems.
I created designs of historical ships (N3, Nelson, Nagato, Amagi, Furutaka, Hawkins, Emerald etc) and add this desgns to folder data/ides with name format BB4J0.tdf. AI use this designs for building BCs, CAs and CLs (except Great Britain), but don't use for building BBs. Furthermore, AI don't use all of generic BB designs, marked letter X. For example, in middle period of the game (near 1915 year) Germany and Austro-Hungary uses only design B3X3 (based on Gangut battleship), ignoring designs B3X1 (Kaiser) and B3X4 (Tegetthoff) and designs B3G0 and B3A0. Great Britain, USA and Russia uses designs B3X4 (Tegetthoff), B3X5 (Nevada) and B2X4 (Ioan Zlatoust?). France additionaly uses design B3X8 (Normandy?). I don't understand AI logic, when I renamed design B3X1 to B3X3, Germany and Austro-Hungary starts build Kaisers instead Ganguts.
Great Britain ignores designs with B letter and build only X designs.

[director]

Gornik, I don't have access to RAR decompression. Could you offer it as a ZIP?

[julianbarker]

There are websites that will open these archives for free - unzip-online.com/en is one example.

[gornik]

Jan 25, 2016 8:57:34 GMT -6 director said:

Gornik, I don't have access to RAR decompression. Could you offer it as a ZIP?

OK, added ZIP in first post

[tmp]

Note, you can get RAR utility to handle these files from www.win-rar.com/download.html for free -- it'll work for at least 30 days and then you can either register it if you like it, or put up with notification if you don't like it /that/ much.

[brucesim2003]

Get 7zip. That does zip, rar and of course 7z.